First things -- Swells -- Dilations -- Space junk -- You have to start somewhere -- This is vanilla -- Handyman -- Writing, life -- Red bull diaries -- As if -- Checked out OK -- Graduation speech, 2016 -- The new ordinary -- Contact sheet -- The things we think with -- Worlds -- Weight of the world -- Today in political emotions -- The road -- The state of drift -- On collaboration -- The icing on the cake -- Bad feelings -- Halloweens -- Take a breath -- Friction -- The game as method -- Once -- This isn't consoling -- In the middle -- Cover story -- In the cut -- What does Webster's say about soul? -- Against literal-minded explorations of the ordinary -- At the Y -- No world beyond the world -- Slide -- Two Elizas -- Keep it together -- Welcome to the joke -- The women -- Outside chances -- Writing lessons -- Fish in drag -- Suicidiation nation -- The morning demons -- A place -- A skeletal thought -- Utopian capitalism -- Chicago -- A return -- Stony Island story problems -- Last summer -- Let's not ask for the moon -- Minds at work -- Everyday life in early spring -- Atmospheric pressures -- After meth -- Thought practices -- Approaching the commercial corridor -- What the houses are doing -- On editing -- This week in shakes -- Lifelines in the middle of nowhere -- Hefty with Febreze -- A family line -- In the terminal -- Kinships -- Projects -- Friendhating -- What comes through -- Everyday, a video installation -- Collecting -- If we could pay attention to everything -- What is it to be naked among men? -- Camera worthy -- The strange situation : a wedding album -- All i know is -- Written in a place that smells like chicken -- Anxiety made a nest in her -- Book reviews -- The twins -- All the desperate calls rolled into one -- It's structural -- Media trouble -- Hundreds do things -- Survivors in training -- Two young men with beards kissing on the floor -- Refractions -- Reading notes, the week of December 16, '16 -- Just being me -- Office hours -- Under pressure -- Ordinary love -- Stocking up -- Bad weather -- In it -- A number on introductions -- A month in arrests and other things -- Not over yet.
Summary
In The Hundreds Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart speculate on writing, affect, politics, and attention to processes of world-making. The experiment of the one hundred word constraint--each piece is one hundred or multiples of one hundred words long--amplifies the resonance of things that are happening in atmospheres, rhythms of encounter, and scenes that shift the social and conceptual ground. What's an encounter with anything once it's seen as an incitement to composition? What's a concept or a theory if they're no longer seen as a truth effect, but a training in absorption, attention, and framing? The Hundreds includes four indexes in which Andrew Causey, Susan Lepselter, Fred Moten, and Stephen Muecke each respond with their own compositional, conceptual, and formal staging of the worlds of the book.
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