Lee Spinks
Biographic Data
| ID | 1665836 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lee Spinks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Spinks |
| SIGNATURE | SPINKS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Dream of a Poetry of Defense
This article presents the first extended critical engagement with the work of the contemporary American poet Timothy Donnelly. It suggests that central to Donnelly’s practice is his crafting of a style of double lyric to explore the simultaneous forming and fragmentation of the modern American public sphere across the reciprocating realms of politics, economics, culture and information technology. In examining this double writing the article also…
States of Emergency/States of Emergence
This article considers Claudia Rankine’s representation of racial violence and the culture of white supremacy in Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric and Citizen: An American Lyric. Beginning from her conviction of the fundamental connection between white supremacist thinking and the enclosure of black life within the social death of slavery, it explores the consequences for both black and white identity of white fantasies of absolute sovere…
Michael Ondaatje
James Joyce
Except for Law
The concept of the "state of exception," which is so crucial to Giorgio Agamben's claim for the continuity between the ancient founding of the polity and modern biopolitics, enables us to rethink more local and specified historical and aesthetic changes. By examining the genre of the roman noir in the works of Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy, I will argue that we can witness a generic shift in the status of the "state of exception." This shift …
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is difficult to imagine a world without common sense, the distinction between truth and falsehood, the belief in some form of morality or an agreement that we are all human. But Friedrich Nietzsche did imagine such a world, and his work has become a crucial point of departure for contemporary critical theory and debate. This volume introduces this key thinker to students of literary and cultural studies, offering a lucid account of Nietzsche's…
Thinking the post-human
This article expores the implications of Agamben's refinement of Foucault's thesis concerning the positivity of power or the positive, concrete and micropolitical ways power produces subjects of form and life. Agamben argues both that the inclusion of bare life within the political realm is not simply a modern phenomenon but constitutes the original, if unconcealed, source of sovereign power, and that classical and modern politics are constituted…
Genesis and Structure and the Object of Postmodernism
Sketching The Horizon”
Allegory, Space, Colonialism
Remembering Babylon, with its strange and compelling story of Gemmy Fairley's negotiation between 'Australian' and 'Aboriginal' identities, is, like 'The Writing Lesson', simultaneously an allegorical re-enactment of the classic colonial encounter and an exploration of the process by which subjectivities are constructed and legitimated. What is at stake in these texts is the imbrication of identity with difference, the relationship between histor…
Kroetsch's Narcissus
Kroetsch's Narcissus
Allegory, Space, Colonialism
Remembering Babylon, with its strange and compelling story of Gemmy Fairley's negotiation between 'Australian' and 'Aboriginal' identities, is, like 'The Writing Lesson', simultaneously an allegorical re-enactment of the classic colonial encounter and an exploration of the process by which subjectivities are constructed and legitimated. What is at stake in these texts is the imbrication of identity with difference, the relationship between histor…
Sketching The Horizon”
Thinking the post-human
This article expores the implications of Agamben's refinement of Foucault's thesis concerning the positivity of power or the positive, concrete and micropolitical ways power produces subjects of form and life. Agamben argues both that the inclusion of bare life within the political realm is not simply a modern phenomenon but constitutes the original, if unconcealed, source of sovereign power, and that classical and modern politics are constituted…
Genesis and Structure and the Object of Postmodernism
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is difficult to imagine a world without common sense, the distinction between truth and falsehood, the belief in some form of morality or an agreement that we are all human. But Friedrich Nietzsche did imagine such a world, and his work has become a crucial point of departure for contemporary critical theory and debate. This volume introduces this key thinker to students of literary and cultural studies, offering a lucid account of Nietzsche's…
Except for Law
The concept of the "state of exception," which is so crucial to Giorgio Agamben's claim for the continuity between the ancient founding of the polity and modern biopolitics, enables us to rethink more local and specified historical and aesthetic changes. By examining the genre of the roman noir in the works of Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy, I will argue that we can witness a generic shift in the status of the "state of exception." This shift …
Michael Ondaatje
James Joyce
States of Emergency/States of Emergence
This article considers Claudia Rankine’s representation of racial violence and the culture of white supremacy in Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric and Citizen: An American Lyric. Beginning from her conviction of the fundamental connection between white supremacist thinking and the enclosure of black life within the social death of slavery, it explores the consequences for both black and white identity of white fantasies of absolute sovere…
Dream of a Poetry of Defense
This article presents the first extended critical engagement with the work of the contemporary American poet Timothy Donnelly. It suggests that central to Donnelly’s practice is his crafting of a style of double lyric to explore the simultaneous forming and fragmentation of the modern American public sphere across the reciprocating realms of politics, economics, culture and information technology. In examining this double writing the article also…
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