Teaser: The Haptic, a special issue of W&P edited by Rizvana Bradley
The Haptic is set for release at the end of 2014. Look out for a mixtape from Fred Moten and a couple open-access articles from the issue soon. Until then, take a sneak peek at the Table of Contents.
The Haptic: Textures of Performance
Special Issue Editor: Rizvana Bradley
SCHOLARLY ARTICLES “Introduction: Other Sensualities” Rizvana Bradley
“Chinese Lingering, Meditation’s Practice: Reframing Endurance Art Beyond Resistance” Hentyl Yapp
“‘Hearty and happy and with a lively, yeasty soul’: Feeling Right in Louisa May Alcott’s The Candy Country” Kyla Wazana Tompkins
“At the Egg’s Edge: Lygia Clark’s Indiscretions” Laura Harris
“Security Blankets: Uniforms, Hoods, and the Textures of Terror” Nicole Archer
“Troubled Air: The Drone and Doom of Reproduction in SunnO)))’s Metal Maieutic” Aliza Shvarts
“An Interview with artist, Pope. L” Pope. L and Rizvana Bradley
“from From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, Volume 5”Nathaniel Mackey
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“Ten Theses on Touch, or, Writing Touch” Hypatia Vourloumis
“Flight/Plan (erasure of the Black Law of Connecticut 1833)” Joshua Bennett
“Untitled study (hand, oilstick, acetate, cotton, plaster, dust, sun)” Steffani Jemison
“Haptic Drawings, Artist Statement” Stephen Vincent
BOOK REVIEWS
“Techno-Gender Studies: A Review of Beatriz Preciado’s Testo Junkie” Julian Gill-Peterson
“A Review of Colin R. Johnson’s Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America” Christina Belcher
PERFORMANCE REVIEWS
“Symptom,” performed by BodyCartography Maxe Crandall and Selby Wynn Schwartz
“Sonic Stitches: Isaac Julien, His Mother, and her ‘Creolized’ Sound” Charlotte Ickes