Jackie Orr
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685741 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jackie Orr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jackie |
| FAMILY NAME | Orr |
| SIGNATURE | ORR J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Syracuse University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life
Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies reflects on the study of trauma and how multidisciplinary approaches lend richness and a sense of deeper understanding…
Enchanting Catastrophe: Magical Subrealism and BP's Macondo
Remembering the late 19th century deployment of spiritualist technologies (divining rods, witching sticks) to locate oil deposits in the Americas, this visual essay situates U.S. petroleum culture in an occult genealogy of capitalist sorcery and supernatural materialism. The essay re-imagines the branded “BP” oil spill as an enchanted disaster unfolding across implicate orders of colonial phantasm, new subsea infrastructures of petro-capitalism, …
Toward a Sociology of the Trace
Introduction: The Practice of Enchantment: Strange Allures
Introduction:The Practice of Enchantment: Strange Allures Ann Burlein (bio) and Jackie Orr (bio) Escape is not a ghost, merely a protean trickster. It is a means to experiment and to initiate speculative ways to deal with the immediate and concrete facts which dwell in our worlds, . . . [and] their stubborn persistence. —Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson, and Vassilis Tsianos, Escape Routes (2008, 66) This issue of WSQ seeks to experiment w…
Materializing a Cyborg's Manifesto
Materializing a Cyborg’s Manifesto Jackie Orr (bio) utopia Once upon a time Donna Haraway wrote a manifesto for cyborgs. Inside the essay are pieces of time—a science fiction time of fantastic transmutations, an archival time of Cold War biologics and informatic cyberobjects, a spiraling time of pagan turns and returnings, a political time of retooling the very terms of feminist struggles. Outside the essay are wild oldnew times—the mythic physic…
Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder
Part cultural history, part sociological critique, and part literary performance, Panic Diaries explores the technological and social construction of individual and collective panic. Jackie Orr looks at instances of panic and its "cures" in the twentieth-century United States: from the mass hysteria following the 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds to an individual woman swallowing a pill to control the "panic disorder" offici…
The Militarization of Inner Space
This essay considers the contemporary militarization of U.S. civilian psychology in the context of World War II and Cold War efforts to target the psychic and emotional life of civilians as a battlefield component of 'total war.' Selectively tracing the entangled histories of academic social science, the mass media, military technologies, and U.S. government agencies, I suggest that the post-World War II emergence of the U.S. national security st…
Imagination in Theory: Culture, Writing, Words, and Things
Theory on the Market: Panic, Incorporating
This essay offers a feminist inquiry into the social and political economy of panic disorder. My guiding question: how to rework the dominant construction of panic disorder as a medical problem towards a critical understanding of panic as a social problem within the postmodern? I investigate panic as a material effect of new, disembodying technologies of commodity and gender production emerging out of increasingly liquid flows of transnational co…
The Militarization of Inner Space
This essay considers the contemporary militarization of U.S. civilian psychology in the context of World War II and Cold War efforts to target the psychic and emotional life of civilians as a battlefield component of 'total war.' Selectively tracing the entangled histories of academic social science, the mass media, military technologies, and U.S. government agencies, I suggest that the post-World War II emergence of the U.S. national security st…
Theory on the Market: Panic, Incorporating
This essay offers a feminist inquiry into the social and political economy of panic disorder. My guiding question: how to rework the dominant construction of panic disorder as a medical problem towards a critical understanding of panic as a social problem within the postmodern? I investigate panic as a material effect of new, disembodying technologies of commodity and gender production emerging out of increasingly liquid flows of transnational co…
Introduction: The Practice of Enchantment: Strange Allures
Introduction:The Practice of Enchantment: Strange Allures Ann Burlein (bio) and Jackie Orr (bio) Escape is not a ghost, merely a protean trickster. It is a means to experiment and to initiate speculative ways to deal with the immediate and concrete facts which dwell in our worlds, . . . [and] their stubborn persistence. —Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson, and Vassilis Tsianos, Escape Routes (2008, 66) This issue of WSQ seeks to experiment w…
Toward a Sociology of the Trace
Materializing a Cyborg's Manifesto
Materializing a Cyborg’s Manifesto Jackie Orr (bio) utopia Once upon a time Donna Haraway wrote a manifesto for cyborgs. Inside the essay are pieces of time—a science fiction time of fantastic transmutations, an archival time of Cold War biologics and informatic cyberobjects, a spiraling time of pagan turns and returnings, a political time of retooling the very terms of feminist struggles. Outside the essay are wild oldnew times—the mythic physic…
Theory on the Market: Panic, Incorporating
This essay offers a feminist inquiry into the social and political economy of panic disorder. My guiding question: how to rework the dominant construction of panic disorder as a medical problem towards a critical understanding of panic as a social problem within the postmodern? I investigate panic as a material effect of new, disembodying technologies of commodity and gender production emerging out of increasingly liquid flows of transnational co…
Imagination in Theory: Culture, Writing, Words, and Things
The Militarization of Inner Space
This essay considers the contemporary militarization of U.S. civilian psychology in the context of World War II and Cold War efforts to target the psychic and emotional life of civilians as a battlefield component of 'total war.' Selectively tracing the entangled histories of academic social science, the mass media, military technologies, and U.S. government agencies, I suggest that the post-World War II emergence of the U.S. national security st…
Panic Diaries: A Genealogy of Panic Disorder
Part cultural history, part sociological critique, and part literary performance, Panic Diaries explores the technological and social construction of individual and collective panic. Jackie Orr looks at instances of panic and its "cures" in the twentieth-century United States: from the mass hysteria following the 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells's War of the Worlds to an individual woman swallowing a pill to control the "panic disorder" offici…
Toward a Sociology of the Trace
Introduction: The Practice of Enchantment: Strange Allures
Introduction:The Practice of Enchantment: Strange Allures Ann Burlein (bio) and Jackie Orr (bio) Escape is not a ghost, merely a protean trickster. It is a means to experiment and to initiate speculative ways to deal with the immediate and concrete facts which dwell in our worlds, . . . [and] their stubborn persistence. —Dimitris Papadopoulos, Niamh Stephenson, and Vassilis Tsianos, Escape Routes (2008, 66) This issue of WSQ seeks to experiment w…
Materializing a Cyborg's Manifesto
Materializing a Cyborg’s Manifesto Jackie Orr (bio) utopia Once upon a time Donna Haraway wrote a manifesto for cyborgs. Inside the essay are pieces of time—a science fiction time of fantastic transmutations, an archival time of Cold War biologics and informatic cyberobjects, a spiraling time of pagan turns and returnings, a political time of retooling the very terms of feminist struggles. Outside the essay are wild oldnew times—the mythic physic…
Enchanting Catastrophe: Magical Subrealism and BP's Macondo
Remembering the late 19th century deployment of spiritualist technologies (divining rods, witching sticks) to locate oil deposits in the Americas, this visual essay situates U.S. petroleum culture in an occult genealogy of capitalist sorcery and supernatural materialism. The essay re-imagines the branded “BP” oil spill as an enchanted disaster unfolding across implicate orders of colonial phantasm, new subsea infrastructures of petro-capitalism, …
Critical Trauma Studies: Understanding Violence, Conflict and Memory in Everyday Life
Trauma is a universal human experience. While each person responds differently to trauma, its presence in our lives nonetheless marks a continual thread through human history and prehistory. In Critical Trauma Studies, a diverse group of writers, activists, and scholars of sociology, anthropology, literature, and cultural studies reflects on the study of trauma and how multidisciplinary approaches lend richness and a sense of deeper understanding…
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