Category: Volume 29 – Number 3 – May 2019
Notes on Contributors
January 4, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 3, May 2019 |
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Sungyong Ahn is a PhD candidate in the Institute of Communications Research (ICR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has published research on algorithmic culture, attention economy, and media theory in media studies journals. His research interests include wearable health devices, videogames, self-tracking technologies, and their affective dimensions. Ian Balfour is Professor Emeritus […]
Black Execration
January 4, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 3, May 2019 |
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Parisa Vaziri (bio) A review of Warren, Calvin. Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation. Duke UP, 2018. Plumbing Frantz Fanon’s frequently cited but not always well elaborated pronouncement that “ontology does not allow us to understand the being of the Black man” (90), Calvin Warren’s Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation brings to bear a […]
The Analytic that Flesh Makes Possible
January 4, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 3, May 2019 |
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Janet Neary (bio) A review of Moten, Fred. Stolen Life. Duke UP, 2018. Stolen Life is the second book in Fred Moten’s recent series, consent not to be a single being, published within a year by Duke University Press. Like the other books in the series, Black and Blur and The Universal Machine, Stolen Life […]
Promiscuous Relations
January 4, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 3, May 2019 |
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Robert McRuer (bio) A review of Robbins, Bruce. The Beneficiary, Duke University Press, 2017. Bruce Robbins opens The Beneficiary with a 1948 State Department memo written by George F. Kennan. The memo acknowledges a stark disparity between the United States and the rest of the world (the U.S. held 50% of the world’s wealth but […]
Toward a Post-War Political Philosophy?
January 4, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 3, May 2019 |
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Will Kujala (bio) A Review of Lambert, Gregg. Philosophy After Friendship: Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae. U of Minnesota P, 2017. Philosophy after Friendship intervenes productively in our contemporary political and philosophical moment. Lambert’s central thesis is that the contemporary world, precisely because of its intensification and disorientation of war and violence, has opened a space for […]
The Nation, Sublime and Sublimating
January 4, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 3, May 2019 |
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Ian Balfour (bio) A review of Karatani, Kōjin. Nation and Aesthetics: On Kant and Freud. Translated by Jonathan E. Abel, Hiroki Yoshikuni, and Darwin H. Tsen, Oxford UP, 2017. Kōjin Karatani has long been a distinctive, powerful voice in critical theory on the global or quasi-global stage, a key mediator between Eastern and Western thought, […]
Bartleby, the IoT, and Flat Ontology: How Ontology is Written in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing
December 23, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 3, May 2019 |
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Sungyong Ahn (bio) Abstract The Internet of Things, as the object-oriented reconstruction of the traditional internet, is characterized by its smart objects freely inter-operating without being necessarily under human control. Re-building the internet’s information economy from the data captured by and communicated through these autonomous objects, the IoT operationalizes a sort of flat ontology, which […]
From Death Drive to Entrepreneurship of the Self: Film Noir’s Genealogy of the Neoliberal Subject
December 23, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 3, May 2019 |
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Tamas Nagypal (bio) Through the comparative analysis of Double Indemnity (1944), Body Heat (1981), and The Usual Suspects (1995), this paper argues that what Michel Foucault called the neoliberal entrepreneur of the self has its prototype in the subject constructed by the classical discourse of film noir. While in the genre’s early form the individual’s […]
Leo Bersani’s Speculative Aesthetics
December 16, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 3, May 2019 |
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Mikko Tuhkanen (bio) Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth, that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning; that there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon, and under every deep a lower deep opens.–Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Circles” We live in […]