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Capstone is an online magazine published twice annually for alumni and friends of UWL's College of Arts, Social Sciences, & Humanities.

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The UWL College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities’ Capstone is published online in March and November, for more than 8,000 alumni and friends of the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities.

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Kimberly Defazio

Kimberly Defazio, English, authored the book "Spinoza, New Materialism and the Contemporary," published on June 30 by Palgrave Macmillan. "Spinoza, New Materialism and the Contemporary" is a book about change. Through its border passing interpretations, it not only transforms the dominant contemporary views of Spinoza but, more significantly, it puts into question the assumptions of those that have produced the dominant view, such as Althusser, Negri, Deleuze, as well as the new materialism and the ontological turn, including Latour, Bennett and Braidotti. These interpretations deploy Spinoza as a trope by which they suspend the class contradictions of capitalism and construct a new spiritual capitalism. This book, through materialist analysis of Spinoza, puts class back in cultural theory.

Submitted on: Aug. 11

Louise Zamparutti

Louise Zamparutti, English, presented "Norma Cossetto’s Digital Ethos: Enargeia and Prosthetic Memory in Italy’s New National Heroine" at Rhetoric Society of Europe Conference on June 19 in Zagreb, Croatia.

Submitted on: June 23

Louise Zamparutti

Louise Zamparutti, English, received a Project Development Grant from the American Council of Learned Societies. The $5,000 grants support scholars in teaching-intensive faculty roles who are undertaking promising research in the humanities and social sciences.

Submitted on: May 7

Darci Thoune

Darci Thoune, English, co-authored the chapter "CWPA Summer Workshop: A Litmus Test of Professional Values in the Fray of Reckoning" in "WPAing in a Pandemic and Beyond," published on March 14 by Utah State University.

Submitted on: Mar. 31

Kimberly DeFazio and Amrohini Sahay

Kimberly DeFazio, English and Amrohini Sahay, Scholar in Goa, India, co-authored the chapter "Untimely Materialist Meditations on Affect" in "Speculative Affect: Objects and Emotions," published on March 10 by Palgrave Macmillan. The chapter is a meditation (what Nietzsche would call “untimely”—since it is out of season with thoughts now) on affect. Affect is other ways of knowing: it is a resistance to any “monologic,” an insurrection against logic itself. Comprised of heterogeneous singularities, the essay is not an undoing of affect by calculatory reason, but an unshallowing of affect through materialist meditation and its mediation...materialist not in the matterist sense to which affect is conventionally bound but in the sense of labour and its complex, dialectical relations. A form of “parology” (Lyotard), the essay is at once a breaking of rules and a pathway beyond them.

Submitted on: Mar. 22