Nathan K. Hensley & Devin M. Garofalo — The Barbara Johnson Collective — at Conn Ave

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Collaboratively reassesses Barbara Johnson’s legacy as a reader and thinker with an eye to contemporary conditions Across an archive of essays on abortion and race, Mallarmé and Melville, feminist philosophy, rhetorical device, and pedagogical method, Barbara Johnson built a legacy of thought whose energies reverberate into the present. This collected volume gathers writers and critics from a range of North American higher educational settings to engage with this essential but still often underappreciated critic in a time of renewed and deepening crisis. In Zoom meetings and shared essays, across a virtualized map of today’s academic and para academic worlds, the group assessed how the rolling catastrophes of late neoliberalism continue to stage the sort of analogy Joh…

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