Michael Docherty
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Docherty |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Docherty |
| SIGNATURE | DOCHERTY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universität Innsbruck |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5574-7855 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Felskian Phenomenopolitics: Decolonial Reading Through Postcritical Singularities
This essay intervenes in debates on the value of ‘postcritique’, countering concerns that the ‘postcritical turn’ represents a conservative abrogation of cultural inquiry’s political responsibilities. I suggest that conventional critical forms reproduce in the relationship between reader and text a quasi-imperialist power dynamic, complicity in which is inescapable regardless of the reader’s own political position, and that therefore postcritical…
Turn West: Finding and Defining the Transnational in California
In introducing this special issue of Comparative American Studies, this essay traces a history of attempts to define and practice a transnational American studies, and suggests that such efforts face inherent and perhaps intractable difficulties. It then explains this issue’s rationale for approaching the culture, literature, and history of California through a transnational lens, proposing why we might productively, indeed necessarily, think of …
Do Android Detectives Dream of Electric Cowboys? Western Retrofuturity inBlade Runner 2049
This article proposes that although Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is, like the 1982 Ridley Scott film to which it is a sequel, most obviously located within the genres of science fiction and neo-noir, it in fact engages extensively with the history of the Western genre. Villeneuve’s film, I argue, is a crypto-Western, recuperating Western conventions within the aesthetic superstructure of other genres. Blade Runner 2049 thus exemplifies ho…
Integrating Health Systems and Science to Respond to Covid-19 in a Model District of Rural Madagascar
There are many outstanding questions about how to control the global COVID-19 pandemic. The information void has been especially stark in the World Health Organization Africa Region, which has low per capita reported cases, low testing rates, low access to therapeutic drugs, and has the longest wait for vaccines. As with all disease, the central challenge in responding to COVID-19 is that it requires integrating complex health systems that incorp…
You don’t even know how you know’: Double Indemnity as anti-office discourse
This article argues that the criminal plot at the heart of James M. Cain’s 1936 novel Double Indemnity is primarily one targeted against the structures of the modern corporation, embodied in the space of the office. Such an argument situates Cain’s novel as a striking intervention in a long tradition of anti-office discourse, a discourse in which clerical work and its spaces have persistently been framed as exemplifying urban modernity’s deleteri…
Turn West: Finding and Defining the Transnational in California
In introducing this special issue of Comparative American Studies, this essay traces a history of attempts to define and practice a transnational American studies, and suggests that such efforts face inherent and perhaps intractable difficulties. It then explains this issue’s rationale for approaching the culture, literature, and history of California through a transnational lens, proposing why we might productively, indeed necessarily, think of …
You don’t even know how you know’: Double Indemnity as anti-office discourse
This article argues that the criminal plot at the heart of James M. Cain’s 1936 novel Double Indemnity is primarily one targeted against the structures of the modern corporation, embodied in the space of the office. Such an argument situates Cain’s novel as a striking intervention in a long tradition of anti-office discourse, a discourse in which clerical work and its spaces have persistently been framed as exemplifying urban modernity’s deleteri…
Integrating Health Systems and Science to Respond to Covid-19 in a Model District of Rural Madagascar
There are many outstanding questions about how to control the global COVID-19 pandemic. The information void has been especially stark in the World Health Organization Africa Region, which has low per capita reported cases, low testing rates, low access to therapeutic drugs, and has the longest wait for vaccines. As with all disease, the central challenge in responding to COVID-19 is that it requires integrating complex health systems that incorp…
You don’t even know how you know’: Double Indemnity as anti-office discourse
This article argues that the criminal plot at the heart of James M. Cain’s 1936 novel Double Indemnity is primarily one targeted against the structures of the modern corporation, embodied in the space of the office. Such an argument situates Cain’s novel as a striking intervention in a long tradition of anti-office discourse, a discourse in which clerical work and its spaces have persistently been framed as exemplifying urban modernity’s deleteri…
Felskian Phenomenopolitics: Decolonial Reading Through Postcritical Singularities
This essay intervenes in debates on the value of ‘postcritique’, countering concerns that the ‘postcritical turn’ represents a conservative abrogation of cultural inquiry’s political responsibilities. I suggest that conventional critical forms reproduce in the relationship between reader and text a quasi-imperialist power dynamic, complicity in which is inescapable regardless of the reader’s own political position, and that therefore postcritical…
Turn West: Finding and Defining the Transnational in California
In introducing this special issue of Comparative American Studies, this essay traces a history of attempts to define and practice a transnational American studies, and suggests that such efforts face inherent and perhaps intractable difficulties. It then explains this issue’s rationale for approaching the culture, literature, and history of California through a transnational lens, proposing why we might productively, indeed necessarily, think of …
Do Android Detectives Dream of Electric Cowboys? Western Retrofuturity inBlade Runner 2049
This article proposes that although Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner 2049 is, like the 1982 Ridley Scott film to which it is a sequel, most obviously located within the genres of science fiction and neo-noir, it in fact engages extensively with the history of the Western genre. Villeneuve’s film, I argue, is a crypto-Western, recuperating Western conventions within the aesthetic superstructure of other genres. Blade Runner 2049 thus exemplifies ho…
Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · American History and Culture (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)