Matthew Scully
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3584138 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Matthew Scully |
| NOMBRES | Matthew |
| APELLIDO | Scully |
| FIRMA | SCULLY M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0490-2250 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 9 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 9 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
Between Two Emancipations
Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman (2020) recounts a fictionalized history of the Turtle Mountain Reservation’s fight against the US government’s attempt in the early 1950s to “emancipate” the tribe by terminating its tribal status. I begin my discussion, however, with the debate about the politics of Erdrich’s aesthetics inaugurated by Leslie Marmon Silko’s critique of The Beet Queen (1986). Because of its explicitly political context, The Nigh…
Melville’s Obsessional Form
“Benito Cereno” offers an exemplary text to consider obsession in relation to narrative form. Melville’s tale operates on at least two levels: the first part, a third-person narration that exhausts itself when “Melville’s ultimate dupe” (Ngai 61), Captain Delano, finally realizes there has been a slave revolt on Cereno’s ship, and the second part, transcripts from legal depositions in the court case that makes a sovereign judgment on Babo and the…
Horrible Beauty
In Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (2015), Robin Coste Lewis deploys “horrible beauty” as a dissensual aesthetic experience that challenges the perceiving subject. To experience horrible beauty, in Lewis’s poetry, is to be called to reflect on and critique the pathologies of whiteness upheld and perpetuated by aesthetic scenes, as well as to reframe what has been rendered either invisible or hypervisible. By arresting the perceiving sub…
Does Communist Art Exist
Y a-t-il un art communiste? was given as a talk at the Grand Palais in Paris on 10 April 2019 on the occasion of a special exhibition, Red: Art and Utopia in the Land of the Soviets (Rouge: Art et utopie au pays des Soviets). The exhibition ran from 20 March 2019 to 1 July 2019. Red displayed works produced in the wake of the October Revolution of 1917 to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. This covers early experiments by avant-garde artists suc…
Democratic Aesthetics
By attending to art and writing that interrogates US citizenship and state violence, this essay foregrounds the structural antagonism between democracy as an instituted form of rule, which depends on inegalitarian hierarchies, and democracy’s egalitarian drive. It argues that the realization of democracy as a form of governance (consensus democracy) occurs by substituting the rule of a part for the whole, which violently forces democracy’s consti…
Resistance and Revolution
This essay brings together the work of Chester Himes and Frantz Fanon to show how they aim not only to analyze but also to construct the conditions for a revolution that annihilates the anti-Black foundations of Western society. Drawing on Fanon's brief reference to "a literature of combat" that contributes to decolonizing violence, I argue that the late novels of Himes's Harlem cycle, Blind Man with a Pistol and Plan B, can be reread as works of…
Conversations with Lacan
Reviewed by: Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan by Sergio Benvenuto Matthew Scully (bio) Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan by Sergio Benvenuto. London: Routledge, 2020, 198 pages. How does Jacques Lacan speak to us today? How can we, or should we, read Lacan today? Or, as Sergio Benvenuto asks in the Foreword to Conversations with Lacan, "Which reading of Lacan can be recommended today?…
The Work of Difference
Reviewed by: The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form by Audrey Wasser Matthew Scully Wasser, Audrey. The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form. Fordham University Press, 2016. 208 pp. "The problem of art in the modern era," according to the opening of Audrey Wasser's The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form, "is the pro…
The Tears of Sovereignty
Reviewed by: The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama by Philip Lorenz Matthew Scully Philip Lorenz. The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama. NY: Fordham U P, 2013. 288pages. Philip Lorenz’s The Tears of Sovereignty offers a comparative framework of sovereignty by focusing on this concept as represented on the English and Spanish stages in the works of William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and…
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The Tears of Sovereignty
Reviewed by: The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama by Philip Lorenz Matthew Scully Philip Lorenz. The Tears of Sovereignty: Perspectives of Power in Renaissance Drama. NY: Fordham U P, 2013. 288pages. Philip Lorenz’s The Tears of Sovereignty offers a comparative framework of sovereignty by focusing on this concept as represented on the English and Spanish stages in the works of William Shakespeare, Lope de Vega, and…
The Work of Difference
Reviewed by: The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form by Audrey Wasser Matthew Scully Wasser, Audrey. The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form. Fordham University Press, 2016. 208 pp. "The problem of art in the modern era," according to the opening of Audrey Wasser's The Work of Difference: Modernism, Romanticism, and the Production of Literary Form, "is the pro…
Conversations with Lacan
Reviewed by: Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan by Sergio Benvenuto Matthew Scully (bio) Conversations with Lacan: Seven Lectures for Understanding Lacan by Sergio Benvenuto. London: Routledge, 2020, 198 pages. How does Jacques Lacan speak to us today? How can we, or should we, read Lacan today? Or, as Sergio Benvenuto asks in the Foreword to Conversations with Lacan, "Which reading of Lacan can be recommended today?…
Democratic Aesthetics
By attending to art and writing that interrogates US citizenship and state violence, this essay foregrounds the structural antagonism between democracy as an instituted form of rule, which depends on inegalitarian hierarchies, and democracy’s egalitarian drive. It argues that the realization of democracy as a form of governance (consensus democracy) occurs by substituting the rule of a part for the whole, which violently forces democracy’s consti…
Resistance and Revolution
This essay brings together the work of Chester Himes and Frantz Fanon to show how they aim not only to analyze but also to construct the conditions for a revolution that annihilates the anti-Black foundations of Western society. Drawing on Fanon's brief reference to "a literature of combat" that contributes to decolonizing violence, I argue that the late novels of Himes's Harlem cycle, Blind Man with a Pistol and Plan B, can be reread as works of…
Horrible Beauty
In Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems (2015), Robin Coste Lewis deploys “horrible beauty” as a dissensual aesthetic experience that challenges the perceiving subject. To experience horrible beauty, in Lewis’s poetry, is to be called to reflect on and critique the pathologies of whiteness upheld and perpetuated by aesthetic scenes, as well as to reframe what has been rendered either invisible or hypervisible. By arresting the perceiving sub…
Does Communist Art Exist
Y a-t-il un art communiste? was given as a talk at the Grand Palais in Paris on 10 April 2019 on the occasion of a special exhibition, Red: Art and Utopia in the Land of the Soviets (Rouge: Art et utopie au pays des Soviets). The exhibition ran from 20 March 2019 to 1 July 2019. Red displayed works produced in the wake of the October Revolution of 1917 to the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953. This covers early experiments by avant-garde artists suc…
Melville’s Obsessional Form
“Benito Cereno” offers an exemplary text to consider obsession in relation to narrative form. Melville’s tale operates on at least two levels: the first part, a third-person narration that exhausts itself when “Melville’s ultimate dupe” (Ngai 61), Captain Delano, finally realizes there has been a slave revolt on Cereno’s ship, and the second part, transcripts from legal depositions in the court case that makes a sovereign judgment on Babo and the…
Between Two Emancipations
Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman (2020) recounts a fictionalized history of the Turtle Mountain Reservation’s fight against the US government’s attempt in the early 1950s to “emancipate” the tribe by terminating its tribal status. I begin my discussion, however, with the debate about the politics of Erdrich’s aesthetics inaugurated by Leslie Marmon Silko’s critique of The Beet Queen (1986). Because of its explicitly political context, The Nigh…
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