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Now in paperback! Showcases professional work in the arena of jazz theory. Among the contributors are scholars of jazz theory as well as musicians, including four of the founding members of the jazz section of the Society for Music Theory. The articles offer a close analysis of a wide variety of jazz styles and span the years from the 1920s to the 1960s. Feature articles include analyses of the music of Johnny Dodds, Charlie Parker, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane, an overview of jazz theory that examines its history and purpose, a discussion of linear intervallic patterns in the jazz repertory, and a review of scientific analyses of jazz microrhythms. Of great interest to jazz theorists, performers, educators and critics.
Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysis?
This groundbreaking collection of original essays reconsiders the
troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis,
assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic theory and
practice, as well as the value of psychoanalytic ideas for queer
theory. The contributors, each distinguished clinicians and
specialists, reexamine works by Freud, Klein, Reich, Lacan,
Laplanche, and their feminist and queer revisionists. Sharing a
commitment to conscious and unconscious forms of homosexual desire,
they offer new perspectives on pleasure, perversion, fetishism,
disgust, psychosis, homophobia, AIDS, otherness, and love.
Including two previously untranslated essays by Michel Foucault,
"Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis will interest cultural theorists,
psychoanalysts, and anyone concerned with the fate of sexuality in
our time.
Hatred of Sex links Jacques Ranciere's political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche's identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of human sexuality. Sex is hated as well as desired, Oliver Davis and Tim Dean contend, because sexual intensity impedes coherent selfhood and undermines identity, rendering us all a little more deplorable than we might wish. Davis and Dean explore the consequences of this conflicted dynamic across a range of fields and institutions, including queer studies, attachment theory, the #MeToo movement, and "traumatology," demonstrating how hatred of sex has been optimized and exploited by neoliberalism. Advancing strong claims about sex, pleasure, power, intersectionality, therapy, and governance, Davis and Dean shed new light on enduring questions of equality at a historical moment when democracy appears ever more precarious.
A Future for the Humanities: Praxis, Heteronomy, Invention brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines such as philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the pressing question of the future of the humanities. Whereas many recent works have addressed this question in primarily pragmatic terms, this book seeks to examine its conceptual foundations. What notions of futurity, of the human, and of finitude underlie recurring anxieties about the humanities' future in our current geopolitical situation? How can we think about the unpredictable and unthought dimensions of praxis implicit in the very notion of futurity? Although hailing from disparate disciplines and taking different angles on these questions, the essays we have assembled argue collectively that the uncertainty of the future represents both an opportunity for critical engagement and the very matrix for invention. Such a broadly conceived notion of invention, or cultural poiesis, questions the key assumptions and tasks of a whole range of practices in the humanities, beginning with critique, artistic practices, and intellectual inquiry, and ending with technology, emancipatory politics, and ethics. The essays in this volume discuss a wide range of key figures (e.g., Deleuze, Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Kristeva, Irigaray), problems (e.g., becoming; kinship and the foreign; "disposable populations" within a global political economy; queerness and the death drive; the parapoetic; electronic textuality; invention and accountability; political and social reform in Latin America), disciplines and methodologies (philosophy; art and art history; visuality; politicaltheory; criticism and critique; psychoanalysis; gender analysis; architecture; literature; art). This volume should be required reading for all who feel a deep commitment to the humanities, its practices, and its future. It will prove indispensable to a wide range of scholars, practitioners, and disciplines: philosophy, history, literature, political science, visual studies, art history, gender studies, film studies, psychoanalysis, poetics, architecture, technology studies, and art.
A Future for the Humanities: Praxis, Heteronomy, Invention brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines such as philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the pressing question of the future of the humanities. Whereas many recent works have addressed this question in primarily pragmatic terms, this book seeks to examine its conceptual foundations. What notions of futurity, of the human, and of finitude underlie recurring anxieties about the humanities' future in our current geopolitical situation? How can we think about the unpredictable and unthought dimensions of praxis implicit in the very notion of futurity? Although hailing from disparate disciplines and taking different angles on these questions, the essays we have assembled argue collectively that the uncertainty of the future represents both an opportunity for critical engagement and the very matrix for invention. Such a broadly conceived notion of invention, or cultural poiesis, questions the key assumptions and tasks of a whole range of practices in the humanities, beginning with critique, artistic practices, and intellectual inquiry, and ending with technology, emancipatory politics, and ethics. The essays in this volume discuss a wide range of key figures (e.g., Deleuze, Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Kristeva, Irigaray), problems (e.g., becoming; kinship and the foreign; "disposable populations" within a global political economy; queerness and the death drive; the parapoetic; electronic textuality; invention and accountability; political and social reform in Latin America), disciplines and methodologies (philosophy; art and art history; visuality; politicaltheory; criticism and critique; psychoanalysis; gender analysis; architecture; literature; art). This volume should be required reading for all who feel a deep commitment to the humanities, its practices, and its future. It will prove indispensable to a wide range of scholars, practitioners, and disciplines: philosophy, history, literature, political science, visual studies, art history, gender studies, film studies, psychoanalysis, poetics, architecture, technology studies, and art.
