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Glacial Time and Lonely Crowds: The Social Effects of Climate Change as Internet Spectacle
No full textThis paper is part of my larger project to underscore the significance of critical theories of mass society for the environmental humanities. I offer a reading of James Balog’s Extreme Ice Survey (EIS), in particular the time-lapse films of glaciers receding, which I argue present a unique example of what Guy Debord calls the ”tautological” nature of spectacle, its capacity to serve as its own evidence at the same time as it becomes a mode of relation among people. My questions concern the political potential of the EIS. As the effect of the real created by time-lapse technology locates itself in the optimistic promise of Internet community, what kind of collective relation is produced? My key interlocutors are Timothy Morton, who claims that ecological thinking effects a loss of authentic world, and Jonathan Crary, who argues that late capitalism robs us of shared time, thus precluding the possibility of organized resistance. I argue that, despite the unprecedented challenges faced by the ”we” that Balog’s project calls to action, the form of sociality produced by the technologies on which the EIS relies has its own political potential
"This is the only time to come together": June Jordan’s publics and the possibility of democracy
No full textIntroduction: "Olive and Us: Notes for an Empire of Barbarians"
Margret Grebowicz and Valerie Kinloch
Part I: Individual and National Identity in a (Not So) Democratic State Poem: "Case in Point" by June Jordan "This is the only time to come together": June Jordan's Publics and the Possibility of Democracy
Nicky Marsh
Exposing the Lie of Neutrality: June Jordan's Affirmative Acts
Christina Accomando
Narrating Nation: Exploring the Space of Americaness and the Place of African American Women through the Works of June Jordan
Ramona Coleman
Part II: Who Says It's Not a Language? Black English in Theory and Practice Poem: "What Would I Do White?" by June Jordan Black English as a Linguistic System: A Statement about Our Rights
Valerie Kinloch
Telling Her Own Truth: June Jordan, Standard English, and the Epistemology of Ignorance
Nancy McHugh
Notes Toward a Multicultural Writing Center: The Problems of Language in a Democratic State
Ann E. Green
Section III. Radicalizing Children's Lives and Literatures Poem: "One Minus One Minus One" by June Jordan "Affirmative Acts": Language, Childhood, and Power in June Jordan's Cross-Writing
Richard Flynn
Taking Children Seriously: June Jordan's Contribution to African American Children's Literature
KaaVonia Hinton-Johnson
Beyond "Orientation": On Sex, Poetry, and the Violability of Children
Margret Grebowicz
Section IV. The Art of Resistance, or Poetics Politicized Poem: "Calling on All Silent Minorities" by June Jordan Performing "Righteous Certainty": The Shifting Poetic Address of June Jordan's War Resistance Poetry
Philip Metres
June Jordan's Radical Pedagogy: Activist Poetry in Public Education
Kirsten Bartholomew Ortega
Finding a Democratic Speech: The Intercultural Poetics and Pedagogy of June Jordan's Poetry for the People
Jonathan Stalling
Section V: Writers Reflect Poem: "War and Memory" by June Jordan Writing War, Writing Memory
Jane Creighton
Words & Roses
Rafael Jesús González
June, with love
Laura Flanders
A Colored Democracy: "Cultural Exchange" Revisited
Valerie Kinloch
Directed by Desire
Sara Mile
Consensus, Dissensus, and Democracy: What is at Stake in Feminist Science Studies?
Get PDFIf feminists argue for the irreducibility of the social dimensions of science, then they ought to embrace the idea that feminist and non-feminist scientists are not in collaboration, but in fact defend different interests. Instead, however, contemporary feminist science studies literature argues that feminist research improves particular, existing scientific enterprises, both epistemically (truer claims) and politically (more democratic methodologies and applications). I argue that the concepts of empirical success and democracy at work in this literature from Longino (1994) and Harding (1996), to Longino (2002), Gilbert and Rader (2001), and Keller (2001) are not sufficiently critical, and fail to do justice to the truly revolutionary work done by feminist scientists. I offer the beginnings of an epistemology of dissensus (as opposed to consensus), using the work of Haraway (1978), Lyotard (1984), and Ziarek (2001). How would such an epistemology relate to feminist discussions of the possibility of democratic, responsible knowledge
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