Author: LeeAnn Hunter

My glasses are no more. The same nerdy frames I’ve worn almost seven years. And then, on a night just like any other, they lie on the area rug next to the couch, mere feet away from lying atop the coffee table, the safe space. How they arrived in their flung state on the carpet–or…

One of the members of my dissertation circle is working out a thesis that reconceives of historical fiction in terms of space, or topos, identifying, for example, wild spaces (the typically sublime space of fairy tales) as unexamined settings for historical fiction. I became troubled as I commented on his work, not knowing when, if,…

And again I’m entirely fascinated, but this time impressed. Leave it to a non-American country to devise a progressive and politically engaged doll for children. The shopping doll–carrying a reusable cloth shopping bag–is part of Japan’s campaign on global warming. Yes, it’s a governmental tool for reinforcing an ideology via children’s toys, but, even if…

So I’ve finally encountered a term for the aspect of labor that I had in mind when I was proposing my dissertation topic: Gallagher calls it “somaeconomics,” the system of drives and desires that influence political economy. She uses this term to address debates about productive / unproductive labor and the pleasure / pain principle…