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A Face Drawn in Sand
Author | : Rey Chow |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 2021-04-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780231547796 |
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Leadership, innovation, diversity, inclusiveness, sharing, accountability—such is the resounding administrative refrain we keep hearing in the contemporary Western university. What kinds of benefits does this refrain generate? For whom? What discursive incitements undergird such benefits? Although there are innumerable discussions of Michel Foucault in the English-speaking academy, seldom is his work used systematically to unravel the dead ends and potentialities of humanistic inquiry as embedded in these simple but dynamic questions. Rey Chow takes up this challenge by articulating the plight of the humanities in the age of global finance and neoliberal mores through a resharpened focus on Foucault’s concept “outside.” This general discussion is followed by a series of micro-arguments about several loosely linked topics: the biopolitics of literary study, visibilities and invisibilities, race and racism, sound/voice/listening, and confession and self-entrepreneurship. Against what she polemicizes as the moralistic-entrepreneurial norming of knowledge production, Chow foregrounds a nonutilitarian approach, stressing anew the intellectual and pedagogical objectives fundamental to humanistic inquiry: How to process, analyze, and evaluate different types of texts across languages and disciplines; how to form and sustain viable arguments; how to rethink familiar problems through less known as well as very well-known sources, figures, and methods. Above all, she asks in an abidingly humanistic spirit, how not to know all the answers before the questions have been posed.
New Media Old Media
Author | : Wendy Hui Kyong Chun,Thomas Keenan |
Publsiher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Digital media |
ISBN | : 0415942241 |
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In this history of new media technologies, leading media and cultural theorists examine new media against the background of traditional media such as film, photography, and print in order to evaluate the multiple claims made about the benefits and freedom of digital media.
Between Philosophy and Non Philosophy
Author | : Donald A. Landes,Leonard Lawlor,Peter Gratton |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-11-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781438463353 |
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Engages the work and career of a central figure in contemporary philosophy. Hugh J. Silverman was an inspiring scholar and teacher, known for his work engaging and shaping phenomenology, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, structuralism, poststructuralism, and deconstruction. As Professor of Philosophy and Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York, Silvermans work was marked by the between, a concept he developed to think the postmodern in the space between philosophy and non-philosophy. In this volume, leading scholars explore and extend Silvermans philosophical contributions, from reflections on the notions of care, time, and responsibility, to presentations of the practices and possibilities of deconstruction itself. They provide an assessment of Silvermans life and work at the intersection of philosophy, ethics, and politics.
Living with Zombies
Author | : Chase Pielak,Alexander H. Cohen |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2017-01-16 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781476665849 |
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Depictions of the zombie apocalypse continue to reshape our concept of the walking dead (and of ourselves). The undead mirror cultural fears--governmental control, lawlessness, even interpersonal relationships--exposing our weaknesses and demanding a response (or safeguard), even as we imagine ever more horrifying versions of post-apocalyptic life. This critical study traces a shift in narrative focus in portrayals of the zombie apocalypse, as the living move from surviving hypothetical destruction toward reintegration and learning to live with the undead.
Poststructuralist Agency
Author | : Gavin Rae |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-02-14 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781474459389 |
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Gavin Rae shows that the problematic status of agency caused by the poststructuralist decentring of the subject is a central concern for poststructuralist thinkers. He shows how this plays out in the thinking of Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault, and find the best explanation of agency for the founded subject in the work of Castoriadis.
This Woman in Particular
Author | : Stephanie Kirkwood Walker |
Publsiher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 1996-05-23 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780889202634 |
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Walker (religion and culture, Wilfrid Laurier U.) contends with the "image" of Emily Carr, Canadian artist and writer, while at the same time paralleling how the work of Canadian biographers reflects shifting attitudes toward women, religion, and spirituality. Carr, like Georgia O'Keefe and Frieda Kahlo, is an elusive figure whose artistic quest by its innovative and individual nature set her apart from her time. Walker introduces the key elements responsible for the resurgence of interest in Carr during the last 20 years, opening questions on the very nature of feminist creation and its perception by society. Canadian card order number C95-932582-4. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Biopolitical Governance
Author | : Hannah Richter |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2018-05-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781786602725 |
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For years critical theorists and Foucauldian biopolitical theorists have argued against the Aristotelian idea that life and politics inhabit two separate domains. In the context of receding social security systems and increasing economic inequality, within contemporary liberal democracies, life is necessarily political. This collection brings together contributions from both established scholars and researchers working at the forefront of biopolitical theory, gendered and sexualised governance and the politics of race and migration, to better understand the central lines along which the body of the governed is produced, controlled or excluded.
Michel Houellebecq and the Literature of Despair
Author | : Carole Sweeney |
Publsiher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2013-11-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781623562984 |
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Widely acknowledged as an important, if highly controversial, figure in contemporary literature, French novelist and poet Michel Houellebecq has elicited diverse critical responses. In this book Carole Sweeney examines his novels as a response to the advance of neoliberalism into all areas of affective human life. This historicizing study argues that le monde houellebecquien is an 'atomised society' of banal quotidian alienation populated by quietly resentful men who are the botched subjects of late-capitalism. Addressing Houellebecq's handling of the 'failure' of the radical thought of '68, Sweeney looks at the ways in which his fiction treats feminism, the decline of religion and the family, as well as the obsolescence of French 'theory' and the Sartrean notion of 'engaged' literature. Reading the world with the disappointed idealism of a contemporary moralist, Houellebecq's novels, Sweeney argues, fluctuate between despair for the world as it is and a limp utopian hope for a post-humanity.