Patricia Ticineto Clough
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3596795 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Patricia Ticineto Clough |
| NOMBRES | Patricia Ticineto |
| APELLIDO | Clough |
| FIRMA | CLOUGH P T |
| AFILIACIONES | Fordham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1786-6313 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 711 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1983 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Noise, Pre-Individual Potentialities, and the Post-Biological
In her response to Daniel Butler’s “Say Anything: Noise, Tenderness and the Rift between the Saying and the Said,” Patricia Clough takes up Butler’s conceptualization of individuation and extends it to meet current philosophical thinking about the individual, the body, biology and technology. Following Butler’s elaboration of noise as central to psychoanalytic practice, Clough addresses the relevancy of noise in our work with patients in terms of…
Bring in the Social, Bring in the Noise
Taking Stephen Hartman’s vignette about his visit to a maternity ward as an example of the operation of digital media/technologies central to what I am referring to as an information infrastructure, I follow him in questioning the priority that psychoanalytic theory gives the (m)other-infant relationship and the resulting influence the relationship has had in shaping the techniques of psychoanalytic practice. I turn to information theory to addre…
Psychoanalysis as “Studio Practice”
In their essays, Kathleen Miller and Katie Gentile show us ways of writing, thinking, and practicing psychoanalysis that address the onto-epistemological and social implications of taking account of the more-than-human. In their reach beyond human centrism, Miller and Gentile model experimentation and invention as well as invite us to consider what I discuss as psychoanalysis as a studio practice
Books
What is the Social
Taking up the often referred to concept of interpellation in psychoanalysts’ ongoing discussions about the social, the author explores the ways in which the concept as it was elaborated in the work of Louis Althusser in relationship to the State, governing institutions, and capitalism may now need further exploration. Arguing that interpellation implies a technology of mediation, for Althusser, the cinematic apparatus, the author asks how digital…
Those Were the Days and Then
Remembering Stanley Aronowitz brings the author to reflect on the intersection of the personal and the political in academic departments and academic friendships. This intersection can become difficult, especially when colleagues are on the margins, politically and pedagogically, of a department and a discipline. The result can be the rupturing of friendships and the weakening of political alliances that had supported a critical stance toward the…
Critical Theory and Its Challenge to Psychoanalysis
In my response to Katie Gentile’s “Kittens in the Clinical Space,” (this issue) I address the early twenty-first century critical theory and the works of indigenous knowledge that Gentile references in the challenge she puts to psychoanalysts to think beyond human privilege, its relationship to racio-specieism, colonialism, and settler-colonialism. She suggests that psychoanalysts instead consider what she calls the human-more-than-human assembla…
Notes on Psychoanalysis and Technology, the Psyche and the Social
Whatever difficulty might arise in discussing the relationship of psychoanalysis and technology, the discussion inevitably will touch on another relationship that is difficult to discuss: that between the psyche and the social. There will be no easy way to simply establish the distinctiveness of or the relationship between the terms. They are so profoundly interimplicated in each other that some approach other than “establishing a relationship” i…
The User Unconscious
"The Other-Than-Human and the "User Unconscious
Expanding on psychoanalysts’ treatment of online interaction between analyst and analysand, I take up digital media and computational technologies in terms of their more general transformation of the liberal configuration of state, economy, and civil society. From this perspective, I indicate the subjectivity that is being constructed and the indeterminate potentiality (or temporality) of its unconscious, what I call the user unconscious
Francisco Varela, Relational Psychoanalysis, and the Post-Phenomenological
Taking the work of Francisco Varela beyond his own phenomenological approach to neurobiology explored by Simón Guendelman, Sebastián Medeiros, and Ricardo Pulido, I turn to what in the last year of Varela’s life he proposed about the body when writing on organ transplantation and technology. I link this to the recent elaboration of a post-phenomenological phenomenology in critical theory, philosophy, and media studies and indicate the implication…
Worlding Worlds with Words in these Times of Data-fication
Taking up Kathleen Stewart's “New England Red,” the authors dialogue about the post-phenomenological perspective offered in Stewart's compositional writing, drawing on the turns in philosophy to the object, ontology, and twenty-first century media's production of a “worldly sensibility.”
