This year’s review of queer theory focuses on recent scholarship about transgender youth. Most of the scholarship reviewed in this chapter defines transgender expansively to include any identifications and/or expressions of gender that trouble dyadic sex-gender ideologies. Additionally, the scholarship reviewed in this chapter evinces a collapse of scholarship and activism by investing in scholarship as activism. Although queer theory is not often heralded for its use in taking a pragmatic approach to social change, the majority of theorists discussed in the chapter do in fact make practical recommendations for justice-oriented social policy and practice changes that would radically improve the lives of transgender youth. Even more, most of the scholars discussed in this chapter are themselves transgender and are committed to creating a world were trans lives can flourish. They resist liberal accommodation models of trans inclusion and instead theorize what meaningful structural change would look like. The chapter is divided into five sections: 1. Introduction: Queer Kids; 2. Queer Gender Now; 3. Queer Youth Now; 4. Transgender Youth In and Out of History; and 5. Conclusion.
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This chapter examines material published in the field of digital humanities in 2019. Key work published this year has grappled with longstanding conflicts at the heart of the field, on whether and how computational methods should be applied to humanities data, and who should validate such methodologies. The chapter begins with new work by Ted Underwood, who makes the case for hypothesis-driven methods and the modelling of humanities data. It discusses how recent work in computational literary studies had appeared to resist the trap into which much previous work had fallen, that is, work that was perceived to fall into the binaries of distant vs. close reading, computation vs. engagement, objectivity vs. subjectivity. The continued friction over the appropriateness of certain computational methodological approaches was amplified by new work that called into question the statistical methods of a number of key works in the field over past years. Nan Z. Da’s critique of computational literary studies through the lens of statistical rigour imploded the uneasy truce between computational methods and the more traditional questions and methods at the heart of literary studies. Da’s article reopens the debate about how digital humanities scholars use statistical methods, and how greater reliance on such methods may demand greater cross-disciplinary oversight to ensure that they are used in a way that is both robust and appropriate. Her contribution is examined alongside the rash of responses to it from key scholars in the field which produced an important snapshot of the fractures and fundamentals of data-driven literary studies. I then turn to new and timely work by James E. Dobson, which argues for a third way, a Critical Digital Humanities that engages critically with computational as well as humanistic scholarship. I survey important contributions on the impact of mass digitization, historicism and the archive, and how to study history in the age of digital archives and the historic web. Ian Milligan’s work provides a much-needed introduction to the potentials and pitfalls of studying recent history through the digital traces left behind. It self-consciously identifies areas in which greater cross-disciplinary scholarship and critical engagement will be needed as this area of study matures. Discussion then turns to work by Nanna Bonde Thylstrup on digital waste, which shows how connecting new media theory to waste studies can provide an important frame through which to examine issues of data toxicity and pollution. This work sets the stage for two landmark books on sex and race which implore us to take a more careful look at the toxic technologies we build and the questions we ask of them. Both Caroline Criado Perez and Ruha Benjamin examine the damage done by the reliance of data systems on the ‘default’, frequently a white male, forcing us to see anything that departs from this norm as deviant. These works make a powerful case for reinventing the
本章研究了2019年在数字人文学科领域发表的材料。今年发表的关键工作是解决该领域核心的长期冲突，即计算方法是否以及如何应用于人文数据，以及谁应该验证这些方法。本章以泰德·安德伍德(Ted Underwood)的新作品开始，他为假设驱动的方法和人文数据建模提供了理由。它讨论了最近在计算文学研究方面的工作如何似乎抵制了许多以前的工作所陷入的陷阱，也就是说，工作被认为陷入了远距离阅读与细读，计算与参与，客观性与主观性的二元对立中。关于某些计算方法方法的适当性的持续摩擦因新的工作而扩大，这些工作对过去几年该领域的一些关键工作的统计方法提出了质疑。南Z.达通过统计严谨的视角对计算文学研究的批判，打破了计算方法与文学研究核心中更传统的问题和方法之间不稳定的休战关系。Da的文章重新开启了关于数字人文学者如何使用统计方法的辩论，以及对这些方法的更大依赖可能需要更多的跨学科监督，以确保它们以一种既健全又适当的方式使用。她的贡献与该领域主要学者的一系列回应一起被审视，这些回应为数据驱动的文学研究的断裂和基础提供了一个重要的快照。然后，我转向詹姆斯·e·多布森(James E. Dobson)的最新和及时的作品，他提出了第三条道路，即批判性数字人文学科，它批判性地结合了计算和人文学术。本文概述了在大规模数字化、历史主义和档案的影响方面的重要贡献，以及如何在数字档案和历史网络时代研究历史。伊恩·米利根(Ian Milligan)的作品为通过留下的数字痕迹研究近代史的潜力和陷阱提供了急需的介绍。随着这一研究领域的成熟，它自觉地确定了需要更多跨学科奖学金和批判性参与的领域。然后讨论转向了Nanna Bonde Thylstrup关于数字废物的研究，该研究表明，将新媒体理论与废物研究联系起来，可以为研究数据毒性和污染问题提供一个重要的框架。这项工作为两本关于性别和种族的具有里程碑意义的书奠定了基础，它们恳请我们更仔细地审视我们创造的有毒技术以及我们向它们提出的问题。卡洛琳·克里亚多·佩雷斯(Caroline Criado Perez)和鲁哈·本杰明(Ruha Benjamin)都研究了数据系统对“默认”(通常是白人男性)的依赖所造成的损害，这种依赖迫使我们将任何偏离这一规范的东西视为越轨行为。这些作品为重塑我们日益依赖的系统提供了有力的理由，质疑创造它们的潜在偏见，并重新思考赋予它们的意义创造模式，尤其是当这种叙事往往假设一种良性的中立时。最后，我将这些作品与Barbara Bordalejo和Roopika Risam编辑的关于数字人文和交叉性的新论文卷一起进行研究，这有助于扩大和背景化Criado Perez和Benjamin所采取的方法的需求，显示出这些权力结构在该领域的深度纠缠。
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This chapter on economic criticism assesses two recent books on the changing state of global capitalism. It then moves to a consideration of recent debates over neoliberalism as a category for thinking the relationship between economics and culture, before turning to a critical assessment of recent public-choice scholarship on state capacity and religious toleration.
