Drew Ayers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1377495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Drew Ayers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Drew |
| FAMILY NAME | Ayers |
| SIGNATURE | AYERS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eastern Washington University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1854-2022 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The limits of transactional identity
Focusing on a series of YouTube creators, this essay interrogates the persistence of the hegemonic power of the white male hardbody, arguing that digital facial replacements – in particular those of 1980s action stars – produce a mode of white, masculine identity that is essentially exchangeable and transactional. These bodies are capitalist commodities, fundamentally interchangable and asserting the same bundle of ideological traits. The technol…
Spectacular Posthumanism
Spectacular Posthumanism examines the ways in which VFX imagery fantasizes about digital disembodiment while simultaneously reasserting the importance of the lived body. Analyzing a wide range of case studies-including the films of David Cronenberg and Stanley Kubrick, image technologies such as performance capture and crowd simulation, Game of Thrones, Terminator: Genisys, Planet Earth, and 300-Ayers builds on Miriam Hansen's concept of "vernacu…
The New Europe and the New World
This paper asserts that while geo-politics is too often treated as an extrinsic force in cultural studies, it is in fact a culturally constitutive force and geo-political cultural actors should be treated as a dominant force in (national-) cultural formation. This is of especial importance in the relationship between Europe and the United States. The paper makes this point by comparing the cultural-political objectives of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pou…
Wyndham Lewis and the modernists
In relation to the question of race, Wyndham Lewis is frequently seen as one of the triumvirate of antisemitic Anglo-American modernists alongside Pound and Eliot. Indeed these three figures provide a fascinating series of case studies. Their political-theoretical allegiances contrast in important ways, but as a group they still participate in a matrix of right-wing thought which was for them emergent in the 1920s and 1930s, but which for the pre…
Humans without Bodies
In DNA portraits, a visualization of a DNA sample-an "inner" structure-comes to stand in for the individual represented in the portrait. This essay places DNA portraits within an intellectual approach to photography that regards the photographic process as a technique by which the invisible inside might be made material in the photographic image. DNA portraits do not share the same mode of production as photographic portraiture, and yet, despite …
Materialism and the Book
Contemporary materialist theory is converging with the study of material culture, as evidenced by increasing attention given to the book as a material object produced, circulated, and consumed as a commodity. It is, however,problematic to conceive of the book as a material object, since writing itself cannot be straightforwardly conceived as a material thing, as Derrida has shown. Moreover, it is difficult to conceive the book as a commodity, sin…
Materialism and the Book
Contemporary materialist theory is converging with the study of material culture, as evidenced by increasing attention given to the book as a material object produced, circulated, and consumed as a commodity. It is, however,problematic to conceive of the book as a material object, since writing itself cannot be straightforwardly conceived as a material thing, as Derrida has shown. Moreover, it is difficult to conceive the book as a commodity, sin…
Materialism and the Book
Contemporary materialist theory is converging with the study of material culture, as evidenced by increasing attention given to the book as a material object produced, circulated, and consumed as a commodity. It is, however,problematic to conceive of the book as a material object, since writing itself cannot be straightforwardly conceived as a material thing, as Derrida has shown. Moreover, it is difficult to conceive the book as a commodity, sin…
Wyndham Lewis and the modernists
In relation to the question of race, Wyndham Lewis is frequently seen as one of the triumvirate of antisemitic Anglo-American modernists alongside Pound and Eliot. Indeed these three figures provide a fascinating series of case studies. Their political-theoretical allegiances contrast in important ways, but as a group they still participate in a matrix of right-wing thought which was for them emergent in the 1920s and 1930s, but which for the pre…
Humans without Bodies
In DNA portraits, a visualization of a DNA sample-an "inner" structure-comes to stand in for the individual represented in the portrait. This essay places DNA portraits within an intellectual approach to photography that regards the photographic process as a technique by which the invisible inside might be made material in the photographic image. DNA portraits do not share the same mode of production as photographic portraiture, and yet, despite …
The New Europe and the New World
This paper asserts that while geo-politics is too often treated as an extrinsic force in cultural studies, it is in fact a culturally constitutive force and geo-political cultural actors should be treated as a dominant force in (national-) cultural formation. This is of especial importance in the relationship between Europe and the United States. The paper makes this point by comparing the cultural-political objectives of T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pou…
Spectacular Posthumanism
Spectacular Posthumanism examines the ways in which VFX imagery fantasizes about digital disembodiment while simultaneously reasserting the importance of the lived body. Analyzing a wide range of case studies-including the films of David Cronenberg and Stanley Kubrick, image technologies such as performance capture and crowd simulation, Game of Thrones, Terminator: Genisys, Planet Earth, and 300-Ayers builds on Miriam Hansen's concept of "vernacu…
The limits of transactional identity
Focusing on a series of YouTube creators, this essay interrogates the persistence of the hegemonic power of the white male hardbody, arguing that digital facial replacements – in particular those of 1980s action stars – produce a mode of white, masculine identity that is essentially exchangeable and transactional. These bodies are capitalist commodities, fundamentally interchangable and asserting the same bundle of ideological traits. The technol…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 work)