The Hundreds

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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. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Preludic......Page 10 I. The Hundreds......Page 12 1. First Things......Page 14 2. Swells......Page 15 3. Dilations......Page 16 4. Space Junk......Page 17 5. You have to start somewhere......Page 18 6. This is vanilla......Page 19 7. Handyman......Page 20 8. Writing, Life......Page 21 9. Red Bull Diaries......Page 23 10. As if......Page 25 11. Checked out OK......Page 26 12. Graduation Speech, 2016......Page 27 13. The New Ordinary......Page 28 14. Contact Sheet......Page 29 15. The Things We Think With......Page 31 16. Worlds......Page 32 17. Weight of the World......Page 33 18. Today in Political Emotions......Page 34 19. The Road......Page 36 20. The State of Drift......Page 38 21. On Collaboration......Page 39 22. The Icing on the Cake......Page 41 23. Bad Feelings......Page 42 24. Halloweens......Page 43 25. Take a Breath......Page 44 26. Friction......Page 46 27. The Game as Method......Page 48 28. Once......Page 49 29. This isn’t consoling......Page 51 30. In the middle......Page 52 31. Cover Story......Page 54 32. In the cut......Page 55 33. What Does Webster’s Say about Soul......Page 56 34. Against literal-minded explorations of the ordinary......Page 57 35. At the Y......Page 58 36. No world beyond the world......Page 61 37. Slide......Page 62 38. Two Elizas......Page 63 39. Keep It Together......Page 64 40. Welcome to the Joke......Page 65 41. The women......Page 67 42. Outside chances......Page 68 43. Writing Lessons......Page 69 44. Fish in Drag......Page 71 45. Suicidiation Nation......Page 72 46. The Morning Demons......Page 73 47. A Place......Page 74 48. A Skeletal Thought......Page 76 49. Utopian Capitalism......Page 78 50. Chicago......Page 80 51. A return......Page 82 52. Stony Island Story Problems......Page 84 53. Last summer......Page 85 54. Let’s Not Ask for the Moon......Page 87 55. Minds at Work......Page 88 56. Everyday Life in Early Spring......Page 90 57. Atmospheric Pressures......Page 91 58. After Meth......Page 92 59. Thought practices......Page 93 60. Approaching the Commercial Corridor......Page 94 61. What the houses are doing......Page 95 62. On Editing......Page 96 63. This Week in Shakes......Page 97 64. Lifelines in the middle of nowhere......Page 100 65. Hefty with Febreze......Page 102 66. A Family Line......Page 103 67. In the Terminal......Page 104 68. Kinships......Page 105 69. Projects......Page 106 70. Friendhating......Page 107 71. What Comes Through......Page 111 72. Everyday, a Video Installation......Page 113 73. Collecting......Page 114 74. If we could pay attention to everything......Page 115 75. What is it to be naked among men......Page 116 76. Camera Worthy......Page 118 77. The Strange Situation: A Wedding Album......Page 119 78. All I know is......Page 120 79. Written in a place that smells like chicken......Page 121 80. Anxiety made a nest in her......Page 122 81. Book Reviews......Page 123 82. The Twins......Page 124 83. All the Desperate Calls Rolled into One......Page 125 84. It’s Structural......Page 126 85. Media Trouble......Page 127 86. Hundreds do things......Page 128 87. Survivors in Training......Page 129 88. Two young men with beards kissing on the floor......Page 130 89. Refractions......Page 131 90. Reading Notes, the Week of December 16, ’16......Page 132 91. Just being me......Page 134 92. Office Hours......Page 135 93. Under Pressure......Page 137 94. Ordinary Love......Page 139 95. Stocking Up......Page 140 96. Bad Weather......Page 141 97. In it......Page 142 98. A Number on Introductions......Page 143 99. A month in arrests and other things......Page 144 100. Not Over Yet......Page 146 II. Indexes......Page 148 Index • Fred Moten......Page 150 Not-Index • Andrew Causey and C. Thresher......Page 152 The Index • Susan Lepselter......Page 162 Untitled • Stephen Muecke......Page 164 For Your Indexing Pleasure......Page 166 Some Things We Thought With......Page 168