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Villancicos para la profesión de Sor Tomasa María de Santa Clara: posibles razones para la excepción en el protocolo del Monasterio de las Descalzas
Authors: Llergo Eva
Published: September 2020

El estudio se centra en analizar y editar un texto insólito dentro de la poesía conventual del madrileño Monasterio de las Descalzas Reales: el pliego de 1708 que incluye los villancicos que se cantaron durante la toma de velo de Sor Tomasa María de Santa Clara. No existen precedentes, ni se secundará la costumbre por ningún otro pliego durante la historia de la institución, de modo que se trata de arrojar cierta luz sobre las razones que llevaron a elaborar e imprimir estos textos. Las conclusiones apoyan estudios previos que contemplan estas composiciones como herramientas de ostentación económica y social; aunque, en este caso, tratamos de demostrar que se trata de una campaña personal para limpiar la imagen del padre de la monja profesa, Manuel Sentmenant, marqués de Castelldosrius y, por aquellos años, virrey de Perú caído en desgracia.
Housing Affordability: Factors Influencing Housing in the Tamale Metropolis of Ghana
Authors: Zakaria Yakubu A. , Danyi Kuusaana Elias
Published: September 2020

Housing is considered a basic human need. Yet deficit housing supply plagues Ghana. Studies on housing concentrate mainly on offering accommodation that neglects the problem of its affordability. As a result, this study examines factors influencing housing affordability using the Tamale Metropolis as a case study. Using stratified random sampling methodology, 271 renters and homeowners was chosen. Data analysis utilized descriptive statistics. The study showed inflation, rapid urbanization, and building material costs were the dominant factors that influence housing affordability. Rent was also found to be relatively affordable for all categories of housing units. Furthermore, it emerged that the efforts of homeowners, the private sector developers, and the state in the provision of housing were insufficient in providing affordable housing. Consequently, tenants are forced to invest over longer years for constructing or buying a home. The private sector should use less-cost building materials in its projects to provide housing for rent and/or sale, and still present minimum quality standards. It will mean that construction costs will not be too high to justify a high rent once the building is completed. Rent will be on the low side when this happens so tenants can afford to. Equally, it is precarious that the government joins forces with the private estate developers to put up flats at reasonable prices using cheap local building materials.
China-Myanmar Bilateral Relations: An Analytical Study of Some Geostrategic and Economic Issues
Authors: Ahamed Akkas , Rahman Md. Sayedur , Hossain Nur
Published: September 2020

Myanmar's geopolitical and geostrategic position is very important for China and India, the two regional powers in East Asia and South Asia. Myanmar is the main connecting hub for South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia, and it is also connected with the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. Myanmar is connected with the two corridors of China's ambitious projects, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and Bangladesh, China, India, Myanmar Economic Corridor (BCIM). Chinese ships have to navigate at the Malacca Strait, especially in the case of fuel oil imports and exports to global markets, which are, both times consuming and strategically risky. But, using the Rakhine state's Kyaukpyu port will reduce China's dependence on the Malacca Strait and expand trade. Due to the US presence in the Indian Ocean, the recent Sino-Indian conflict, and Myanmar's geostrategic position, Sino-Myanmar relations are now one of the topics of study. This article will analyze the geostrategic and economic issues of Sino-Myanmar relations. The study has found that both China and Myanmar have greatly been benefitted through the establishment of strong bilateral relationship based on trade and investment, connectivity, constructions of ports and special economic zones. The main objective of this study is to find a diplomatic way to improve the Bangladesh-Myanmar relations based on the results of the strong relationship of China and Myanmar. This study is a major contribution to the field of China–Myanmar bilateral relations in the context of some geostrategic and geo-economic issues. The study has been carried out based on secondary data with some primary data of border survey and focus group discussions. At the conclusion of this study, there has been provided with some policy recommendations to improve the geostrategic and economic relations between the two neighboring countries.
The Animality of Affect: Religion, Emotion, and Power
Authors: Schaefer Donovan O.
Published: September 2020

This essay argues that the immensely influential concept of affect as unstructured proto-sensation that is primarily associated with Gilles Deleuze and Brian Massumi is insufficient to understand the roles of affect in religion and other formations of power. The Deleuzian approach to affect fails to reckon adequately with the animality of the human body, with its evolutionarily particular bio-architecture that affords it a finitely multiple repertoire of affects. Moving to religion by way of Sylvan Tomkins, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, and Sara Ahmed, the essay argues that the felt bodily needs and consequent affective economy of which religion is the product hinge on shame and dignity, and it proceeds to illustrate its claim with reference to Saba Mahmood’s analysis of the women’s Mosque Movement in pre-revolutionary Egypt.
Capitalism as Religion, Debt as Interface: Wearing the World as a Debt Garment
Authors: Seigworth Gregory J.
Published: September 2020

