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Gaze. An In/Sight 凝视。一个在/眼前
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.31261/rias.12505
Paweł Jędrzejko
Desired and abhorred, wished for and fought against, protective and oppressive, surveillance is older than the hills. Since the times immemorial, humans would pray to all-seeing gods in hope that the immortals would watch over them and protect them against perils. Divine protection, however, has always come at a price. Irrespective of the religion, the promise of the deliverance from (variously construed) evil hinges upon the believer’s readiness to dutifully observe gods-given laws. Defiance, impossible to hide from the all-seeing eye, does not only strip one of the “protected” status—it also dooms one to (inevitable) punishment. Why then would anyone choose to transgress? Why not entrust oneself to surveillance if there is nothing sinister to hide? What could be wrong about abiding by the laws? Revisiting some of the essential notions of surveillance studies, this editorial proposes a shift from the concepts explored by Jeremy Bentham and Michel Foucault to Deleuzoguattarian, post-humanist, perspective on surveillance studies.
人们渴望又憎恶,希望又反抗,保护又压迫,监视比山丘还要古老。自古以来,人类就会向无所不知的神祈祷,希望神仙能看顾他们,保护他们免受危险。然而,神的保护总是要付出代价的。无论什么宗教,从(各种解释)邪恶中解脱出来的承诺取决于信徒是否愿意尽职尽责地遵守神所赐的律法。反抗,不可能躲避全视之眼,不仅剥夺了一个人的“受保护”地位,也注定了一个人要受到(不可避免的)惩罚。那为什么会有人选择越界呢?如果没有什么不可告人的事情,为什么不把自己托付给监视呢?遵守法律有什么错呢?这篇社论回顾了监视研究的一些基本概念,提出了从杰里米·边沁和米歇尔·福柯探索的概念转向德勒索式的、后人道主义的监视研究视角。
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“All-Electric” Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945–2020 by Rachele Dini (A Book Review) “全电”叙事:美国文学中的节省时间的电器和家庭生活,1945-2020作者:蕾切尔·迪尼
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.31261/rias.13577
M. Mitrano
Filomena Mitrano's review of  Rachele Dini's book “All-Electric” Narratives: Time-Saving Appliances and Domesticity in American Literature, 1945–2020, Bloomsbury, 2022.
菲洛梅娜·米特拉诺对蕾切尔·迪尼的书《全电叙事:1945-2020年美国文学中的节省时间的电器和家庭生活》的评论,布卢姆斯伯里出版社,2022年。
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The Surveillance of Blackness in the Kardashians' Wellness Empire 卡戴珊健康帝国对黑人的监视
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.31261/rias.12748
Heena Hussain
Keeping up with the Kardashians depicts the lives of the Kardashian clan through reality television. The unparalleled success of five sisters managed by their mother has only continued to increase over time along with their participatory self-surveillance through their formidable use of social media. In recent years, a focus on health and wellbeing has led the sisters to endorse products for weight loss and health, using their bodies as spaces of commodification and advertisement online. The family’s interaction with the camera, and the aesthetics of their social media cross-promotions combine to present an open “honest” front promoting the replication of their success and beauty for their audiences. The sisters engage with blackness in a way that bolsters their claims of capacitating and beautifying white feminine subjects, engagements now commonly termed “blackfishing.” This article analyzes how the Kardashians have created an intense regime of self-surveillance, even dabbling self-consciously in the carceral state's techniques for surveilling blackness, to construct themselves as both uncommonly, exotically sexual ('baring all') and respectable enough (white or white passing) to sell various remedies with dubious health value.