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Abstract In light of the extraordinary social and political situation under which we all now labor, I have chosen to take a rather different approach than usual in this year’s essay. To this end, I deploy Bruno Latour’s Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime as both a framing mechanism and a heuristic device in order to focus attention on the compelling question of posthumanist political ecology. While originally published as Où atterrir? Comment s’orienter en politique in 2017, Latour’s short text has only continued to gain relevance consequent on the heavy black pall cast over society first by the Covid-19 pandemic, and then quickly followed by the political hucksterism of the Trump administration in lieu of any reasoned response—as clearly evidenced by the opportunistic refusal by the US to pay dues amounting to millions of dollars to the World Health Organization by way of an inflammatory campaign of lies and blame aimed at denying any and all responsibility for the current woes of the Earth writ large. Whereas to some this might seem to concern animal studies only obliquely, the questions brought to bear by political ecology upon the agitated thickness of geological history are among the most important facing animal studies today.
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This chapter reviews important works in affect theory published in 2019. The chapter is divided into the following sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Textual Affect, which focuses on Playing with Feeling, by Aubrey Anable, and Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice, edited by Stephen Ahern; 3. Loss and Longing, which focuses on Bleak Joys, by Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova, and Homesickness, by Ryan Hediger; 4. Renewing Theory, which focuses on The Affect Theory of Silvan Tomkins for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, by E. Virginia Demos, and Reading Sedgwick, edited by Lauren Berlant; and 5. Reflections. In publications this year, affect theory mirrors and tracks the world in the Anthropocene. Consequently, affect theory continues to interpret the human experience in terms of the felt relationship of man to the environment and focuses on the way human life is affected by and affects environmental change. There is a strong cross-over not only between affect studies and ecocriticism but also between affect studies and feminist theory, queer theory, and psychoanalysis, demonstrating how work in affect theory is influenced by and influences other areas of cultural and critical theory. Works in affect theory in 2019 continue to show the importance of a focus on affect as foundational to these other theoretical and critical approaches; not subservient to them but an equal partner.
{"title":"21Affect Theory","authors":"Karen Simecek","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbaa017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbaa017","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This chapter reviews important works in affect theory published in 2019. The chapter is divided into the following sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Textual Affect, which focuses on Playing with Feeling, by Aubrey Anable, and Affect Theory and Literary Critical Practice, edited by Stephen Ahern; 3. Loss and Longing, which focuses on Bleak Joys, by Matthew Fuller and Olga Goriunova, and Homesickness, by Ryan Hediger; 4. Renewing Theory, which focuses on The Affect Theory of Silvan Tomkins for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy, by E. Virginia Demos, and Reading Sedgwick, edited by Lauren Berlant; and 5. Reflections. In publications this year, affect theory mirrors and tracks the world in the Anthropocene. Consequently, affect theory continues to interpret the human experience in terms of the felt relationship of man to the environment and focuses on the way human life is affected by and affects environmental change. There is a strong cross-over not only between affect studies and ecocriticism but also between affect studies and feminist theory, queer theory, and psychoanalysis, demonstrating how work in affect theory is influenced by and influences other areas of cultural and critical theory. Works in affect theory in 2019 continue to show the importance of a focus on affect as foundational to these other theoretical and critical approaches; not subservient to them but an equal partner.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90538992","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This chapter reviews a selection of books published in 2019 relevant to feminist critical and cultural theory. The chapter is divided into four sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Feminist Handbooks, which reviews The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Feminism, edited by Tasha Oren and Andrea L. Press, and The Bloomsbury Handbook of 21st-Century Feminist Theory, edited by Robin Truth Goodman; 3. Revolutionary Feminism, which reviews Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser’s Feminism for the 99 Percent: A Manifesto; 4. Feminism and Pornography, which reviews Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin, edited by Johanna Fateman and Amy Scholder, and Andrew Altman and Lori Watson’s co-authored Debating Pornography.
