“How Do I Live in a World that Hates Me?”: The Emotional Ecology of Neoliberalism in Nikki Reimer’s Downverse

Heather  Milne

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Vol. 45 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue: Neoliberal Environments

“How Do I Live in a World that Hates Me?”: The Emotional Ecology of Neoliberalism in Nikki Reimer’s Downverse

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Submitted: July 13, 2021
Published: 2021-07-14

References

Ahmed, Sara. The Promise of Happiness. Duke UP, 2010.
Ball, Jonathan. “Downverse (Nikki Reimer).” Writing the Wrong Way, https://www.jonathanball.com/downverse-nikki-reimer/.
Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke UP, 2010.
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Dean, Jodi. Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive. Polity, 2010.
Dean, Jodi. Crowds and Party. Verso, 2016.
Dean, Jodi. Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics. Duke UP, 2009.
Derksen, Jeff. Annihilated Time: Poetry and Other Politics. Talonbooks, 2009.
Dworkin, Craig, and Kenneth Goldsmith. Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing. Northwestern UP, 2011.
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Grewal, Inderpal. Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America. Duke UP, 2017.
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Ruti, Mari. Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings. Columbia UP, 2018.
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Siklosi, Kate. “Hot and Bothered: Or How I Fell In and Out of Love with Conceptualism.” Town Crier, 1 May 2017, http://towncrier.puritan-magazine.com/ephemera/poeticterrorism/.

How to Cite

Milne, H. . (2021). “How Do I Live in a World that Hates Me?”: The Emotional Ecology of Neoliberalism in Nikki Reimer’s Downverse. Studies in Canadian Literature, 45(2), 72–89. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32498

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[1] Ahmed, Sara. The Promise of Happiness. Duke UP, 2010.

[2] Ball, Jonathan. “Downverse (Nikki Reimer).” Writing the Wrong Way, https://www.jonathanball.com/downverse-nikki-reimer/.

[3] Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke UP, 2010.

[4] Brown, Wendy. Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics. Princeton UP, 2005.

[5] Brown, Wendy. Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s Stealth Revolution. MIT P, 2015.

[6] Dean, Jodi. Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive. Polity, 2010.

[7] Dean, Jodi. Crowds and Party. Verso, 2016.

[8] Dean, Jodi. Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left Politics. Duke UP, 2009.

[9] Derksen, Jeff. Annihilated Time: Poetry and Other Politics. Talonbooks, 2009.

[10] Dworkin, Craig, and Kenneth Goldsmith. Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing. Northwestern UP, 2011.

[11] Foucault, Michel. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France 1978-1979. Translated by Graham Burchell, Picador, 2004.

[12] Grewal, Inderpal. Saving the Security State: Exceptional Citizens in Twenty-First-Century America. Duke UP, 2017.

[13] Kim, Myung Mi, and Christanne Miller. Introduction. Poetics and Precarity, edited by Myung Mi Kim and Christanne Miller, SUNY UP, 2018, pp. xi-xxii.

[14] LeBlanc, Dominic. “Harper to Shut Down Parliament.” Globe and Mail, 30 Dec. 2009, https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/harper-to-shut-down-parliament/article4300862/.

[15] mclennan, rob. “A Short Interview with Nikki Reimer.” Jacket2, 18 Jan. 2015, https://jacket2.org/commentary/short-interview-nikki-reimer.

[16] Reimer, Nikki. Downverse. Talonbooks, 2014.

[17] Ruti, Mari. Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings. Columbia UP, 2018.

[18] Schmidt, Christopher. The Poetics of Waste: Queer Excess in Stein, Ashbery, Schuyler, and Goldsmith. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

[19] Siklosi, Kate. “Hot and Bothered: Or How I Fell In and Out of Love with Conceptualism.” Town Crier, 1 May 2017, http://towncrier.puritan-magazine.com/ephemera/poeticterrorism/.