Rethinking Race, Calculation, Quantification, and Measure
Focusing on 'new regimes of calculation' and the limits and possibilities of mobilizing critical theory to make sense of such shifts, the author uses Roderick Ferguson's Foucauldian call for a reordering of things to rethink of quantitative inquiry. The author is especially interested in race and the twists and turns of how the institutionalizing of the interdisciplines of area studies in higher education functioned to manage difference. The auth…
Movement after Randy Martin
This section collects a series of short reflections on the life, camaraderie, and scholarship of Randy Martin, a longtime member of the Social Text editorial collective. In place of definitive, authoritative analyses of Martin's work, these pieces present a montage of personal snapshots by people that collaborated, moved, thought, wrote, edited, and learned with him
After Slavery
After Slavery Patricia Ticineto Clough (bio) That fugal, internal world theater that shows up for a minute serially—poor but extravagant, as opposed to frugal—is blackness, which must be understood in its ontological difference from black people who are, nevertheless, (under) privileged insofar as they are given (to) an understanding of it. Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, “Blackness and Governance” A man is no longer a man confined, but a man in d…
Sociality, Non-Conscious Processes and the Neurotypical Subject
Beyond Biopolitics
Beyond Biopolitics
The Affective Turn
Praying and playing to the beat of a child's metronome
Afterword
Gendered Security/National Security
Drawing from theories of affect economies as well as discussion of biopolitical distributions of life and death, this essay explores the public mediation of gendered security and national security in terms of a political branding that circulates notions of safety, fear, and threat. The analysis works through three different media productions that intersect with contemporary concerns of governance and economy: an advertising spread for clothing, a…
Scenes of Secrecy/Scales of Hope
The Case of Sociology
Autoaffection
In this book, Patricia Ticineto Clough reenergizes critical theory by viewing poststructuralist thought through the lens of teletechnology, using television as a recurring case study to illuminate the changing relationships between subjectivity, technology, and mass media.Autoaffection links diverse forms of cultural criticism -- feminist theory, queer theory, film theory, postcolonial theory, Marxist cultural studies and literary criticism, the …
The Affective Turn
Taking the biomediated body to be a historically specific mode of organization of material forces, invested by capital into being, as well as elaborated through various technoscientific discourses, the article traces these investments and the discursive productions of the biomediated body, linking it to an ongoing reconfiguration of governance and economy
The Affective Turn
The New Empiricism
This article offers a review of the relationship of methodological positivism and post-World War II U.S. sociology, especially its transformations in the last three decades of the twentieth century. With this as context, sociological methodology is rethought in terms of what cultural critics refer to as infra-empiricism that allows for a rethinking of bodies, matter and life through new encounters with visceral perception and pre-conscious affect…
Future Matters
The End(s) of Ethnography
The author's book The End(s) of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism is to be republished sometime this spring. While writing an introduction to the second edition, the author thought about experimental ethnographic writing from the point of view of its recent past, starting back at the time when End(s) was conceived. In this article, the author discusses what led her to write End(s) as well as her thoughts on the relationship between th…
Afterword
On the Brink of Deconstructing Sociology
Contrasting Dorothy Smith's critique of sociological discourse with one proposed by post-structural feminists, I argue that Smith's standpoint epistemology based on women's experiences, although an important contribution, is limited as a critique of sociological discourse. This is because it fails to reflect on sociology as itself a dominant discourse of experience
The Movies and Social Observation
This article focuses on an early work of Herbert Blumer, Movies and Conduct, a study which reports the reactions of moviegoers to motion pictures. Contrasting Blumer's study with contemporary feminist film studies which are based on a psychoanalytically oriented semiotics, I argue that Blumer's contribution to sociology was an observational methodology of documentation and description, generally known as Symbolic Interactionism, which drew on a c…
