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On Being Difficult
Ken Hirschkop questions whether poststructuralism and self-referentiality offer workable alternatives to the military 'World
Target' that, according to Rey Chow, provides the framework for knowledge production in Departments of Comparative Literary Studies.
Re-Clearing the Ground: A Response to Linda Brigham
Mark Hansen responds to Linda Brigham's review of Embodying Technesis: Technology Beyond Writing.
How to Do Words with Things
One of a series of eco-critical reviews, Stephen Dougherty explores the new ways that "matter is made to matter" in Ira Livingston's writing on science and literature. The payoff of an ecocriticism grounded in the materiality of language itself, can bee seen by the strong political positioning toward the end of Dougherty's essay.