Book Chapter
Introduction: Low Theory
-
Published:August 2011
This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved.
This content is only available as PDF.
Bibliography
Agamben
, Giorgio
. 1998
. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
. Palo Alto, Calif.
: Stanford University Press
.Althusser
, Louis
. 2001
. Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays
. New York
: Monthly Review Press
.Benjamin
, Walter
. 1969
. “Theses on the Philosophy of History
,” in Illuminations: Essays and Reflections
. New York
: HBJ
: 253
–65
.Benjamin
, Walter
. 1996
. Selected Writings 1913–1926
, vol. 1
, ed. Bullock
Marcus
and Jennings
Michael
. Cambridge
: Harvard University Press
.Berlant
, Lauren
. 1997
. The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essays on Sex and Citizenship
. Durham
: Duke University Press
.Bersani
, Leo
. 1986
. The Freudian Body: Psychoanalysis and Art
. New York
: Columbia University Press
.Bersani
, Leo
. 2009
. Is the Rectum a Grave and Other Essays
. Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
.Blake
, Nayland
. 2005
. “Further Horizons
,” in Judie Bamber: Further Horizons
. Claremont, Calif
: Pomona College Museum of Art
: 5
–9
.Brooks
, Daphne
. 2006
. Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850–1910
. Durham
: Duke University Press
.Butler
, Judith
. 1990
. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
. New York
: Routledge
.Butler
, Judith
. 2002
. Anitgones’ Claim: Kinship between Life and Death
. New York
: Columbia University Press
.Chisholm
, Dianne
. 2005
. Queer Constellations: Subcultural Space in the Wake of the City
. Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
.Clover
, Carol
. 1993
. Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film
. Princeton
: Princeton University Press
.Cvetkovich
, Ann
. 2003
. An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures
. Durham
: Duke University Press
.Dean
, Tim
. 2009
. Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking
. Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
.Delany
, Samuel
. 2001
. Times Square Red, Times Square Blue
. New York
: New York University Press
.Delany
, Samuel
. 2004
. The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction in the East Village
. Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
.Deleuze
, Gilles
. 1971
. Masochism: An Interpretation of Coldness and Cruelty
, trans. Jean McNeil
. New York
: Braziller.
Derrida
, Jacques
. 1998
. Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
, trans. Eric Prenowitz
. Chicago
: University of Chicago Press
.Doan
, Laura
. 2001
. Fashioning Sapphism: The Origins of a Modern English Lesbian Culture
. New York
: Columbia University Press
.Dorfman
, Ariel
. 1994
. How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
. New York
: International General
.Duggan
, Lisa
. 2004
. The Twilight of Equality?: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy
. Boston
: Beacon Press
.Edelman
, Lee
. 2005
. No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive
. Durham
: Duke University Press
.Ehrenreich
, Barbara
. 2009
. Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Pursuit of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America
. New York
: Metropolitan Books
.Eisenstein
, Sergei
. 1988
. Eisenstein 3: Eisenstein on Disney
, trans. Alan Upchurch
. New York
: Methuen
.El-Tayeb
Fatima
. 2011
. Queering Ethnicity: Minority Activism in Postnational Europe
. Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
.Eng
, David
. 2003
. “Transnational Adoption and Queer Diaspora
.” Social Text
21
, no. 3
, 1
–37
.English
, Darby
. 2007
. How to See a Work of Art in Total Darkness
. Cambridge
: MIT Press
.Ferguson
, Roderick
. 2005
. Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique
. Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
.Foucault
, Michel
. 1995
. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
, trans. Alan Sheridan
. New York
: Vintage
.Foucault
, Michel
. 1998
. The History of Sexuality Volume 1: An Introduction
. New York
: Vintage
.Foucault
, Michel
. 2003
. Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the College De France, 1975–1976
, trans. David Macey
. New York
: Picador.
