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2018
Volume 73, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0010-096X
  • E-ISSN: 1939-9006

Abstract

Building on cultural rhetorics, queer composition, and new materialist scholarship, this article argues for the practice of “Thing” writing, which uses the performative qualities of matter itself in non-anthropocentric compositions that assemble various discourses, perspectives, and scales of thought to arrange Burkean parlors and counteract the logic of “apocalyptic critique.”

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