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

{"title":"6Queer Theory: Queer Children and Childhoods","authors":"Jennifer L. Miller","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbaa016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbaa016","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 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.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79382613","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":"5Digital Humanities","authors":"Kathryn Eccles","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbaa014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbaa014","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 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.\u0000 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","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"72 2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90955065","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":"20Economic Criticism","authors":"Nick Valvo","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbaa019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbaa019","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74336853","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":"Animal Studies","authors":"Richard Iveson","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbaa020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbaa020","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76344669","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":"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}

{"title":"16Feminisms","authors":"Anna Watz","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbaa012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbaa012","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 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.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78174539","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":"9Theory on Theory","authors":"J. Ng","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbaa021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbaa021","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 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.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81709171","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":"13Postcolonial Theory—New Directions?","authors":"E. Knudsen, Ulla Rahbek","doi":"10.1093/ywcct/mbaa001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbaa001","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 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.","PeriodicalId":35040,"journal":{"name":"Year''s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82598658","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":"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}

{"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}