Taking its lead from St. Francis of Assisi, this essay elaborates the theme of the “debt garment,” one that offers both the promise of recognition—that of one’s worldly belongingness to all other humans and nonhumans—and the threat of burdens that crush some more harshly than others, but whose weight all must carry. In a semi-secular-theological turn, the essay contends that credit/debt relationships make and unmake worlds. Threading together insights from a patchwork assemblage of sources, including M. T. Anderson’s YA novel Feed, current advancements in “wearable” technologies, St. Francis, Parrika, Benjamin, Nietzsche, Deleuze and Guattari (to name but a few), the essay explores the ethological and ecological web of debt and ultimately proffers an aesthetics of debt, whereby debt becomes not merely a garment worn, but both a gesture of promise for, and a threat to, other worlds.
Immobile Theologies, Carceral Affects: Interest and Debt in Faith-Based Prison Programs
Authors: Runions Erin
Published: September 2020

This essay examines how the biblically-based theologies deployed in faith-based prison programs are intertwined with carceral technologies and how the emotional/spiritual objectives of the increasingly theologically supported prison industrial complex are bound up with the affective structures and strategies of (racialized) interest and debt. In effect, the essay brings a range of affect theorists into conversation with critics of the prison industrial complex to tease out the interconnected affective, financial, theological, moral, and environmental components of contemporary carceral technologies. Without such analysis, it is argued, prison reform can only ever be a further occluded phase of radical neoliberalism.
Affective Politics of the Unending Korean War: Remembering and Resistance
Authors: Joh Wonhee Anne
Published: September 2020

This essay treads the routes and traces the roots of dispossession created by the Korean War. Framing it not as the “forgotten war” but rather as the “unending war,” the essay renounces individualized theories of trauma and witnesses to the complex spatiotemporal pulls of transgenerational terror. Through contemporary acts of collective mourning, the essay, which is also an exercise in critical Christian theology, reopens the wounds of the cross to register collective rage, grief, and unending mourning as counters to US imperialism. In making a postcolonial turn to affect, the essay confronts elisions in affect theory and assumes a posture of critical melancholia as an intersubjective act of mourning of and resistance to historical trauma.
Weeping by the Water: Hydraulic Affects and Political Depression in South Korea after Sewol
Authors: Kim Dong Sung
Published: September 2020

Sewol names both the senseless mass drowning of schoolchildren in a 2014 ferry disaster off the southwest coast of South Korea and its abiding affective impact on the South Korean population and diaspora. Anchoring itself in the tide of emotion washing from the broadcasted images of Pangmok Harbor where families and friends wept and awaited news of lost loved ones, but also reactivating the image from Psalm 137 of earlier weeping by another body of water (“By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion…”), this essay explores the affective possibilities of water as an elemental archive or repository of emotion beyond the constricting confines of the national. The essay also argues that a generalized concept of affect will not suffice to do justice to Sewol. A Korean tragedy evokes a Korean affect, and that affect the essay locates in the Korean concept of Han.
Reading (with) Rhythm for the Sake of the (I-n-)Islands: A Rastafarian Interpretation of Samson as Ambi(val)ent Affective Assemblage
Authors: Rawson A. Paige
Published: September 2020

This essay reframes the Bible as both a Caribbean text and a rhythmic text. It argues, moreover, that the Bible, in its illimitable capacity to affect and be affected, is also what Gregory Seigworth, Melissa Gregg, and Kathleen Stewart would term an affective bloom-space, an exceedingly fertile concept. The essay proceeds to assemble a Rastafari hermeneutic that effectuates a rhythmic reasoning whereby the resonances of Glissantian orality and Deleuzian affect throb together upon the pulsating pages of the biblical Samson story. Orality as musicality meets affect theory in the essay’s reactivation of the Samson story, a reading acutely attentive to rhythm and to the intra-action of narrative and interpretive bodies in/as ambient affective assemblage.
Writing Affect and Theology in Indigenous Futures
Authors: Arthur Mathew
Published: September 2020

Issues of territory and territorialization are germane to this essay. Its driving question is whether affect theory or theology can ever deterritorialize themselves fully from Western-citationality. Acutely attuned to the impossibility and importance of this challenge, the essay enjoins “sticking with the trouble” (a là Donna Haraway) represented by animisms and their indigenous territories: geographical, intellectual, and spiritual. Weaving together indigenous modes of knowing with feminist science studies, the essay resists the sovereignties of both affect theory and theology. Countering modes of thinking affect and theology that might stake out ground, it instead tracks what each does when they are invoked. It thereby seeks alternate routes for making a world and finds them most fruitfully in indigenous futurism. The essay adumbrates a hope for an animist-affect-theology that would create a storied world necessarily rooted in the colonial past/present but also open to indigenous futures and inclusive of other-than-human meanings.
The Polyphonic Hermeneutics of Assia Djebar’s L’amour, la fantasia
Authors: El Shakry Hoda
Published: September 2020