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This chapter assesses three areas of theoretical work: metatheory, via Jason Demers’s The American Politics of French Theory: Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, and Foucault in Translation and Galin Tihanov’s The Birth and Death of Literary Theory: Regimes of Relevance in Russia and Beyond; three studies that theorize on the history of theory, John E. Drabinski’s Glissant and the Middle Passage: Philosophy, Beginning, Abyss, John Frow’s On Interpretive Conflict, and Anne Anlin Cheng’s Ornamentalism; and five texts indicative of a surge of interest in the linguisticity of ‘death’, David Wills’s Killing Times: The Temporal Technology of the Death Penalty, Michael Rothberg’s The Implicated Subject: Beyond Victims and Perpetrators, David Simpson’s States of Terror: History, Theory, Literature, and Marc Crépon’s Murderous Consent: On the Accommodation of Violent Death and The Vocation of Writing: Literature, Philosophy, and the Test of Violence.
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This chapter covers selected research in postcolonial theory published in 2019. It begins with books and edited collections before it focuses on a special journal issue and a book chapter. The work discussed here demonstrates how postcolonialism engages in human geography and in the ongoing refugee and climate crises, and also how it draws attention to the continued need for ethical responses to precarity and subalternity. Concomitantly with this need postcolonial theory points to a reconfiguration of planetarity and a critical stance towards the Western-centric ideas that remain part of the field’s legacy.
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This chapter surveys scholarship in poetics published in 2019 that engages with concepts of ‘world’. I begin from the contention that poetics scholarship is at a crossroads: while questions of race, nation, and politics were often cast aside in poetry criticism of the late twentieth century in favor of considerations of modernist lineages and philosophical approaches to language, new work in poetics increasingly prioritizes the discussion of racial capitalism, colonialism, and dispossession. The review is divided into four sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Poetry and the World, which considers three works that discuss poetry in relationship to world literature; 3. Worlds of Poetry, which examines three works that consider the so-called poetry world; and 4. Conclusion. The works discussed in this review include two scholarly monographs, a collection of experimental essays by a poet-critic and translator, an introduction to poetry by a poet and literary critic, a short polemic by a poet-critic and ethnic studies scholar, and a journal article exemplifying what I take to be the most significant new direction in poetics scholarship, namely the re-evaluation of apparently abstract, depersonalized formal and generic categories through the analytic of race.
{"title":"8Poetics","authors":"S. Dowling","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbaa013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbaa013","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This chapter surveys scholarship in poetics published in 2019 that engages with concepts of ‘world’. I begin from the contention that poetics scholarship is at a crossroads: while questions of race, nation, and politics were often cast aside in poetry criticism of the late twentieth century in favor of considerations of modernist lineages and philosophical approaches to language, new work in poetics increasingly prioritizes the discussion of racial capitalism, colonialism, and dispossession. The review is divided into four sections: 1. Introduction; 2. Poetry and the World, which considers three works that discuss poetry in relationship to world literature; 3. Worlds of Poetry, which examines three works that consider the so-called poetry world; and 4. Conclusion. The works discussed in this review include two scholarly monographs, a collection of experimental essays by a poet-critic and translator, an introduction to poetry by a poet and literary critic, a short polemic by a poet-critic and ethnic studies scholar, and a journal article exemplifying what I take to be the most significant new direction in poetics scholarship, namely the re-evaluation of apparently abstract, depersonalized formal and generic categories through the analytic of race.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"72 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80220387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The titles reviewed in this chapter concern science and medicine studies. They represent work drawn from a variety of contexts and disciplinary perspectives, including science and technology, the history of science, literary studies, critical race theory, public health, the philosophy of science, law, ethnography, anthropology, architecture, and geology. The chapter has five sections: 1. Histories and Historicity; 2. Epistemology and Dissemination; 3. Institutions and Praxis; 4. Bodies and Subjectivities; and 5. Conversations (Journals).
{"title":"11Science and Medicine","authors":"Tita Chico","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbaa011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbaa011","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The titles reviewed in this chapter concern science and medicine studies. They represent work drawn from a variety of contexts and disciplinary perspectives, including science and technology, the history of science, literary studies, critical race theory, public health, the philosophy of science, law, ethnography, anthropology, architecture, and geology. The chapter has five sections: 1. Histories and Historicity; 2. Epistemology and Dissemination; 3. Institutions and Praxis; 4. Bodies and Subjectivities; and 5. Conversations (Journals).","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78833688","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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