... sensibility than traditional game theory. 4 This text, “ Here and Now ,” 5 collectively brainstormed and written by the After Globalism Writing Group over the course of six days, offers eclectic analyses and meditations on the various disasters and emergencies that have occurred in the wake...

...Amy Villarejo What can critical theory, from Theodor Adorno to contemporary writers on the relationship between capitalism and digital media, tell us about the specific form or medium that is television? This article undertakes a two-step answer to this question, first by locating television...

... of space, sensation, and connectivity that breaks with the specifically visual metaphors through which both biopower and critical theories of embodiment conceptualize difference. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 Abu Zubaydah and the Caterpillar Neel Ahuja On 16 April 2009, the U.S...

... of the Institute for Critical Theory at Duke University. He is the author of many books, including The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (1981), A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology of the Present (2002), and, most recently, The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity...

... school critiques of the culture industry on today’s academic industry in order to examine different ways of operating under neoliberal multiculturalism. We offer a critical therapy that emerges from critical theory. References Adorno Theodor . 2013 . “ On Jazz ”. Discourse: Journal...

...Jodi A. Byrd This essay draws upon critical ethnic studies, Indigenous critical theory, and settler colonial studies to consider how biopolitics and biocapital have converged in North America through the racial regimes inaugurated by settler colonialism. It does so by close reading the popular...

..., historians, philosophers, and media theorists whose work is located at the intersection of intellectual history, critical theory, and historical change. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Marxism Black radical tradition critical theory...

...Michael Pelias Abstract Stanley Aronowitz was the archetypical organic intellectual, one who maintained critical theory in its most substantive and adaptive form. Never one to succumb to defeatism or intellectual retreat, he maintained the grand narrative of emancipatory politics and education. His...

...Petrus Liu This article argues that the development of queer theory as a field has been critically shaped by a desire to dissociate the studies of gender and sexuality from material concerns. Though what is meant by “the material” varies wildly from context to context, queer critiques...

... bandwidth, the MSTG sug- gested a social-textronics analysis of the Left. A critical approach that began in the journal as theory and now extends to the editorial col- lective’s own media praxis as well, social textronics...

... the status of criticism and theory has changed subtly in recent years, particularly with the advent of new materialism and the larger ontological turn in contemporary theory. This article reassesses Jameson in the context of today’s new materialism, with an eye on the relationship between politics...

... Werner . “ Critical Theory and the Critique of Antisemitism: On Society as Economic Object .” Journal of Social Justice 9 ( 2019 ). http://transformativestudies.org/wp-content/uploads/Werner-Bonefield.pdf . Bosworth R. J. B. , ed. The Oxford Handbook of Fascism . Oxford : Oxford...

...-, and transdisciplinary space of Social Text . Literature, understood as a multiplicity of practices, theories, and critical methods, is a complex site for negotiating the tension of the universal and particular, a tension that governs, among others areas, the relation of theory and praxis and that of Marxist critique...

...? How can postcolonial theory illuminate the works produced during the early colonial periods (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) in Latin America? How can the present inform our critical inter- ventions in a past that could not imagine...

..., it draws on affect theory, new materialisms, and work in decolonial and critical ethnic studies to valorize otherwise marginal, bewildering, errant educational encounters that are always taking place in the undergrowth of the university. Much of what happens in and around the university cannot come...

...Jina B. Kim Abstract Drawing together feminist- and queer-of-color critique with disability theory, this essay offers a literary-cultural reframing of the welfare queen in light of critical discourses of disability. It does so by taking up the discourse of dependency that casts racialized, low...

...H. N. Lukes This article examines the cultural history of amputation in the United States to account for the status of white male woundedness and abstract citizenship in our current neoliberal era. Using critical disability theory to reconsider Michel Foucault’s notion of biopower, the article...

... and, through the selection of essays, put forward the idea that for a socially critical mode of theory and thinking, reflection on mass culture was as important as reflection on literature and art. © 2009 Duke University Press 2009 Peer Review Stanley Aronowitz: We didn’t want a peer-reviewed journal...

...Jemima Pierre This article engages the scholarly discussion of the booming heritage tourism industry in Ghana to explore the dynamics and politics of historical and contemporary African-diasporic interactions and provoke a critical revision of diaspora theory. I argue that Ghanaian-diaspora...

... is needed. Drawing from recent, critical discussions on sovereignty and the state of exception in recent political theory, this essay reflects on critical questions of the border in neoliberal times and aims to explore the conditions of sovereignty inhabiting the US/Mexico border. Here I analyze The Devil’s...