In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly, animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the human or animal. Within the field of linguistics, animacy has been described variously as a quality of agency, awareness, mobility, sentience, or liveness. Chen turns to cognitive linguistics to stress how language habitually differentiates the animate and the inanimate. Expanding this construct, Chen argues that animacy undergirds much that is pressing and indeed volatile in contemporary culture, from animal rights debates to biosecurity concerns. Chen's book is the first to bring the concept of animacy together with queer of color scholarship, critical animal studies, and disability theory. Through analyses of dehumanizing insults, the meanings of queerness, animal protagonists in recent Asian/American art and film, the lead toy panic in 2007, and the social lives of environmental illness, Animacies illuminates a hierarchical politics infused by race, sexuality, and ability. In this groundbreaking book, Chen rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillness - and demonstrates how attention to the affective charge of matter challenges commonsense orderings of the world.
3 有用 Cory 2017-08-24 06:39:51
致谢写出花了。全书用认知语言学里的“生命度等级”概念勾连酷儿、种族、非人转向,重读福柯的治理术、奥斯汀的言语行为理论等。此书对词类的讨论主要是在英语的框架里,作者也直接将其与西方本体论传统关联。前阵子看到明年AAS有人在组panel讨论亚洲语境里的酷儿语言学。
0 有用 后 2015-05-07 01:05:16
竟然是lakoff的学生,Berkeley总有奇妙的组合
0 有用 Freiheit! 2024-02-14 05:57:59 美国
part2 aminals和(尤其是)part3 metals在不同场合读了好多次,但今天是第一次把这本书完整读完。总的来说,part3还是最值得读的部分(lead那章时至今日我感觉我都能背出来了,但mercury那章我读到现在还是很迷惑 - 说明我的智识了无进益)新的收获大概是part1 words部分的sociolinguistic methodology(尤其是第二章queer animat... part2 aminals和(尤其是)part3 metals在不同场合读了好多次,但今天是第一次把这本书完整读完。总的来说,part3还是最值得读的部分(lead那章时至今日我感觉我都能背出来了,但mercury那章我读到现在还是很迷惑 - 说明我的智识了无进益)新的收获大概是part1 words部分的sociolinguistic methodology(尤其是第二章queer animation)。在queer这个词的social history里,我只对reanimation(也是recuperation)的讨论比较熟悉,在deanimation的部分读到了很多新东西!虽然不能说从linguistic的部分学到了什么xs但觉得挺新奇的。 (展开)
0 有用 孤泪君 2023-05-08 02:20:45 美国
在new materialism的框架里读的,但是作者是语言学和文化研究背景,分析的例子基本都是representation和symbol,mediated materiality。作者的涉猎范围很奇妙。开头以为会是跟“气”有关的,结果作者真的是在完全西方的理论脉络里。
0 有用 君且归休 2018-05-02 14:30:33
a interesting way of articulating matter, body and mind;
0 有用 Freiheit! 2024-02-14 05:57:59 美国
part2 aminals和(尤其是)part3 metals在不同场合读了好多次,但今天是第一次把这本书完整读完。总的来说,part3还是最值得读的部分(lead那章时至今日我感觉我都能背出来了,但mercury那章我读到现在还是很迷惑 - 说明我的智识了无进益)新的收获大概是part1 words部分的sociolinguistic methodology(尤其是第二章queer animat... part2 aminals和(尤其是)part3 metals在不同场合读了好多次,但今天是第一次把这本书完整读完。总的来说,part3还是最值得读的部分(lead那章时至今日我感觉我都能背出来了,但mercury那章我读到现在还是很迷惑 - 说明我的智识了无进益)新的收获大概是part1 words部分的sociolinguistic methodology(尤其是第二章queer animation)。在queer这个词的social history里,我只对reanimation(也是recuperation)的讨论比较熟悉,在deanimation的部分读到了很多新东西!虽然不能说从linguistic的部分学到了什么xs但觉得挺新奇的。 (展开)
0 有用 孤泪君 2023-05-08 02:20:45 美国
在new materialism的框架里读的,但是作者是语言学和文化研究背景,分析的例子基本都是representation和symbol,mediated materiality。作者的涉猎范围很奇妙。开头以为会是跟“气”有关的,结果作者真的是在完全西方的理论脉络里。
0 有用 想本雅明迟了迟 2021-09-27 02:22:31
Language. Language!
0 有用 🍅 2021-02-03 15:34:35
对福柯biopolitics的一种延展,undo the life-death binary,intersectional到有点让人眼花缭乱的地步_(:_」∠)_
1 有用 帕特里克 2020-08-08 07:38:36
冲着queer animality那章去的 失望了 但是没想到最后讲lead metal的这么惊艳 思考lead作为passive matter如何在话语中被animated to produce racial discourse 最棒的是他写african为什么被asian代替的那一段 哇 厉害 这个一定要读