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The Death of Things
A comprehensive study of ephemera in twentieth-century
literature-and its relevance to the twenty-first century
\"Nothing ever really disappears from the internet\" has become a
common warning of the digital age. But the twentieth century was
filled with ephemera-items that were designed to disappear
forever-and these objects played crucial roles in some of that
century's greatest works of literature. In The Death of
Things , author Sarah Wasserman delivers the first
comprehensive study addressing the role ephemera played in
twentieth-century fiction and its relevance to contemporary digital
culture. Representing the experience of perpetual change and loss,
ephemera was central to great works by major novelists like Don
DeLillo, Ralph Ellison, and Marilynne Robinson. Following the lives
and deaths of objects, Wasserman imagines new uses of urban space,
new forms of visibility for marginalized groups, and new
conceptions of the marginal itself. She also inquires into
present-day conundrums: our fascination with the durable, our
concerns with the digital, and our curiosity about what new
fictional narratives have to say about deletion and preservation.
The Death of Things offers readers fascinating, original
angles on how objects shape our world. Creating an alternate
literary history of the twentieth century, Wasserman delivers an
insightful and idiosyncratic journey through objects that were once
vital but are now forgotten.
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Modelwork
How making models allows us to recall what was and to
discover what still might be Whether looking inward to the
intricacies of human anatomy or outward to the furthest recesses of
the universe, expanding the boundaries of human inquiry depends to
a surprisingly large degree on the making of models. In this
wide-ranging volume, scholars from diverse fields examine the
interrelationships between a model's material foundations and the
otherwise invisible things it gestures toward, underscoring the
pivotal role of models in understanding and shaping the world
around us. Whether in the form of reproductions, interpretive
processes, or constitutive tools, models may bridge the gap between
the tangible and the abstract.
By focusing on the material aspects of models, including the
digital ones that would seem to displace their analogue forebears,
these insightful essays ground modeling as a tactile and
emphatically humanistic endeavor. With contributions from scholars
in the history of science and technology, visual studies,
musicology, literary studies, and material culture, this book
demonstrates that models serve as invaluable tools across every
field of cultural development, both historically and in the present
day.
Modelwork is unique in calling attention to modeling's
duality, a dynamic exchange between imagination and matter. This
singular publication shows us how models shape our ability to
ascertain the surrounding world and to find new ways to transform
it.
Contributors: Hilary Bryon, Virginia Tech; Johanna Drucker,
UCLA; Seher Erdoğan Ford, Temple U; Peter Galison, Harvard U; Lisa
Gitelman, New York U; Reed Gochberg, Harvard U; Catherine Newman
Howe, Williams College; Christopher J. Lukasik, Purdue U; Martin
Scherzinger, New York U; Juliet S. Sperling, U of Washington;
Annabel Jane Wharton, Duke U.
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Looking Away from 9/11: The Optics of Joseph O'Neill's \Netherland\
Joseph O'Neill's Netherland stands out as a singular text that introduces a new visual order. It's optics capture something of the fluidity and mobility made possible by the very same media that fixed the images of 9/11 in an enduring visual archive. Here, Wasserman tracks the novel's investment in the visual to demonstrate how Netherland refuses the fixing powers of the backward gaze. The novel, she argues, lays out a new mode of seeing, one that prizes distance over intimacy, mutability over memory, and the transnational over the national.
Journal Article
Ephemeral Gods and Billboard Saints: Don DeLillo's Underworld and Urban Apparitions
In this essay, I examine the hyper-modern apparition with which Don DeLillo concludes Underworld alongside a “real-life” image, said to look like the Virgin Mary, which appeared in April 2005 in Chicago on the wall of a highway underpass. I argue that discussing these two apparitions together highlights how both images transform urban surfaces and waste, creating new sites around which collectivities take shape. The pairing also illustrates the mode of perception that the apparitions engender, one that makes urban realities of class dispossession and minority displacement visible. Drawing upon Walter Benjamin's notion of the wish image and Merleau-Ponty's concept of “perceptual faith,” I argue that these apparitions evoke the otherworldly but ultimately insist upon the material dimensions of urban life.
