Victor Li
Biographic Data
| ID | 3664813 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Li |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Li |
| SIGNATURE | LI V |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-6051-2723 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The New Normal
The Biopolitics of Numbers
Victor Li shares this essay in response to the 2020 COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic. Numbers have always counted in our everyday lives. But, in this time of the Covid-19 pandemic, numbers count for even more as they display their full biopolitical character. Every day the entire mediascape bombards us with numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases and of those who have died from the disease
The “Communovirus,” (In)Equality, and Justice
A Covid-19 poster’s warning to “Do Your Part/Stay Apart” and a dance sequence from Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 film Bande à Part are the starting points for a reflection on Jean-Luc Nancy’s recent essay, “Communovirus,” in which he argues that the threat of the coronavirus “communizes us” even as it forces us to distance ourselves from each other. This paradoxical sense of shared separation, central to Nancy’s thought, is then explored in relation to …
Giorgio Agamben, J. G. Farrell’s The Singapore Grip , and the Colonial Dispositif
In his Afterword to The Singapore Grip , J. G. Farrell thanks Giorgio and Ginevra Agamben for suggesting the phrase that became the title of his novel. What can we make of this surprising and unexpected connection between an Anglo-Irish author’s novel about colonial Singapore on the eve of its fall to the Japanese army during World War II and Agamben’s writings on biopolitics? Despite the serendipitous nature of the encounter between the two writ…
The Untimely in Globalization's Time: Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis
Globalization's time is made possible through the elision or devaluation of other times and the attempt to control and foreclose the future through the technological acceleration of its own temporality. But global time remains haunted by traces of the non-global and the untimely. My paper will examine both the temporal framework capitalist globalization imposes on the world and the times outside that framework that, by their untimeliness, disturb…
S ahlins, M arshall
One of the most important figures in American anthropology, Marshall David Sahlins (b. 1930) is known not only for his ethnographic and historical studies of Polynesian societies but also for his vigorous championing and defense of anthropology's culture concept. Born in Chicago, Sahlins received his master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1952. After earning his doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University in 1954, he returned t…
Necroidealism, or the Subaltern's Sacrificial Death
Dipesh Chakrabarty admits that the subaltern who wholly resists incorporation by dominant state forms is 'an ideal figure,' a utopian concept designating the limits of hegemonic thought. I wish to argue that such a utopian ideal may find its most convincing but problematic representation in the figure of the dead subaltern. In death, the subaltern is perfected as a concept so pure no living referent can contradict or complicate it. As in utopian …
Elliptical Interruptions: Or, Why Derrida Prefers Mondialisation to Globalization
Responding to a journalist's question on subject of globalization, Jacques Derrida expressed his interest in notion of [monde] and its history while emphasizing that world is neither earth nor universe nor cosmos. He then went on to ask provocatively: Why do English, Americans, and Germans speak of and not (as French do) mondialisation? (2005b, 118). Rather than merely reflecting a francophone bias, Derrida' s preference for mondialisation calls …
The Neo-Primitivist Turn: Critical Reflections on Alterity, Culture, and Modernity
Providing close readings of the ways in which the premodern or primitive is strategically deployed in contemporary critical writings, Li's interdisciplinary study is a timely and forceful intervention into current debates on the politics and ethics of otherness, the problems of cultural relativism, and the vicissitudes of modernity
Rationality and Loss: Habermas and the Recovery of the Pre‐modern Other
Marshall Sahlins and the Apotheosis of Culture
When Captain James Cook sailed into Kealakekua Bay on January 17, 1779, little did he know that he was sailing into a Hawaiian cosmological drama in which he would be the main protagonist. Cook was not aware that he was, in Marshall Sahlins's words, "a tradition for Hawaiians before he was a fact." 2 In several essays and book chapters published in the seventies and eighties, Sahlins, the anthropologist most cited in anthropology journals accordi…
What's in a Name: "Questioning "Globalization
Law and Politics in China's Foreign Trade
James C. Hsiung; Law and Politics in China's Foreign Trade, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 28, Issue 1, 1 January 1980, Pages 146–147, htt
Necroidealism, or the Subaltern's Sacrificial Death
Dipesh Chakrabarty admits that the subaltern who wholly resists incorporation by dominant state forms is 'an ideal figure,' a utopian concept designating the limits of hegemonic thought. I wish to argue that such a utopian ideal may find its most convincing but problematic representation in the figure of the dead subaltern. In death, the subaltern is perfected as a concept so pure no living referent can contradict or complicate it. As in utopian …
Marshall Sahlins and the Apotheosis of Culture
When Captain James Cook sailed into Kealakekua Bay on January 17, 1779, little did he know that he was sailing into a Hawaiian cosmological drama in which he would be the main protagonist. Cook was not aware that he was, in Marshall Sahlins's words, "a tradition for Hawaiians before he was a fact." 2 In several essays and book chapters published in the seventies and eighties, Sahlins, the anthropologist most cited in anthropology journals accordi…
