V21 Collective “Presentism, Form, and the Future of History” in boundary2

On this first anniversary of our inaugural symposium, we are delighted to announce that the symposium proceedings are now published in a special issue of boundary2 online.

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b2o: v21 special issue

b2o: an online journal is an online-only, open access, peer-reviewed journal published by the boundary 2 editorial collective, with a standalone Editorial Board.

Volume 1, Issue 2 (October, 2016)
Special Issue: v21
Special Issue editors: Anna Kornbluh and Benjamin Morgan

Introduction: Presentism, Form, and the Future of History
Anna Kornbluh and Benjamin Morgan

I. Bleak House Today

Bleak House: 19, 20, 21
Alex Woloch

A Note on Reading Bleak House
Elaine Auyoung

Bleakness
Elisha Cohn

Dickens’ Resonance
David Sweeney Coombs

On the Genealogy of “Deportment”: Being Present in Bleak House
Jonathan Farina

Untimely Dickens
Emily Steinlight

Charles Dickens in 1948
Megan Ward

II. Theorizing the Present

Impassioned Objectivity: Nietzsche, Hardy, and the Science of Fiction
S. Pearl Brilmyer

Jamming the Historical Machine
Danielle Coriale

Too Many Nietzsches
Eleanor Courtemanche

Untimely Historicism
Devin Griffiths

On the Uses of Nietzsche’s “Uses”
Matthew Sussman

Unhistorical Reading and Mutual Playing
Daniel Wright

III. The Way We Write Now

Introduction: Historicism: From the Break to the Loop
Caroline Levine

Notes on Presentism and the Cultural Logic of Dissociation
Carolyn Betensky

Kink in Time
Ellis Hanson

History Repeating
Anna Kornbluh

Maintenance Work: On Tradition and Development
Jesse Rosenthal

Anthropocene Inscriptions: Reading Global Synchrony
Jesse Oak Taylor

IV. Empire and Unfielding

Introduction
Tanya Agathocleous

Jyotirao Phule’s “Slavery”
Tanya Agathocleous

Swinburne’s Oxford Notebook: Violence in/as Form
Nathan K. Hensley

Emergency Repairs Are Required on All Our Dams
Joseph Lavery

The Light of Asia and the Varieties of Victorian Presentism
Sebastian Lecourt

Biopolitics and Greater Britain
Nasser Mufti

Charles Kickham’s Knocknagow: Or, the Homes of Tipperary
Mary L. Mullen

V. Keynote and Responses

On the Non-Representation of Atrocity
Bruce Robbins

Genealogies of Self-Accusation
Zachary Samalin

Literary Subjects
Molly Clark Hillard

Closing Remarks
Elaine Hadley