Monthly Archives: December 2020
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 […]
Notes on Contributors
| December 3, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 2, January 2019 |
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John Freeman is a Renaissance scholar with a wide range of research and teaching interests, from Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Thomas More’s Utopia to digital and popular culture (such as the MTV series “Catfish”). His recent publications include “Tupac’s ‘Holographic Resurrection’: Corporate Takeover or Rage against the Machinic?” (CTheory) and “Shakespeare’s Imitation Game, or: How Do […]
Being Fascinated: Toward Blanchotian Film Theory
| December 3, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 2, January 2019 |
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Mikko Tuhkanen (bio) A review of Watt, Calum. Blanchot and the Moving Image: Fascination and Spectatorship. Legenda, 2017. In The Emergence of Cinematic Time: Modernity, Contingency, the Archive (2002), Mary Ann Doane not only maps the new technology’s historical context—masterfully analyzing cinema’s place in the constellation of such nineteenth-century discourses as thermodynamics, eugenics, statistic, and […]
Derrida’s Relevance
| December 3, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 2, January 2019 |
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Andrew Kingston (bio) A review of Crockett, Clayton. Derrida after the End of Writing: Political Theology and New Materialism. Fordham UP, 2017. Clayton Crockett has written and edited multiple books on theology, psychoanalysis, and contemporary continental theory. Derrida after the End of Writing represents his first text explicitly dedicated to the work of Jacques Derrida. […]
Beside Reparative Reading
| December 3, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 2, January 2019 |
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Brian Glavey (bio) A review of Tyler Bradway, Queer Experimental Literature: The Affective Politics of Bad Reading. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. For better or worse, queer theory has always had, if not a bad reputation, at least a reputation for badness. Animated by a commitment to subversion and non-conformism on the one hand, and organized around […]
Indefinite Urbanism:Airport Noise and Atmospheric Encounters in Los Angeles
| December 3, 2020 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 29, Number 2, January 2019 |
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Marina Peterson (bio) Abstract “Indefinite urbanism” is the aerial drawn into perceptibility through noise, glass resonating with aircraft noise and infrastructural edge spaces that remain as traces of a history of now inaudible sound. As the age of commercial air travel dawned in Southern California, those living around Los Angeles International Airport turned toward the […]