Stephen Dillon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629970 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Dillon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Dillon |
| SIGNATURE | DILLON S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Love and Abolition
Blackness and the Aesthetics of Freedom
Blackness and the Aesthetics of Freedom Stephen Dillon (bio) A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See. By Tina M. Campt. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 232 pages. $29.95 (hardcover). Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. By Nicole R. Fleet-wood. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 352 pages. $39.95 (hardcover). Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography. By Shawn Michelle Smith. Durham, NC: Duke Un…
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies
In this essay, the author examines June Jordan's poetic invocations of violence in order to consider their implications for future abolitionist thought. Jordan uses violence in her poetry to envision ways of feeling and being that make the present impossible and unimaginable and thus make possible new ways of knowing. If antiblack, heteropatriarchial violence makes certain forms of thought impossible, then Jordan smashes "a hammer to his head" to…
Affective Terror, Affective Insurgency
In this essay, I examine the affective contours of Audre Lorde’s poetic meditations on police violence. Lorde wrote poems about the police murder of a young Black boy, Clifford Glover, over a five-year period. Her poems offer us a theory of affect that comes from the Black radical tradition and Black lesbian feminism more specifically. She deftly maneuvers between terror and insurgency and highlights how to navigate the unspeakable and unthinkabl…
Fugitive Life
During the 1970s in the United States, hundreds of feminist, queer, and antiracist activists were imprisoned or became fugitives as they fought the changing contours of U.S. imperialism, global capitalism, and a repressive racial state. In Fugitive Life Stephen Dillon examines these activists' communiqués, films, memoirs, prison writing, and poetry to highlight the centrality of gender and sexuality to a mode of racialized power called the neolib…
The Prisoner's Dream
Research Article| December 01 2015 The Prisoner's Dream: Queer Visions from Solitary Confinement Stephen Dillon Stephen Dillon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 161–184. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.23.2.0161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Dillon; The Prisoner's Dream: Queer Visions from Solitary Confinement. Qui Parle …
The Haunting of Evidence
In this essay, we situate the murder of Trayvon Martin within the history of the relationship between evidence and anti-blackness, suggesting that evidence and facts are rendered irrelevant when it comes to racialized violence and terror. Through an examination of the circulated 'media narrative' images of Martin and Zimmerman, we argue that the failure of evidence is bound up with a racialized optics rooted in U.S. chattel slavery that overdeter…
It's here, it's that time
This paper uses the film Born in Flames to engage questions around hope and the future that have been central to queer studies in the last decade. As the author understands it, the film's critique of the time of reform and progress holds profound implications for how we think about the future. By demonstrating the repetitions of racialized and gendered violence over time, the film produces a theory of the future where the continuation of the pres…
Possessed by Death
This article offers a critical genealogy of the neoliberal-carceral state by engaging the writing of Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur. Shakur's work is read as a black feminist theorization of neoliberalism at the very moment of its emergence. By engaging Shakur's discussion of race, gender, time, and the market, the article pursues a connection between chattel slavery and the present that has yet to garner attention among scholars: sla…
Possessed by Death
This article offers a critical genealogy of the neoliberal-carceral state by engaging the writing of Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur. Shakur's work is read as a black feminist theorization of neoliberalism at the very moment of its emergence. By engaging Shakur's discussion of race, gender, time, and the market, the article pursues a connection between chattel slavery and the present that has yet to garner attention among scholars: sla…
The Haunting of Evidence
In this essay, we situate the murder of Trayvon Martin within the history of the relationship between evidence and anti-blackness, suggesting that evidence and facts are rendered irrelevant when it comes to racialized violence and terror. Through an examination of the circulated 'media narrative' images of Martin and Zimmerman, we argue that the failure of evidence is bound up with a racialized optics rooted in U.S. chattel slavery that overdeter…
It's here, it's that time
This paper uses the film Born in Flames to engage questions around hope and the future that have been central to queer studies in the last decade. As the author understands it, the film's critique of the time of reform and progress holds profound implications for how we think about the future. By demonstrating the repetitions of racialized and gendered violence over time, the film produces a theory of the future where the continuation of the pres…
Possessed by Death
This article offers a critical genealogy of the neoliberal-carceral state by engaging the writing of Black Liberation Army member Assata Shakur. Shakur's work is read as a black feminist theorization of neoliberalism at the very moment of its emergence. By engaging Shakur's discussion of race, gender, time, and the market, the article pursues a connection between chattel slavery and the present that has yet to garner attention among scholars: sla…
It's here, it's that time
This paper uses the film Born in Flames to engage questions around hope and the future that have been central to queer studies in the last decade. As the author understands it, the film's critique of the time of reform and progress holds profound implications for how we think about the future. By demonstrating the repetitions of racialized and gendered violence over time, the film produces a theory of the future where the continuation of the pres…
The Prisoner's Dream
Research Article| December 01 2015 The Prisoner's Dream: Queer Visions from Solitary Confinement Stephen Dillon Stephen Dillon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2015) 23 (2): 161–184. https://doi.org/10.5250/quiparle.23.2.0161 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Dillon; The Prisoner's Dream: Queer Visions from Solitary Confinement. Qui Parle …
The Haunting of Evidence
In this essay, we situate the murder of Trayvon Martin within the history of the relationship between evidence and anti-blackness, suggesting that evidence and facts are rendered irrelevant when it comes to racialized violence and terror. Through an examination of the circulated 'media narrative' images of Martin and Zimmerman, we argue that the failure of evidence is bound up with a racialized optics rooted in U.S. chattel slavery that overdeter…
Fugitive Life
During the 1970s in the United States, hundreds of feminist, queer, and antiracist activists were imprisoned or became fugitives as they fought the changing contours of U.S. imperialism, global capitalism, and a repressive racial state. In Fugitive Life Stephen Dillon examines these activists' communiqués, films, memoirs, prison writing, and poetry to highlight the centrality of gender and sexuality to a mode of racialized power called the neolib…
Affective Terror, Affective Insurgency
In this essay, I examine the affective contours of Audre Lorde’s poetic meditations on police violence. Lorde wrote poems about the police murder of a young Black boy, Clifford Glover, over a five-year period. Her poems offer us a theory of affect that comes from the Black radical tradition and Black lesbian feminism more specifically. She deftly maneuvers between terror and insurgency and highlights how to navigate the unspeakable and unthinkabl…
Blackness and the Aesthetics of Freedom
Blackness and the Aesthetics of Freedom Stephen Dillon (bio) A Black Gaze: Artists Changing How We See. By Tina M. Campt. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021. 232 pages. $29.95 (hardcover). Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration. By Nicole R. Fleet-wood. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. 352 pages. $39.95 (hardcover). Photographic Returns: Racial Justice and the Time of Photography. By Shawn Michelle Smith. Durham, NC: Duke Un…
I Must Become a Menace to My Enemies
In this essay, the author examines June Jordan's poetic invocations of violence in order to consider their implications for future abolitionist thought. Jordan uses violence in her poetry to envision ways of feeling and being that make the present impossible and unimaginable and thus make possible new ways of knowing. If antiblack, heteropatriarchial violence makes certain forms of thought impossible, then Jordan smashes "a hammer to his head" to…
Love and Abolition
Sociology (9 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Queer (5 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (4 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Law (4 works)