Evan Watkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 3627397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Evan Watkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Evan |
| FAMILY NAME | Watkins |
| SIGNATURE | WATKINS E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Literacy Work in the Reign of Human Capital
This book addresses the subjects of literacy. It explores how literacy workers are subjected to the relations between new forms of labor and the concept of human capital as a dominant economic structure in the United States. It is about how literacies become forms of value producing labor in everyday life both within and beyond the workplace itself. As this book shows, apprehending the meaning of literacy work requires an understanding of how lit…
History and Epistemology
I argue that David Ruccio and Jack Amariglio's Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics has a particular pedagogical importance for those of us who teach in the humanities, for three different reasons. Ruccio and Amariglio understand our disciplines a lot better than most of us understand the discipline of economics, and can act as very effective translators. Second, their emphasis on everyday economic discourse intersects very usefully with cultur…
Academic Freedom/Academic Market
The principles of academic freedom as articulated in centrally influential documents such as the 1940 AAUP "Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure" assume the concept of merit as basic. The protections and the responsibilities of academic freedom and tenure are granted to faculty members who over time have demonstrated meritorious work in their specific fields of expertise. The proliferation of post-tenure reviews, however, sugges…
Class novelties
There were a lot of complaints in the late seventies and through the eighties that “class” was being left out of the triple mantra of race/gender/class. Race and gender were being theorized in all kinds of new and productive ways; class was not. In fact, there were a number of ways in which class was taken up across the theory spectrum of the eighties. But arguably Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff developed the most comprehensive theory of class…
Class Consciousness and Mobility in Bombay-London-New York
Bombay-London-New York is especially rich even among Kumar's multidimensional texts. It's at once a travel story and a novel, and a novel about novels and of course a sophisticated meditation on the intersecting circulations of people, texts and currencies. The fact that it does deal so often and in so many ways with mobilities, however, helps set up one of the curious features of the book for me and perhaps for anyone who has followed Kumar's ca…
Middle Takes All
Gramscian Politics and Capitalist Common Sense
“Gramsci” is a name that has been used for a long time by a lot of people to authorize political attention to cultural practices, as against many different versions of economism that would seem to ignore fields of culture altogether. Some of that borrowed authority is of course legitimate enough; Gramsci’s writings do involve lengthy critiques of economism. But some of it is far-fetched indeed, since I think it’s rather difficult to read much of …
Everyday Exchanges
This strikingly original work challenges a familiar assumption within cultural studies: that cultural practices happen in an everyday realm that is potentially open-ended, involving everyone; whereas economics, by contrast, is alien, a force field determined by international financial interests and legitimized by the arid discourses of professional economists. The author argues that, in fact, for most people, most of the time, economic issues are…
For the Time being, Forever
Gramsci's Anti-Croce
Why in prison did Gramsci continue to read and think about Croce? Certainly Croce's philosophy had exercised a powerful influence on his own early development, but hardly any longer by the time he was imprisoned and began writing the Notebooks. Why, then, as the Notebooks continue, does Croce keep recurring all over the place? The question seems to me potentially dangerous for literary critics. For it poses a problem close to our territory as it …
The Self-Evaluations of Critical Theory
Evan Watkins, The Self-Evaluations of Critical Theory, boundary 2, Vol. 12/13, Vol. 12, no. 3 - Vol. 13, no. 1, On Humanism and the University I: The Discourse of Humanism (Spring - Autumn, 1984), pp. 359-378
Dramatistic Education
Conflict and Consensus in the History of Recent Criticism
[ THINK FEW would quarrel with the assertion that since the decline of the New Criticism, literary criticism has become progressively more concerned with the description, interpretation, and explanation of literary works and progressively more suspicious of value judgments about them. One of the curious effects of this change has been to make the history of recent criticism very different from what appears in either critical theory or critical pr…
The Politics of Literary Criticism
I think Professor Said's discussion has demonstrated a necessity to understand the relationships between criticism and other activities. And I don't want to suggest, in concentrating on the encounter between critic and poem, that there are a set of internal relations within the activity of criticism which must be described before one can talk about these connections to other things. Rather, my reason for emphasizing this particular relation, betw…
Raymond Williams and Marxist Criticism
I wish to discuss Raymond Williams' recent study, The Country and the City, as it represents a convergence of critical concern between those traditional antagonists, Marxist and New Criticism. There are of course many forms of both Marxist and New Critical approaches to literature, and it would negate Williams' own sensitivity to critical differences to suggest that his work offers a means of integrating this profound multiplicity into a single s…
W. S. Merwin
One of the most conspicuous absences from much of contemporary literature is the sustained, fine intricacy of personal relationships. There seem to me two particularly important and different realizations of this situation, very roughly divided between poetry and fiction, and it is these I wish to discuss. They are important because both self-consciously deny the primary importance of personality, rather than simply eliding its possibility, and t…
History and Epistemology
I argue that David Ruccio and Jack Amariglio's Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics has a particular pedagogical importance for those of us who teach in the humanities, for three different reasons. Ruccio and Amariglio understand our disciplines a lot better than most of us understand the discipline of economics, and can act as very effective translators. Second, their emphasis on everyday economic discourse intersects very usefully with cultur…
Academic Freedom/Academic Market
The principles of academic freedom as articulated in centrally influential documents such as the 1940 AAUP "Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure" assume the concept of merit as basic. The protections and the responsibilities of academic freedom and tenure are granted to faculty members who over time have demonstrated meritorious work in their specific fields of expertise. The proliferation of post-tenure reviews, however, sugges…
