New Formations Volume 2024 Issue 113

ISSN 0950-2378

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Violent Assemblages

This is one of our regular general issues of New Formations, featuring the best work that has been submitted to the journal over the past year that falls outside the scope of our scheduled special issues. The title has been chosen because all of the articles deal in some ways with the contingent, precarious, yet systematic effects of forms and experiences of social violence (from the violence threatened by the image of a gun, to the violence endured by planetary ecosystems in the age of the 'Capitalocene').

Cover image credit: Unnamed Road 012, 2011 Jungjin Lee https://www.jungjinlee.com/

Contents

Editorial, pages 4‑5
Jeremy Gilbert Free to download

In Possession of Weapons: Guns and Violences in the Work of Contemporary Women Artists, pages 6‑29
Bernadette Buckley

‘How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?’: Steve McQueen’s Small Axe and the Cultural Politics of Leadership, pages 30‑50
Dhanveer Singh Brar, Ashwani Sharma

Soft Totalities: Conjunctural Analysis and/as Assemblage Analysis, pages 51‑70
Florian Cord

Waiting to Know What You Might Mean: Asylum, Literature and the Ethics of Listening, pages 71‑88
Rachael Gilmour

‘Dalle Stalle alle Stelle’: Peasant Stereotypes, Pledges to Authenticity and Spaces of Liminality in Return to Dust and The Tree of Wooden Clogs, pages 89‑109
Andrea Bonfanti

Late Landscapes and the Aesthetics of Occlusion, pages 110‑133
Matt Waggoner

Reviews

Jimmy is Here: Reading and Rereading Baldwin in the Twenty-First Century, pages 134‑138
John Livesey Free to download

Unsafe Sex, pages 139‑142
Tessel Veneboer Free to download