Abstract:This essay considers Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence in the light of late 1940s conservationism. The novel shares specific concerns with contemporary conservationist non-fiction, but embeds these within a fragmented, polyvocal novel. Doing so, it demonstrates how different schools of thought clash, each blind to underlying nature in some aspect.
{"title":"Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence and Clashing Discourses of Nature","authors":"Mark C. Taylor","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay considers Aldous Huxley's Ape and Essence in the light of late 1940s conservationism. The novel shares specific concerns with contemporary conservationist non-fiction, but embeds these within a fragmented, polyvocal novel. Doing so, it demonstrates how different schools of thought clash, each blind to underlying nature in some aspect.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"101 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78094846","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Fredric Jameson's meditation on periodization highlights some of the challenges involved in any effort to think the contemporary. This essay argues that the best way to narrate the contemporary is through science fiction and further develops this insight through a reading of the comic book series (1980) and film adaptation (2014) of X-Men: Days of Future Past.
{"title":"How to Fix this Intolerable Present with the Naked Eye; or, Periodizing the Contemporary","authors":"Phillip E. Wegner","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0024","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Fredric Jameson's meditation on periodization highlights some of the challenges involved in any effort to think the contemporary. This essay argues that the best way to narrate the contemporary is through science fiction and further develops this insight through a reading of the comic book series (1980) and film adaptation (2014) of X-Men: Days of Future Past.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"20 1","pages":"1 - 22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80577876","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Less spectacular than theatrical violence involving bloodshed, stage murder by poison is nonetheless unsettling because of its secretive nature. Perceived in Renaissance England as dishonourable and unmanly, poison was often associated with women as the "weaker" sex, with discriminated minorities such as Jews, and with Machiavellian politics from continental Europe.
{"title":"\"Foul, Strange and Unnatural\": Poison as a Murder Weapon in English Renaissance Drama","authors":"P. Sadowski","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Less spectacular than theatrical violence involving bloodshed, stage murder by poison is nonetheless unsettling because of its secretive nature. Perceived in Renaissance England as dishonourable and unmanly, poison was often associated with women as the \"weaker\" sex, with discriminated minorities such as Jews, and with Machiavellian politics from continental Europe.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"56 1","pages":"139 - 154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84396455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:In 2011, Lawrence Hill's bestselling novel, The Book of Negroes, was burned by protestors in the Netherlands. This essay considers the controversy surrounding Hill's novel to explore the international circulation of literature and reflect on the enduring impact of national literatures in our ostensibly globalized present.
{"title":"On Burning Canadian Literature in Amsterdam: In the Afterlives of National Literatures","authors":"R. Zacharias","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0028","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In 2011, Lawrence Hill's bestselling novel, The Book of Negroes, was burned by protestors in the Netherlands. This essay considers the controversy surrounding Hill's novel to explore the international circulation of literature and reflect on the enduring impact of national literatures in our ostensibly globalized present.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"32 1","pages":"71 - 86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87309247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article examines the representation of Surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) in Elena Poniatowska's biographical novel Leonora. Considered through the lens of interdisciplinary cognitive literary studies, my analysis focuses on the narrative properties which make the novel effective in promoting character identification and reader empathy.
{"title":"Psychology of a Biographical Novel: Narrative Empathy in Poniatowska's Leonora","authors":"Ayelet Ishai","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the representation of Surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) in Elena Poniatowska's biographical novel Leonora. Considered through the lens of interdisciplinary cognitive literary studies, my analysis focuses on the narrative properties which make the novel effective in promoting character identification and reader empathy.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":"103 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74837119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:If to be sympathetic to others is a prerequisite for harmonious community, how does this function in the absence of identities in common? In his figurations of sympathy as auto-poetic affectivity, Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" offers a way, exceeding the humanist register on which much thinking about community relies.
