Diana Leong
Biographic Data
| ID | 1377475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Diana Leong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Diana |
| FAMILY NAME | Leong |
| SIGNATURE | LEONG D |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0077-9806 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, Joshua Bennett (2020)
Review of: Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man , Joshua Bennett (2020) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 224 pp., ISBN 978-0-67498-030-3, p/bk, $18.95 Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World , Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (2020) New York: New York University Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-1-47983-037-4, p/bk, $30.00
The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses
This Critical Exchange explores the nonhuman condition. It asks: What are the implications of decentering the human subject via a new materialist reading of radical democracy? Does this reading dilute political agency? Or should this be seen, on the contrary, as an invitation for new voices and demands to enter into democratic assemblages? How might engagement with the more-than-human disrupt or extend theories of radical democracy? In our introd…
A Hundred Tiny Hands: Slavery, Nanotechnology, and the Anthropocene in Midnight Robber
This essay examines the use of nanotechnology in Nalo Hopkinson's novel Midnight Robber and how it gestures toward the historical triangulation of the slave, machine, and labor. The novel's Afro-Caribbean characters are infused with nanomites that monitor social behaviors and ecological processes in service of a global population management. This scalar recalibration recalls physicist Richard Feynman's 1959 lecture on nanotechnology, which envisi…
The Mattering of Black Lives: Octavia Butler’s Hyperempathy and the Promise of the New Materialisms
This article argues that the ethical potential of “the nonhuman turn” advanced by the new materialisms is structured by disavowed social fantasies about black female flesh. The most recent new materialist publications draw upon the techno-scientific developments of the Anthropocene, a geological epoch defined by the cumulative effects of species-level human activity, to demonstrate the supposed inadequacy of poststructuralist “identity politics” …
The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses
This Critical Exchange explores the nonhuman condition. It asks: What are the implications of decentering the human subject via a new materialist reading of radical democracy? Does this reading dilute political agency? Or should this be seen, on the contrary, as an invitation for new voices and demands to enter into democratic assemblages? How might engagement with the more-than-human disrupt or extend theories of radical democracy? In our introd…
The Mattering of Black Lives: Octavia Butler’s Hyperempathy and the Promise of the New Materialisms
This article argues that the ethical potential of “the nonhuman turn” advanced by the new materialisms is structured by disavowed social fantasies about black female flesh. The most recent new materialist publications draw upon the techno-scientific developments of the Anthropocene, a geological epoch defined by the cumulative effects of species-level human activity, to demonstrate the supposed inadequacy of poststructuralist “identity politics” …
A Hundred Tiny Hands: Slavery, Nanotechnology, and the Anthropocene in Midnight Robber
This essay examines the use of nanotechnology in Nalo Hopkinson's novel Midnight Robber and how it gestures toward the historical triangulation of the slave, machine, and labor. The novel's Afro-Caribbean characters are infused with nanomites that monitor social behaviors and ecological processes in service of a global population management. This scalar recalibration recalls physicist Richard Feynman's 1959 lecture on nanotechnology, which envisi…
The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses
This Critical Exchange explores the nonhuman condition. It asks: What are the implications of decentering the human subject via a new materialist reading of radical democracy? Does this reading dilute political agency? Or should this be seen, on the contrary, as an invitation for new voices and demands to enter into democratic assemblages? How might engagement with the more-than-human disrupt or extend theories of radical democracy? In our introd…
Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man, Joshua Bennett (2020)
Review of: Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man , Joshua Bennett (2020) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 224 pp., ISBN 978-0-67498-030-3, p/bk, $18.95 Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World , Zakiyyah Iman Jackson (2020) New York: New York University Press, 320 pp., ISBN 978-1-47983-037-4, p/bk, $30.00
Philosophy (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropocene (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Materialism (2 works) · Political science (2 works)