differences 37.1 is out now — edited by Peter Szendy, "For Whom Do We Read?" features essays from Emily Apter, Leah Price, Thomas Schestag, Rosalind C. Morris, Emily Greenwood, Jesse McCarthy, Paul North, and Daniel Heller-Roazen: https://t.co/GaS24OHa3T.
The Weekly Read is “Letters from Underground” by Rosalind C. Morris. The article appears in For Whom Do We Read, a special issue of @differences_DUP (37:1), edited by Peter Szendy.
Read this article for free through 8/20: https://t.co/pIT6uQj27E
Fascinating essay by Paul North in the newest issue of differences on the displacing structure of address in Capital—a book that is read by but not for the one reading it
This special issue of @differences_DUP invites literary theorists and historians to engage with a question raised by this reader: For whom do we read?
View the TOC and read the editor's introduction, made freely available: https://t.co/IQsizr7xuO
This just showed up on the TL and it’s one of my favorite analyses of my play.
Slave Play was indebted to so many black academics chiefly Tavia Nyong’o who was my professor when I wrote it.
To have written a play that’s inspired so many academics is a dream come true.
"Digital networks, in fact, are largely walled. If the networked media space is often imagined as an open grid, then the wall is its containing surface" — read Jinying Li's "Toward a Genealogy of the Wall-Screen," freely available for the next two months: https://t.co/T2uQ7EHUus
join us in Providence on March 6th for Limits of Legibility: History under Siege — a colloquium featuring Joan Wallach Scott, Omnia El Shakry, Gary Wilder, and Korey Williams: https://t.co/36ISiTD4an
The Weekly Read is “The Americanity of the 'American Lyric': Claudia Rankine in Ibero-American Translation” by Whitney Devos. The article appears in Lyric beyond Containment, a special issue of @differences_DUP (36:2-3). Read it for free: https://t.co/6y1LA59PDj
"Lyric beyond Containment," a special issue of differences edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, is now available. View the TOC, read the intro, and "The Americanity of the 'American Lyric',"all freely available: https://t.co/DOd6yIXGbH
Our special issue of differences is out! Claire and I were asked to suggest one article that would be open access, and (although it was hard to choose) we picked Whitney’s, which is about Claudia Rankine’s “American lyric” in Ibero-American translation:
https://t.co/HONAutPm4W
differences 36.2–3 is out now — edited by Sarah Dowling and Claire Grandy, "Lyric beyond Containment" features essays from Jacques Khalip, David Marriott, Andrea Brady, Amy De'Ath, Whitney DeVos, Jan Mieszkowski, Ren Ellis Neyra, Susan Briante, more: https://t.co/3pxdT7wxTu
Mohamed Amer Meziane's "The States of the Earth" is one of the most incredible books I've read in a while. I was delighted to receive an invitation from @differences_DUP to engage critically with Amer. Really looking forward to it!
https://t.co/AP8Cp0wFtG
"Laughter […] lingers in the racialized, sexualized, and gendered spaces of abjection that drive the subject to the edges of meaning" — from our latest issue, read Iván A. Ramos's "Breaking Down, Breaking Together" here: https://t.co/9uNm02wkxr
"Kim’s work does not allow us to inhabit the virtual spaces we see before us. Instead, her rendering of space and the various ghosts that haunt those spaces seem to take possession of our bodies" — read Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli's "Spectral Forensics" here: https://t.co/IWBELoHeHw
The Weekly Read is "On Exhaustion: Toward a Post-Care Feminism" by Samantha Pinto and Jennifer C. Nash, published in Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality, a special issue of @differences_DUP (36:1).
Read it for free: https://t.co/YQVmq03DLZ
"Dossier: Limits of Legibility—Questions of Blackness and Sexuality," a special issue of @differences_DUP (36:1), is available! View the TOC and read "Ce n’est pas ça: Blackness, Sex, and the Set of Illegibles" by Lee Edelman, freely available through 9/5: https://t.co/q388MwtNVD
differences 36.1 is out now — featuring a dossier of essays from Selamawit D. Terrefe, David Marriott, and Lee Edelman, alongside writing from Jennifer C. Nash, Samantha Pinto, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli, Matthew Helm, and Iván A. Ramos: https://t.co/NcY67WMIq7
now available online: a recording of "Limits of Legibility: The Climate of Critique," a colloquium featuring Axelle Karera, Dixa Ramírez D’Oleo, Jean-Thomas Tremblay, and Lynne Huffer, moderated by Elizabeth A. Wilson — watch it here: https://t.co/7SFkaWs9Bu