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This collection of essays explores the interfaces between new
information technologies and their impact on contemporary culture,
and recent transformations in capitalist production. From a
transnational frame, the essays investigate some of the key facets
of contemporary global capitalism: the ascendance of finance
capital, and the increasing importance of immaterial labor
(understood here as a post-Fordist notion of work that privileges
the art of communication, affect, and virtuosity). The contributors
address these transformation by exploring their relation to new
digital media (YouTube, MySpace, digital image and video
technology, information networks, etc.) and various cultural forms
including the Hispanic television talk show, indigenous video
production, documentary film in Southern California, the Latin
American stock market, German security surveillance, transnational
videoconferencing, and Japanese tourists? use of visual images on
cell phones. The authors argue that the seemingly radical newness
and alleged immateriality of contemporary speculative capitalism,
turns out to be less dramatically new and more grounded in
colonial/racial histories of both material and immaterial
exploitation than one might at first imagine. Similarly, human
interaction with digital media and virtuality, ostensibly a double
marker for the contemporary and economically privileged subject, in
fact reveals itself in many cases as transgressive of racial,
economic and historical categories.
This collection of essays explores the interfaces between new
information technologies and their impact on contemporary culture,
and recent transformations in capitalist production. From a
transnational frame, the essays investigate some of the key facets
of contemporary global capitalism: the ascendance of finance
capital, and the increasing importance of immaterial labor
(understood here as a post-Fordist notion of work that privileges
the art of communication, affect, and virtuosity). The contributors
address these transformation by exploring their relation to new
digital media (YouTube, MySpace, digital image and video
technology, information networks, etc.) and various cultural forms
including the Hispanic television talk show, indigenous video
production, documentary film in Southern California, the Latin
American stock market, German security surveillance, transnational
videoconferencing, and Japanese tourists' use of visual images on
cell phones. The authors argue that the seemingly radical newness
and alleged immateriality of contemporary speculative capitalism,
turns out to be less dramatically new and more grounded in
colonial/racial histories of both material and immaterial
exploitation than one might at first imagine. Similarly, human
interaction with digital media and virtuality, ostensibly a double
marker for the contemporary and economically privileged subject, in
fact reveals itself in many cases as transgressive of racial,
economic and historical categories.
The Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as
an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory
mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change.
The book's contributors offer new theorizations of human and
nonhuman embodiments and their complex evolutions in our global
present, in essays that explore how disability might be imagined as
participant in the ""complex elaboration of difference,"" rather
than something gone awry in an otherwise stable process. This
alternative approach to materiality sheds new light on the
capacities that exist within the depictions of disability that the
book examines, including Spider-Man, Of Mice and Men, and
Bloodchild.
The Matter of Disability returns disability to its proper place as
an ongoing historical process of corporeal, cognitive, and sensory
mutation operating in a world of dynamic, even cataclysmic, change.
The book's contributors offer new theorizations of human and
nonhuman embodiments and their complex evolutions in our global
present, in essays that explore how disability might be imagined as
participant in the "complex elaboration of difference," rather than
something gone awry in an otherwise stable process. This
alternative approach to materiality sheds new light on the
capacities that exist within the depictions of disability that the
book examines, including Spider-Man, Of Mice and Men, and
Bloodchild.
Embodied Archive focuses on perceptions of disability and racial
difference in Mexico's early post-revolutionary period, from the
1920s to the 1940s. In this period, Mexican state-sponsored
institutions charged with the education and health of the
population sought to strengthen and improve the future of the
nation, and to forge a more racially homogeneous sense of
collective identity and history. Influenced by regional and global
movements in eugenics and hygiene, Mexican educators, writers,
physicians, and statesmen argued for the widespread physical and
cognitive testing and categorization of schoolchildren, so as to
produce an accurate and complete picture of "the Mexican child,"
and to carefully monitor and control forms of unwanted difference,
including disability and racialized characteristics. Differences
were not generally marked for eradication-as would be the case in
eugenics movements in the US, Canada, and parts of Europe-but
instead represented possible influences from a historically distant
or immediate reproductive past, or served as warnings of potential
danger haunting individual or collective futures. Weaving between
the historical context of Mexico's post-revolutionary period and
our present-day world, Embodied Archive approaches literary and
archival documents that include anti-alcohol and hygiene campaigns;
projects in school architecture and psychopedagogy; biotypological
studies of urban schoolchildren and indigenous populations; and
literary approaches to futuristic utopias or violent pasts. It
focuses in particular on the way disability is represented
indirectly through factors that may have caused it in the past or
may cause it in the future, or through perceptions and measurements
that cannot fully capture it. In engaging with these narratives,
the book proposes an archival encounter, a witnessing of past
injustices and their implications for the disability of our present
and future.
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