symploke 31:1

symploke 31:1

Edited by Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Table Of Contents

Volume 31, Numbers 1 & 2 (2023)

Contents

Editor’s Note
Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Infrastructuralism
Theorizing Infrastructure: An Introduction
Christopher Breu and Jeffrey R. Di Leo

In the Air Tonight: Mediating Infrastructure with Miami Vice
Anna Kornbluh

Theory as Infrastructure: A Proposal for Troubling Times
Jeffrey R. Di Leo

What We Don’t Talk about When We Talk about Infrastructure
Zachary Tavlin

Up in the Cloud: Digital Infrastructure, Lyric Poetry, and Late Capitalism
Christian P. Haines

Of Oozing Walls and Bloody Pools: Horror Film, Water Infrastructure, and Feminist Critique
Johanna Isaacson

Land as Infrastructure
Crystal Bartolovich

Indigenous Infrastructuralisms? Grounding Materialisms along and against the Pipeline
Jordan B. Kinder

Settler Colonialism and Apocalyptic Infrastructure in Almanac of the Dead
Sean Grattan

Infrastructural Nomads: Graffiti Futurism and the Afrofuturist War
Machine
Tim Matts

Werner Bräunig’s Rummelplatz: Reading for Socialist Infrastructure
Hunter Bivens

Park Infrastructures and the Duties of Trees
Nathan Schmidt

The Infrastructural Unconscious
Christopher Breu

Blue (Infra)structuralism: Blue Postcoloniality, New Earth, and the Ethics of “Desiring-Production”
Abhisek Ghosal and Bhaskarjyoti Ghosal

Water Infrastructure Is Life
Caroline Levine

General Articles
Tests of Truth: Foucault’s Anarchaeology of the Oath
Alberto Toscano

What Anticriticism Is (after Karl Shapiro)
A. J. Carruthers

Thinking as If Already Dead: The Imaginal Life of Gilles Deleuze
Brad Evans and Julian Reid

Sacred Night of Study
Tyson E. Lewis

The Return of Teleology: A Primer on Terrence Deacon’s Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter
Henry Staten

“A New Persistent Cough”: The Coronavirus, Hyperobjects, and the Pandemic Aesthetic
Val Nolan

The Destiny of the Work of Art: Causes, Propositions, and Shakespeare
P. Kishore Saval

Reviews
Joyful Criticism
Benjamin Schreier

Reading Incompleteness
Bryan Counter

Forum
Zombie Work Force: Capitalism, Sacrifice, and the Virtual Afterlife of Labor
Jose Alvarez Lara and Abigail Muller

Transparent, Holistic, Inclusive, and Humane: Health Benefit Struggles in an Age of Pandemic
Crystal Bartolovich

Canadian Truckers’ Protest: Setting Lacan on His Feet?
Clint Burnham

Science Is Real
Claire Colebrook

Affective Academe: Immaterial Labor, Higher Education, and the Pandemic
Jeffrey R. Di Leo

The Political Economy of Pestilence
Peter Hitchcock

The End of Labor, No End of Work
Sharon O’Dair

Isolation and Community: Reading Daniel Defoe with Our Pandemic Philosophers
Brian O’Keeffe

The Pay-to-Play MA: A Twenty-First-Century Financial Innovation
Jeffrey J. Williams

Racial Resentment or Economic Anxiety? On the Politics of Material Interests
Zahi Zalloua

Interviews
The Politics of Form: An Interview with Caroline Levine
Jeffrey J. Williams

Blue Humanities—Oceans, Seascapes, and Ecotones: In Conversation with John Gillis
John Muthyala

Crossover Criticism: An Interview with Sheila Liming
Jeffrey J. Williams

Book Notes

Notice to Contributors

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