Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory最新文献

{"title":"14Science and Medicine","authors":"Kathleen Tamayo Alves, Danielle Spratt","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbad017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbad017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This year’s review highlights scholarship in the history of science and medicine that rejects easy teleologies of scientific progress and overturns tidy, nationally oriented historical accounts of biomedical practice. Here, we recognize four studies that serve as models in cutting-edge, decolonial scholarship in the field. These works acknowledge the contingent and socially constructed nature of both science and medicine and center long-understudied healers, patients, and communities who have traditionally existed outside of normative Western archives and the historical record. In section 1, ‘The Politics of Plague in the Invisible Commonwealth’, Cindy Ermus’s monograph explores the impact of a fairly contained, regional plague event in Provence, which catalysed a series of increasingly centralized disaster and public health management measures that emerged across the West and the colonies. Section 2, ‘Interspecies Contact Zones and American Xenophobia’, considers Jeannie N. Shinozuka’s research on the racist parallels that American culture drew between Asian plant and insect migration and anti-Asian policies and practices across the twentieth century. Section 3, ‘Transhistorical and Transborder Healers’, studies Diego Armus and Pablo F. Gómez’s edited collection on traditional and Indigenous healers and patients across Latin America from the seventeenth century to the present, and the fluid and complex boundaries between their practices and those of Western and imperial medicine. Finally, section 4, ‘Imagining and Enforcing the Boundaries of Gender’, resituates such medical boundaries to the site of the clinic, following Sandra Eder’s account of the highly contingent and artificial construction of gender and gender normativity that emerged across the twentieth century. These studies, to use the words of Diego Armus and Pablo F. Gómez, exemplify an understanding of the ways that categories like medicine, health, illness, disaster, and indeed identity itself ‘have not only a biological dimension but also social, cultural, political, and economic connotations’ that are ‘historically located processes whose seeming social and cultural dominance was never preordained or inevitable’ (Armus and Gómez, p. 6). Tellingly, each of these studies connects transborder and transhistorical incidents and events—some largely known, others newly revealed—to our contemporary moment, demonstrating how the urgent crises, fiery debates, and institutional pressures that preoccupied individuals and whole nations in both the recent and distant past continue to shape the demands of our present and future.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136107106","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}

{"title":"16Theory on Theory","authors":"Nicholas Carr","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbad018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbad018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Taking up what was foreshadowed in last year’s instalment of ‘Theory on Theory’, this chapter takes as its theme the evident and disturbing trend within our field to forget, if not actively attempt to erase, Marxist and dialectical thought. The first section notices this tendency in the course of its wider review of a major new reference work, the Oxford Encyclopedia of Literary Theory. The second section notices another manifestation of the tendency in the course of reviewing a significant new work of metatheoretical reflection and critique, Elizabeth Anker’s On Paradox. In the third and final section, a cluster of works are reviewed that show the range and ongoing vitality of dialectical thought.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136136967","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}

{"title":"3Digital Humanities","authors":"Dibyadyuti Roy, Aditya Deshbandhu","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbad015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbad015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The absence of an entry on digital humanities in the last volume of The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory due to the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the exacerbation of academic precarity (that was acknowledged in the editorial preface of the last volume) predicates that this chapter develop a narrative bibliography of notable scholarship in the digital humanities from both 2021 and 2022. Therefore the unprecedented circumstances that have extended the scope of scholarly review for this chapter beyond a single chronological year also provide the unique opportunity to not only ‘trace and expand upon currents in critical and cultural theory, and to engage in [the] areas’ key debates’ (Quinn and Ghosh, ‘Preface’ to YWCCT 2022) but also (and more importantly, one might argue) understand some of the radical thematic transformations brought about and anticipated by the legacies, presents, and futures of digital humanities within the supposedly ‘new normal’ of a post-Covid world. Through consolidating diverse conversations from varied contexts that are shaping contemporary digital humanities and in anticipating the futures of the discipline, this chapter locates scholarship in the digital humanities and related fields from the years 2021 and 2022 within the interconnected themes of resistive ontologies, organizations, and new directions in the digital humanities. While the focus remains on the scholarship produced within the aforesaid chronological period, our methodological attempt in this intervention has been to acknowledge and put into dialogue relevant contributions related to the three primary themes of analysis that may fall beyond the ambit of a specific period.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"215 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136065091","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}

{"title":"Disability Studies","authors":"Amanda Dilodovico","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbad014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbad014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This review of disability studies literature published in 2022 examines the field’s current investment in points of departure from ableist and neurotypical access to communication, work, and care. Such topics have been central to practices and theoretical concepts within disability justice movements, the neurodiversity movement, and the space of disability studies scholarship for at least the past fifteen years. While the literature surveyed in this review builds on that corpus, it is also imbued, whether explicitly or implicitly, with the continuing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, the rhetorical impacts of the 2020 US presidential election and the responses or lack thereof to the longstanding accessibility needs of disabled and neurodivergent populations illuminated through global lockdowns. The review considers Akemi Nishida’s Just Care: Messy Entanglements of Disability, Dependency and Desire, Joshua St. Pierre’s Cheap Talk: Disability and the Politics of Communication, and the spring 2022 special issue on ‘Sex Work and Disability’ from Disability Studies Quarterly.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135656307","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}

