Imre Szeman - A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory

Edited by Imre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, and Justin Sully

This edition first published 2017
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Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Szeman, Imre, 1968 editor. | Blacker, Sarah, 1981 editor. | Sully, Justin, 1979 editor.
Title: A companion to critical and cultural theory / edited by Imre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, Justin Sully.
Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017002365 (print) | LCCN 2017019743 (ebook) | ISBN 9781118472293 (pdf) | ISBN 9781118472309 (epub) | ISBN 9781118472316 (cloth)
Subjects: LCSH: Criticism. | CulturePhilosophy.
Classification: LCC PN81 (ebook) | LCC PN81 .C7435 2017 (print) | DDC 801/.95dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017002365

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Sarah Blacker is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin. Her research uses cultural analysis, historical, and ethnographic methods to explore the politics of race and ethnicity in public health and genomics.

Sarah Brophy is Professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University. She has contributed to journals such as a/b: Auto/Biography Studies, Contemporary Women's Writing, Interventions, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, and PMLA. She is the author of Witnessing AIDS: Writing, Testimony, and the Work of Mourning (2004), and, with Janice Hladki, coeditor of Embodied Politics in Visual Autobiography (2014).

Sarah Brouillette is Professor in the Department of English at Carleton University, where she teaches contemporary literature alongside topics in cultural theory and social and political thought. She is the author of Postcolonial Writers in the Global Literary Marketplace (2007) and Literature and the Creative Economy (2014).

William Callison is a PhD candidate in political science with designated emphasis in critical theory at the University of California, Berkeley. He is special issue editor of Rethinking Sovereignty and Capitalism in the journal Qui Parle, coeditor of Europe at a Crossroads on the website Near Futures Online, and coeditor of a forthcoming collected volume on neoliberalism and biopolitics.

Marija Cetini is Assistant Professor in the Department of English at York University. Her dissertation was a comparative study of sadness as a characteristic mood in recent American and Southeast European fiction. Signs of Autumn: The Aesthetics of Saturation, her current project, focuses on the concept of saturation, and on developing its implications for the relation of contemporary art and aesthetics to political economy.

Wendy Hui Kyong Chun is Professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006), Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011), and Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016). She is working on a monograph entitled Discriminating Data: Neighborhoods, Proxies, Individuals.

Jeff Diamanti is a Postdoctoral Fellow at Media@McGill at McGill University, and is the coeditor of Contemporary Marxist Theory as well as the forthcoming collections on Materialism and the Critique of Energy (MCM Prime Press), The Bloomsbury Companion to Marx, and a special double issue of Resilience on Climate Realism.

Veit Erlmann is an anthropologist/ethnomusicologist and the Endowed Chair of Music History at the University of Texas at Austin. He has published widely on music and popular culture in South Africa, including African Stars: Studies in Black South African Performance; Nightsong: Performance, Power and Practice in South Africa; and Music, Modernity and the Global Imagination: South Africa and the West. His most recent publication is Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality (2010). Currently he is working on a book on intellectual property law in the South African music industry.

Ghassan Hage is Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne. His recent books are