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- The Value of the Future (Women’s Studies Quarterly, “Child”) May 22, 2015
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- Difference and Repetition (Video) November 6, 2014
- TSQ 1.3, Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary September 24, 2014
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TSQ 1.3, Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary
TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly continues its exciting project of creating a home for transgender studies with its second issue, Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary, edited by Aren Z. Aizura, Trystan Cotten, Carsten Balzer/Carla LaGata, Marcia Ochoa, and Salvador Vidal-Ortiz. I am so pleased to … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Kids, Youth, New Materialisms
Tagged Affect, Biopower, child, Children, Deleuze, Derrida, Digital, Foucault, Genealogy, Kids, Racialization, Sex, sexuality, Simondon, technology, transgender
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Discourse should not…? (We are all opérateurs)
Instead of adding directly (the Nietzsche titles on my bookshelf glare at me sternly–don’t be reactive!) to some of the heated recent blogging, tweeting, and other exhausting backs-and-forths over the power of words and the question of self-policing of language in feminist, queer, … Continue reading
The Human is Not a Prosthetic Being, III: Race is Technical
I have followed with interest, and write about in a forthcoming essay on race and technology in transgender studies, the Deleuzian project of the critical re-ontologization of race in the humanities, notably in Amit Rai’s wonderful formulation, “race racing.” But … Continue reading
Posted in (Post)Humanities
Tagged Affect, Afrofuturism, Bernard Stiegler, Beth Coleman, Deleuze, Derrida, Nancy, ontology, Posthumanism, Racialization, Simondon, technology, Wendy Chun
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Accelerating Childhood and the Value of the Future™
A mind is a terrible thing to waste. But a wonderful thing to invest in. This slogan greeted me the other day on a bus stop in Manhattan. “Better Futures™” is a simulated stock option that capitalizes quite literally on … Continue reading
Posted in Biopolitics, Children, Kids, Youth, New Materialisms, Ontologies of the Present
Tagged Accelerationism, Affect, Bataille, Bernard Stiegler, Biopower, Capital, Children, Deleuze, Derrida, Education, Foucault, Fredric Jameson, Future, Governance, Labor, Marx, Maurizio Lazzarato, Political Economy, Queer, Reproductive Futurism, Steven Shaviro, Youth
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We are Not Cyborg Subjects, We are Artisans
This post flows out of the wonderful time I had at SLSA13, particularly a book panel on Thomas LaMarre’s translation of Muriel Combe’s book, Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual (MIT 2012). The discussion we had with Steven Meyer, Hugh … Continue reading
