This article examines the cultural history of amputation in the United States to account for the status of white male woundedness and abstract citizenship in our current neoliberal era. Using critical disability theory to reconsider Michel Foucault’s notion of … Continue reading “The Sovereignty of Subtraction: Hypo/Hyperhabilitation and the Cultural Politics of Amputation in America”
Issue: Issue 123 Summer 2015
The Biopolitics of Race in Futureland
Madhu DubeyThis article examines the political implications of the resurgence of biological concepts of race at the turn of the twenty-first century, especially as these are viewed through the prism of science fiction. Current racial science purportedly recognizes racial difference … Continue reading “The Biopolitics of Race in Futureland”
Duty-Free in the DMZ? Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, the Heyri Art Valley, and Peace Tourism
shameem blackThis article examines how twenty-first-century Anglophone digital art, arts marketing, and tourist discourse in South Korea address the problem of reconciliation after mass violence. At the turn of the new millennium, the arts have been enlisted by governments and … Continue reading “Duty-Free in the DMZ? Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries, the Heyri Art Valley, and Peace Tourism”
The Architectures of Latino Sexuality
Richard T. RodríguezThis article examines Latino male homosexual practices emerging in Chicago’s presumably impermeable neighborhoods. Drawing from a range of texts—the sociological studies comprising The Sexual Organization of the City (2004), Achy Obejas’s short story “Above All, a Family Man” (1994), … Continue reading “The Architectures of Latino Sexuality”
The Illegalities of Brownness
Armando GarcíaIn light of the current immigration debate, and in particular the state-sponsored carceral arguments most recently sparked by the arrival of Central American refugee children on the US-Mexico border, this article takes cues from the late José Esteban Muñoz’s … Continue reading “The Illegalities of Brownness”