Chapter 4 examines Assia Djebar’s (1936–2015) celebrated 1985 novel L’amour, la fantasia [translated as Fantasia: An Algerian Cavalcade]. The work is a palimpsest of texts that weaves together: French archival records and eyewitness accounts of the occupation of Algeria in the 1830s, oral histories recorded in Algerian dialect and Tamazight by women involved in the war of independence from 1954 through 1962, as well as Djebar’s personal memories and reflections. The chapter argues that Djebar models a practice of ethical reading [ijtihād] in her re-narration of official histories and archives—colonial, national, as well as Islamic. It resituates L’amour, la fantasia, outside of the postcolonial, feminist, and Francophone critical paradigms that dominate the copious scholarship on her work. However, rather than reading gender and language as external to Qurʾanic intertextuality, the chapter emphasizes how they inform and shape Djebar’s narrative ethics—largely through the novel’s insistence on orality and embodiment.
Politics, Poetics, Piety
Authors: El Shakry Hoda
Published: September 2020

The Epilogue returns to novelist and critic Maḥmud Al-Masʿadī, to discuss his 1957 epistolary exchange with the Egyptian critic and writer Ṭāhā Ḥusayn—the figurehead par excellence of the nahḍa [Arab ‘Renaissance’] and Arab Modernist movement. Ḥusayn transposed al-Masʿadī’s fiction into the politically charged debates on literary commitment [engagement] and existentialism that preoccupied intellectuals across the decolonizing world. The exchange sheds light on the ways in which the elision of cultural production from the Maghreb in critical literature on the nahḍa works in concert with the framing of Arab modernity as a secular project. The chapter argues that al-Masʿadī’s literary and critical writings—like those of Abdelwahab Meddeb, al-Ṭāhir Waṭṭār, Assia Djebar, Driss Chraïbi, and Muḥammad Barrāda—invite us to reimagine the relationship between culture, politics, and ethics. Their works envision the public intellectual as an ethical subject engaged in narrative acts of creation.
From Dreyfus in the Colony to Céline’s Anti-Semitic Style
Authors: Fieni David
Published: September 2020

Orientalist philology brought people deemed Semitic together under the rubric of Semitism, and it subsequently broke up this forced grouping into the distinct categories of Jew, Arab, and Muslim. Chapter 3 demonstrates how the Dreyfus Affair exacerbated tensions between Jews, Muslims, and European residents of French colonial Algeria at the end of the nineteenth century. It explores the history of philological Semitism, discusses the legal status of Jews and Muslims in Algeria, and summarizes how the Dreyfus Affair affected Algerian politics and business. In order to think through the stylistics of French colonial anti-Semitism, the chapter examines pro-Jewish and anti-Jewish texts from the Algerian press of the 1890s. It ends with a close reading of Céline’s Bagatelles pour un massacre, demonstrating the way that popular literary philology reveals a lasting fracture between Jews, Arabs, and Muslims, while also exposing a process of psychological minoritization of the French majority population.
Resurrecting Colonial Decadence in Independent Algeria
Authors: Fieni David
Published: September 2020

Chapter 4 proposes re-reading the language politics of the Algerian Civil War through the lens of Orientalist modes of evaluating language. It offers a summary of the conditions prevailing during the period of Arabization and its relation to Algerian society and the Algerian economy. This is followed by a comparative reading of Tahir Wattar’s Arabic novel, Al-Zilzal (The Earthquake) (1974), and Tahar Djout’s French novel, L’Invention du désert (The Invention of the Desert) (1987), which both develop a postcolonial critique of the concept of decadence. By narrating the Algerian present through the degenerating consciousness of two figures embodying a highly paternalistic understanding of Islamic tradition, these novels trace the limits of the role of French and Arabic in both Algerian national culture and transnational space. A critique of postcolonial decadence emerges that challenges the very idea of the nation in configurations of the loss inscribed within the discourse of decadence.
Virtual Secularization
Authors: Fieni David
Published: September 2020

This chapter examines the knot of meanings that have been attributed to the mobile Arab body and Arabic script in post-9/11 Orientalist Islamophobic fantasy. A reading of Abdelwahab Meddeb’s Talismano and Phantasia demonstrates how the body of the Arab immigrant or traveler becomes the field of battle upon which the ideological conflicts of Orientalism’s decaying discourses are played out. Meddeb’s work is analyzed in relation to Nietzsche’s revisions of the concept of decadence and the body, as well as critical frames from Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Pierre Klossowski, Dina al-Kassim, Michel de Certeau, and Réda Bensmaïa. Meddeb injects Arabic and Islamic techniques of circulation into networks of power inherent within the postcolonial nation-state to enact a kind of virtual secularization, meaning a translation of Islamic cultural practices from Arabic into French. His work produces a postcolonial urbanism that conveys the overlapping chronotopes of the flâneur and the médinant (an idler in the Arab médina), leaving only the trace of an itinerary
Paul against Empire
Authors: Løland Ole Jakob
Published: September 2020

