Volume 24, Numbers 1-2

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This issue addresses diverse questions of materialism and materiality. Articles dialogue with emergent accounts of materiality and materialism, from new materialist, feminist materialist, speculative realist, and object-oriented accounts of materiality to rethinking of concepts of materiality and materialism in Marxist theory, ecotheory, biopolitical theory, affect theory, animal studies, and posthumanisms. They ask can materialism serve as a new organizing principle for the humanities? What kinds of questions does a focus on materialism and materiality open up? What does it close down? How can the different forms of materialist speculation be brought into productive dialogue with each other?

Contents

Christopher Breu
Why Materialisms Matter

Levi R. Bryant
Knots: Notes for a Daemonic Naturalism

Ashley Byock
Dark Matters: Race and the Antebellum Logic of Decorporation

Christopher Breu
A Identity vs. Embodiment: A Materialist Rethinking of Intersex and Queerness

Nicholas Chare
Material Witness: Conservation Ethics and the Scrolls of Auschwitz

Matthew Schilleman
The Bureaucrat Inside: Kafka, Office Media, and the End of Authorship

Marah Nagelhout
Nature and the ‘Industry that Scorched it’: Adorno and Anthropocene Aesthetics

Rebekah Sheldon
Dark Correlationism: Mysticism, Magic, and the New Realisms

MATERIALISMS II

Marta Figlerowicz, Padma D. Maitland, and Christopher Patrick Miller
Object Emotions

Julie Beth Napolin
The Fact of Resonance: An Acoustics of Determination in Faulkner and Benjamin

Lawrence Zi-Qiao Yang
Tiling Over the Modern Pathos: Memory, Crisis, and the Emergence of a Taiwanese Surface

Simon Porzak
Pop Music and Schizophrenia: Kylie Minogue’s Telepathic Affect-Objects

Walt Hunter
Planetary Dejection: An Ode to the Commons

Charles Altieri
Are We Being Materialist Yet?