MLA Commons | Karl Steel | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/members/karlsteel/activity/ Activity feed for Karl Steel. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:21:47 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 bf0992f4594e4a19164a35c8035f55b5 Karl Steel deposited Logsex in Hell: What a Body Can't Do in the group TC Women’s and Gender Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552707/ Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:30:29 -0400 My paper concerns two radically distinct portrayals of genital injury. The first examples, drawn from legal and doctrinal narrative, describe the cultural norm of meaningful castration. The other, which provides my paper with its title, is from Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations. This set of one is an analogous injury that may mean nothing: n…[Read more]

]]> 0 3db7fa49012b3f7c5a1863a862f6a5dc Karl Steel deposited Logsex in Hell: What a Body Can't Do in the group GS Speculative Fiction https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552706/ Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:30:24 -0400 My paper concerns two radically distinct portrayals of genital injury. The first examples, drawn from legal and doctrinal narrative, describe the cultural norm of meaningful castration. The other, which provides my paper with its title, is from Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations. This set of one is an analogous injury that may mean nothing: n…[Read more]

]]> 0 b9c673ac3e6ede94ce5c3d77c3758f6a Karl Steel deposited Logsex in Hell: What a Body Can't Do in the group GS Folklore, Myth, and Fairy Tale https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552705/ Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:30:19 -0400 My paper concerns two radically distinct portrayals of genital injury. The first examples, drawn from legal and doctrinal narrative, describe the cultural norm of meaningful castration. The other, which provides my paper with its title, is from Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations. This set of one is an analogous injury that may mean nothing: n…[Read more]

]]> 0 c57367f0777bda3866f6f499a02515ae Karl Steel deposited Logsex in Hell: What a Body Can't Do in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552704/ Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:30:16 -0400 My paper concerns two radically distinct portrayals of genital injury. The first examples, drawn from legal and doctrinal narrative, describe the cultural norm of meaningful castration. The other, which provides my paper with its title, is from Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations. This set of one is an analogous injury that may mean nothing: n…[Read more]

]]> 0 ee269a93205f1557714354347a079649 Karl Steel deposited Logsex in Hell: What a Body Can't Do https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552703/ Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:30:15 -0400 My paper concerns two radically distinct portrayals of genital injury. The first examples, drawn from legal and doctrinal narrative, describe the cultural norm of meaningful castration. The other, which provides my paper with its title, is from Peter of Cornwall’s Book of Revelations. This set of one is an analogous injury that may mean nothing: n…[Read more]

]]> 0 39e320d1401bc648256c05004cf4912f Karl Steel's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549809/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:38:09 -0400 0 d17a078d516cf8f60250e60cc543ab68 Karl Steel deposited Food in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549808/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:32:36 -0400 My chapter on “Food” for the POSTHUMAN GLOSSARY (ed Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova, forthcoming)

]]> 0 b452cd275200b6c5b143f4a1f5b98167 Karl Steel deposited Food https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549807/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:32:35 -0400 My chapter on “Food” for the POSTHUMAN GLOSSARY (ed Rosi Braidotti and Maria Hlavajova, forthcoming)

]]> 0 227efaa39e2f620abd7480204b04a97c Karl Steel deposited Insensate Oysters and our Nonconsensual Existence in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549806/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:29:07 -0400 A consideration of classical and medieval oyster lore, a study of oysters as the “minimal animal.” Hand-corrected proof for Steve Mentz, ed. OCEANIC NEW YORK (Punctum 2015) – https://punctumbooks.com/titles/oceanic-new-york/

]]> 0 f4857b7681533910bf333627bba4316f Karl Steel deposited Insensate Oysters and our Nonconsensual Existence in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549805/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:29:04 -0400 A consideration of classical and medieval oyster lore, a study of oysters as the “minimal animal.” Hand-corrected proof for Steve Mentz, ed. OCEANIC NEW YORK (Punctum 2015) – https://punctumbooks.com/titles/oceanic-new-york/

]]> 0 b523b6900d54516297638c64529e48cc Karl Steel deposited Insensate Oysters and our Nonconsensual Existence https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549804/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:29:03 -0400 A consideration of classical and medieval oyster lore, a study of oysters as the “minimal animal.” Hand-corrected proof for Steve Mentz, ed. OCEANIC NEW YORK (Punctum 2015) – https://punctumbooks.com/titles/oceanic-new-york/

]]> 0 bc863ab7f964b898e3fd3ebeb5bac0b1 Karl Steel deposited Introduction: Fabulous Animals in the group LLC Shakespeare https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549803/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:23:32 -0400 Although “fabulous” animals tend to be thought of as, say, unicorns, for early modern and medieval natural history, as well as the developed attention to gender and reproduction in twenty-first century science, the “fabulous” animal might be the one next door, like, say, squirrels.

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]]> 0 a871da0d8ca3d1d4ec3b2ae3d432547c Karl Steel deposited Introduction: Fabulous Animals https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549800/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:23:24 -0400 Although “fabulous” animals tend to be thought of as, say, unicorns, for early modern and medieval natural history, as well as the developed attention to gender and reproduction in twenty-first century science, the “fabulous” animal might be the one next door, like, say, squirrels.

]]> 0 b43a840fde600d81304fb13028f4854e Karl Steel deposited The Past as Past is its disappearance: Erkenwald and the Jews in the group LLC Middle English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549799/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:17:30 -0400 I’m taking the word “synagogue” seriously, and read Erkenwald’s judge as symbolically “Jewish,” a figure of the sclerotic quality of the law, a foil for Christianity’s uncertain relationship to its own law. I’ll probably publish this before my career’s over, but clearly I’m in no hurry….

