Search Results for social death

... this perspective, the lyric qualities of Smith’s verse are social not because they prescribe a proper collective identity but because they invent modes of relation that transform social death into the possibility of another way of living. This is the uncommons: a reckoning with the racialized political economy...

...Janell Watson In this interview, Jacqueline Stevens discusses her career and her writings in the field of political theory. Her theories about birth, death, and the state guide her as she boldly challenges patriarchal appeals to genetics and heredity in the politics of immigration, wealth...

... Caribbean to the present (Manjapra 2018). The plantation economy not only privatizes property needed for communal survival but also seeks to enforce social death by separat- ing a community of persons from the resources (cultural, legal, social) through which they might live as social beings, in order...

... from beyond the grave, that society acknowledge and accommodate her Bateman stigmatized desire and refusal of heterosexual reproduction, that queers like her be spared a "social death" (Edelman 102). Butler's politics, Edelman...

...D. Vance Smith This article examines the various limits of knowledge in Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Tale as a critique of finitude in object-oriented philosophy and speculative realism. The phrase “death shall be dead” is the form of the receding limits that emerge when finitude is revoked, the lack...

... . New York : Arcade . ———. 2008 . Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out . Translated by Goldblatt Howard . New York : Arcade . ———. 2009 . Frog ( Chinese edition ). Shanghai : Shanghai Wenyi . ———. 2012a . The Republic of Wine . Translated by Goldblatt Howard . New York...

... the occasion of the death of Studs Terkel, talk-show host and author of numerous collections of interviews regarding people’s experiences with the overarching social structures that determine our lives: work, race, war, death, economic scarcity, and the dream of economic security...

.... David L. Eng, Teemu Ruskola, and Shuang Shen, special issue, Social Text, no. 110 (2012). Work Cited Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. 2003. Death of a Discipline. New York: Columbia University Press. ...

.... The circulation of texts, bodies, histories, and knowl- edges of a counterpublic act in tension with and against hegemonic social forms that strive to quiet or suppress the counterpublic. A clear indication, for me, that protest might energize a com- mons is ACT-UP. Formed in 1987, ACT-UP (or the AIDS Coalition...

... processes of social leveling. This ambiguous situation motivates Neil Leach’s sophisticated study, Camouflage, which surveys the treatment of camouflage and related topics like mimesis, mimicry, psychaesthenia, and performativity in fields as diverse...

... as emblematizing this crisis of knowledge and representation. © 2015 Virginia Tech 2015 Theodor Adorno Jabra Ibrahim Jabra Abelrahman Munif Palestinian novel praxis Works Cited Abdel-Malek Anouar . 1964 . “Nasserism and Socialism.” Socialist Register , no. 1 : 38 – 55...

... : 357 – 66 . Pine Jason . 2010 . “ Embodied Capitalism and the Meth Body .” In The Body Reader: Essential Social and Cultural Readings , edited by Moore Lisa Jean Kosut Mary , 164 – 83 . New York : NYU Press . Pollan Michael . 1990 . “ Putting Down Roots .” New York...

... critique, the film executes its social crisis through the logic of vampiric speciology, immunizing the present against the threat of radical transformation and restoring a “natural” social order. However, the biopolitical writings of Roberto Esposito offer us a way to discern the ineradicable utopian...

... the end of the complex social, cultural, economic, legal, and political interactions that purpose build so much life for death? The violence of industrial-scale slaughter has been clearly documented and is now broadly understood. The decades-long work of activists such as Jo-Anne McArthur, who...

...). In this way, prospect poems question both the hypostatization of difference and the presumption of univer- salism. Such poems are peculiarly receptive to the precariousness of labor; the finality of the death of a social world under late, late capital- ism; and the global development that serves...

... . Chomsky Noam . 2014 . “ The Death of American Universities .” Jacobin , March 3 . www.jacobinmag.com/2014/03/the-death-of-american-universities/ . Collini Stefan . 2012 . What Are Universities For? New York : Penguin Press . Cooper Melinda . 2015 . Life as Surplus...

... on the Governance of Life and Death. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Cohen, Samuel S., and Lee Konstantinou, eds. 2012. The Legacy of David Foster Wallace. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. DeKoven, Marianne, and Michael Lundblad. 2012. Species Matters: Humane Advocacy and Cultural Theory...

.... I. 1905 . Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution , translated by Fineburg A. Katzer J. www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1905/tactics/ . Lotman Jurij . 1977 . The Structure of the Artistic Text , translated by Vroon R. Ann Arbor...

... Fiedler Reintroduces Himself.” New York Times 23 May 1971 : BR2 . ---. Love and Death in the American Novel . 2nd ed. New York : Stein & Day , 1966 . ---. “Our Country and Our Culture.” Symposium . Partisan Review 19 . 3 ( 1952 ): 282 - 326 . ---. “Poetry Chronicle.” Rev...

... to have for the apartment— a dog.” —Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby In the 1880s, two events occurred in New York that would prove pivotal in the social history and iconography not only of the city but of American culture as a whole. One was as public and deliberately emblematic a moment...