Franklin
, Sarah
. 2006
. “The Cyborg Embryo: Our Path to Transbiology
.” Theory, Culture and Society Annual Review
1
, no. 1
.Freeman
, Elizabeth
. 2005
. “Monsters, Inc.: Notes on the Neoliberal Arts Education
.” New Literary History
36
, no. 1
, 83
–95
.Foucault
, Michel
. 2010
. Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories
. Durham
: Duke University Press
.Freire
, Paulo
. 2000
. Pedagogy of the Oppressed
, trans. Myra Bergman Ramos
. New York
: Contiuum.
Freud
, Sigmund
. 1963
. “A Child Is Being Beaten
” (1919
), in Sexuality and the Psychology of Love
, ed. Rieff
Philip
. New York
: Simon and Schuster
.Freud
, Sigmund
. 1958
. “The Uncanny
” in On Creativity and the Unconscious
. New York
: Harper & Row
: 122
–61
.Frichtl
, Ben
. 2005
. “Concerned Women for America
.” CWFA.org
, 13
December
(accessed July
6
, 2010
).Gibson-Graham
, J. K.
1996
. The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): AFeminist Critique of Political Economy
. London
: Blackwell
.Giles
, Geoffrey
. 2002
. “The Denial of Homosexuality: Same- Sex Incidents in Himmler’s SS and Police
.” Journal of the History of Sexuality
11
, nos. 1–2
, January–April
, 256
–90
.Gomez-Barris
Macarena
. 2009
. Where Memory Dwells: Culture and Violence in Chile
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
.Gopinath
, Gayatri
. 2005
. Impossible Desires: Queer Disapora and South Asian Public Cultures
. Durham
: Duke University Press
.Gordon
, Avery
. 1996
. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination
. Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
.Graeber
, David
. Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
. Chicago
: Prickly Paradigm
.Gramsci
, Antonio
. 2000
. “Hegemony, Relations of Force, Historical Bloc
,” in The Gramsci Reader: Selected writings, 1916–1935
, ed. Forgasc
David
. New York
: New York University Press
.Grandin
, Temple
. 2010
. Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
. New York
: Mariner
.Hall
, Stuart
. 1990
. “Gramsci’s Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
.” Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogies in Cultural Studies
, ed. Kuan-Hsing
and Chen
David Morley
. New York
: Routledge
.Hall
, Stuart
. 1991
. “Old and New Identities, Old and New Ethnicities
,” in Culture, Globalization and the World System
, ed. King
Anthony D.
. London
: Macmillan
: 42
–69
.Hall
, Stuart
. 1997
. “The Global and the Local: Globalization and Ethnicity
,” in Dangerous Liasons: Gender, Nation, and Postcolonial Perspectives
, ed. McClintock
Anne
, Mufti
Aamir
, and Shohat
Ella
. Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
: 173
–87
.Haraway
, Donna
. 1990
. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Science
. New York
: Routledge
.Haraway
, Donna
. 2003
. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness
. Chicago
: Prickly Paradigm Press
.Haraway
, Donna
. 2007
. When Species Meet (Posthumanities)
. Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
.Hardt
, Michael
, and Negri
. Antonio
2005
. Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire
. London
: Penguin
.Harrowitz
, Nancy A.
, and Hyams
. Barbara
1995
. Jews and Gender: Responses to Otto Weininger
. Philadelphia
: Temple University Press
.Hart
, Lynda
. 1998
. Between the Body and the Flesh: Performing Sadomasochism
. New York
: Columbia University Press
.Hartman
, Saidiya
. 1997
. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America
. Oxford
: Oxford University Press
.Hartman
, Saidiya
. 2008
. Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route
. New York
: Farrah, Strauss and Giroux
.Herzog
, Dagmar
. 2002
. “Hubris and Hypocrisy, Incitement and Disavowal: Sexuality and German Fascism
.” Journal of the History of Sexuality
11
, nos. 1–2
, January–April
, 3
–21
.Herzog
, Dagmar
. 2007
. Sex after Fascism: Memory and Morality in Twentieth Century Germany
. Princeton
: Princeton University Press
.Hewitt
, Andrew
. 1996
. Political Inversions: Homosexuality, Fascism, and the Modernist Imaginary
. Palo Alto, Calif.
