The sense of slow-motion apocalypse indexed in my title, spoken by a character in Jenny Offill’s 2020 novel Weather, resonates widely. In early 2020 — just a few weeks before…
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Tim Kaine’s Orange; or, Stuck in Traffic
Last January, in yet another sign, perhaps, of the shifting weather patterns and intensified storm systems caused by global warming, a fierce snowstorm stranded hundreds of motorists along a 50-mile…
Stuck in the Future (of the Past)
When I started writing this, in mid-June of 2022, it was 100 degrees in central Illinois. A “heat dome” had settled over much of the United States — it was…
Introduction to Stuckness
Stuckness might be the prevailing affect of late modernity. In contrast to the humanities’ valorization of sustained attention to the nuance of textuality, or to the accelerated demands on our…