Class novelties
There were a lot of complaints in the late seventies and through the eighties that “class” was being left out of the triple mantra of race/gender/class. Race and gender were being theorized in all kinds of new and productive ways; class was not. In fact, there were a number of ways in which class was taken up across the theory spectrum of the eighties. But arguably Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff developed the most comprehensive theory of class…
Middle Takes All
Gramscian Politics and Capitalist Common Sense
“Gramsci” is a name that has been used for a long time by a lot of people to authorize political attention to cultural practices, as against many different versions of economism that would seem to ignore fields of culture altogether. Some of that borrowed authority is of course legitimate enough; Gramsci’s writings do involve lengthy critiques of economism. But some of it is far-fetched indeed, since I think it’s rather difficult to read much of …
For the Time being, Forever
W. S. Merwin
One of the most conspicuous absences from much of contemporary literature is the sustained, fine intricacy of personal relationships. There seem to me two particularly important and different realizations of this situation, very roughly divided between poetry and fiction, and it is these I wish to discuss. They are important because both self-consciously deny the primary importance of personality, rather than simply eliding its possibility, and t…
Raymond Williams and Marxist Criticism
I wish to discuss Raymond Williams' recent study, The Country and the City, as it represents a convergence of critical concern between those traditional antagonists, Marxist and New Criticism. There are of course many forms of both Marxist and New Critical approaches to literature, and it would negate Williams' own sensitivity to critical differences to suggest that his work offers a means of integrating this profound multiplicity into a single s…
The Politics of Literary Criticism
I think Professor Said's discussion has demonstrated a necessity to understand the relationships between criticism and other activities. And I don't want to suggest, in concentrating on the encounter between critic and poem, that there are a set of internal relations within the activity of criticism which must be described before one can talk about these connections to other things. Rather, my reason for emphasizing this particular relation, betw…
Conflict and Consensus in the History of Recent Criticism
[ THINK FEW would quarrel with the assertion that since the decline of the New Criticism, literary criticism has become progressively more concerned with the description, interpretation, and explanation of literary works and progressively more suspicious of value judgments about them. One of the curious effects of this change has been to make the history of recent criticism very different from what appears in either critical theory or critical pr…
Dramatistic Education
The Self-Evaluations of Critical Theory
Evan Watkins, The Self-Evaluations of Critical Theory, boundary 2, Vol. 12/13, Vol. 12, no. 3 - Vol. 13, no. 1, On Humanism and the University I: The Discourse of Humanism (Spring - Autumn, 1984), pp. 359-378
Gramsci's Anti-Croce
Why in prison did Gramsci continue to read and think about Croce? Certainly Croce's philosophy had exercised a powerful influence on his own early development, but hardly any longer by the time he was imprisoned and began writing the Notebooks. Why, then, as the Notebooks continue, does Croce keep recurring all over the place? The question seems to me potentially dangerous for literary critics. For it poses a problem close to our territory as it …
For the Time being, Forever
Everyday Exchanges
This strikingly original work challenges a familiar assumption within cultural studies: that cultural practices happen in an everyday realm that is potentially open-ended, involving everyone; whereas economics, by contrast, is alien, a force field determined by international financial interests and legitimized by the arid discourses of professional economists. The author argues that, in fact, for most people, most of the time, economic issues are…
Gramscian Politics and Capitalist Common Sense
“Gramsci” is a name that has been used for a long time by a lot of people to authorize political attention to cultural practices, as against many different versions of economism that would seem to ignore fields of culture altogether. Some of that borrowed authority is of course legitimate enough; Gramsci’s writings do involve lengthy critiques of economism. But some of it is far-fetched indeed, since I think it’s rather difficult to read much of …
Middle Takes All
Class novelties
There were a lot of complaints in the late seventies and through the eighties that “class” was being left out of the triple mantra of race/gender/class. Race and gender were being theorized in all kinds of new and productive ways; class was not. In fact, there were a number of ways in which class was taken up across the theory spectrum of the eighties. But arguably Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff developed the most comprehensive theory of class…
Class Consciousness and Mobility in Bombay-London-New York
Bombay-London-New York is especially rich even among Kumar's multidimensional texts. It's at once a travel story and a novel, and a novel about novels and of course a sophisticated meditation on the intersecting circulations of people, texts and currencies. The fact that it does deal so often and in so many ways with mobilities, however, helps set up one of the curious features of the book for me and perhaps for anyone who has followed Kumar's ca…
Academic Freedom/Academic Market
The principles of academic freedom as articulated in centrally influential documents such as the 1940 AAUP "Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure" assume the concept of merit as basic. The protections and the responsibilities of academic freedom and tenure are granted to faculty members who over time have demonstrated meritorious work in their specific fields of expertise. The proliferation of post-tenure reviews, however, sugges…
History and Epistemology
I argue that David Ruccio and Jack Amariglio's Postmodern Moments in Modern Economics has a particular pedagogical importance for those of us who teach in the humanities, for three different reasons. Ruccio and Amariglio understand our disciplines a lot better than most of us understand the discipline of economics, and can act as very effective translators. Second, their emphasis on everyday economic discourse intersects very usefully with cultur…
Literacy Work in the Reign of Human Capital
This book addresses the subjects of literacy. It explores how literacy workers are subjected to the relations between new forms of labor and the concept of human capital as a dominant economic structure in the United States. It is about how literacies become forms of value producing labor in everyday life both within and beyond the workplace itself. As this book shows, apprehending the meaning of literacy work requires an understanding of how lit…
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