The image of a political thinker that arises from Taubes’s readings of Paul is the result of Taubes’s peculiar method of reading Paul through key thinkers of the twentieth-century European thought, such as Nietzsche, Benjamin, and Barth. The political aspects of the philosophers’ readings are brought to the fore by Taubes’s intertwinement of historical and philosophical perspectives, but also of the crossing of the Jewish and the Christian. Taubes’s political Paul is drawn from contradictory meanings within the Pauline epistles, primarily Romans. On one hand Taubes’s Paul is anti-imperial as the apostle’s message amplifies a seething antagonism toward the values of the Greco-Roman world and “declares war” against the Emperor himself. On the other, Taubes’s Paul develops a “nihilism” which is actually “quietist” and withdrawn in relation to direct contestation of actually existing authority. This nihilistic view of the apostle can be further argued for through affinities between readings of biblical scholars of our day and Friedrich Nietzsche, building further upon Taubes’s interpretations of Paul.
Introduction: On Counter-Progressive Pedagogy
Authors: McGlazer Ramsey
Published: September 2020

This introduction indicates the book’s historical and theoretical coordinates and lays out its argument. The introduction proposes “counter-progressive pedagogy” as the name for a series of surprising, often paradoxical engagements with the “old school” in modernist literature and cinema. Noting that this pedagogy characterizes the work of the figures treated in the book’s chapters—Pater, Pascoli, Joyce, Pasolini, and Rocha—the introduction also provides counter-examples from other literary and cinematic traditions, both realist and modernist. Finding a theoretical precedent and point of departure in Antonio Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks, the introduction discusses Gramsci’s analysis of fascist educational reforms. In its effort to modernize Italian schools and shed the dead weight of what Giovanni Gentile disparaged as outmoded, rote, and repetitive “instruction,” the fascist regime espoused progressive educational principles. Gramsci’s response to this co-optation or crux—this convergence of fascist policy and progressive theory—is instructive. Whereas Gentile sought “the liberation of the school from mechanism,” Gramsci deemed such liberation impossible. But like the other counter-progressive figures treated in Old Schools, he shows that the old school’s repetition, discipline, and even deadness—as in the deadness of the Latin language—can be radically recast and set to work to critical ends.
Plant Horror: Love Your Own Pod
Authors: Meeker Natania , Szabari Antónia
Published: September 2020

