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Embracing the Swerve: A Fugitive Medieval Studies
by EILEEN JOY I want to emphasize that historicism has served the medievalist well for so long because it is both rigorous and flexible. It does not denote a monolithic practice–and there is no “other”...
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It’s Never Enough, or, On Being Fucked Up
Figure 1. Jules Dalou, detail from Triomphe du Silène (1898) It’s Never Enough, or, On Being Fucked Up Eileen A. Joy 45th International Congress on Medieval Studies (13-16 May 2010) Session 57...
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There is No End Without Beginning: Reflections on BABEL’s Inaugural...
by EILEEN JOY There is no end without beginning. How could the end be known as end if it weren’t recounted by someone?–Jean-Francois Lyotard, Soundproof Room I argue that we can find a certain...
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You Are Here: A Manifesto
You Are Here: A Manifesto Eileen A. Joy Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Early Modern and Medieval Periods Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute, George Washington...
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Peer Review, Once More, But This Time With Feeling
by EILEEN JOY Figure 1. Eco Pods, Boston [Architects: Howeler + Yoon] As some of you may know already,postmedieval is about halfway through a 2-month open “crowd review” of its forthcoming special...
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Everything We Think Can in Principle Be Thought By Someone Else: A Plea for...
by Eileen Joy At the end of my working day, I am almost always depressed. Mine is not a straight path like an engineer’s, it’s not A to B. I make a very curly road just by the restrictions of goals and...
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I’ll Stop the World and Melt With You: A Plea for Inextricability, for...
by EILEEN JOY for Brantley Bryant Every known object rotates as if: b. keeping busy c. stunned (Rae Armantrout, “Arrivals”) We address the question of our aliveness to the object of fascination because...
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Fuck Pessimism: Embrace Youngsterism
by EILEEN JOY To become adult in our culture (which for most of us means to become compliantly productive) is . . . to be increasingly disabled for the kinds of humorous and dire, purposeful play that...
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These Are the Tiny Engines That Power the Sails of Our Adventure: Friendship...
by EILEEN JOY It is now 2 days since returning from the 2nd Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group in Boston last week, and I am still trying to recover. Following this blog post I am going to...
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Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood, and I, I Took the One Less Travelled By:...
by EILEEN JOY I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth,...
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