b2 would like the benefit of “the wisdom of the crowd.” Should we expand from a tri-quarterly to a full quarterly? And if so, what new topics and materials should we cover?
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Donald E. Pease — Wins the top award from the ASA — Congratulations!
The Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Prize honors lifetime achievement
in and contribution to the field of American Studies. Each year’s
prize committee is instructed to consider afresh the meaning of a
“lifetime contribution to American Studies.” The definitions of terms
like “contribution” and even of “American Studies” remain open,
healthily contested, and thus renewed.The 2012 prizewinner is Donald Pease, Dartmouth College.
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The Sovereignty Seminar
see the b2 Face Book page for some running reports on the talks in this event.
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Table of Contents for Volume 39, number 3 Fall 2012
Wlad Godzich / Friedrich Kittler (1943–2011)
E. Khayyat / The Humility of Thought: An Interview with Friedrich A. Kittler
Intervention
Anthony Bogues / And What About the Human?: Freedom, Human Emancipation, and the Radical Imagination
Arif Dirlik / Transnationalization and the University: The Perspective of Global Modernity
Emmanuel Alloa / The Inorganic Community: Hypotheses on Literary Communism in Novalis, Benjamin, and Blanchot
Henry Veggian / Anachronisms of Authority: Authorship, Exchange Value, and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
Bradley J. Fest / The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest
Intervention
Lindsay Waters / The Recovery of the Literal: Learning from the Renaissance How to Circumnavigate the Globe
Richard Purcell / The Enigma of Arrival; or, When Should We Have Read Ralph Ellison’s Three Days Before the Shooting?
Soyica Diggs Colbert / “When I Die, I Won’t Stay Dead”: The Future of the Human in Suzan-Lori Parks’s The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World
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Ruth Hung Revisiting Woju
“Imagination in the Box: Woju’s Realism and the Representation of Xiaosan,” Television, Sex and Society: Analyzing Contemporary Representations. Continuum; 1 edition (June 14, 2012) Amazon.
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Wolfgang Fritz Haug: High-Tech Capitalism and the Great Crisis
A major part of this book, in English, in the recent b2.
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"The Tunisian Revolution of Dignity"
In volume 39, no 1., forthcoming as the Spring 2012 issue, b2 present a dossier of materials from the streets of Tunisia. Edited and translated by RA Judy, these eight pieces give the most immediately thoughtful evidence of human imaginative effort underlying the start and continuation of the Tunisian revolution.
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A boundary 2 symposium
A boundary 2 Symposium
Saturday, November 5, 2011 – CL 501
What Is the Proper Agenda for a Critical Journal?
9 – 9:50 AM, Ronald Judy, Pittsburgh: Poetic Socialities: Signs of a Neo-Humanism
10 – 10:50 AM, Bruce Robbins, Columbia: Cosmopolitanism, Time, and Inequality
11 – 11:50 AM, Aamir Mufti, UCLA: Real Life: Lyric and the Critical Imagination
Lunch
1 – 1:50 PM, Daniel O’Hara, Temple: A Poetics of the Imagination
2 – 2:50 PM, Jonathan Arac, Pittsburgh: Writing Presentist Historical Criticism
3 – 3:50 PM, Richard Purcell, CMU: The University, the Journal, and Proper Education
4 – 4:50 PM, Daniel Morgan, Pittsburgh: French Moralism Revisited: Cinephilia and Criticism, Imagination and Ethics