摘要:如果说同情他人是和谐社会的先决条件，那么在缺乏共同身份的情况下，同情他人如何发挥作用?沃尔特·惠特曼(Walt Whitman)的《自我之歌》(Song of Myself)将同情比喻为一种自我诗意的情感，提供了一种超越人文主义的方式，而人文主义是许多关于社区的思考所依赖的。
{"title":"Poetic Connections: Sympathy and Community in Whitman's \"Song of Myself\"","authors":"Jill Marsden","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:If to be sympathetic to others is a prerequisite for harmonious community, how does this function in the absence of identities in common? In his figurations of sympathy as auto-poetic affectivity, Walt Whitman's \"Song of Myself\" offers a way, exceeding the humanist register on which much thinking about community relies.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"8 1","pages":"23 - 38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85250665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This paper argues that taking an historical perspective on perceived risks to bodies—be they guns, bedbugs, or viruses—exposes shifts in our understanding of both corporeal and vital ontologies, especially the extent to which it is considered bounded or porous and the effect that has on a body's relationship to its milieu. Modes of political power implemented to respond to, or manage, these threats—from the managerial, microbiopolitical, or surveillance- and information-based control society forms to viral politics and emerging epigenetic theories—form a feedback loop that in turn remodulates both the logics of political response and the underlying ontologies.
{"title":"The New Wild West: Risk, Viral Politics, and the Emergence of Epigenetics","authors":"J. Weinstein","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0021","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper argues that taking an historical perspective on perceived risks to bodies—be they guns, bedbugs, or viruses—exposes shifts in our understanding of both corporeal and vital ontologies, especially the extent to which it is considered bounded or porous and the effect that has on a body's relationship to its milieu. Modes of political power implemented to respond to, or manage, these threats—from the managerial, microbiopolitical, or surveillance- and information-based control society forms to viral politics and emerging epigenetic theories—form a feedback loop that in turn remodulates both the logics of political response and the underlying ontologies.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"38 1","pages":"139 - 157"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83685181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay investigates the ambiguous relationship between humans and bears, especially in light of the catastrophic fate of the latter in the Anthropocene. Their demise correlates to the loss of any cultural, political, and economic sense of our kinship with them. The consequences of this growing ontological gap include the ongoing extinction of "humanimal culture."
{"title":"Sons and Daughters of the Bear Mother: On Humanimal Culture","authors":"J. Wirth","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay investigates the ambiguous relationship between humans and bears, especially in light of the catastrophic fate of the latter in the Anthropocene. Their demise correlates to the loss of any cultural, political, and economic sense of our kinship with them. The consequences of this growing ontological gap include the ongoing extinction of \"humanimal culture.\"","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"261 1","pages":"35 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79683404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This essay explores the question of "animality" and "human difference" as problems for politics and philosophy. If thought is the difference between human and non-human animals, and if, as Badiou argues, "politics is a thought," does this mean that there is no "political dimension" to the human cohabitation of the earth with animals? Until we can conceive of a "common polity" among humans and other animals, there has to be a very careful consideration of strong borders that should not be crossed by humans.
{"title":"Other Animals, Other Gardens: Animal Difference and Politics in Davidson, Derrida, and Badiou","authors":"B. Martin","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay explores the question of \"animality\" and \"human difference\" as problems for politics and philosophy. If thought is the difference between human and non-human animals, and if, as Badiou argues, \"politics is a thought,\" does this mean that there is no \"political dimension\" to the human cohabitation of the earth with animals? Until we can conceive of a \"common polity\" among humans and other animals, there has to be a very careful consideration of strong borders that should not be crossed by humans.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"1 1","pages":"159 - 172"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80746087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Most gossip is keeping in touch with a wide constellation of people, and when we gossip about their foibles, it is to produce amusement, pleasure in their irrational actions. In the human political order, seduction, glamour, and display are determinative forces in producing cooperation and conflict.
{"title":"Pleasure and Seduction in the Political Order","authors":"A. Lingis","doi":"10.1353/mos.2020.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mos.2020.0022","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Most gossip is keeping in touch with a wide constellation of people, and when we gossip about their foibles, it is to produce amusement, pleasure in their irrational actions. In the human political order, seduction, glamour, and display are determinative forces in producing cooperation and conflict.","PeriodicalId":44769,"journal":{"name":"Mosaic-An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal","volume":"16 1","pages":"173 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85771933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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