Reflections on sessions early in an analysis
The essay explores psychoanalytic sessions where witnessing to trauma is treated as a matter of the transmission of bodily affect rather than the production of a meaningful narration of traumatic symptoms. Attention is paid to the theorizing of affect in contemporary psychoanalysis and critical theory, focusing on performance and relationality
Affect and Control
Autotelecommunication and Autoethnography
Rethinking Race, Calculation, Quantification, and Measure
Focusing on 'new regimes of calculation' and the limits and possibilities of mobilizing critical theory to make sense of such shifts, the author uses Roderick Ferguson's Foucauldian call for a reordering of things to rethink of quantitative inquiry. The author is especially interested in race and the twists and turns of how the institutionalizing of the interdisciplines of area studies in higher education functioned to manage difference. The auth…
The Case of Sociology
On the Relationship of the Criticism of Ethnographic Writing and the Cultural Studies of Science
In the wake of the Sokol Affair, there has been a halt to discussion of the broad implications of cultural studies of science. Here these implications are considered in relationship to the critique of ethnographic writing. In treating the latter as part of the cultural studies of science, the author aims to link the critique of ethnographic writing and the cultural studies of science to changes in technology, especially the development of teletec…
A Familial Unconscious
Foetal politics and the birth of an industry
Posts Post September 11
"The Other-Than-Human and the "User Unconscious
Expanding on psychoanalysts’ treatment of online interaction between analyst and analysand, I take up digital media and computational technologies in terms of their more general transformation of the liberal configuration of state, economy, and civil society. From this perspective, I indicate the subjectivity that is being constructed and the indeterminate potentiality (or temporality) of its unconscious, what I call the user unconscious
Gendered Security/National Security
Drawing from theories of affect economies as well as discussion of biopolitical distributions of life and death, this essay explores the public mediation of gendered security and national security in terms of a political branding that circulates notions of safety, fear, and threat. The analysis works through three different media productions that intersect with contemporary concerns of governance and economy: an advertising spread for clothing, a…
The Technical Substrates of Unconscious Memory
In a rereading of Jacques Derrida's writings on Freud, I trace the connections between his treatment of differance and his treatment of technology and unconscious memory. I focus on the challenge which Derrida's writings pose for a certain idea of history, including the history of technological development, and I locate that challenge in Derrida's deconstruction of the opposition of nature and technology, the human and the machine, the virtual an…
The Cinematic Society
The Hybrid Criticism of Patriarchy
While much might be said about the exclusion of feminist texts from the canon of sociological classics, I instead want to offer a rereading of Kate Millett's Sexual Politics to show how the development of feminist theory has depended on rereading disciplinary canons, thereby re-opening the borders between the disciplines, especially the border between literary criticism and social science. At a time when sociologists are participating in or at le…
A Response to Farberman's Distinguished Lecture
Letters From Pamela
A deconstructive reading of a text is only in part an argument that can be abstracted. More than that, a reading deconstructs a text to make explicit how that text implicates a certain kind of reader. The reading can celebrate, resist, or essentialize the very construction of the reader by that text My reading of Becker's Writing for Social Scientists is a resisting reading which focuses: 1) on the formal aspects of the writing style that Becker …
Foetal politics and the birth of an industry
The Movies and Social Observation
This article focuses on an early work of Herbert Blumer, Movies and Conduct, a study which reports the reactions of moviegoers to motion pictures. Contrasting Blumer's study with contemporary feminist film studies which are based on a psychoanalytically oriented semiotics, I argue that Blumer's contribution to sociology was an observational methodology of documentation and description, generally known as Symbolic Interactionism, which drew on a c…
Letters From Pamela
