SAH Commons | Bradley J. Fest | Activity https://sah.hcommons.org/members/bradfest/activity/ Activity feed for Bradley J. Fest. Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:33:09 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 7e4e5166ac6b52296090466860ce57fd Bradley J. Fest changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1946069/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:11:16 -0400 0 7c2e8b18cfc04e86b43565226ee697c5 Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1946067/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:08:40 -0400 0 b06868ea2d0465cddaa56689ad51f5be Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1936435/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:15:55 -0500 0 14c8d3937ba9265e68466232e762dd5f Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1925245/ Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:34:09 -0400 0 2cfd21ea603df671b2ab46899f751caf Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1921258/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 15:03:41 -0400 0 f9e38bb845156aa4bc8b5b8524d5d4a1 Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1910497/ Sun, 02 Feb 2025 14:30:55 -0500 0 7812af8b6a8a27e4440fd0e28822d73c Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1909780/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 01:46:32 -0500 0 e5f5edf2b7c2c4ac8f91db29da2b55a6 Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1907063/ Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:43:49 -0500 0 242263a5937e8aa850b1cd1ae199e9ef Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1902690/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 20:18:17 -0400 0 7c51b638868044be02d89072cef3e486 Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1898853/ Mon, 16 Sep 2024 13:21:08 -0400 0 3c07e03426e3f072984361c0533eba31 Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1896894/ Wed, 21 Aug 2024 01:59:02 -0400 0 96e44863151838d2a96c93a968728dca Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895821/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 04:42:34 -0400 0 67f8b849c83137e3dc72dd827f9ed760 Bradley J. Fest changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895820/ Fri, 09 Aug 2024 04:37:52 -0400 0 2ca73363b4a5a50af6cddedeec601ccf Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1891847/ Mon, 15 Jul 2024 18:58:38 -0400 0 b9a4df1874141b241aa60b5248adf076 Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1890778/ Mon, 01 Jul 2024 14:14:31 -0400 0 45eaeadaccdbbeefe0a52f3e69dd265b Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1888795/ Sun, 09 Jun 2024 19:08:53 -0400 0 d75a2f617c89f6db5bfac1f8286e379e Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879358/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:38:58 -0400 0 4c7d4b00c7abc6a479ed91c8fa0813b1 Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1866898/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:50:32 -0500 0 ac4273e80acfd09f5ad461f1b37043bc Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1859174/ Thu, 21 Sep 2023 12:53:37 -0400 0 09f330888e61c572911d309f2c46d36f Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1852402/ Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:27:57 -0400 0 93538900b3546bc5791869908eaa5261 Bradley J. Fest deposited Consider David Foster Wallace: Critical Essays edited by David Hering in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847392/ Sat, 27 May 2023 03:28:00 -0400 Review of Consider David Foster Wallace.

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]]> 0 65e49f2b44706a042e7e19a069edf897 Bradley J. Fest deposited “Then Out of the Rubble”: The Apocalypse in David Foster Wallace’s Early Fiction in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847379/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:38:10 -0400 Excerpt from first paragraph: In the emerging field of David Foster Wallace studies, nothing has been more widely cited in terms of understanding Wallace’s literary project than two texts that appeared in the 1993 issue of The Review of Contemporary Fiction. “E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction” and a lengthy interview with Larry McCaf…[Read more]

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]]> 0 c9c519e8f299e85d32b5c1c938a08dc8 Bradley J. Fest deposited The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the group LLC 20th- and 21st-Century American https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847377/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:28:38 -0400 This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite the relative disappearance of the discourse of Mutually Assured Des…[Read more]

]]> 0 fdb7b8518517db8d548b49ba941ebc63 Bradley J. Fest deposited The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest in the group CLCS 20th- and 21st-Century https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1847376/ Sat, 27 May 2023 02:23:55 -0400 This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite the relative disappearance of the discourse of Mutually Assured Des…[Read more]

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]]> 0 02161dbc86bee7199dd8b91ff8f84024 Bradley J. Fest deposited The Inverted Nuke in the Garden: Archival Emergence and Anti-Eschatology in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847344/ Fri, 26 May 2023 15:36:59 -0400 This essay historically situates David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest as a transitional text between the first and second nuclear ages. Written in the immediate wake of the Cold War, Infinite Jest complexly develops the nuclear trope’s fabulously textual persistence despite the relative disappearance of the discourse of Mutually Assured Des…[Read more]

]]> 0 dc2e91843b730092ffa62cd73a405312 Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1847343/ Fri, 26 May 2023 15:29:42 -0400 0 b0845f3fac6a87bf53c0ee6307097f75 Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846925/ Tue, 23 May 2023 13:24:27 -0400 0 4b61686843979ff96e522028ebc07acc Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846183/ Tue, 16 May 2023 12:51:53 -0400 0 fc1730dedb2d9087dbcd524ddc906ff3 Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1846129/ Mon, 15 May 2023 16:07:28 -0400 0 73c32fdb7976147bffd9105a7beb6012 Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1841892/ Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:19:22 -0400 0 347f06ecd27296e1ffa6f9f1479c233c Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837418/ Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:00:00 -0400 0 6eedabf7c3a7adfbe8a9277fa58a16dd Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1837289/ Tue, 14 Mar 2023 16:53:53 -0400 0 b6c7b780380653947390163c70249196 Bradley J. Fest's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1830002/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 16:15:50 -0500 0 4b15b115b6531af7c026efa0541e81f8 Bradley J. Fest deposited Introduction to Twenty-First-Century Forms and Hyperarchival Poetics in the group 2023 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1828215/ Wed, 04 Jan 2023 03:52:24 -0500 Drawing upon theories of the long poem in the United States and his other work on massive twenty-first-century forms, Bradley J. Fest’s paper will sketch a theory of hyperarchival poetics and suggest how we might understand contemporary poiesis as positioned between the new forms of textual hyperaccumulation and of textual destruction that have a…[Read more]

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