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- Growing Up Trans, in the 1960s August 11, 2015
- The Value of the Future (Women’s Studies Quarterly, “Child”) May 22, 2015
- Book Review: Testo Junkie (Beatriz Preciado) December 2, 2014
- Difference and Repetition (Video) November 6, 2014
- TSQ 1.3, Decolonizing the Transgender Imaginary September 24, 2014
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Tag Archives: Labor
Human Capital, Organic Capital, and the (Labor) Economy of Human Beings as a Race
We are accustomed to thinking of the concept of “human capital” as a product of the conditions of neoliberal labor, or the reinvestment of the economic thinking of neoliberal economists by the state and private sector since the 1970s. As I … Continue reading
Posted in Biopolitics, New Materialisms, Ontologies of the Present
Tagged Austria, Biopower, Charles Darwin, Children, Education, Eugenics, Foucault, Gary Becker, Genealogy, Governance, Human Capital, Jacob Mincer, Karl Marx, Kids, Labor, Labor theory of value, Organic Capital, Pedagogy, Political Economy, race, Racialization, Rudolf Goldscheid, Social democrats
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Race, Education and Prison: Nostalgia and Genealogy 60 Years after Brown v Board
This past week marked the 60th anniversary of Brown v Board of Education (1954) and the date was met with decidedly mixed feelings in the media sphere. In his presidential proclamation commemorating the decision, Barack Obama emphasizes that “we have confined … Continue reading
Posted in American Studies, Children, Kids, Youth
Tagged blackness, Brown v Board of Education, child, Children, criminality, Education, G. Stanley Hall, Genealogy, Governance, Jacob Riis, Jane Addams, John Dewey, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Kids, Labor, Neoliberalism, Pedagogy, prison, Progressive Era, race, Racialization, School segregation, School to prison pipeline, schools, sociology, Youth
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The Value of the Future III: Foucault and the Child as Human Capital
In The Birth of Biopolitics Foucault turns to the child and childhood as his exemplar in diagramming the specific features of American neoliberalism. What distinguishes American neoliberalism, according to Foucault, is its theory of human capital, a theory which permits “the … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Kids, Youth
Tagged Affect, Biopower, Children, Digital, Education, Foucault, Kids, Labor, Pedagogy, Political Economy, technology
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The Value of the Future (II): Materialism and the Child in Queer Theory
Is queer theory undergoing a materialist turn? For a field born in many ways out of literary studies, textual deconstruction, and epistemological interrogation, questions of materialism, labor and capital accumulation have understandably had a difficult time getting sustained attention. So … Continue reading
Posted in Biopolitics, Children, Kids, Youth, New Materialisms
Tagged Affect, Annie, Anti-Social, Biopower, Children, Deleuze, Digital, Education, Foucault, Future, Governance, Jasbir Puar, Kathryn Bond Stockton, Kids, Labor, Lacan, Lauren Berlant, Lee Edelman, Materialism, materiality, Mel Chen, Negativity, No Future, Political Economy, Queer, Racialization, Rebekah Sheldon, Reproductive Futurism, technology, Twitter, Youth
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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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The Child’s Simulation of Labor: Some Notes on Master Chef Junior
The collapse of the distinction between work and play is one of the hallmark symptoms of contemporary modes of existence under financial capitalism and their attendant labor-forms, mutating especially the relation of cultural production to classically defined forms of wage … Continue reading
Posted in American Studies, Children, Kids, Youth, Digital and New Media
Tagged Affect, Anxiety, Children, feeling, Kids, Labor, Master Chef Junior, Political Economy
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Transduction and Interdisciplinarity, or Why There Can Be No Methodology
Some words you read, find alluring for the ineffable hint of what they might be able to do for you well beyond what they signify or how you understand them to mean at all. There are a host of key … Continue reading
Posted in (Post)Humanities, American Studies, Children, Kids, Youth, Graduate School
Tagged Affect, Biopower, Children, Deleuze, Dissertation, Graduate School, Labor, Methodology, Queer, Reading
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WGS Talk, Rutgers-Newark: “Growing Up in the Societies of Control”
Here is the text version of a talk given on March 28 as part of a Brown Bag lunch series put on by the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at Rutgers-Newark. It is an excerpt from a larger project provisionally … Continue reading
Posted in Graduate School
Tagged Affect, Biopower, Deleuze, Digital, Education, Foucault, Governance, Labor, Pedagogy, Political Economy, Posthumanism
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