In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor’s Note

Jeffrey R. Di Leo
pp. 5-7
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0005
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Why Materialisms Matter

Christopher Breu
pp. 9-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0009
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Knots: Notes for a Daemonic Naturalism

Levi R. Bryant
pp. 27-45
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0027
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Dark Matters: Race and the Antebellum Logic of Decorporation

Ashley Byock
pp. 47-63
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0047
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Identity vs. Embodiment: A Materialist Rethinking of Intersex and Queerness

Christopher Breu
pp. 65-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0065
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Material Witness: Conservation Ethics and the Scrolls of Auschwitz

Nicholas Chare
pp. 81-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0081
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The Bureaucrat Inside: Kafka, Office Media, and the End of Authorship

Matthew Schilleman
pp. 99-119
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0099
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Nature and the “Industry that Scorched It”: Adorno and Anthropocene Aesthetics

Marah Nagelhout
pp. 121-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0121
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Dark Correlationism: Mysticism, Magic, and the New Realisms

Rebekah Sheldon
pp. 137-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0137
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Object Emotions

Marta Figlerowicz, Padma D. Maitland, Christopher Patrick Miller
pp. 155-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0155
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The Fact of Resonance: An Acoustics of Determination in Faulkner and Benjamin1

Julie Beth Napolin
pp. 171-186
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0171
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Tiling Over the Modern Pathos: Memory, Crisis, and the Emergence of a Taiwanese Surface

Lawrence Zi-Qiao Yang
pp. 187-205
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0187
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Pop Music and Schizophrenia: Kylie Minogue’s Telepathic Affect-Objects

Simon Porzak
pp. 207-223
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0207
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Planetary Dejection: An Ode to the Commons

Walt Hunter
pp. 225-239
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0225
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Are We Being Materialist Yet?

Charles Altieri
pp. 241-257
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0241
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The Ethics of the Signifier: Wilde and Lacan

Helena Gurfinkel
pp. 259-278
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0259
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Home and Exilic Consciousness: Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaugherhouse-Five and William Spanos’ In the Neighborhood of Zero

Ubaraj Katawal
pp. 279-291
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0279
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Relaxing the Avant-Garde: Tan Lin and the Language-Oriented Tradition

Mathies G. Aarhus
pp. 293-307
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0293
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Voices without the Courage to End or the Strength to Go On: Averted Narratives in Chekhov’s “Champagne” and Beckett’s “The Expelled”

Billy Petersen
pp. 309-325
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0309
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The Hysteric’s Wound: Productive Failure in Narrative Film

Spencer Mackoff
pp. 327-344
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0327
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“The Voice of an Animal”: Robert Bresson and Narrative Form

Rochelle Rives
pp. 345-370
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0345
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Sounding the Multitrack Imagination

Ken Cormier
pp. 371-384
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0371
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Imagining a Professional Future: Cognitive Criticism in Our Era of Information Work

Amanpal Garcha
pp. 385-409
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0385
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The Other Spaces of La Moustache

François Kiper
pp. 411-419
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/sym.2016.a645581
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Revolutionizing the Graphic Novel: A Study of El-Shafee’s Metro

Iman Hanafy
pp. 421-434
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0421
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Big Data, Time and the Archive

Daniela Agostinho
pp. 435-445
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0435
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Big Data: Communicating Outside the Medium of Meaning

Herman Rapaport
pp. 447-457
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0447
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On Data, Givens, and Generosity

Nicole Simek
pp. 459-470
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0459
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Retrieving Kierkegaard for the Post-9/11 Occasion: A Late Meditation on the Secular

William V. Spanos
pp. 471-483
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0471
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Reading by Example

Brian O’Keeffe
pp. 485-498
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0485
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Preemptive Logic and the Necessity of Animal Politics

Nathan Snaza
pp. 499-506
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0499
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The Aesthetic (Re-)Turn: Matter and Method, or Objects and Ontology?

Michael Miller
pp. 507-511
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0507
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Sallow Earth Theory

Keith Leslie Johnson
pp. 513-517
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0513
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Poe’s Alien Poetics

Robert T. Tally Jr.
pp. 519-524
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0519
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Change Agent: An Interview with Tamara Draut

Jeffrey J. Williams
pp. 525-541
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0525
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The Studio of Literature: An Interview with Tom Lutz

Jeffrey J. Williams
pp. 543-565
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5250/symploke.24.1-2.0543
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A William V. Spanos Reader: Humanist Criticism and the Secular Imperative ed. by Daniel T. O’Hara, Donald E. Pease, Michelle Martin (review)

Robert Ryan
pp. 567-569
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Literature and the Development of Feminist Theory ed. by Robin Truth Goodman (review)

Colleen Kropp
pp. 569-571
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Plant Theory: Biopower and Vegetable Life by Jeffrey T. Nealon (review)

John McGowan
pp. 571-573
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Sacred Knowledge: Psychedelics and Religious Experiences by William Richards (review)

Horace Fairlamb
pp. 574-575
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An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day by Alexander Beecroft (review)

John Pizer
pp. 575-577
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Continental Shifts: Migration, Representation, and the Struggle for Justice in Latin(o) America by John D. “Rio” Riofrio (review)

Molly Dooley Appel
pp. 578-580
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Pluralist Desires: Contemporary Fiction and the End of the Cold War by Philipp Löffler (review)

Erik Cofer
pp. 580-581
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Senses of the Subject by Judith Butler (review)

Emilio E. Feijoo
pp. 582-584
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Women and War in Antiquity ed. by Jacqueline Fabre-Serris and Alison Keith (review)

Hunter H. Gardner
pp. 584-586
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Democracy’s Education: Public Work, Citizenship, and the Future of Colleges and Universities ed. by Harry C. Boyte (review)

John McGowan
pp. 587-589
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The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First Century ed. by Amy J. Elias and Christian Moraru (review)

Donald R. Wehrs
pp. 589-591
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Stone: An Ecology of the Inhuman by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen (review)

Keith Leslie Johnson
pp. 591-593
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Notes on Contributors

pp. 596-601
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