Surprising Taxonomies: A Book Review of Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart’s The Hundreds

Authors

  • Adrienne Kitchin Brock University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-4467.40820

Keywords:

punctum, hundreds, posthuman, new materialisms, makings, worlding, the new ordinary

Abstract

In this book review, the form and function of what the writing is doing in Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart’s The Hundreds is one of the many points of focus. Following the lines of posthuman, new materialist, and affect theories, the poems (what the authors refer to as makings) offer a fresh and lively engagement with academic scholarship. This is a scholarship interwoven with creativity presenting an elsewhere of form for the merging of academic and creative thought. Berlant and Stewart use engaging ideas to offer their book as an encounter and allow for interactive opportunities for their readers. While this is a concise book at 173 pages, it has no shortage of depth and creativity, concepts that the reviewer explores.

Author Biography

Adrienne Kitchin, Brock University

Adrienne Kitchin is a freelance health and education writer and editor, an educator of Humber College, and a PhD student in Educational Studies at Brock University.

References

Barad, K. (2007). Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement of matter and meaning. Duke University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv12101zq

Barthes, R. (1981). Camera lucida: Reflections on photography (R. Howard, Trans.). Hill and Wang. (First published in 1980)

Berlant, L., & Stewart, K. (2019). The hundreds. Duke University Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478003335

Lenihan, J. M. A., & Fletcher, W. W. (1978). The built environment. Academic Press.

This is an image of a twelve-branched snowflake. The branches radiate around the hexagonal centre like the hands of a clock. The snowflake is placed on a translucent blue-mauve background and the crystalline branches reflect hues of pink and light blue.

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Published

31-12-2023

How to Cite

Kitchin, A. (2023). Surprising Taxonomies: A Book Review of Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart’s The Hundreds. Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies, 20(2-3), 166–172. https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-4467.40820

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 2-3 (2023)

Section

Book Reviews / Recensions

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