The sixth chapter moves into the world of “plant horror” to explore the ways in which the plant becomes a figure for both cinema itself and for life under global capitalism, inspiring fear and desire all at once. The B movies examined in this chapter posit vegetality as the experience of all beings under capitalism. They visualize the dark side of a global modernity that is vegetal in essence, yet still generates human interest and even fascination. This critique of capitalism is coupled with an attempt to project a view of a purely material reality—that is, the reality of the plant on film. Such a projection represents not just a horrifying loss of human authenticity, but a pleasurable cinematic experience that foreshadows a new materialist approach to the interpenetration of bodies. This chapter presents an analysis of the two film versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (appearing in 1956 and 1978, respectively) to show how these films foreground vegetal alterity and challenge the basic premises of realism. Long interpreted as promoting paranoia, plant horror can instead introduce us to a world which does not recognize humans as individuals but nonetheless allows them to become affectively involved with it.
Crisis and Avant-Garde
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter focuses on the avant-garde and how it is a question of performatively exceeding the form of the world, its relations of production, appropriation and expropriation. It describes the historical interface that makes opinions possible, and whose conflict and multiplication confirm the world that nourishes its form. No given form should interfere with new matter. The chapter points out that avant-garde does not propose the production of new vignettes within the same form, but rather the production of a new form whose vignettes are formally incompossible with the old form. It emphasizes that if the avant-garde event were to take place, then the rhetorics of the debacle, the cut, of rupture, revolution, change, of the incursion into unknown territories would be interrupted because the subject itself would become desubjectivized.
Critical Attitude
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter pays attention to the question of government, composition of things, and consequent multiplication of the pedagogic, political, economic, and methodological arts that took place as of the sixteenth century. It talks about disassociation from critique, the “critical attitude” that will be expressed in a more modern fashion in the question of “how not to be governed.” The chapter also mentions Plato's Allegory of the Cave. In it, Plato provides a whole repertoire of locations of frontiers and thresholds and investments in a regard that is pregnant with life-or-death consequences, in theologies of salvation or damnation as well as epistemic moralities of truth and falsity. Within the stage machinery of comings and goings, it was decisive that a center is established so as to give meaning to movement and place.
Sovereign Critique II
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter talks about Carl Schmitt and his book Dictatorship, where he distinguished between the commissary and the sovereign forms of dictatorship. It focuses on the sovereign forms of dictatorship that is designed within the universe of Roman dictatorships before Sulla and Caesar. The chapter also points out dictatorship characterized by acting in an exception that is provided by the law of the republic in order to conserve and safeguard the law. The dictator is named by the senate to carry out specific tasks, such as to eliminate a dangerous situation, to make war, to repress an internal rebellion, or to celebrate a popular assembly. Sovereign dictatorship, however, exercises dictatorship by suspending the law of the republic. According to Schmitt, Caesar embodies the historical model of the sovereign dictator.
The Exhausted Age
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter highlights how to criticize the nihil without feeding its pluripotent interface or becoming just one more fold within its immanence. It also explains how to dodge the nihil without the feint being reappropriated beforehand as one more input into its polytechnics. Critique as the critique “relative to...” is nothing without what it criticizes. The critique “relative to...” is always in need and lacking what it criticizes, such as the mode of production and understanding of an epoch. The chapter further explains that “relative to...” is also structurally constituted as the “critique of...”, which refers to a presupposition. The critique's starting point is always reactive, its affirmation and positivity belonging to the domain of the negative.
Referential Illusion
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter explains an illusion that is produced when a technology and a mode of production imitates and represents other modes of production in its own medium. It focuses on cinema as a specific technology that produces the illusion of subsuming pre- or a-cinematic technologies and temporalities into its own plane of immanence. In cinema, photography, digital publicity, photomontage, and electronic mixing, there is no clash of modes of production but rather the endogamy of the same medium's homogeneous productivity. The chapter also talks about the clash or anachronism that is nothing more than the reiteration of the same technology under the fetish of presenting another. When photography represents painting photographically, it does not clash with painting, it only exhibits itself, representing itself and its power to produce images.
Critique as the Unworking of Theater
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter focuses on “The Author as Producer,” where Walter Benjamin sets out the demand, the artistic, or political coefficient that Bertold Brecht made of author-actors and of critics. It looks at the ways illusions are nourished in situ without interruption that represents a highly disputable activity and even more so if the materials enhancing such fascination present themselves as revolutionary in nature. The chapter also analyzes Edgar Allan Poe's works that suggest writing a poem is conceived as an absolute commodity that defines beforehand the points of sensibility upon which the poem must act so as to absolutely fascinate. It emphasizes how fascination is what any commodity tautologically seeks rather than to awaken or establish a distance. The author, the director, the actor, and the modern poet hope to exercise the power of reverie in which the spectators embody their hopes in order to satisfy them passionately.
Destruction
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter illustrates the diagram of critical performance or Benjaminian destruction that stresses singularity for each and every case. It reviews the performance of installation and montage, but above all the coimplication of each of limits and excesses. A coimplication that relaunches interruptions and destabilizations, disturbing homogeneity, totality, and position in the topical turbulence and systematic desistence from identity. The chapter also explains the performative tactility that releases virtualities in situ where the tensions between technological strata of performance will destroy the installations, distributions, and terminologies. It describes destructive performance that are arranged as blockages and specific apparatuses of mediation, work, containment, and capitalization.
Sovereign Exception, Destructive Exception
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter discusses Walter Benjamin's “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” which refers to a regime of sovereign representation where the state of emergency is the rule. It explains the paradigm of sovereignty that is constituted teleologically from exception, as the foundation and conservation of representational regimes. For Benjamin, the state of emergency is equivalent to “progress as a historical norm.” The chapter also looks at the commissary-sovereign state of exception that is functional to a policing critique and a politics whose prerogative is to put the regimes of representation into crisis. It analyzes a prerogative that subsumes the destructive character of the exception within a dialectical concentration of the rule, making the spectrality of destruction a function of the system of representation.
Benjamin: Pure Strike and Critique
Authors: Thayer Willy
Published: September 2020

This chapter discusses Walter Benjamin's view on why Georges Sorel has the merit of having distinguished between two different kinds of strike: the general political strike and the general proletarian strike. It also examines how Sorel differentiated two kinds of violence: foundational violence and purely destructive violence. The general political strike establishes the law, encourages reform, and feeds the matrix of exception as the rule in which progress as historical norm is lived. In contrast, the proletarian general strike sets itself the sole task of destroying state power. The chapter also covers Benjamin's pure strike or pure violence, which does not privilege or negate temporal vectors, impugn a “now” to affirm an after, nor jump from one homogeneous present to another.
Unproductive Worth
Authors: Bray Karen
Published: September 2020

“Unproductive Worth” reads with the autonomism of Franco “Bifo” Berardi and Kathi Weeks, the political and quotidian depression of Ann Cvetkovich, and a disability poetics in order to challenge both neoliberal and more progressive (the latter represented in this chapter by Hardt and Negri and their theological deployment by Joerg Rieger and Kwok Pui Lan) productivist theologies that tie our worth to our “productive” contribution to society. As a counter to such a productivist soteriology, this chapter suggest we remain unredeemed by tapping into the post-work imaginary of Weeks, the utopia of ordinary habit of Cvetkovich, and a crip poetics inspired by Robert McRuer. The chapter suggests that we must pay grave attention to all those considered too slow, too mad, too depressed, too crippled to be of productive worth.
Unwilling Feeling
Authors: Bray Karen
Published: September 2020

