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Eileen Joy deposited On the Hither Side of Time: Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul and the Old English Ruin in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThrough an analysis of Tony Kushner’s 2001 play “Homebody/Kabul” and the Old English “Ruin” poem, this essay explores the tension, anxiety, and isolation inherent in the aesthetic and philosophical enterprises of measuring the distance that separates myth from real being (a project that takes place, I would argue, against Levinas, not just o…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited On the Hither Side of Time: Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul and the Old English Ruin in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThrough an analysis of Tony Kushner’s 2001 play “Homebody/Kabul” and the Old English “Ruin” poem, this essay explores the tension, anxiety, and isolation inherent in the aesthetic and philosophical enterprises of measuring the distance that separates myth from real being (a project that takes place, I would argue, against Levinas, not just o…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited On the Hither Side of Time: Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul and the Old English Ruin in the group
Historical theory and the philosophy of history on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThrough an analysis of Tony Kushner’s 2001 play “Homebody/Kabul” and the Old English “Ruin” poem, this essay explores the tension, anxiety, and isolation inherent in the aesthetic and philosophical enterprises of measuring the distance that separates myth from real being (a project that takes place, I would argue, against Levinas, not just o…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited On the Hither Side of Time: Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul and the Old English Ruin in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThrough an analysis of Tony Kushner’s 2001 play “Homebody/Kabul” and the Old English “Ruin” poem, this essay explores the tension, anxiety, and isolation inherent in the aesthetic and philosophical enterprises of measuring the distance that separates myth from real being (a project that takes place, I would argue, against Levinas, not just o…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited On the Hither Side of Time: Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul and the Old English Ruin in the group
Anglo-Saxon / Old English on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThrough an analysis of Tony Kushner’s 2001 play “Homebody/Kabul” and the Old English “Ruin” poem, this essay explores the tension, anxiety, and isolation inherent in the aesthetic and philosophical enterprises of measuring the distance that separates myth from real being (a project that takes place, I would argue, against Levinas, not just o…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited The Faded Silvery Imprints of the Bare Feet of Angels: Notes Toward an Historical Poethics on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
By way of the autobiographical writings of Bruno Schulz and the “resurrection” paintings of Stanley Spencer, this talk sketches out some of the ways in which literature and the fine arts situate themselves within the division, or series of breaks, that Michel de Certeau argued Western historiography inscribes between past and present, between the…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited The Old English Seven Sleepers, Eros, and the Unincorporable Infinite of the Human Person on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
Although the ultimate theme of “The Seven Sleepers” can be located in its medieval Christian doctrine—the bodily resurrection is real, and therefore it is in the afterworld where one finally, really “lives,” with shining body and soul together—I would like to argue that, in the Old English version’s emphasis on the highly individualized emotion…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited On the Hither Side of Time: Tony Kushner’s Homebody/Kabul and the Old English Ruin on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months ago
Through an analysis of Tony Kushner’s 2001 play “Homebody/Kabul” and the Old English “Ruin” poem, this essay explores the tension, anxiety, and isolation inherent in the aesthetic and philosophical enterprises of measuring the distance that separates myth from real being (a project that takes place, I would argue, against Levinas, not just o…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited You Are Here: A Manifesto in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis essay ruminates the ethics of a co-implicated, bounded dependence between objects (human and otherwise) that are always in some sense withdrawing from each other but also always together in a some-place labeled “here”: the world (where no Absolute or Outside vantage point is possible or habitable). This essay also considers the possibility,…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited You Are Here: A Manifesto in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis essay ruminates the ethics of a co-implicated, bounded dependence between objects (human and otherwise) that are always in some sense withdrawing from each other but also always together in a some-place labeled “here”: the world (where no Absolute or Outside vantage point is possible or habitable). This essay also considers the possibility,…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited You Are Here: A Manifesto in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis essay ruminates the ethics of a co-implicated, bounded dependence between objects (human and otherwise) that are always in some sense withdrawing from each other but also always together in a some-place labeled “here”: the world (where no Absolute or Outside vantage point is possible or habitable). This essay also considers the possibility,…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited You Are Here: A Manifesto in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoThis essay ruminates the ethics of a co-implicated, bounded dependence between objects (human and otherwise) that are always in some sense withdrawing from each other but also always together in a some-place labeled “here”: the world (where no Absolute or Outside vantage point is possible or habitable). This essay also considers the possibility,…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited Disturbing the Wednesday-ish Business-as-Usual of the University Studium: A Wayzgoose Manifest in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoA manifesto for a radically open publishing commons; an expansion of remarks originally presented on a panel devoted to independent open-access academic publishing at the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group (Boston, Massachusetts, 20-22 Sep. 2012).
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Eileen Joy deposited Disturbing the Wednesday-ish Business-as-Usual of the University Studium: A Wayzgoose Manifest in the group
Library & Information Science on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoA manifesto for a radically open publishing commons; an expansion of remarks originally presented on a panel devoted to independent open-access academic publishing at the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group (Boston, Massachusetts, 20-22 Sep. 2012).
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Eileen Joy deposited Disturbing the Wednesday-ish Business-as-Usual of the University Studium: A Wayzgoose Manifest in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoA manifesto for a radically open publishing commons; an expansion of remarks originally presented on a panel devoted to independent open-access academic publishing at the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group (Boston, Massachusetts, 20-22 Sep. 2012).
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Eileen Joy deposited Disturbing the Wednesday-ish Business-as-Usual of the University Studium: A Wayzgoose Manifest in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoA manifesto for a radically open publishing commons; an expansion of remarks originally presented on a panel devoted to independent open-access academic publishing at the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group (Boston, Massachusetts, 20-22 Sep. 2012).
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Eileen Joy deposited It is the Connection of Desire to Reality that Possesses Revolutionary Force, or, Why I Decided Not to Commit Suicide, After All in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAn expanded version of a talk presented at the Sub-conference of the Modern Language Association, “The Public and Its Privates,” Cheer-up Charlie’s, Austin, Texas, 7 January 2015, that ruminates both the difficulties of collective work as well as how various scholarly collectives create spaces of radical hospitality within which individual perso…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited It is the Connection of Desire to Reality that Possesses Revolutionary Force, or, Why I Decided Not to Commit Suicide, After All in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAn expanded version of a talk presented at the Sub-conference of the Modern Language Association, “The Public and Its Privates,” Cheer-up Charlie’s, Austin, Texas, 7 January 2015, that ruminates both the difficulties of collective work as well as how various scholarly collectives create spaces of radical hospitality within which individual perso…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited It is the Connection of Desire to Reality that Possesses Revolutionary Force, or, Why I Decided Not to Commit Suicide, After All in the group
Digital Humanists on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAn expanded version of a talk presented at the Sub-conference of the Modern Language Association, “The Public and Its Privates,” Cheer-up Charlie’s, Austin, Texas, 7 January 2015, that ruminates both the difficulties of collective work as well as how various scholarly collectives create spaces of radical hospitality within which individual perso…[Read more]
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Eileen Joy deposited It is the Connection of Desire to Reality that Possesses Revolutionary Force, or, Why I Decided Not to Commit Suicide, After All in the group
Cultural Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 7 months agoAn expanded version of a talk presented at the Sub-conference of the Modern Language Association, “The Public and Its Privates,” Cheer-up Charlie’s, Austin, Texas, 7 January 2015, that ruminates both the difficulties of collective work as well as how various scholarly collectives create spaces of radical hospitality within which individual perso…[Read more]
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