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ASAP/Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that explores new developments in post-1960s visual, media, literary, and performance arts. ASAP/Review is the journal's internet-focused publishing branch.
Hopkins Press Top 20 Most-Read Journal Articles January 2026 www.press.jhu.edu/newsroom Illustrated with a "newsrack" style collage of the journal covers included in this month's Top 20
Your 20 most-read Hopkins Press journal articles in January ask big questions: What are human rights? What is cancer? Why feminist bioethics? These questions, and much more, await you at the Newsroom Blog!
Peruse the pieces you read most last month now: www.press.jhu.edu/ne...
“ … women-of-color liberation movements have always been, and always will be, disability justice movements.”
Our newest review of Jina B. Kim's book, Care at the End of the World, by Augusta Funk is now out!
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Read Julia L Mueller's review of C Hovanec's *Notes on Vermin*: “The relational character that defines vermin as a category...is deeply tied to the visceral responses of 20/21st-century humans to verminous animals, to these literary vermin gnawing away...”
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"The Politics of Collecting promises no easy curative or reparative reading. Instead, it argues that the only just way forward might be wholesale abolition of the art museum and the art world as we know it."
an exhilarating review of my book by Laura Vrana!
@dukepress.bsky.social
Our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece by Kristen Lauritzen is out now: “Goodman [...] questions the divide between man and beast; Carrington’s art likewise contradicts the anthropocentric hierarchy, offering an alternative relationship between humankind and nature.”
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"What Inner Feast and Group Lick represent is that art does not live in isolation from its site—and in these two cases, its communities."
Written by shuang cai, our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece covers consumption, digestion, community—check it out!
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This essay is featured in this week's edition of the Best of Arts & Culture: buff.ly/oGGfb7S
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HBO’s "The Last of Us" lays bare humanity’s relationship with violence, but it succumbs to the limits of its genre. This piece argues that the show devolves into a binary Western where survival and revenge overwrite deeper questions.
By Michael Autrey in @asapjournal.bsky.social
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this is interesting and opens up questions about what adaptation does with this settler fantasy of western expansion written by someone who grew up as a settler in the west bank
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“The Last of Us is a show of force, literally and figuratively.”
Read our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece by Michael Autrey on The Last of Us and adaptations, force and power, questions of genre, and who gets to be hailed—and who excluded—within the word 'us'.
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"What Inner Feast and Group Lick represent is that art does not live in isolation from its site—and in these two cases, its communities."
Written by shuang cai, our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece covers consumption, digestion, community—check it out!
asapjournal.com/review/uncan...
Our newest Uncanny Juxtaposition piece by Kristen Lauritzen is out now: “Goodman [...] questions the divide between man and beast; Carrington’s art likewise contradicts the anthropocentric hierarchy, offering an alternative relationship between humankind and nature.”
asapjournal.com/review/uncan...
In our newest review, @callmevrana.bsky.social reads Eunsong Kim’s *The Politics of Collecting*: “Kim emphasizes that these exception(s) prove(s) the rule—the ongoing, pervasive rule of settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, and racial capitalism in the art world.”
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In our newest review, @callmevrana.bsky.social reads Eunsong Kim’s *The Politics of Collecting*: “Kim emphasizes that these exception(s) prove(s) the rule—the ongoing, pervasive rule of settler colonialism, anti-Blackness, and racial capitalism in the art world.”
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Excited that this review I wrote of Eunsong Kim's extraordinary book The Politics of Collecting: Race and the Aestheticization of Property is now live on ASAP/Reviews! asapjournal.com/review/disma...
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"Monstruous Beauty advances a practice of relational grievance—a mode that exposes the buried histories of Asian labor sustaining global beauty & fashion, that weaves feminist solidarities across the uneven geographies of racialized desire..."
— Yunning Zhang
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"Monstruous Beauty advances a practice of relational grievance—a mode that exposes the buried histories of Asian labor sustaining global beauty & fashion, that weaves feminist solidarities across the uneven geographies of racialized desire..."
— Yunning Zhang
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Finally, Christine Prevas writes on All of Us Strangers: “Haunting distorts the way time and space are meant to be lived—and, in this process, throws into relief the ways in which these same normative temporalities and spatialities organize...[a] life.”
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M. Stang explores the dubious origins of Halloween's most recognizable figure: “The white sheet persists as one of the most common decorative motifs for sale on box store shelves and displayed on front porches across the United States..."
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On Saidiya Hartman and archives, A Banerjee writes: “To be in the archive is to be up against it, with dangerously little room to maneuver. Debilitation in the pursuit of archival discovery appears to itself be the primary discovery afforded by [it].”
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George Kowalik writes of Percival Everett's The Trees and the haunting of "Till’s body [as] an amalgamation of undead zombie, ghost, alien, and theistic possibility" as "Everett’s large cast of characters describes it as each of these..."
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“Landscapes and objects can exude, even scream, violent hauntings by class, race, gender, sexuality, ableism, colonialism. For whom, then, is the peaceful violence of normative landscapes peaceful?” writes Dorinne Kondo on haunting and atmospheres.
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Irina Troconis writes of the animal, the animalistic, and—particularly—the reptilian occupation within a narrative: "It makes sense that animals are there, among the exiled and the displaced evoked in these fictions."
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@jshelat1.bsky.social and @keeblearin.bsky.social look at Jamil Jan Kochai's fiction as it "moves away from event-based narratives of 9/11 and the war on terror, and their depictions of psychological trauma," while various "forms of haunting pervade these stories..."
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“In terms of the present, Native Hawai’i has fought back against the specter of attempted disappearance via hostile takeover and continued land occupation..." writes Nicole Dib, looking at the ways that people and the land write back.
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Editors @emmywaldman.bsky.social & David Hering beckon us into the world of hauntings and haunted worlds through the figure of the ghost: “Ghosts waver between substance and ether, visibility and invisibility, presence and absence, anticipation and retrospection."
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Our newest cluster is here... and it's (a-)LIVE!!!
HAUNTINGS
Edited by Emmy Waldman (@emmywaldman.bsky.social) & David Hering
Feat:
Nicole Dib
Arin Keeble
Jay Shelat
Irina Troconis
Dorinne Kondo
George Kowalik
A. Banerjee
M. Stang
Christine Prevas
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"The nation once reliant on its own objectification is infinitely cast into this role: a self-devouring ouroboros, the paradoxical snake endlessly chasing its tail..." writes Chichi Ayalogu in our newest review on Biafran history, visual culture, conflict, & more!
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Happy hauntings, all! This cluster has been a long time coming, and I bet its rich and suggestive essays will stick around for a long time to come!
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