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Material Losses: Urban Ephemera in Contemporary American Literature and Culture
Material Losses considers what it means to live in a time defined by restless renewal and perpetual loss. The project explores how the vanishing objects in American literature and cultural events relay stories of longing and loss. From the paper-maché palaces of the Chicago Columbian Exposition to the abraded edges and smeared ink of missing persons fliers that covered Manhattan after 9/11; from the newspapers in Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie (1900) to the debris in Don DeLillo's Underworld (1997), this dissertation uncovers the enduring relevance of transient objects. Contemporary representations of the ephemeral illuminate the many desires that take shape during moments of national change and crisis. Because ephemera are defined by their imminent disappearance or destruction, they occupy prominent places in narratives that address the grief and anxiety inspired by dramatic change. This dissertation tracks the way that recent American narratives record melancholic responses to the vanishing object-world while transforming that grief into new conceptions of time and new forms of social affiliation. The project unfolds as a series of case studies in which pivotal episodes of twentieth and twenty-first-century American life are examined through those episodes' transient objects and the contemporary narratives that archive ephemera in order to reflect on the modes of longing they make manifest. Ultimately, Material Losses reveals how attention to the ephemeral shatters the illusion of permanence, thereby exposing modes of longing such as utopianism, revisionism, and nostalgia as untenable and supplanting them with an orientation to the present—in all its mutability and uncertainty.
Dissertation
Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction
Marni Gauthier opens Amnesia and Redress in Contemporary American Fiction with a riveting portrait of conferences, criminal tribunals, and commissions that were convened in the 1990s and the first decade of the 2000s whose purpose was to reexamine historical acts of violence in order to \"establish a public record of truth\" (4). The two novels are vastly different-DeLillo's text relays the story of a lawyer who survives the attacks on the World Trade Center while Otsuka's Emperor narrates the experience of a Japanese American family sent to an internment camp in the Utah desert during World War II.
Book Review
Clinicopathological significance of psychotic experiences in non-psychotic young people: evidence from four population-based studies
Epidemiological research has shown that hallucinations and delusions, the classic symptoms of psychosis, are far more prevalent in the population than actual psychotic disorder. These symptoms are especially prevalent in childhood and adolescence. Longitudinal research has demonstrated that psychotic symptoms in adolescence increase the risk of psychotic disorder in adulthood. There has been a lack of research, however, on the immediate clinicopathological significance of psychotic symptoms in adolescence.
To investigate the relationship between psychotic symptoms and non-psychotic psychopathology in community samples of adolescents in terms of prevalence, co-occurring disorders, comorbid (multiple) psychopathology and variation across early v. middle adolescence.
Data from four population studies were used: two early adolescence studies (ages 11-13 years) and two mid-adolescence studies (ages 13-16 years). Studies 1 and 2 involved school-based surveys of 2243 children aged 11-16 years for psychotic symptoms and for emotional and behavioural symptoms of psychopathology. Studies 3 and 4 involved in-depth diagnostic interview assessments of psychotic symptoms and lifetime psychiatric disorders in community samples of 423 children aged 11-15 years.
Younger adolescents had a higher prevalence (21-23%) of psychotic symptoms than older adolescents (7%). In both age groups the majority of adolescents who reported psychotic symptoms had at least one diagnosable non-psychotic psychiatric disorder, although associations with psychopathology increased with age: nearly 80% of the mid-adolescence sample who reported psychotic symptoms had at least one diagnosis, compared with 57% of the early adolescence sample. Adolescents who reported psychotic symptoms were at particularly high risk of having multiple co-occurring diagnoses.
Psychotic symptoms are important risk markers for a wide range of non-psychotic psychopathological disorders, in particular for severe psychopathology characterised by multiple co-occurring diagnoses. These symptoms should be carefully assessed in all patients.
Journal Article
Methods of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Injury Surveillance Program, 2014–2015 Through 2018–2019
The NCAA ISP has a long-standing role in supplying NCAA stakeholders with crucial injury surveillance data, playing a critical part in safeguarding student-athletes participating in collegiate sports.
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