The contributors to this ambitious and wide-ranging collection explore sound as an object, sound studies as a discipline, and the limits of sonic objectivity.
This follow-up volume to our book The Age of the World Target collects interconnected entangled essays of literary and cultural theorist Rey Chow. The essays take up ideas of violence, capture, identification, temporality, sacrifice, and victimhood, engaging with theorists from Derrida and Deleuze to Agamben and Rancière.
This follow-up volume to our book The Age of the World Target collects interconnected entangled essays of literary and cultural theorist Rey Chow. The essays take up ideas of violence, capture, identification, temporality, sacrifice, and victimhood, engaging with theorists from Derrida and Deleuze to Agamben and Rancière.
Contributions by Pamela McCallum, Wendy Faith, Rey Chow, Rob Cover, Monika Fludernik, Revathi Krishnaswamy, Vijay Mishra, Kalpana Sheshadri-Crooks, Mary Lawlor, Bill Ashcroft, Victor Li, and Wang Ning
Edited by Pamela McCallum, and Wendy Faith
Price:
CA$34.95
ISBN: 9781552380888
Pub Date: March 2006
Imprint: University of Calgary Press
During the past two decades, postcolonial studies has proven to be one of the fastest growing fields of critical inquiry. Postcolonialism has established itself as an important specialist field within...
"Methodologically situated in the contentious spaces between critical theory and cultural studies, and always attending to the implications of ethnicity, this book constitutes a unique intervention...
Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work
by Rey Chow
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CA$61.98CA$123.95
ISBN: 9780822337324
Pub Date: April 2006
Imprint: Duke University Press
Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of atomic bombs, become a world target, to be attacked once...
Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work
by Rey Chow
Price:
CA$16.48CA$32.95
ISBN: 9780822337447
Pub Date: April 2006
Imprint: Duke University Press
Martin Heidegger once wrote that the world had, in the age of modern science, become a world picture. For Rey Chow, the world has, in the age of atomic bombs, become a world target, to be attacked once...
These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field...
These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field...
Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies
by Rey Chow
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780253207852
Pub Date: June 1993
" . . . this is no doctrinaire tract but rather a concerted attempt to look at important cultural problems from a fresh perspective. . . . Chow's book is an excellent example of its type."?Discourse...
Sound has given rise to many rich theoretical reflections, but when compared to the study of images, the study of sound continues to be marginalized. How is the "sense" of sound constituted and elaborated...
