Browsing Archive March, 2018
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Editorial Note 0
Introduction to Issue #11
Herewith is Issue #11 of Politics/Letters. We’re on a roll. The uncanny thematic of this new issue is, according to my deeply biased reading, a meditation on where ...
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Is There a Gay Literature of Poverty?
The question may sound strange, but not necessarily for good reasons. Despite the fact that LGBT people of all genders and races are poorer and earn less than ...
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Registering Queerness: The Intersection of Sexuality and Criminality
Despite the Supreme Court’s landmark marriage equality ruling in 2015, queer and trans people’s ability to freely express our gender and sexual identities remains under attack in the ...
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Workers as Readers: On Coetzee’s Youth and the Poverty of Time
I have steered the topic of this discussion in a direction of my own: I want to address the novel’s relationship, not to the most desperately poor, but ...
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“Done because we were too menny” The Poor, the Bad, and the Utopian
In his essay, “Utopia as Replication,” Fredric Jameson puts forward what he himself terms a scandalous proposal: that Wal-Mart is “the new institutional candidate for the function of ...
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Precarity or Inequality?
In the era of the refugee, it’s both, of course. But there is still a point to knocking one term up against the other rather than settling too ...
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Between the Exile and the Refugee: An Ethics of Reading
At a moment when the term “refugee” is everywhere, it might be useful to reexamine the resonances of the “exile,” a term which lacks the legal architecture that ...
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Blackout: What Darkness Illuminated in Puerto Rico
Almost immediately after Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico this past September 20, the island fell off the grid. Advancing with winds in excess of 155 miles ...
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Interview 0
Interview with Sally Rooney, author of Conversations with Friends
Thought and action. We still tend to think of life in these terms. An action is a fact. What someone does is observable, documentable—it becomes evidence, then, what ...
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The Year of Trump
That general sigh you hear everywhere is recognition that the one-year mark is here not only for Donald Trump as president, but for the rest of us as ...