]]> 0 3864a19d44cce31c0590bb2b42ea39b1 Karl Steel deposited The Past as Past is its disappearance: Erkenwald and the Jews in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549798/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:17:27 -0400 I’m taking the word “synagogue” seriously, and read Erkenwald’s judge as symbolically “Jewish,” a figure of the sclerotic quality of the law, a foil for Christianity’s uncertain relationship to its own law. I’ll probably publish this before my career’s over, but clearly I’m in no hurry….

]]> 0 a9c1cdade61501068eac6917b4f0ca53 Karl Steel deposited The Past as Past is its disappearance: Erkenwald and the Jews https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549797/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:17:26 -0400 I’m taking the word “synagogue” seriously, and read Erkenwald’s judge as symbolically “Jewish,” a figure of the sclerotic quality of the law, a foil for Christianity’s uncertain relationship to its own law. I’ll probably publish this before my career’s over, but clearly I’m in no hurry….

]]> 0 aa04ac18d37315624c8aa2dbfc6e3b1f Karl Steel deposited Bad Heritage: The American Viking Fantasy, from the Nineteenth Century to Now in the group TC Race and Ethnicity Studies https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549794/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:06:52 -0400 Here’s a key paragraph:
“This chapter will be an exploration of the heritage function of Vikings in America. It will look at their presumptive whiteness, from the early nineteenth century, through the real mania for all things Viking in the mid to late nineteenth century, and on to present day fascinations with the Norse in popular music,…[Read more]

]]> 0 1a44828a192b8c40bc6e5ecab0fa9c86 Karl Steel deposited Bad Heritage: The American Viking Fantasy, from the Nineteenth Century to Now in the group TC Popular Culture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549793/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:06:41 -0400 Here’s a key paragraph:
“This chapter will be an exploration of the heritage function of Vikings in America. It will look at their presumptive whiteness, from the early nineteenth century, through the real mania for all things Viking in the mid to late nineteenth century, and on to present day fascinations with the Norse in popular music,…[Read more]

]]> 0 932e94972a1505684f523c48a48c2e70 Karl Steel deposited Bad Heritage: The American Viking Fantasy, from the Nineteenth Century to Now in the group CLCS Nordic https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549792/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:06:40 -0400 Here’s a key paragraph:
“This chapter will be an exploration of the heritage function of Vikings in America. It will look at their presumptive whiteness, from the early nineteenth century, through the real mania for all things Viking in the mid to late nineteenth century, and on to present day fascinations with the Norse in popular music,…[Read more]

]]> 0 c584c50edcf022ba9671e51af43c9ad8 Karl Steel deposited Bad Heritage: The American Viking Fantasy, from the Nineteenth Century to Now in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549791/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:06:37 -0400 Here’s a key paragraph:
“This chapter will be an exploration of the heritage function of Vikings in America. It will look at their presumptive whiteness, from the early nineteenth century, through the real mania for all things Viking in the mid to late nineteenth century, and on to present day fascinations with the Norse in popular music,…[Read more]

]]> 0 c584c50edcf022ba9671e51af43c9ad8 Karl Steel deposited Bad Heritage: The American Viking Fantasy, from the Nineteenth Century to Now https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549790/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:06:37 -0400 Here’s a key paragraph:
“This chapter will be an exploration of the heritage function of Vikings in America. It will look at their presumptive whiteness, from the early nineteenth century, through the real mania for all things Viking in the mid to late nineteenth century, and on to present day fascinations with the Norse in popular music,…[Read more]

]]> 0 65c72f3c8aae5eb93cbb92b37c1dbd1d Karl Steel changed their profile picture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549789/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:00:36 -0400 0 46b07de4a9f2be63804ec22730d56f5f Karl Steel deposited Mostly Automatic: Humanity at the Edge of Agency and Ethics in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549788/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 20:58:17 -0400 My response to “New Materialisms and the End of Critique,” MLA 2015, Session 454. http://newmaterialisms.mla.hcommons.org/2015/01/07/hello-world/

]]> 0 374f42f8a0415c01bad1d35fe29e9378 Karl Steel deposited Mostly Automatic: Humanity at the Edge of Agency and Ethics in the group CLCS Medieval https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549787/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 20:58:14 -0400 My response to “New Materialisms and the End of Critique,” MLA 2015, Session 454. http://newmaterialisms.mla.hcommons.org/2015/01/07/hello-world/

]]> 0 374f42f8a0415c01bad1d35fe29e9378 Karl Steel deposited Mostly Automatic: Humanity at the Edge of Agency and Ethics https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/549786/ Tue, 09 Aug 2016 20:58:14 -0400 My response to “New Materialisms and the End of Critique,” MLA 2015, Session 454. http://newmaterialisms.mla.hcommons.org/2015/01/07/hello-world/

]]> 0 1a9db122a56365aa48b842cbba350979 Karl Steel changed their profile picture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/530779/ Wed, 07 Oct 2015 00:58:33 -0400 0 f848ca1b25ff1b6dda6c8b2104cd5627 Karl Steel changed their profile picture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/530757/ Tue, 06 Oct 2015 19:54:17 -0400 0 dc9076e6ee1395f6b53c4a44d9a13f49 Karl Steel's profile was updated https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/530756/ Tue, 06 Oct 2015 19:52:22 -0400 0 4036dd6bd834e59cc020a92ab4691ab5 Karl Steel changed their profile picture https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/60410/ Wed, 26 Mar 2014 21:56:53 -0400 0