James Bli
Biographic Data
| ID | 265173 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Bli |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Bli |
| SIGNATURE | BLI J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
To Strive and Fail
Forgetting
Recent works in and around Black feminist and queer studies have explored the figure of unbearable life through different forms of forgetting. A forgetting attends every act of conceptual or cultural invention, but forgetting also marks a range of cognitive deteriorations in and around experiences of disability, death, and dying. Working between the discourses of afro-fabulation, afropessimism, and Black feminism, the article details the ways eve…
Object Lessons in a time of tolerable suboptimisation
The present contribution reflects on the stakes of Robyn Wiegman's Object Lessons (2012) in the wake of a long era of austerity in American higher education. It reflects further on the history of discourses on the relationship between the practice of criticism and radical politics
Black Feminism Out of Place
This article offers a reading of the spatial politics of Black feminist theorizing to examine recent critiques of intersectionality produced under the heading of “assemblage theory,” especially in the work of Jasbir Puar. I argue that these critiques reductively produce intersectionality as a spatial metaphor that locates and fixes compound subjects, a fixing complicit with the work of the national security state. Intervening in these critiques o…
Hope Against Hope
The Black subject in Lee Edelman's queer negativity is explored here as both absent from and productive of its most radical critiques of futurity. The essay attempts to read a different queer negativity within the tradition of Black feminist theorizing
Hope Against Hope
The Black subject in Lee Edelman's queer negativity is explored here as both absent from and productive of its most radical critiques of futurity. The essay attempts to read a different queer negativity within the tradition of Black feminist theorizing
Black Feminism Out of Place
This article offers a reading of the spatial politics of Black feminist theorizing to examine recent critiques of intersectionality produced under the heading of “assemblage theory,” especially in the work of Jasbir Puar. I argue that these critiques reductively produce intersectionality as a spatial metaphor that locates and fixes compound subjects, a fixing complicit with the work of the national security state. Intervening in these critiques o…
Hope Against Hope
The Black subject in Lee Edelman's queer negativity is explored here as both absent from and productive of its most radical critiques of futurity. The essay attempts to read a different queer negativity within the tradition of Black feminist theorizing
Black Feminism Out of Place
This article offers a reading of the spatial politics of Black feminist theorizing to examine recent critiques of intersectionality produced under the heading of “assemblage theory,” especially in the work of Jasbir Puar. I argue that these critiques reductively produce intersectionality as a spatial metaphor that locates and fixes compound subjects, a fixing complicit with the work of the national security state. Intervening in these critiques o…
Object Lessons in a time of tolerable suboptimisation
The present contribution reflects on the stakes of Robyn Wiegman's Object Lessons (2012) in the wake of a long era of austerity in American higher education. It reflects further on the history of discourses on the relationship between the practice of criticism and radical politics
To Strive and Fail
Forgetting
Recent works in and around Black feminist and queer studies have explored the figure of unbearable life through different forms of forgetting. A forgetting attends every act of conceptual or cultural invention, but forgetting also marks a range of cognitive deteriorations in and around experiences of disability, death, and dying. Working between the discourses of afro-fabulation, afropessimism, and Black feminism, the article details the ways eve…
LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Assemblage (archaeology) (1 works) · Austerity (1 works) · Black feminism (1 works) · Cognitive psychology (1 works) · Cognitive science (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Critical and Liberation Pedagogy (1 works)