《与卡戴珊家族同行》通过真人秀节目讲述了卡戴珊家族的生活。五个姐妹在母亲的管理下取得了无与伦比的成功,随着时间的推移,她们通过强大的社交媒体参与自我监督,这种成功只会继续增加。近年来,对健康和幸福的关注促使这对姐妹代言减肥和健康产品,把她们的身体作为商品化和在线广告的空间。这个家庭与镜头的互动,以及他们在社交媒体上交叉推广的美学,结合在一起,呈现出一个开放的“诚实”的前线,促进了他们的成功和美丽的复制。这对姐妹与黑人打交道的方式,支持了她们对白人女性主体的赋能和美化的主张,这种接触现在通常被称为“黑钓”。本文分析了卡戴珊姐妹是如何建立起一种严格的自我监控制度的,她们甚至有意识地涉足这个国家监控黑人的技术,把自己塑造成既不寻常、具有异国情调的性感(“全裸”),又足够可敬(白人或白人通行证)的形象,从而出售各种健康价值可疑的疗法。
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Seeing Shadows: The FBI Surveillance of Louise Thompson Patterson 《看见阴影:联邦调查局对路易丝·汤普森·帕特森的监视
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.31261/rias.12448
Kiara Sample
This article explores the ways gender and race influenced the FBI’s surveillance of Black women activists. Previous scholarship has covered the role of surveillance in repressing revolutionary movements and neutralizing radical organizations. Historically, within many social movements, Black women have been marginalized, silenced, or reduced to only their gender because of patriarchal leadership. As a result, the persistence of sexism within these Black movements has affected Black women’s visibility within movement organizations. This piece asks, how does gendered marginalization impact their surveillance by and visibility to the FBI? It seeks to understand the influence of race and gender on the FBI’s surveillance of Louise Thompson Patterson. By examining the language and narrative components of her FBI file, the article provides an analysis across gender and across time to theorize the dynamics of surveillance, race, and gender. Based on a close analysis of Patterson’s FBI file, I argue that the tension between hypervisibility and invisibility deriving from gendered stereotypes resulted in the Bureau’s vague understanding of her personal life and political ideology.
本文探讨了性别和种族对联邦调查局监视黑人女性活动人士的影响。以前的学术研究涵盖了监视在镇压革命运动和中和激进组织中的作用。从历史上看,在许多社会运动中,由于父权制的领导,黑人妇女被边缘化、沉默,或被贬低为只有她们的性别。因此,这些黑人运动中持续存在的性别歧视影响了黑人女性在运动组织中的知名度。这篇文章问,性别边缘化是如何影响FBI对他们的监视和可见度的?它试图理解种族和性别对联邦调查局监视路易丝·汤普森·帕特森的影响。通过研究她的联邦调查局档案中的语言和叙事成分,本文提供了一个跨性别和跨时间的分析,将监视、种族和性别的动态理论化。在对帕特森的FBI档案进行仔细分析的基础上,我认为,由于性别刻板印象而产生的高度可见性和不可见性之间的紧张关系,导致了FBI对她的个人生活和政治意识形态的模糊理解。
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IASA Stands with Ukraine 国际航空安全局支持乌克兰
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.31261/rias.13763
Rias Editors
As a world-wide community of compassionate humans, the International American Studies Association unequivocally condemns the Russian Federation’s barbaric invasion of sovereign Ukraine. Calling upon the Governments of all peace-loving nations to work together towards the immediate cessation of hostilities, we simultaneously encourage all IASA members to donate a fraction of their incomes to the organizations saving lives in the fighting Ukraine or helping the Ukrainian refugees throughout Eastern Europe and world wide. Preferring action to empty verbiage, we therefore ask all of the compassionate human beings to consult the list below. Based on the U.S. news guideline on “How to Help Ukraine,” the list collects organizations and institutions that will appreciate every penny we can spare. IASA stands for peace, and therefore IASA stands with Ukraine. Join IASA.
国际美国研究协会(International American Studies Association)作为一个富有同情心的全球团体,毫不含糊地谴责俄罗斯联邦对主权国家乌克兰的野蛮入侵。我们呼吁所有爱好和平国家的政府共同努力,争取立即停止敌对行动,同时鼓励国际原子能机构所有成员将其收入的一小部分捐赠给在战斗中的乌克兰拯救生命或帮助整个东欧和全世界的乌克兰难民的组织。比起空洞的空话,我们更喜欢行动,因此,我们请所有富有同情心的人参考下面的清单。根据美国新闻指南“如何帮助乌克兰”,这份名单收集了组织和机构,他们将感激我们能省下的每一分钱。国际航空航天局代表和平,因此国际航空航天局与乌克兰站在一起。加入IASA。
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Sin Sick: Moral Injury in War and Literature by Joshua Pederson (A Book Review) 《罪病:战争与文学中的道德伤害》约书亚·佩德森著(书评)
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.31261/rias.13585
A. Arminio
Joshua Pederson’s Sin Sick: Moral Injury in War and Literature proposes the use of moral injury – a psychological concept describing the affliction of those who break their moral code when committing despicable acts – as a framework through which war narratives of the American War on Terror can be productively read without resorting to the controversial idea of perpetrator trauma, which seems to excuse veterans as victims of the war. Pederson provides the reader with a clinical overview of the condition as well as a first literary theory of moral injury as a manifestation of various forms of excess through a genealogical reading that includes analyses of Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and Camus’ The Fall. Sin Sick appears as a step in the right direction as it addresses in a timely manner a blind spot in trauma theory using a concept that more accurately describes a specific type of suffering. In the author’s mind the very term “moral injury” entails an acknowledgement of the soldiers’ wrongdoing, and this allows him to defend contemporary war writers from critics accusing them of using a narrow point of view that focuses on the pain of the American protagonists and hides the suffering of their victims. Ultimately, the study introduces readers to a fresh way to understand the psychological pain of perpetrators and seeks to inaugurate a new branch of studies that can run in parallel with trauma theory.
