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By Gregory J. Seigworth, Carolyn Pedwell
Series: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
Published: 30 September 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2720-1
... racism queer experimental fiction indigeneity ...
Series: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
Published: 30 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027201-007
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2720-1
... at the forefront of discussions of anti-racism and racism as ordinary. racism queer experimental fiction indigeneity ...
Series: ANIMA: Critical Race Studies Otherwise
Published: 30 September 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2720-1
..., and genealogies that are foreclosed by a Western Europe and North America centering grain of affect studies. Minor Feelings and the Sensorial Possibilities of Form mundane sexuality health precarity capitalism racism queer experimental fiction indigeneity blackness exhaustion minor...
Published: 28 March 2025
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060581-035
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6058-1
... This entry takes the form of minutes from a meeting of the board of directors from the fictional biotech company Genom Corporation, in the year 2049. The essay takes a punk rock sense of exuberant trepidation as a guiding principle in its exploration of the trajectory between sex and genetic...
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By Mark Seltzer
Published: 08 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374459-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7445-9
... to be played out. The allure of the great outside has thus returned, whether in the tethering of the humanities to the experimental sciences; in the tentative explorations of a speculative realism; or in the speculations of a new age of space and so open to news from the outside. Via readings of the literary...
Series: a Camera Obscura Book
Published: 05 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027867-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2786-7
... Two informal archives have enabled the circulation of rare Philippine films: first, Video 48, a legendary brick-and-mortar video store specializing in Tagalog feature-length fiction films; and second, the Kalampag Tracking Agency, a microcuratorial initiative and screening program helmed by Merv...
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By Mark Seltzer
Published: 08 April 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7445-9
... cultural studies and a turn to the great outside, or news of it. These recent versions of what can be called “the turn turn” are taken up in literary fiction and by way of Erving Goffman’s sociology of “away,” and what Georg Simmel calls “the negative character of collective behavior” in a radically...
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 08 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024460-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9375-6
... Detective stories, science fiction, and the advocacy of social justice through revisionary mythopoeisis are different modes of exploring the anxieties and tensions embedded in future thinking, and of deciphering the strangeness of the present by plumbing the rationalities and the technologies...
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By Lisa Messeri
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 19 August 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7391-9
... landscape narrative science fiction simulation analogy ...
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By Michael M. J. Fischer
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 08 August 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9375-6
... Daren Goh Kevin Martens Wong Nuraliah Norasid audit culture speculative fiction Singapore ...
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By Lisa Messeri
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 19 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373919-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7391-9
... and embodiment, there are moments when Mars manifests on Earth and participants experience the joy of exploring another world. landscape narrative science fiction simulation analogy ...
Series: ANIMA
Published: 22 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374671-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7467-1
.... population. In health planning scenarios, journalism, and fiction depicting such use of smallpox as a bioweapon, visions of American Indian viral susceptibility and Islamic terrorism buttressed a militarized logic of preemptive intervention against disease, which was spectacularly performed through the U.S...
Published: 24 March 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373315-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7331-5
... This reprinted 1960 interview with Jean-Luc Godard, the director of À bout de souffle , details his participation in the Cahiers collective and the spirit of experimentation and improvisation prevalent in French criticism, art, and filmmaking circles during the late 1950s and early 1960s...
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By Donna J. Haraway
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 19 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373780-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7378-0
... and modern times: the Chthulucene. Kin-making practices across different kinds are at the heart of the argument. The introduction begins the cat’s cradle–like exposition of SF—science fiction, speculative fabulation, string figures, speculative feminism, science fact—that proposes patterns throughout...
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By Gillian Siddall, Ellen Waterman
Series: Improvisation, Community, and Social Practice
Published: 04 March 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7449-7
...Gender, Trauma, and Memory This chapter analyzes two key female characters in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s epic novel Fall on Your Knees who use experimental, improvised performance to disrupt prevailing power relations that privilege white, male heterosexual identity. Materia’s and Frances’s...
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 19 August 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373780-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7378-0
... to the rescue, along with biologist Deborah Gordon’s theories about ant interactions and colony behavior, to elaborate the possibilities of ecological evolutionary developmental biology and nonhierarchical systems theories for shaping the best stories. Science fiction and science fact cohabit happily...
Series: Experimental Futures
Published: 08 August 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478024460-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-9375-6
... This chapter focuses on accounts of mended and patched lives, exploring them for threads of kindnesses and poisonous knowledges. The forms of writing analyzed—novellas, short stories, and crafted memoirs—occupy a betwixt and between world of fiction and real lives. Jing-Jing Lee's two short...
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By Joseph Masco, Lisa Wedeen
Published: 01 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2767-6
...Organizing Fictions This chapter analyzes Richard Hofstadter’s critique of “the paranoid style” and its influential impact on the terms and tone of liberal and left engagement with the event of Donald Trump. The chapter’s claim is that Hofstadter’s argument engages a genre of criticism...
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By Ann Snitow
Published: 14 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7567-8
.... Snitow and other members of the Feminist Anti-Censorship Taskforce (FACT) argued that policing and repression and legal definitions of what were or were not acceptable pornographic images would lead feminism away from its earlier calls for liberation and experimentation and towards a feminism that saw...