Chapter four, “Unwilling Feeling,” reads John D. Caputo’s material theology and his conception of the insistence of God alongside Sara Ahmed’s work on what she names “affect aliens” and willfulness to offer biblical scenes of affect alien prophets. Jonah and Martha embody such moody prophecy in this scene. The chapter constructs and applies an affect hermeneutic to and with biblical texts in order to read for what might happen when we follow moodiness to unexpected theological conclusions. Jonah’s and Martha’s moodiness in their biblical tales reveal not what’s wrong with them, but rather serve as a lament against problematic theological interpretations and conscriptions of each character. These affect alien prophets exist as blockage; their existence stops up or slows down the normative flow. These biblical characters prophetically persist by remaining moody impediments to the story. To gravely attend to such prophets is to embrace alternate flows or undercurrents within the biblical story. Such an embrace invites us to look for alternate flows within our contemporary stories.
Where Life Itself Lives
Authors: Rivera Mayra
Published: September 2020

Sylvia Wynter’s work seeks to expose Man as an arbitrary conception inherently linked to racism and too often mistaken for the human as such. She also offers a more capacious model for being human—one that is culturally specific, relational and dynamic. This constructive dimension of her work is especially evident in her novel, The Hills of Hebron, for the literary genre is consonant with her argument that communities invent genres of being human from their local histories, the specificities of landscape, religious visions, and creative practices. This essay examines the contribution of the novel to Wynter’s broader project of deconstructing the doctrine of Man.
Unsettling Blues: A Decolonial Reading of the Blues Episteme
Authors: Burnett Rufus
Published: September 2020

“Unsettling Blues: A Decolonial Reading of the Blues Episteme” reads the phenomenon of American Blues with Sylvia Wynter’s analysis of Eurocentric ontology, “the doctrine of Man,” in its Christian and secular modes. In particular, the chapter uses Wynter’s insights to highlight the persistence of the blues episteme in the music of Mississippi born rap artist Justin Scott (also known as Big K.R.I.T.). By locating Scott within the decolonial legacy of the blues episteme, the chapter reveals an embodied and spatially situated example of how everyday people use knowledge and art to unsettle the doctrine that is “Man.” The chapter concludes that the blues episteme provides non-adaptive alternatives to the coloniality of certain African American Christian ontologies, which adapt to the Eurocentric doctrine of, “Man.” In all, the article suggests that “blues peoples,” those peoples that live out the blues episteme, produce cosmological and political options for being that prefigure and point towards decolonial visions of the human.
Not Your Papa’s Wynter: Women of Color Contributions toward Decolonial Futures
Authors: Méndez Xhercis , Figueroa Yomaira C.
Published: September 2020

This chapter focuses on two important contentions in the work of/on Wynter: First, there is a productive engagement with her understandings of feminism, gender, and patriarchy as they pertain to the overrepresentation of Man and in its relation to women of color and decolonial feminisms. Second, the authors examine her articulation of the studia humanitatis as a critical site for transformation and liberatory imagination. The chapter explores how Wynter’s critique of mainstream liberal feminism has provided a language for dismissing the work and political concerns articulated by women of color, while highlighting the deep resonances between Wynter’s project and the contributions made by women of color and decolonial feminists. In addition to a long history of taking back the “Word,” women of color have consistently sought to create new value systems and build relations anew beyond those established through colonization and slavery and beyond those that serve to bolster “Man.”
Enfleshing Love: A Decolonial Theological Reading of Beloved
Authors: Copeland M. Shawn
Published: September 2020

This chapter draws on Toni Morrison’s novel Beloved to unsettle meanings of freedom, love, and subjectivity. It uses a decolonial political theological perspective that pivots on two paradoxical aspects of Christianity: its entanglement with the colonial anthropological deformation that Sylvia Wynter refers to as “Man” and its commitment to justice as social transformation inspired by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. In reading Morrison’s novel, Copeland leaves the reader without a tidy conclusion that returns to an affirmation of Christian tradition. Prioritizing black existential pain that pervades Morrison’s work, this chapter offers the most sacred identity of the human person, which it argues is realized in enfleshing love, as a site for unsettling modern/colonial anthropological distortions.
Bodies That Speak
Authors: Tonstad Linn Marie
Published: September 2020

This essay argues that the “queer prophet,” a figure that emerges from combining certain biblical features of prophecy with queer (especially queer of color) performance theory, can spark resistance to global capitalism’s tactics of discipline and fragmentation. I propose understanding prophecy as bodied acts, often baffling even to the prophet, that have transformative potential in relation to the current order, but that require reception and mediation (and thus relation) in order to actualize that potential. Such resistance depends on respatialization and retemporalization in order to create contiguity or alliance between the different, the formation of a “we” as a result of such contiguity, the identification of the salient processes (or quilting points) of global capital, the utterance of demands indexed to the transformation of such salient processes by the “we,” and, in the processes, the development of “our” ability to believe in an impossible and unimaginable future.
Black Life/Schwarz-Sein: Inhabitations of the Flesh
Authors: Weheliye Alexander G.
Published: September 2020

The chapter focuses on the complex ways gender and sexuality function in the barring of Black flesh from the category of the human-as-Man by investigating inhabitations of the flesh that bring to light the relational, borderless being-in-the-world of Black Life. The chapter does this by looking to examples from literature and music that render the constitutive ungendered displacement of Black Life from origin and belonging habitable. The chapter also considers how Black Life must be cordoned off from the most fundamental parts of human life in order for it to resemble “life.”
Art for Science’s Sake: Wilde in Whitman’s Wilderness
Authors: See Sam , Herring Scott , Love Heather , Moffat Wendy
Published: September 2020