: Stanford University Press
.Hocquenghem
, Guy
. 1993
. “Capitalism, the Family, and the Anus
,” in Homosexual Desire
, trans. Daniella Dangoor
. Durham
: Duke University Press
.Jelinek
, Elfride
. 2009
. The Piano Teacher
, trans. Joachim Neugroschel
. New York
: Grove.
Jensen
, Erik
. 2002
. “The Pink Triangle and Political Consciousness: Gays, Lesbians, and the Memory of Nazi Persecution
.” Journal of the History of Sexuality
11
, nos. 1–2
, January–April
, 319
–49
.Jones
, Ernest
. 1957
. The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud
. Vol. 2
. New York
: Basic Books
.Kelty
, Christopher
, and Landecker
. Hannah
2004
. “A Theory of Animation: Cells, L-systems, and Film
.” Grey Room
, September
, 30
–63
.Klein
, Norman
. 1997
. The History of Forgetting: Los Angeles and the Erasure of Memory
. London
: Verso
.Latimer
, Quinn
. 2008
. “Collier Schorr on Brooke Shields and the ‘Fall of America.’
” Artinfo.com
, 1
July
(accessed 24
July
2010
).Leslie
, Esther
. 2004
. Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical Theory, and the Avant-Garde
. New York
: Verso
.Linebaugh
, Peter
, and Rediker
. Marcus
2001
. The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic
. Boston
: Beacon
.Love
, Heather
. 2009
. Feeling Backwards: Loss and the Politics of Queer History
. Cambridge
: Harvard University Press
.Lowe
, Lisa
. 1996
. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics
. Durham
: Duke University Press
.Mahmood
, Saba
. 2005
. The Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
. Princteon
: Princeton University Press
.Marks
, Laura
. 2002
. Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media
. Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
.Marshall
, Stuart
. 1991
. “The Contemporary Political Use of Gay History: The Third Reich
,” in How Do I Look? Queer Film and Video
, ed. Choices
Bad Object
. Seattle
: Bay Press.
Martin
, Biddy
. 1997
. Femininity Played Straight: The Significance of Being Lesbian
. New York
: Routledge
.McRuer
, Robert
. 2006
. Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
. New York
: New York University Press
.Mignolo
, Walter
. 2005
. Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking
. Princeton
: Princeton University Press
.Mosse
, George L.
1999
. The Fascist Revolution: Toward a General Theory of Fascism
. New York
: Howard Fertig
.Moten
, Fred
, and Harney
. Stefano
2004
. “The University and the Undercommons: Seven Theses
.” Social Text 79
22
, no. 2
, 101
–15
.Muñoz
, José Esteban
. 1999
. Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics
. Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota
.Muñoz
, José Esteban
. 2006
. “The Vulnerability Artist: Nao Bustamante and the Sad Beauty of Reparation
.” Women and Performance: AJournal of Feminist Theory
16
, no. 2
, 191
–200
.Muñoz
, José Esteban
. 2010
. Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
. New York
: New York University Press
.Muñoz
, José Esteban
, and Bustamante
. Nao
2003
. “Risk/Riesgo: An Interview with Nao Bustamante
.” Felix
2
, no. 32
, 5
.Nast
, Heidi
. 2006
. “Critical Pet Studies?
” Antipode
38
, no. 5
, 894
–906
.Newton
, Esther
. 1996
. “My Best Informant’s Dress: The Erotic Equation in Field-work
,” in Out in the Field: Reflections of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
, ed. Lewin
Ellen
and Leap
William L.