约书亚·佩德森的《罪病:战争与文学中的道德伤害》提出使用道德伤害作为一个框架,通过这个框架,可以有效地阅读美国反恐战争的战争叙事,而不必诉诸有争议的肇事者创伤的观点,这似乎是老兵作为战争受害者的借口。道德伤害是一个心理学概念,描述那些在犯下卑鄙行为时违反道德准则的人的痛苦。佩德森通过对陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》和加缪的《堕落》的分析,为读者提供了对这种情况的临床概述,以及作为各种形式的过度表现的道德伤害的第一个文学理论。《罪病》似乎是朝着正确方向迈出的一步,因为它及时地解决了创伤理论中的盲点,使用了一个更准确地描述特定类型痛苦的概念。在作者看来,“道德伤害”这个词本身就意味着承认士兵的错误,这使他能够为当代战争作家辩护,批评他们使用狭隘的视角,关注美国主角的痛苦,掩盖受害者的痛苦。最终,这项研究向读者介绍了一种新的方式来理解肇事者的心理痛苦,并试图开创一个新的研究分支,可以与创伤理论并行。
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Anti(Hijab)Bodies: An Auto-Ethnography 反(头巾)身体:一个自动人种学
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.31261/rias.12452
Rabiatu B. Mohammed
Using the metaphor of the biological organism fighting foreign invasion with its antibodies, I analyze some of the problems associated with the “scapegoating” of foreigners in sites of surveillance. In this essay, I assess the portability of this metaphor, not only in the sites associated with US security and surveillance like the airport and other ports of immigration, but also in sites of everyday interactions/transactions like the streets, stores, and classroom. My analysis and assessments are based on an auto-ethnographic study of my experiences with the sites of everyday surveillance. From my experiences as a foreigner in the US, I have realized that the fact that I am a Black woman with hijab in the US/Mexico borderlands region has compounded my hypervisibility which in turn results in the hyper-surveillance of my body. In order to cope with the problem of surveillance, I catalog how I perform self-surveillance in order to evade surveillance antibodies.
我用生物有机体用抗体抵抗外来入侵的比喻,分析了与外国人在监视地点“替罪羊”有关的一些问题。在这篇文章中,我评估了这个比喻的可移植性,不仅在与美国安全和监视相关的场所,如机场和其他移民口岸,而且在日常互动/交易的场所,如街道,商店和教室。我的分析和评估是基于我对日常监视地点的经验进行的自动人种学研究。从我作为外国人在美国的经历来看,我意识到我是一名在美国/墨西哥边境地区戴着头巾的黑人女性,这一事实加剧了我的高度可见性,从而导致我的身体受到高度监视。为了应对监测问题,我对如何进行自我监测以逃避监测抗体进行了分类。
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Feminist Conspiracies, Security Aunties, and Other Surveillance State Fictions 女权主义阴谋,安全阿姨,和其他监视国家的小说
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.31261/rias.12453
Patricia Stuelke
This article investigates two recent fictional representations of the feminized US surveillance state and its “security feminists” (Grewal), with an eye towards limning what visions of social transformation and political life such representations make possible. It first examines Gish Jen’s 2020 novel The Resisters, considering how the novel’s characterization of the US surveillance state as a snoopy suspicious Aunt maintains American liberal fantasies about the value of productive work and institutionally-sanctioned responses to state violence, even as the novel attempts to find grounds for reinvigorating a democratic commons. Jeff Vandermeer’s 2021 novel Hummingbird Salamander, in contrast, is suspicious of democratic visions of the social. Instead, the novel unravels the privatized figure of the “security mom” (Grewal) in order to experiment with how a queer antisocial orientation might confront environmental and institutional collapse and reimagine the idea of “security” itself.