{"title":"Affect Theory: Digitality, Affect, Labour","authors":"R. Jones","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbad012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbad012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This chapter reviews a range of scholarship working at the intersection of theories of digitality, affect, and labour published in 2022 under the following headings: 1. Introduction; 2. Work (Daniel Nehring and Kristina Brunila, Affective Capitalism in Academia: Revealing Public Secrets; Anna Deumert, ‘Wash Your Hands! Domestic Labor and the Affective Economy of Racial Capitalism’; Carlo Perrotta, Neil Selwyn, and Carrie Ewin, ‘Artificial Intelligence and the Affective Labour of Understanding: The Intimate Moderation of a Language Model’); 3. Play (Aleena Chia, ‘The Artist and the Automaton in Digital Game Production’; Stephanie Jennings, ‘Only You Can Save the World (of Videogames): Authoritarian Agencies in the Heroism of Videogame Design, Play, and Culture’; Paolo Ruffino, ‘There Is No Cure: Paratexts as Remediations of Agency in Red Dead Redemption 2’); 4. Queer Affects (Jacob Gaboury, ‘Queer Affects at the Origins of Computation’; Bo Ruberg, ‘After Agency: The Queer Posthumanism of Video Games That Cannot Be Played’; Charnell Peters, ‘Asexuality, Affect Aliens, and Digital Affect Cultures: Relationality with the Happy Objects of Sexual and Romantic Relationships’); 5. Conclusion.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82298884","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}

{"title":"5Ecocriticism","authors":"John Charles Ryan","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbad008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbad008","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This review of ecocritical publications in 2022 is divided into six sections: 1. Introduction: Ecocriticism in the Anthropocene; 2. Eco-modernism: The Environmental Turn in Modernist Studies; 3. Climate Criticism: Narratives of Vulnerability; 4. Cryocriticism: Biographies of Ice; 5. More-than-Human Ecocriticism: The Heterogeneities of Nature; 6. Conclusion: Ecocriticism and Transformation.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134891944","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}

{"title":"New Materialisms","authors":"Colleen Taylor","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbad009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbad009","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The works reviewed in this year’s essay on New Materialisms raise queries about first-wave New Materialism and signal what some critics refer to as second-phase Neo-materialism. The ‘Neo’ or New Materialisms of 2022 increasingly commingle the rhetorical and the material and address the Western-centric focus of previous New Materialisms. The works reviewed here, including Rosi Braidotti’s ‘The Virtual as Affirmative Praxis: A Neo-Materialist Approach’, Anne Elvey’s Reading with Earth: Contributions of the New Materialism to an Ecological Feminist Hermeneutics, Nina Lykke’s Vibrant Death: A Posthuman Phenomenology of Mourning, and Clayton Crockett’s Energy and Change a New Materialist Cosmotheology, engage new intersections between New Materialist theory and decoloniality, making deliberate gestures to integrate the idea of vibrant materiality and Indigenous cultures. This review essay is divided into five parts: 1. Introduction; 2. Neo-Materialism; 3. Literary Studies; 4. Theology; 5. Postcolonialism/Decoloniality. The essay concludes that New Materialism may indeed be on the brink of a second phase, especially if decolonial New Materialism continues to be explored.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80245145","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}

{"title":"Poetics","authors":"Jessica MacEachern","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbad006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbad006","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This chapter begins with an overview of 2022’s monumental place in the study of poetics, as marked by the centenary anniversary of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land and the publication of Dionne Brand’s Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems. From the retrospective celebration of literary modernism and the projective appraisal of new diasporic writing, this review then goes on to examine several new works in the field of poetics, including one journal article and five books. These works are investigated according to four major topics: 1. The Poetics of Inconvenience; 2. World-Building Poetics; 3. The Poetics of Articulation; and 4. Typewriter Poetics; before 5. Ending with a Joke. The case studies of the year’s work in poetics are wide in their array, such that they include modernist sound writing, suicidal ideations in film and literature, and digital trans of color bioart. Ultimately, however, these works are united by one tendency, which is to extend the field of poetics across populations, nations, and disciplines. What these works do is ‘loosen’ the concept of poetics: ‘to make it available to transition’ (Berlant, On the Inconvenience of Other People, p. 12), in order ‘to provide dimension, texture, and resonance for emergent and ongoing’ (p. 13) forms in the field.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82408415","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}

{"title":"Posthumanism","authors":"P. Nayar","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbad005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbad005","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Varieties of posthumanism in literature and popular culture received sustained attention, as expected, in 2022. Human–nonhuman relationships, whether in terms of the human–animal or human–artificial-being relationship; issues of care for/of the nonhuman; theological debates around posthumanism, especially with regard to rituals, practices of belief, and the ‘digital afterlife’; and the different genealogies of the posthuman, were themes that informed a large number of essays and books. This chapter aims for a comprehensive survey of the year’s work and is organized around six sections that seek to summarize the major contributions to work in posthumanism: 1. Theorizing Posthumanism; 2. Literary Posthumanisms; 3. Popular Posthumanisms; 4. Posthumanism and the Disciplines; 5. The Nonhuman; and 6. Posthumanism after the Pandemic.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82364632","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}

{"title":"Film Theory","authors":"Dominic Lash","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbad004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbad004","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This chapter discusses three notable books concerning film theory that were published in 2022 which are particularly significant in what they reveal about the current understanding of form within the discipline. The chapter is divided into four sections: 1. Kyle Stevens (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory; 2. Eugenie Brinkema, Life-Destroying Diagrams; 3. Jordan Schonig, The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement. 4. Conclusion.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87903078","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}