Abstract. Prosopopoeia defines legal and discursive efforts to cognize, and to exempt ourselves from, extinction. The figure of the Anthropocene, for instance, fits a human mask onto the modulation of...

Abstract. Drawing on nearly a decade of research, this essay investigates the hatred of theory on the political right. The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, i...

CANTING A thin sympathetic reservoir of the had. See two figures in crinoline advancing from animism carrying slanted parasols. Felt surfa...

Jean-Thomas Tremblay reviews a recent anthology about Todd Haynes as feminist-queer filmmaker.

Against a backdrop of xenophobic and ethnonationalist fantasies of linguistic purity, Poetry After Barbarism uncovers a stateless, polyglot poetry of resista... | CUP

“It’s in the water!”The elemental exclamation identifies the aquatic and its associated processes (dissolution, saturation, flow) as the hitherto-undisclosed source of a clear and present danger. “It’...

Seven years after the Sudden Departure, erstwhile sitcom star Mark Linn-Baker, having faked his own departure after being left behind when his three Perfect Strangers co-stars departed, contacts Nora ...

In its finale, The Leftovers catches us up. Earlier in the season, the series’ third, Nora Durst (Carrie Coon), a US fraud investigator, lands in Australia, having been notified of a machine that prom...