Jason Demers
Biographic Data
| ID | 3635099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Demers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Demers |
| SIGNATURE | DEMERS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | a 2–53 Jersey Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, M6G 3A4 Canada E-mail |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Theory Variations
Credit: Jared Lazarus, Duke University (2013) While the Johns Hopkins symposium on “The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man” saw the likes of Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Tzvetan Todorov address an audience of American academics in 1966, the American life of “French Theory” took shape in journals, edited collections, and via visiting professorships over the course of the following decades. In the 1970s, thinkers …
The American Politics of French Theory
Is a Trojan Horse an Empty Signifier? The Televisual Politics of Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black self-consciously negotiates the politics of the gaze. It demonstrates how the women-in-prison genre contrives objects out of subjects, and it stages a looking back: women meet the gaze with a disdain that the audience is made to share. While it is initially a white, middle class protagonist who looks back, her privileged position is relinquished via a “Trojan horse” strategy that can be read through Ernesto Laclau and Chan…
Prison liberation by association
This article documents how Michel Foucault used his status as a prestigiously chaired French intellectual to relay the speech of prisoners as part of the Groupe d'information sur les prisons (GIP) at the turn of the seventies. While discussions of the GIP's oppositional work have helped to explain some of the strategic resistances that the group mounted to combat the carceral system in France, one cannot overemphasize the ways in which relays and…
Control, Resistance, and Racism in the Contemporary Prison
By 2009, more than 2 million Americans were in prison and an additional 5 million were in jail, on probation, or on parole. Statistics such as these have resulted in a general unease with the way that the United States punishes its citizens, but the causes of America’s prison binge are specific, and the pains prison generates are not experienced uniformly across racial and gender lines. This essay reviews three books on contemporary trends in Ame…
An American Excursion
An American Excursion:Deleuze and Guattari from New York to Chicago1 Jason Demers (bio) One does not really have to look further than the signifier itself – "French theory" – to realize that what the term signifies will most likely be a product of translation: a member-group constituted of individuals unaware of either the existence of the group or their membership in it. Although the term collects thinkers and concepts stretching back to the mid…
For a Political Gilles Deleuze
For a Political Gilles Deleuze Jason Demers Gilles Deleuze’s Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975–1995 Trans. Ames Hodges and Mike Taormina. Ed. David Lapoujade. New York, N.Y.: Semiotext(e), 2006. 415 pages. $17.95 (paper). ISBN: 1-58435-032-6. What Deleuze is possible today? Or, in this particular instance, what Deleuze can be constructed from sixty-two pieces, a chronologically conveyed cast of prefaces, pamphlets, letters, and in…
Re-Membering the Body without Organs
Perhaps one day, this century will be known as Deleuzian” (Foucault, “Theatrum Philosophicum” 165).2 This statement is both encouraging and disheartening. What is meant by this statement? Is the w
Prison liberation by association
This article documents how Michel Foucault used his status as a prestigiously chaired French intellectual to relay the speech of prisoners as part of the Groupe d'information sur les prisons (GIP) at the turn of the seventies. While discussions of the GIP's oppositional work have helped to explain some of the strategic resistances that the group mounted to combat the carceral system in France, one cannot overemphasize the ways in which relays and…
Re-Membering the Body without Organs
Perhaps one day, this century will be known as Deleuzian” (Foucault, “Theatrum Philosophicum” 165).2 This statement is both encouraging and disheartening. What is meant by this statement? Is the w
Re-Membering the Body without Organs
Perhaps one day, this century will be known as Deleuzian” (Foucault, “Theatrum Philosophicum” 165).2 This statement is both encouraging and disheartening. What is meant by this statement? Is the w
For a Political Gilles Deleuze
For a Political Gilles Deleuze Jason Demers Gilles Deleuze’s Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975–1995 Trans. Ames Hodges and Mike Taormina. Ed. David Lapoujade. New York, N.Y.: Semiotext(e), 2006. 415 pages. $17.95 (paper). ISBN: 1-58435-032-6. What Deleuze is possible today? Or, in this particular instance, what Deleuze can be constructed from sixty-two pieces, a chronologically conveyed cast of prefaces, pamphlets, letters, and in…
An American Excursion
An American Excursion:Deleuze and Guattari from New York to Chicago1 Jason Demers (bio) One does not really have to look further than the signifier itself – "French theory" – to realize that what the term signifies will most likely be a product of translation: a member-group constituted of individuals unaware of either the existence of the group or their membership in it. Although the term collects thinkers and concepts stretching back to the mid…
Control, Resistance, and Racism in the Contemporary Prison
By 2009, more than 2 million Americans were in prison and an additional 5 million were in jail, on probation, or on parole. Statistics such as these have resulted in a general unease with the way that the United States punishes its citizens, but the causes of America’s prison binge are specific, and the pains prison generates are not experienced uniformly across racial and gender lines. This essay reviews three books on contemporary trends in Ame…
Prison liberation by association
This article documents how Michel Foucault used his status as a prestigiously chaired French intellectual to relay the speech of prisoners as part of the Groupe d'information sur les prisons (GIP) at the turn of the seventies. While discussions of the GIP's oppositional work have helped to explain some of the strategic resistances that the group mounted to combat the carceral system in France, one cannot overemphasize the ways in which relays and…
Is a Trojan Horse an Empty Signifier? The Televisual Politics of Orange Is the New Black
Orange Is the New Black self-consciously negotiates the politics of the gaze. It demonstrates how the women-in-prison genre contrives objects out of subjects, and it stages a looking back: women meet the gaze with a disdain that the audience is made to share. While it is initially a white, middle class protagonist who looks back, her privileged position is relinquished via a “Trojan horse” strategy that can be read through Ernesto Laclau and Chan…
The American Politics of French Theory
The Theory Variations
Credit: Jared Lazarus, Duke University (2013) While the Johns Hopkins symposium on “The Languages of Criticism and the Sciences of Man” saw the likes of Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, and Tzvetan Todorov address an audience of American academics in 1966, the American life of “French Theory” took shape in journals, edited collections, and via visiting professorships over the course of the following decades. In the 1970s, thinkers …
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