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Moveable Type 2024 Call for Papers: Promise
Posted by Moveable Type editorial team on 2024-04-25

A promise is an essentially human speech act – a performative utterance of intended action which assumes or conceives an imagined, but uncertain ethical responsibility to our future selves. Self-reflexive, and anchoring, it both constrains and creates the self to come; as an intersubjective force, it binds and commits us to our promisee; it is both public and private in the sense that it is [...]

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Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement

Full Issue

Moveable Type XV 2023-24 "MOVEMENT" Full Issue
Moveable Type XV 2023-24 "MOVEMENT" Full Issue

Editors at Moveable Type

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement

Editorial Introduction

In the Realm of Ends: The Fate of Moveable Type
In the Realm of Ends: The Fate of Moveable Type

Daniel Lewis

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 4-16

Academic article

Dead Ends: Ruin, Redundancy, and the Horrors of Precarity in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and It Follows
Dead Ends: Ruin, Redundancy, and the Horrors of Precarity in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and It Follows

Emily Round

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 18-27

Automobility in the Age of Apocalypse: On the Beach, Nuclear Nostalgia, and Atomic (Im)Mobilities
Automobility in the Age of Apocalypse: On the Beach, Nuclear Nostalgia, and Atomic (Im)Mobilities

Christopher O'Hara

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 28-37

Jazzy Ontology: Representations of Fractured and Racialised Identity in Othello and All Night Long
Jazzy Ontology: Representations of Fractured and Racialised Identity in Othello and All Night Long

Thomas Langham

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 38-46

Going Nowhere, Being No One: Navigating Space and Identity in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea
Going Nowhere, Being No One: Navigating Space and Identity in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea

Lisa van Straten

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 47-55

‘But within are secrets’: Space in Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling
‘But within are secrets’: Space in Thomas Middleton and William Rowley’s The Changeling

Laura Thorn

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 56-66

Within and Beyond: Indie Magazines and the Asian Diasporic Subject
Within and Beyond: Indie Magazines and the Asian Diasporic Subject

Mike Fu

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 67-76

Connecting with India: E. M. Forster’s ‘Some Books’ and Louis MacNeice’s ‘India at First Sight’
Connecting with India: E. M. Forster’s ‘Some Books’ and Louis MacNeice’s ‘India at First Sight’

Jennifer Kenyon

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 77-88

From Strings to Sensors: Movement Representation in AI Theatre
From Strings to Sensors: Movement Representation in AI Theatre

Abhik Maiti

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 89-98

Deep Learning: Institutions of Beauty in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction
Deep Learning: Institutions of Beauty in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction

Liam Kennedy-Finnerty

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 99-109

Book review

‘Something like words for | motion’: Ian Patterson’s Shell Vestige Disputed
‘Something like words for | motion’: Ian Patterson’s Shell Vestige Disputed

William Burns

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 111-116

Haunted Transpositions in Violet Kupersmith’s Build Your House Around My Body (2021)
Haunted Transpositions in Violet Kupersmith’s Build Your House Around My Body (2021)

Alex Carabine

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 117-120

Enter the Luciferous Hexichasm: On the Savage Theoryfiction of Gruppo di Nun in Revolutionary Demonology
Enter the Luciferous Hexichasm: On the Savage Theoryfiction of Gruppo di Nun in Revolutionary Demonology

Jordan Casstles

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 121-123

Moving Together, Sharing Space in Dance Your Way Home by Emma Warren
Moving Together, Sharing Space in Dance Your Way Home by Emma Warren

Olivia Min Wei Ho

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 124-126

Sexual/Orientation: Navigating the Asylum System as a Queer Black Man in Edafe Okporo’s Asylum (2022)
Sexual/Orientation: Navigating the Asylum System as a Queer Black Man in Edafe Okporo’s Asylum (2022)

Alisha Mathers

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 127-131

Creative writing

The Forest Navigator
The Forest Navigator

Karen Jane Cannon

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 133

Cost of Living
Cost of Living

Mark Gorham

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 134-136

Artwork Submission

Batlló and Bataille: Four Photographs
Batlló and Bataille: Four Photographs

Chelsea Ko

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 137-139

Contributor Biographies

Author Biographies and End Matter
Author Biographies and End Matter

Editors at Moveable Type

2024-02-02 Volume 15 • Issue 1 • 2024 • Movement • 140-143