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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 1 month agoArticle # 6: Annika Thiem (Villanova) about the Benjamin field and the philosophy of disciplinary boundaries:
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 5: Daniel Weidner (Humboldt/ZfL) about the AFTERLIFE of Benjamin:
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Albertine Fox deposited 'EXTREME STATES: Remixing Cinema, Visual Art and Music in Godard’s Puissance de la parole’ in Sequence, 3.1 (2015). Online at: http://reframe.sussex.ac.uk/sequence3/archive/sequence-3-1/. in the group
MS Visual Culture on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis article offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Jean-Luc Godard’s video short Puissance de la parole (1988). It engages with key historical figures in film, visual art and music, positioning Godard’s video mashup as a violent intermedial space where past and future meet. Exploring techniques of fragmentation, decontextualization and rec…[Read more]
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Daniel Escandell Montiel started the topic Journal Caracteres: new issue. Cybertheatres and Performativity (monograph) in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoMessage both in English & Spanish; Mensaje en español e inglés]
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El nuevo número de la revista Caracteres, vol.4 n. 2, ya está disponible tanto a través de la web como mediante descarga (en PDF): http://revistacaracteres.net/revista/vol4n2noviembre2015/ Este número incluye un monográfico coordinado por María Ángeles Grande t…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 4: Ilit Ferber (TAU) “A Feel for Benjamin”:
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 3: Brian Britt (Virginia Tech) about Benjamin’s displaced Judaism:
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Vicky Unruh deposited Unpacking the Libraries of Post-Soviet Cuba in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoBeginning with the renowned “Words to Intellectuals” (1961) delivered by Fidel Castro in the José Martí National Library and the creation of a state network of libraries, the library in Cuba was transformed into a cultural sphere saturated with ideological ambiguity. On the one hand, the library embodied the symbolic axis of the literacy campa…[Read more]
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Nitzan Lebovic replied to the topic An introduction to "The Future of Benjamin" (Nitzan Lebovic) in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoArticle # 2: Udi Greenberg (Dartmouth) about Benjamin Biographies: https://importance_of_benjamin.cas2.lehigh.edu/node/1
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Roger Whitson deposited Applied Blake: Milton's Response to Empire in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoStudying William Blake means studying the event of history, the way history merges with and emerges within theology, politics and philosophy. William Blake’s poetry has had a precarious relationship with history; his work resonates from very specific historical concerns and yet also seems to struggle against being confined to any formal h…[Read more]
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Roland Greene deposited Interamerican Obversals: Haroldo de Campos and Allen Ginsberg Circa 1960 in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 2 months agoThis essay compares two mid-twentieth century poets of the Americas, Allen Ginsberg and Haroldo de Campos, in view of how their work circa 1960 intersects despite the differences in their poetics. It introduces the notion of the obversal, or the identity among poems through a common history.
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Nitzan Lebovic started the topic A teaser for a new project about Walter Benjamin on MLA Commons in the discussion
Sociological Approaches to Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThe articles will be uploaded every Friday, starting Nov. 7th: https://futureofbenjamin.mla.hcommons-staging.org
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Gaurav G. Desai deposited Oceans Connect: The Indian Ocean and African Identities. in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPublished as part of the Theories and Methodologies section on Oceanic Studies.
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Louise Bethlehem deposited Lauren Beukes’s post-apartheid dystopia: inhabiting Moxyland in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads South African science-fiction writer Lauren Beukes’s first novel, Moxyland (2008) set in a futuristic Cape Town, from the perspective of Lindsay Bremner’s notion of “citiness”– or how cities produce the modernity of the subjects who inhabit them. The novel is remarkable for its dependence on the social geography of the South A…[Read more]
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Rebecca Kennison deposited A Scalable and Sustainable Approach to Open Access Publishing and Archiving for Humanities and Social Sciences in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis white paper outlines a model for open access (OA) publishing for the humanities and social sciences (HSS) that offers a scalable, fair, responsive, and discipline-independent solution that can be applied to the entire scholarly communication ecosystem in an incremental fashion, rolled out at both small and large scale. The solution proposed…[Read more]
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Loren Kruger deposited Chicago / Johannesburg in the group
TC Marxism, Literature, and Society on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoJohannesburg, Chicago of South Africa
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Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited The Reappropriation of Poverty and the Art of “Making Do” in Contemporary Argentine Cultural Productions in the group
LLC 20th- and 21st-Century Latin American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThrough an analysis of two post-crisis films (Estrellas, Federico León
and Marcos Martínez, 2007; El nexo, Sebastián Antico, 2005) shot in
the largest slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this essay sketches the
terms for conceptualizing a cultural dimension of the Global South
marked by the aesthetic reappropriation of poverty. Working ag…[Read more] -
Victor Goldgel-Carballo deposited The Reappropriation of Poverty and the Art of “Making Do” in Contemporary Argentine Cultural Productions in the group
CLCS Global South on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThrough an analysis of two post-crisis films (Estrellas, Federico León
and Marcos Martínez, 2007; El nexo, Sebastián Antico, 2005) shot in
the largest slum in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this essay sketches the
terms for conceptualizing a cultural dimension of the Global South
marked by the aesthetic reappropriation of poverty. Working ag…[Read more] -
Marissa K. Lopez deposited Chicano Vibrations in the group
CLCS Hemispheric American on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoThis article reads the smuggling of Aztec artifacts described in Lucha Corpi’s novel Black Widow’s Wardrobe in the context of new materialist philosophies of becoming.
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Yolanda M. Martinez-San Miguel started the topic Postdoc in Caribbean Studies at Rutgers in the discussion
Twentieth-Century Latin American Literature on MLA Commons 10 years, 3 months agoPostdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Caribbean Studies 2016-2017
Critical Caribbean Studies at Rutgers, in collaboration with the Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies, is pleased to announce a one-year competitive postdoctoral fellowship for a humanities or social science scholar pursuing research in Caribbean Studies. Scholars…[Read more]
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