. Urbana and Chicago
: University of Illinois Press
, 212
–35
.Ngai
, Sianne
. 2005
. “Animatedness
,” in Ugly Feelings
. Cambridge
: Harvard University Press
.Nietzsche
, Friedrich
. 1969
. “Second Essay: Guilt, Bad Conscience, and the Like
” in On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic
. New York
: Vintage
: 57
–96
.Nyong’o
, Tavia
. 2008
. “Do You Want Queer Theory (or Do You Want the Truth)? Intersections of Punk and Queer in the 1970s
.” Radical History Review
100
, Winter, 102
–19
.O’Dell
, Kathy
. 1998
. Contract with the Skin: Masochism, Performance Art, and the 1970’s
. Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press
.Parikh
, Crystal
. 2009
. An Ethics of Betrayal: The Politics of Otherness in Emergent U.S. Literatures and Cultures
. New York
: Fordham University Press
.Puar
, Jasbir
. 2007
. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times
. Durham
: Duke University Press
.Ranciére
, Jacques
. 1991
. The Ignorant Schoolmaster: Five Lessons in Intellectual Emancipation
, trans. Kirsten Ross
. Palo Alto, Calif.
: Stanford University Press
.Roach
, Joseph
. 1996
. Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance
. New York
: Columbia University Press
.Roughgarden
, Joan
. 2004
. Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
. Berkeley
: University of California Press
.Rubin
, Gayle
. 1975
. “The Traffic in Women: Notes on the ‘Political Economy’ of Sex
,” in Toward an Anthropology of Women
, ed. Reiter
Rayna
. New York
: Monthly Review Press
: 157
–210
.Rubin
, Gayle
. 1984
. “Thinking Sex: Notes for a Radical Theory of Sexuality
,” in Pleasure and Danger: Exploring Female Sexuality
, ed. Vance
Carole
. Boston
: Routledge
.Sandage
, Scott
. 2005
. Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
. Cambridge
: Harvard University Press
.Sarafan
, Katherine
. 2003
. “Pixar’s Digital Aesthetic
,” in New Media: Theories and Practices of Digitextuality
, ed. Everett
Anna
and Caldwell
John T.
. New York
: Routledge
.Schenkar
, Joan
. 2009
. The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life and Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith
. New York
: St. Martin’s Press
.Schorr
, Collier
. 2003
. “German Brutality and Roman Sensuality: Pictures of Soldiers in the Landscape
.” Interview
. PBS
, 1
January
. Available at pbs.org
.Scott
, James C.
1987
. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance
. New Haven and London
: Yale University Press
.Schorr
, Collier
. 1999
. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
. New Haven
: Yale University Press
.Sedgwick
, Eve Kosofsky
. 1990
. Epistemology of the Closet
. Los Angeles
: University of California Press
.Sedgwick
, Eve Kosofsky
. 2003
. “Paranoid Reading, Reparative Reading
.” Touching, Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity
. Durham
: Duke University Press
.Silva
, Noenoe
. 2004
. Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism
. Durham
: Duke University Press
.Solanas
, Valerie
. 2004
. SCUM Manifesto
. Introduction by Avital Ronell
. New York
: Verso
.Spivak
, Gayatri Chakravorty
. 1988
. “Can the Subaltern Speak?
,” in Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture
, ed. Nelson
Cary
and Grossberg
Larry
. Champaign
: University of Illinois Press
.Sugimoto
, Hiroshi
. 1995
. Hiroshi Sugimoto: Time Exposed
, ed. Sugimoto
Hiroshi
and Kellein
Thomas
. Basel
: Kunsthalle, published by H. Mayer
, 91
–96
.Weston
, Kath
. 1998
. “Forever Is a Long Time: Romancing the Real in Gay Kinship Ideologies
,” in Long Slow Burn: Sexuality and Social Science
. New York
: Routledge
.Wilson
, Julia Bryan
. 2003
. “Remembering Yoko Ono’s ‘Cut Piece.’
” Oxford Art Journal
26
, no. 1
, 99
–123
.