A deconstructive reading of a text is only in part an argument that can be abstracted. More than that, a reading deconstructs a text to make explicit how that text implicates a certain kind of reader. The reading can celebrate, resist, or essentialize the very construction of the reader by that text My reading of Becker's Writing for Social Scientists is a resisting reading which focuses: 1) on the formal aspects of the writing style that Becker …
A Response to Farberman's Distinguished Lecture
Poststructuralism and postmodernism
Response to Smith's Response
purely an epiphenomenon of discourse but that unconscious desire is productive in the construction of the subject's experience and that this understanding is critical for political and social criticism. For me, a feminist psychoanalytics promises deep and profound change for the individual and of relations of power/knowledge because it offers a way to understand the complexities of unconscious desire, the way it shapes the female subject and ther…
On the Brink of Deconstructing Sociology
Contrasting Dorothy Smith's critique of sociological discourse with one proposed by post-structural feminists, I argue that Smith's standpoint epistemology based on women's experiences, although an important contribution, is limited as a critique of sociological discourse. This is because it fails to reflect on sociology as itself a dominant discourse of experience
Preface to Rereading
The Hybrid Criticism of Patriarchy
While much might be said about the exclusion of feminist texts from the canon of sociological classics, I instead want to offer a rereading of Kate Millett's Sexual Politics to show how the development of feminist theory has depended on rereading disciplinary canons, thereby re-opening the borders between the disciplines, especially the border between literary criticism and social science. At a time when sociologists are participating in or at le…
Beginning Again at the End(s) of Ethnography
Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities
A Theory of Writing and Experimental Writing in the Age of Telecommunications
For some time, Steven Seidman, and other sociologists as well, have been engaged in elaborating a criticism of the discipline of sociology, which takes its motivation in part from the politics of the new social movements and in part from what is generally described as the postmodern critique of the human sciences (Seidman 1991; 1994; Denzin 1991; 1995; Lemert 1995; Pfohl 1992). Seidman's Political Unconscious of the Human Sciences is an important…
The Cinematic Society
Cultural Criticism in the Late Twentieth Century
Feminist Thought
1. The Hybrid Criticism of Patriarchy. 2. The Matrix of Feminist Criticism. 3. From Feminist Criticism to Standpoint Epistemologies. 4. Engendering African American Criticism. 5. Formulating a Feminist Politics of De-colonization. 6. Queer Embodiments of Feminist Theorizing
Autotelecommunication and Autoethnography
The End(s) of Ethnography
The author's book The End(s) of Ethnography: From Realism to Social Criticism is to be republished sometime this spring. While writing an introduction to the second edition, the author thought about experimental ethnographic writing from the point of view of its recent past, starting back at the time when End(s) was conceived. In this article, the author discusses what led her to write End(s) as well as her thoughts on the relationship between th…
Toward a Democratic Science
This text aims to demonstrate how scientific practice is a rhetorical and narrative activity. The author develops the idea of science as narration, casts various scientific disciplines as literary genres, and argues that expert knowledge of any kind is a form of power
A Familial Unconscious
The Technical Substrates of Unconscious Memory
In a rereading of Jacques Derrida's writings on Freud, I trace the connections between his treatment of differance and his treatment of technology and unconscious memory. I focus on the challenge which Derrida's writings pose for a certain idea of history, including the history of technological development, and I locate that challenge in Derrida's deconstruction of the opposition of nature and technology, the human and the machine, the virtual an…
On the Relationship of the Criticism of Ethnographic Writing and the Cultural Studies of Science
In the wake of the Sokol Affair, there has been a halt to discussion of the broad implications of cultural studies of science. Here these implications are considered in relationship to the critique of ethnographic writing. In treating the latter as part of the cultural studies of science, the author aims to link the critique of ethnographic writing and the cultural studies of science to changes in technology, especially the development of teletec…
Posts Post September 11
Cross-Cultural Interviewing
Affect and Control
Future Matters
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