Wilde’s affection for Whitman reveals an overlooked strain of nature-based queer aesthetics not only in Wilde’s writing but in the literary modernist era that both Whitman and Wilde are often considered to anticipate. Such aesthetics are rooted in two evolutionary scientific principles: first, that nature is infinitely mutable; and second, that sexual feeling is aesthetic feeling grounded in the material world.
Exfoliating Modernist Realism: Carpenter, Darwin, and Forster
Authors: See Sam , Herring Scott , Love Heather , Moffat Wendy
Published: September 2020

Forster’s 1914 novel Maurice offers an exemplary instance of modernist realism. The novel offers an experimental depiction of nature as the model for democratic socialism. This depiction of nature is founded on the principle of love, especially non-normative love like homosexuality.
“Spectacles in Color”: The Primitive Drag of Langston Hughes
Authors: See Sam , Herring Scott , Love Heather , Moffat Wendy
Published: September 2020

Langston Hughes’s “Spectacles in Color” envisions Harlem culture as a drag performance. The Weary Blues records a lyric history of modernist Harlem in poems that perform in drag, an aesthetic of visual crossing. This aesthetic ironically coincides with and also countermands the identitarian stereotypes of African Americans and queers that were propagated by early-twentieth-century sexological science and degeneration theory.
Epilogue: The Myth of Nature
Authors: See Sam , Herring Scott , Love Heather , Moffat Wendy
Published: September 2020

The concept of queer natures developed throughout the twentieth century developed into a communal myth. Nature served as a source of mythological belief in the materiality of sexual and aesthetic feeling for queers throughout the twentieth century and became a source of political organization.
The Ancients and the Queer Moderns
Authors: Herring Scott
Published: September 2020

See performs a revivification of queer modernist studies that connects up with ancient times.
Late Sam See
Authors: Moffat Wendy
Published: September 2020

A consideration of See’s two projects: one challenging the status of nature within queer studies, the other proposing a new theory of the orientation toward myth of queer politics. Memories of See as a reader and teacher.
Financial Stress and Basis in Energy Markets
Authors: Behmiri Niaz Bashiri , Ahmadi Maryam , Junttila Juha-Pekka , Manera Matteo
Published: September 2020

We investigate the relationship between energy commodities bases, inventory and financial stress from 1994 to 2018. We find that, from the 1998 Asian crisis the effect of financial stress on energy commodities bases gradually increased and from the 2008 crisis became positive, while the effect of inventory showed a gradual decline over time. The reactions of bases to changes in financial stress is nonlinear, as they are higher in the high financial stress periods. This is more profound in crude oil market than heating oil and natural gas. Moreover, the reactions of bases to the changes in inventory is nonlinear, as the reactions are lower when the inventory level is high confirming the theory of storage. We suggest that, in energy market, changes of inventory do not fully explain the variation of energy commodities bases, as the connection between commodity and financial markets increased during the recent years.
Incidence of postoperative vomiting in pediatric population undergoing anesthesia: a prospective cohort study
Authors: Jaimes Daza María Fernanda , Alarcón Tarazona Ismael Enrique , Duarte Villamizar Jonathan Alexis , Meléndez Héctor Julio , Torres Héctor Hugo
Published: September 2020

Introduction: Postoperative nausea and vomiting are frequent adverse effects of anesthesia and surgery. Impact is greater in pediatric populations compared to adults and the reported incidences are heterogeneous.

Objective: To describe the incidence of postoperative vomiting in a pediatric population and to identify associated risk factors.

Materials and methods: This prospective cohort study included 190 children aged 3 to 12 years undergoing surgery and anesthesia in a maternal and child health clinic in Bucaramanga (Colombia). The main outcome variable was postoperative vomiting. Data were analyzed using bivariate, multivariate analysis and logistic regression to assess the associated risk factors.

Results: The overall incidence of postoperative vomiting was 18.95% (95% CI: 13.32 - 24.57), with a higher incidence at home vs. hospital (12.63% vs. 9.47%). After adjustment, associated risk factors were anesthesia time longer than 45 minutes (OR: 2.33; 95% CI: 1.10-4.90) and postoperative use of opioids (OR: 4.17; 95% IC: 1.65-10.5). The incidence of postoperative vomiting was higher in patients who underwent emergency surgery.

