The Politics of Citation

IF 0.2 4区文学 0 LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM

DIACRITICS-A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM Pub Date : 2021-10-19 DOI:10.1353/dia.2020.0016

Annabel L. Kim

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Abstract:Citation is at the heart of the academic enterprise as what enables us to interface with others and take our place in a delicate and complicated ecology of knowledge production. It is intimately bound up with the treatment of ideas as property, with the dynamic of exchange turning that property into capital, into a vector for intellectual value. This intellectual economy, which citation upholds and founds, has its politics—a politics that is most often submerged, obscured by the reproductive quality of citation, which compels individuals to reproduce a certain set of citations, a certain model of reference, in order to be allowed to pass through the gates of intellectual legitimacy and be recognized in turn as someone who is citable. Citation incites citation, which incites citation, which incites citation. The politics of citation, if it is to be discerned, requires the suspension of this reproductive citational incitation so that the structures of citation might be examined and critiqued: citation must be turned away from its usual function as a practice to serve instead as the object of inquiry.

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引文政治

摘要:引文是学术事业的核心，它使我们能够与他人交流，并在一个微妙而复杂的知识生产生态中占有一席之地。它与把思想当作财产的处理方式密切相关，与把财产变成资本、变成智力价值载体的交换动态密切相关。这种由引文支撑和建立的知识经济有其政治——这种政治通常被淹没，被引文的繁殖质量所掩盖，它迫使个人复制一组特定的引文，一种特定的参考模式，以便被允许通过智力合法性的大门，并反过来被认可为可被引用的人。引用再被引用，再被引用，再被引用。引用的政治，如果要辨别的话，需要暂停这种再生性的引用煽动，以便对引用的结构进行检查和批评:引用必须从其通常作为一种实践的功能转向作为调查的对象。

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期刊介绍： For over thirty years, diacritics has been an exceptional and influential forum for scholars writing on the problems of literary criticism. Each issue features articles in which contributors compare and analyze books on particular theoretical works and develop their own positions on the theses, methods, and theoretical implications of those works.