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
Francois, 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
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