Elliptical Interruptions: Or, Why Derrida Prefers Mondialisation to Globalization
Responding to a journalist's question on subject of globalization, Jacques Derrida expressed his interest in notion of [monde] and its history while emphasizing that world is neither earth nor universe nor cosmos. He then went on to ask provocatively: Why do English, Americans, and Germans speak of and not (as French do) mondialisation? (2005b, 118). Rather than merely reflecting a francophone bias, Derrida' s preference for mondialisation calls …
What's in a Name: "Questioning "Globalization
The Untimely in Globalization's Time: Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis
Globalization's time is made possible through the elision or devaluation of other times and the attempt to control and foreclose the future through the technological acceleration of its own temporality. But global time remains haunted by traces of the non-global and the untimely. My paper will examine both the temporal framework capitalist globalization imposes on the world and the times outside that framework that, by their untimeliness, disturb…
Law and Politics in China's Foreign Trade
James C. Hsiung; Law and Politics in China's Foreign Trade, The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume 28, Issue 1, 1 January 1980, Pages 146–147, htt
What's in a Name: "Questioning "Globalization
Marshall Sahlins and the Apotheosis of Culture
When Captain James Cook sailed into Kealakekua Bay on January 17, 1779, little did he know that he was sailing into a Hawaiian cosmological drama in which he would be the main protagonist. Cook was not aware that he was, in Marshall Sahlins's words, "a tradition for Hawaiians before he was a fact." 2 In several essays and book chapters published in the seventies and eighties, Sahlins, the anthropologist most cited in anthropology journals accordi…
Rationality and Loss: Habermas and the Recovery of the Pre‐modern Other
The Neo-Primitivist Turn: Critical Reflections on Alterity, Culture, and Modernity
Providing close readings of the ways in which the premodern or primitive is strategically deployed in contemporary critical writings, Li's interdisciplinary study is a timely and forceful intervention into current debates on the politics and ethics of otherness, the problems of cultural relativism, and the vicissitudes of modernity
Elliptical Interruptions: Or, Why Derrida Prefers Mondialisation to Globalization
Responding to a journalist's question on subject of globalization, Jacques Derrida expressed his interest in notion of [monde] and its history while emphasizing that world is neither earth nor universe nor cosmos. He then went on to ask provocatively: Why do English, Americans, and Germans speak of and not (as French do) mondialisation? (2005b, 118). Rather than merely reflecting a francophone bias, Derrida' s preference for mondialisation calls …
Necroidealism, or the Subaltern's Sacrificial Death
Dipesh Chakrabarty admits that the subaltern who wholly resists incorporation by dominant state forms is 'an ideal figure,' a utopian concept designating the limits of hegemonic thought. I wish to argue that such a utopian ideal may find its most convincing but problematic representation in the figure of the dead subaltern. In death, the subaltern is perfected as a concept so pure no living referent can contradict or complicate it. As in utopian …
S ahlins, M arshall
One of the most important figures in American anthropology, Marshall David Sahlins (b. 1930) is known not only for his ethnographic and historical studies of Polynesian societies but also for his vigorous championing and defense of anthropology's culture concept. Born in Chicago, Sahlins received his master's degree from the University of Michigan in 1952. After earning his doctorate in anthropology from Columbia University in 1954, he returned t…
The Untimely in Globalization's Time: Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis
Globalization's time is made possible through the elision or devaluation of other times and the attempt to control and foreclose the future through the technological acceleration of its own temporality. But global time remains haunted by traces of the non-global and the untimely. My paper will examine both the temporal framework capitalist globalization imposes on the world and the times outside that framework that, by their untimeliness, disturb…
Giorgio Agamben, J. G. Farrell’s The Singapore Grip , and the Colonial Dispositif
In his Afterword to The Singapore Grip , J. G. Farrell thanks Giorgio and Ginevra Agamben for suggesting the phrase that became the title of his novel. What can we make of this surprising and unexpected connection between an Anglo-Irish author’s novel about colonial Singapore on the eve of its fall to the Japanese army during World War II and Agamben’s writings on biopolitics? Despite the serendipitous nature of the encounter between the two writ…
The New Normal
The Biopolitics of Numbers
Victor Li shares this essay in response to the 2020 COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic. Numbers have always counted in our everyday lives. But, in this time of the Covid-19 pandemic, numbers count for even more as they display their full biopolitical character. Every day the entire mediascape bombards us with numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases and of those who have died from the disease
The “Communovirus,” (In)Equality, and Justice
A Covid-19 poster’s warning to “Do Your Part/Stay Apart” and a dance sequence from Jean-Luc Godard’s 1964 film Bande à Part are the starting points for a reflection on Jean-Luc Nancy’s recent essay, “Communovirus,” in which he argues that the threat of the coronavirus “communizes us” even as it forces us to distance ourselves from each other. This paradoxical sense of shared separation, central to Nancy’s thought, is then explored in relation to …
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