Kam Shapiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kam Shapiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kam |
| FAMILY NAME | Shapiro |
| SIGNATURE | SHAPIRO K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Illinois State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Coloring outside the Lines
In a series of detective novels published between 1957 and 1969 Chester Himes portrayed diverse individuals struggling for survival, wealth, and status in a fictionalized postwar Harlem, combining what Richard Wright called a “bio-social” perspective with an antiracist aesthetics that falsified simplistic racial categories. In this essay, I trace Himes’s renderings of bodily difference and transformation, highlighting features neglected by contem…
Residues and Derivations
This essay revisits Vilfredo Pareto’s attempt in his Treatise on General Sociology (1916) to classify the non-rational sentiments animating social and political life, considering implications for recent theories of affective politics. Long known for having combined an irrational psychology with a model of elite rule, Pareto has more recently been cited as a predecessor for behavioral economists. However, I show, Pareto described sentiments as sou…
Violence and politeness
Assembling Counter-Majorities
In this essay, I read Mark Twain as a practitioner of what Deleuze and Guattari call an “active micropolitics,” focusing especially on his depictions of race and racism. In his popular stories, essays, speeches, and autobiography, Twain gave voice not only to marginal and underprivileged characters, but also to minoritarian, changeable sentiments circulating among popular majorities. Moreover, he suggested these sentiments might comprise not only…
Confounding Solidaritysingular, Universal and Particular Subjects in the Artworks of Tehching Hsieh and the Politics of the New Left
This essay takes the performance artworks of Tehching Hsieh as instructive allegories for a global ethics as theorized by a variety of left academics (including Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri) who ground universalism in a singularity that escapes the predicates of identity. Hsieh's projects, I argue, also place universal estrangement in the service of liberation for particular margin…
Reviving Habit
Virtual plurality and polemical synthesis
In this essay I derive a theory of virtual publics from Carl Schmitt's discussions of polemical identification. In Schmitt's well‐known formulations, a public is distinguished from private individuals and groupings by an existential opposition to an enemy. As I show, the polemical formation of the public involves the channeling of intensities from diverse pre‐political or private conflicts. Adopting the terms of Gilles Deleuze and Brian Massumi, …
Carl Schmitt and the Intensification of Politics
Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time
Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time. By William Scheuerman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 312p. $42.00. While the political ramifications of social acceleration have preoccupied thinkers in a variety of disciplines at least since the Industrial Revolution, and contemporary works by such thinkers as Paul Virilio, David Harvey, James Der Derian, and William Connolly have highlighted various modes of speed, m…
Books in Review
Residues and Derivations
This essay revisits Vilfredo Pareto’s attempt in his Treatise on General Sociology (1916) to classify the non-rational sentiments animating social and political life, considering implications for recent theories of affective politics. Long known for having combined an irrational psychology with a model of elite rule, Pareto has more recently been cited as a predecessor for behavioral economists. However, I show, Pareto described sentiments as sou…
Assembling Counter-Majorities
In this essay, I read Mark Twain as a practitioner of what Deleuze and Guattari call an “active micropolitics,” focusing especially on his depictions of race and racism. In his popular stories, essays, speeches, and autobiography, Twain gave voice not only to marginal and underprivileged characters, but also to minoritarian, changeable sentiments circulating among popular majorities. Moreover, he suggested these sentiments might comprise not only…
Books in Review
Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time
Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time. By William Scheuerman. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 312p. $42.00. While the political ramifications of social acceleration have preoccupied thinkers in a variety of disciplines at least since the Industrial Revolution, and contemporary works by such thinkers as Paul Virilio, David Harvey, James Der Derian, and William Connolly have highlighted various modes of speed, m…
Carl Schmitt and the Intensification of Politics
Reviving Habit
Virtual plurality and polemical synthesis
In this essay I derive a theory of virtual publics from Carl Schmitt's discussions of polemical identification. In Schmitt's well‐known formulations, a public is distinguished from private individuals and groupings by an existential opposition to an enemy. As I show, the polemical formation of the public involves the channeling of intensities from diverse pre‐political or private conflicts. Adopting the terms of Gilles Deleuze and Brian Massumi, …
Confounding Solidaritysingular, Universal and Particular Subjects in the Artworks of Tehching Hsieh and the Politics of the New Left
This essay takes the performance artworks of Tehching Hsieh as instructive allegories for a global ethics as theorized by a variety of left academics (including Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Jacques Rancière, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri) who ground universalism in a singularity that escapes the predicates of identity. Hsieh's projects, I argue, also place universal estrangement in the service of liberation for particular margin…
Assembling Counter-Majorities
In this essay, I read Mark Twain as a practitioner of what Deleuze and Guattari call an “active micropolitics,” focusing especially on his depictions of race and racism. In his popular stories, essays, speeches, and autobiography, Twain gave voice not only to marginal and underprivileged characters, but also to minoritarian, changeable sentiments circulating among popular majorities. Moreover, he suggested these sentiments might comprise not only…
Violence and politeness
Residues and Derivations
This essay revisits Vilfredo Pareto’s attempt in his Treatise on General Sociology (1916) to classify the non-rational sentiments animating social and political life, considering implications for recent theories of affective politics. Long known for having combined an irrational psychology with a model of elite rule, Pareto has more recently been cited as a predecessor for behavioral economists. However, I show, Pareto described sentiments as sou…
Coloring outside the Lines
In a series of detective novels published between 1957 and 1969 Chester Himes portrayed diverse individuals struggling for survival, wealth, and status in a fictionalized postwar Harlem, combining what Richard Wright called a “bio-social” perspective with an antiracist aesthetics that falsified simplistic racial categories. In this essay, I trace Himes’s renderings of bodily difference and transformation, highlighting features neglected by contem…
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