Conclusion: This is the first study in Colombia that evaluates the incidence of postoperative vomiting in children. The incidence in our pediatric population is within the ranges reported worldwide. Associated risk factors were anesthesia time longer than 45 minutes and postoperative use of opioids. Further research is required in order to study emergency surgery as a potential risk factor.
Evaluating the 3-m tree crown spacing guideline for the prevention of crowning wildfires in lodgepole pine forests, Alberta
Authors: Alexander Martin E. , Cruz Miguel G.
Published: September 2020

A 3-m between crown spacing is a commonly cited criterion found in the wildland-urban interface fire literature for minimizing the likelihood of a fully-developed crown fire from occurring in a conifer forest on level terrain. The validity of this general recommendation is examined here in light of our current state-of-knowledge regarding crown fire propagation in relation to canopy bulk density. Given the characteristics of the overstory structure for 20 lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. var. latifolia Engelm.) stands located in Alberta, as sourced from the literature, the canopy fuel properties following a virtual thinning to a 3-m crown spacing and then to a targeted canopy bulk density of 0.05 kg/m3 were computed. On the basis of these computations, crown fire potential was then analyzed and interpreted. The conclusion reached is that, in the majority of cases, a less widely spaced stand would be adequate for preventing crown fire development in lodgepole pine forests.
Fisherman, Farmer, Rich Man, Poor Man, Weaver, Parcialidad Chief?
Authors: Billman Brian R. , Bardolph Dana , Hudson Jean , Rosario Jesús Briceño
Published: September 2020

Chapter 10 discusses the Late Intermediate Period (1000–1460 cal AD) and Late Horizon (1470–1532 cal AD) site of Cerro la Virgen in the Moche valley on the Peruvian north coast. The authors argue that the site was self-sufficient except for water for fields, in contrast to earlier interpretations. However, households engaged in multiple economic activities; the site is not characterized by occupational specialization, and both farmers and fishermen lived at Cerro la Virgen.
El Contrato del Mar
Authors: VanValkenburgh Parker , Kennedy Sarah , Rojas Carol , Hassler Gabriel
Published: September 2020

Chapter 14 combines archaeological and documentary data to study post-Conquest demographic collapse in the early Colonial Period in the lower Zaña Valley on the Peruvian north coast. The authors use results of their excavations in two sectors at Carrizales, one dating to Late Sicán, near the end the prehispanic sequence, and one to the early Colonial Period. The Late Sicán remains show an emphasis on fishing, while the Colonial remains show fishing but also an increase in the use of animal domesticates, particularly introduced European species. The change is probably a consequence of colonial tribute demands in the context of declining population. The authors conclude that the documents underlying the well-known maritime specialization model were actually the result of attempts to evade the burden of terrestrial tribute.
Introduction
Authors: Delsandro Erica Gene
Published: September 2020

The chapters in this volume are intended as sources of generation, encouraging scholars and teachers to stretch their critical feminist imaginations toward discovery and possibility, revision and reinvention. This volume strives for an approach that is motivated by discovery, empathy, and excitement. In so doing, the chapters in this volume are not as interested in what secrets scholars can reveal hidden in the texts we read or what counter-ideologies authors have smuggled into their work—the orientation of a suspicious approach. Rather, the chapters in this volume are eager to explore modernist women writers and their work in order to imagine a fresh approach to modernism—the orientation of openness. Instead of excavating, defamiliarizing, and disrupting, the scholars included here intend to open, offer, and amplify. Moreover, the authors in this volume are committed to scholarly introspection: the orientation of openness through which they approach their examination of modernist women writers is also at play in their reflection on our collective feminist project, illustrating the political tensions that infuse our reading postures and writing processes.
Writing Modernist Women
Authors: Ridge Emily
Published: September 2020

“Writing Modernist Women: Toward a Poetics of Insubstantiality” traces the development of a “poetics of insubstantiality” across the works of a range of early twentieth-century women writers, including May Sinclair, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, Cicely Hamilton, and Edith Wharton, among others. Such a poetics saw a subversive turn towards elements deemed insubstantial, in terms of size and weight, as a means of questioning an established connection of value with the idea of substance. Thus smallness, lightness, and portability are embraced for their dynamic potential in offering an alternative means of engaging with and imagining the world. In demonstrating the dynamic potential of the insubstantial, as conceived by these modernist writers, the chapter builds on recent endeavours, spearheaded by Paul K. Saint-Amour (2018), to conceive of a “weak” modernism, in which “one kind of weakness […] produce[s] another kind of strength.” Likewise, a lack of substance, often even of tangibility, can be found to produce another kind of value in the works I consider here.
Modernism and Middlebrow through the Eyes of Object Studies
Authors: Marshik Celia
Published: September 2020

This chapter argues that an object-orientated approach puts texts from a range of cultural registers into dialogue with one another and fruitfully reconfigures how a high modernist work like Virginia Woolf’s Three Guineas might be read on its own. After providing examples of how a range of British and American authors and illustrators (including Rachel Ferguson, Winifred Kirkland, James Joyce, Bert Thomas, and Woolf) represent second-hand attire, the chapter examines the new tools and resources available to scholars that make a research project organized around objects possible. The chapter concludes by examining challenges to object-oriented study, including the difficulty of determining the range and scope of a project and the resistant qualities of things themselves. A gown designed by Sarah Fullerton Monteith Young, a court dressmaker who produced the garments worn by Virginia and Vanessa Stephen when they made their society debut, serves as an example of what we can and cannot know about objects and the people who possessed them.