Qui Parle

Issue 20.1 of qui parle, “Higher Education on its Knees” is now available in print through the University of Nebraska Press, and online through Project MUSE and JSTOR. This special four-part issue contains eighteen essays dealing with various dimensions concerning the ongoing global crisis in higher education. This Fall/Winter 2011 issue features:

Introduction by Michelle Ty
Gert Biesta on the rise of the global university and the crisis in higher education
Wendy Brown on the proposed UC Cyber-Campus
Annie McClanahan on the living indebted
Lionel Ruffel on the fate of books and the academic library
Michael Bérubé on “The Futility of the Humanities”
Geoffrey Galt Harpham on “Why We Need the 16,772nd Book on Shakespeare”
Henry A. Giroux on defending higher education as a public good
Robert Paul Wolff on the good of a liberal education
Marjorie Perloff on “The Death of a Discipline”
Laurent Dubreuil on “A Viral Lexicon for Future Crises”
Hélène Merlin-Kajman on transmitting literature
V. Kaladharan on the transition from meditative learning to impersonal pedagogy in Indian education
Francesco Crocco on “Contesting the Manufactured Crisis of Public Higher Education at CUNY”
Maritza Stanchich reports from the University of Puerto Rico on “A University Besieged”
Aaron Porter on “The English Gamble with the Future of Higher Education”
Rei Terada on “Free Speech, Disruption, and Student Protest”
Charlotte Latimer, et. al. on Creative Subversions
Lyn Hejinian on Wild Captioning

Qui Parle 19.2, now available in print from Nebraska and online through Project MUSE and JSTOR, is a special issue that brings together art and essays with an ecological focus that also resonate with critical theory. The issue features:

Introduction by Katrina Dodson
Stephanie LeMenager on “Petro-melancholia: the BP Blowout and the Arts of Grief”
Alenda Y. Chang on games as environmental texts
Lawrence Buell on emerging trends in ecocriticism
Karen Barad on “Nature’s Queer Performativity” in lightning, stingray neuronal receptors, and atoms
Timothy Morton on the ecological promise of object-oriented ontology
Sunaura Taylor on disability studies and animals rights
Alastair Hunt on destabilizing the human subject of rights discourse
Selections from In Praise of Vagabonds, French landscape architect Gilles Clément’s reflection on invasive species, translated and with an
introduction by ecopoetics editor Jonathan Skinner
Katherine Chandler on the politics of matter
Yates McKee on climate refugees, biopolitics, and aesthetics
Artwork and poetry by David Maisel, Sunaura Taylor, Craig Dworkin, Brenda Hillman, Harryette Mullen, Jonathan Skinner, Simona Schneider, and Joan Retallack

Qui Parle’s last issue, available in print from Nebraska and online through Project MUSE, features:

Daniel Heller-Roazen on Pythagoras
Nicola Masciandaro on sorrow
Jean-Michel Rabaté on Freud and obsolescence
Lilya Kaganovsky on post-Soviet film
Nathan Brown on rationalist empiricism
Scott Ferguson on Haeckel and Bergson
Jacques Lezra on ethics and infanticide
Alex Benson on Eakins and anthropology
Vincent Lloyd on Žižek and Milbank
Michelle Ty on cognitive literary studies