Barebacking--when gay men deliberately abandon condoms and embrace unprotected sex--has incited a great deal of shock, outrage, anger, and even disgust, but very little contemplation. Purposely flying in the face of decades of safe-sex campaigning and HIV/AIDS awareness initiatives, barebacking is unquestionably radical behavior, behavior that most people would rather condemn than understand. Thus the time is ripe for "Unlimited Intimacy," Tim Dean's riveting investigation into barebacking and the distinctive subculture that has grown around it. Audacious and undeniably provocative, Dean's profoundly reflective account is neither a manifesto nor an apology; instead, it is a searching analysis that tests the very limits of the study of sex in the twenty-first century. Dean's extensive research into the subculture provides a tour of the scene's bars, sex clubs, and Web sites; offers an explicit but sophisticated analysis of its pornography; and documents his own personal experiences in the culture. But ultimately, it is HIV that animates the controversy around barebacking, and "Unlimited Intimacy" explores how barebackers think about transmitting the virus--especially the idea that deliberately sharing it establishes a new network of kinship among the infected. According to Dean, intimacy makes us vulnerable, exposes us to emotional risk, and forces us to drop our psychological barriers. As a committed experiment in intimacy without limits--one that makes those metaphors of intimacy quite literal--barebacking thus says a great deal about how intimacy works. Written with a fierce intelligence and uncompromising nerve, "Unlimited Intimacy" will prove to be a milestone in our understanding of sexual behavior.
While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for
millennia, pornography--as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical
category--is a modern invention. The contributors to "Porn
Archives" explore how the production and proliferation of
pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the archive
as a conceptual and physical site for preserving, cataloguing, and
transmitting documents and artifacts. By segregating and regulating
access to sexually explicit material, archives have helped
constitute pornography as a distinct genre. As a result, porn has
become a site for the production of knowledge, as well as the
production of pleasure.
While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for
millennia, pornography--as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical
category--is a modern invention. The contributors to "Porn
Archives" explore how the production and proliferation of
pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the archive
as a conceptual and physical site for preserving, cataloguing, and
transmitting documents and artifacts. By segregating and regulating
access to sexually explicit material, archives have helped
constitute pornography as a distinct genre. As a result, porn has
become a site for the production of knowledge, as well as the
production of pleasure.
Marking the tenth anniversary of Tim Dean's Unlimited Intimacy, Raw returns to the question of sex without condoms, or barebacking, a timely topic in the age of PrEP, a drug that virtually eliminates the transmission of HIV. "Essential reading for anyone interested in the politics of sex, sexuality and sexual representation in the 21st century." -John Mercer, author of Gay Pornography "Finally, queer theory returns to a topic it has had surprisingly little to say about: sex! Underpinning these essays is a thrilling wager: that desire demands discourse but resists rationalization." -Damon R. Young, author of Making Sex Public and Other Cinematic Fantasies "A major contribution to research. It opens up the discourse on barebacking to a varity of perspectives and theoretical arguments, and makes clear that the topic remains relevant." -John Paul Ricco, author of The Decision Between Us "Raw provides an account of the state of queer-theoretical scholarship on bareback today, and makes a pluralising and distinctive contribution to that body of work, significantly broadening this field of scholarship." -Oliver Davis, editor of Bareback Sex and Queer Theory across Three National Contexts (France, UK, US) Contributors: Jonathan A. Allan (Brandon University), Tim Dean (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Elliot Evans (University of Birmingham), Christien Garcia (University of Cambridge), Octavio R. Gonzales (Wellesley College), Adam J. Greteman (School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Frank G. Karioris (University of Pittsburgh & American University of Central Asia), Gareth Longstaff (Newcastle University), Paul Morris (San Francisco), Susanna Paasonen (University of Turku), Diego Semerene (Oxford Brookes University), Evangelos Tziallas (Concordia University), Ricky Varghese (Toronto), Rinaldo Walcott (University of Toronto)
"Beyond Sexuality" points contemporary sexual politics in a
radically new direction. Combining a psychoanalytic emphasis on the
unconscious with a deep respect for the historical variability of
sexual identities, this original work of queer theory makes the
case for viewing erotic desire as fundamentally impersonal. Tim
Dean develops a reading of Jacques Lacan that--rather than
straightening out this notoriously difficult French
psychoanalyst--brings out the queer tensions and productive
incoherencies in his account of desire.
RAW addresses the question of sex without condoms, or barebacking, in the age of PrEP, a drug that virtually eliminates the transmission of HIV. Writing out of the history of the AIDS crisis, the authors in RAW expand the study of barebacking into new areas, such as its appearance within lesbian, heterosexual, and BDSM communities and its implications for teaching critical sexology.
"Beyond Sexuality" points contemporary sexual politics in a
radically new direction. Combining a psychoanalytic emphasis on the
unconscious with a deep respect for the historical variability of
sexual identities, this original work of queer theory makes the
case for viewing erotic desire as fundamentally impersonal. Tim
Dean develops a reading of Jacques Lacan that--rather than
straightening out this notoriously difficult French
psychoanalyst--brings out the queer tensions and productive
incoherencies in his account of desire.
Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysis?
This groundbreaking collection of original essays reconsiders the
troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis,
assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic theory and
practice, as well as the value of psychoanalytic ideas for queer
theory. The contributors, each distinguished clinicians and
specialists, reexamine works by Freud, Klein, Reich, Lacan,
Laplanche, and their feminist and queer revisionists. Sharing a
commitment to conscious and unconscious forms of homosexual desire,
they offer new perspectives on pleasure, perversion, fetishism,
disgust, psychosis, homophobia, AIDS, otherness, and love.
Including two previously untranslated essays by Michel Foucault,
"Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis will interest cultural theorists,
psychoanalysts, and anyone concerned with the fate of sexuality in
our time.
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