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Where can theory go now? Where other voices concern themselves with theory's life or death, the contributors to Theory Aside take up another possibility: that our theoretical prospects are better served worrying less about "what’s next?" and more about "what else?" Instead of looking for the next big thing, the fourteen prominent thinkers in this volume take up lines of thought lost or overlooked during theory's canonization. They demonstrate that intellectual progress need not depend on the discovery of a new theorist or theory. Moving subtly through a diverse range of thinkers and topics-aesthetics, affect, animation and film studies, bibliography, cognitive science, globalization, phenomenology, poetics, political and postcolonial theory, race and identity, queer theory, and sociological reading practices-the contributors show that a more sustained, less apocalyptic attention to ideas might lead to a richer discussion of our intellectual landscapes and the place of the humanities and social sciences in it. In their turn away from the radically new, these essays reveal that what’s fallen aside still surprises. Contributors. Ian Balfour, Karen Beckman, Pheng Cheah, Frances Ferguson, William Flesch, Anne-Lise FranÇois, Mark B. N. Hansen, Simon Jarvis, Heather Love, Natalie Melas, Jason Potts, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jordan Alexander Stein, Daniel Stout, Irene Tucker

Table of Contents:
Introduction. On the Side: Allocations of Attention in the Theoretical Moment / Jason Potts and Daniel Stout 1 Part I. Chronologies Aside 1. Writing the History of Homophobia / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 29 2. Late Exercises in Minimal Affirmatives / Anne-Lise Francois 34 3. Comparative Noncontemporaneities: C. L. R. James and Ernst Block / Natalie Melas 56 4. On Suicide, and Other Forms of Social Extinguishment / Elizabeth A. Povinelli 78 Part II. Approaches Aside 5. What Is Historical Poetics? / Simon Jarvis 97 6. The Biopolitics of Recognition: Making Female Subjects of Globalization / Pheng Cheah 117 7. Before Racial Construction / Irene Tucker 143 8. Archive Favor: African American Literature before and after Theory / Jordan Alexander Stein 160 9. What Cinema Wasn't: Animating Film Theory's Double Blind Spot / Karen Beckman 177 Part III. Figures Aside 10. Hyperbolic Discounting and Intertemporal Bargaining / William Flesch 199 11. The Primacy of Sensation: Psychophysics, Phenomenology, Whitehead / Mark B. N. Hansen 218 12. Reading the Social: Erving Goffman and Sexuality Studies / Heather Love 237 13. 13. Our I. A. Richards Moment: The Machine and Its Adjustments / Frances Ferguson 261 14. Needing to Know (:) Theory Afterwords / Ian Balfour 280 Bibliography 287 Contributors 299 Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780822356813
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0822356813
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jun 2014
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Weight: 494 gr


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