本文调查了最近女性化的美国监控国家及其“安全女权主义者”(Grewal)的两种虚构表现形式,着眼于阐明这种表现形式使社会转型和政治生活的愿景成为可能。本文首先考察任碧莲(Gish Jen)于2020年出版的小说《抵抗者》(The Resisters),考虑小说如何将美国监控国家描绘成一个史诺比多疑的姑妈,维持了美国人对生产性工作价值的自由主义幻想,以及对国家暴力的制度认可反应,尽管小说试图找到重振民主公地的理由。相比之下,杰夫·范德米尔(Jeff Vandermeer) 2021年的小说《蜂鸟蝾螈》(Hummingbird Salamander)对社会的民主愿景持怀疑态度。相反,这部小说揭示了“安全妈妈”(格鲁瓦尔饰)这个私有化的形象,目的是实验酷儿的反社会取向如何面对环境和制度的崩溃,并重新想象“安全”本身的概念。
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The Monster Minority: John Yoo’s Multicultural Instruction and the “Torture Memos” 怪物少数派:俞炳彦的多元文化教育与“酷刑备忘录”
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.31261/rias.12642
Emily Raymundo
In the aftermath of 9/11, the United States declared a war on terrorism that would come to rely on legal memoranda to justify the surveillance, detention, and torture of “terrorists” held at the Guantánamo Bay Military Prison. Analyzing the language of these 2002 “Torture Memos,” this article contends that the memos discursively produced not only the racial formation of the terrorist but also the emergent figure of the “monster minority,” embodied by then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General, John Yoo. Defined in this essay as a patriotic, individualistic, and exceptional racialized subject who works on behalf of counterterrorism, the monster minority plays a central role in the legal construction of the terrorist precisely because of his exemplary status within US society. While Asian American studies explains the formation of the model minority that accounts for Yoo as a beneficiary of elite multicultural education, and post-9/11 studies of U.S. imperialism elucidate the formation of the terrorist-as-monster, this essay puts these fields in conversation to establish how Yoo’s particular brand of Asian American masculinity consolidates both the racialized enemy and the racialized agent of the US security state.
911事件之后,美国宣布对恐怖主义宣战,并依靠法律备忘录为关押在Guantánamo海湾军事监狱的“恐怖分子”的监视、拘留和酷刑辩护。本文分析了这些2002年的“酷刑备忘录”的语言,认为这些备忘录不仅话语地产生了恐怖分子的种族形成,而且还产生了以当时的副助理司法部长约翰·柳为代表的“怪物少数”的新兴形象。在这篇文章中被定义为一个爱国的、个人主义的、特殊的种族化的主体,他们代表反恐工作,怪物少数在恐怖分子的法律建设中起着核心作用,正是因为他在美国社会中的模范地位。亚裔美国人的研究解释了俞炳彦作为精英多元文化教育受益者的模范少数民族的形成,而9/11后的美帝国主义研究阐明了恐怖分子作为怪物的形成,本文将这些领域置于对话中,以确定俞炳彦特有的亚裔美国男子主义品牌如何巩固了美国安全国家的种族化敌人和种族化代理人。
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"What activism can learn from poetry": Lyric Opacity and Drone Warfare in Solmaz Sharif’s LOOK “激进主义可以从诗歌中学到什么”:索尔马兹·谢里夫的《LOOK》中的抒情不透明和无人机战争
Q2 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2022-06-15 DOI: 10.31261/rias.12446
Keegan Cook Finberg
The essay explores whether concealing humanness or emphasizing humanness is a more effective strategy for anti-drone activism that seeks to disrupt the conventional epistemologies of militarized surveillance. Building on Édouard Glissant’s decolonizing philosophy of relation and more recent theories of gender and surveillance such as Rachel Hall’s notion of “animal opacity,” the essay argues that poetry is one place we might find an answer to what seems like a binary problem of seeing versus unseeing humanity in technologically mediated aerial warfare. I illustrate that the 2016 poetry collection LOOK by Solmaz Sharif intervenes to suggest activism that steers readers away from the logics of recognition and toward the ethical potential of concealment. LOOK garners formal elements from lyric and experimental poetry traditions to employ a strategy of resistance-looking based in multiple valences of opacity.multiple valences of opacity.
这篇文章探讨了对于试图破坏军事化监视的传统认识论的反无人机行动主义来说,隐藏人性或强调人性是否是一种更有效的策略。基于Édouard Glissant的非殖民化关系哲学,以及最近关于性别和监视的理论,如Rachel Hall的“动物不透明”的概念,这篇文章认为诗歌是一个我们可以找到答案的地方,这个问题似乎是在技术介导的空战中看到与看不到人类的二元问题。我想说明的是,索尔马兹·谢里夫(Solmaz Sharif) 2016年出版的诗集《LOOK》(LOOK)暗示了一种行动主义,它引导读者远离承认的逻辑,转向隐藏的伦理潜力。LOOK从抒情和实验诗歌传统中获得正式元素,采用基于多重不透明的抵抗性策略。多个不透明度值。
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