Kyoo Lee
Biographic Data
| ID | 3687693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kyoo Lee |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kyoo |
| FAMILY NAME | Lee |
| SIGNATURE | LEE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Going Polyphonic I
Going Polyphonic I: With Namita Goswami et al. Alyson Cole and Kyoo Lee This time around, we go polyphonic. The articles in the next two issues, Vol. 13 and Vol. 14, explore critical questions, paradigm-shifting idseas, and fresh connections arising from the intimately networked fields of intersectional, decolonial, and trans studies today. “Polyphonia,” a term we borrowed from music, is meant to characterize ways in which each piece as in a “not…
Caroline Bergvall's Medievalist Poetics
Coeditors’ Introduction
Coeditors’ IntroductionRetro III: As We Restart Alyson Cole and Kyoo Lee the covid-19 pandemic drags on, and, as the world is now trying to recover from it by learning to at least live with it better, philoSOPHIA has arrived at the third and final issue of RETRO. The fact that this series ended up being framed by the turbulent temporality of the current pandemic is something that some future editors of philoSOPHIA, too, might find worth rememberi…
Retro II
Retro II: To Us To-Day Alyson Cole and Kyoo Lee Slowly but surely, we have been working on this issue since Summer 2020, which inevitably doubled. The Covid-19 pandemic remains challenging on all levels, and while we hope that by the time the issue appears in print the situation will have become at least more manageable, our hopes remain vulnerably our own and what we need, in (re)turn, in the face of this kind of epochal crisis and ecological di…
Retro I
Retro I: Return Forward Alyson Cole and Kyoo Lee We thought we were going RETRO but then we could not proceed at all, and here we are beginning to return forward—still in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Preparation for this inaugural issue on RETRO, delayed due to COVID-19, has been particularly challenging. The anxiety, emergency, sickness, devastation, death, growing precarity on every register ... all of that disrupted many lives so rad…
‘Our “China Within”’
In this article I have set out to draw an ethnographically inflected, composite scene of what I would loosely term ‘Sinopsy’ today, drawing on a series of explorative conversations on ‘psychoanalysis in China’ and the questionnaire-based interviews I undertook (between 2015 and 2020) with 18 psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychological counselors and engaged academics in or from mainland China, ranging from seasoned professionals to new-genera…
Hypatia’s Gaze
This piece of philosophy and poetry in performance—pointing to the painting by Raphael, “The School of Athens” (15092–1511) where Hypatia (355–415), the philosopher of perfect posture, is positioned prominently and peripherally, politely—philosophises on and in the particularly poignant, perplexing presence of philosopHERs in plight, part and parcel of the primary problems of “Platonically” platoonised philosophy, past and present. Power Point #1…
Coeditors’ Introduction
Coeditors’ Introduction Alyson Cole and Kyoo Lee Issue 10.1 presents four articles, each of which explores generative ways to reread, rediscover, or recast some of the contemporary classics and cocooned concepts in theory. First, “In the Firstness of Sexual Difference,” MD Murtagh, via Luce Irigaray, uncovers in Charles Sanders Peirce’s trichotomic categories a conception of incorporeal feminism and American pragmatism, which the author proffers …
The Formative Power of Metony#metoo
What can we learn about #MeToo starting with a formal analysis of its structure? What does the linguistic affirmation of adding one “me” to another “me” ad infinitum create in its powerful drift? This metonymical structure, moving part by part, creates the wildfire spread of the movement, adding to its volatility, including its power against institutional structures that trade more in identity, the stability of an “I,” and the self-preservation o…
For (The) Real
Building on the textually (Dolven), temporally (Salamon) and topographically (Webster) illuminated analyses of Vanessa Place’s Rape Jokes, this piece articulates the “rationally” contrarian ethics of the real (gendered body) dummified in her reiterative metapoetic practice by critically exploring its communicative potentials as well as its radically composed platform itself
Buttery Flies
This piece revisits this old Asian American trope, "the perpetual foreigner-stranger over there and here," by showing how and why irony, "invAsian" irony in particular, becomes the constant in the cultural ontology and phenomenology of Asian Americana, where the Asian American subject still figures as encroaching builder or unbuilding resident, a transfigurative threat to the narrative coherence of the nationalist US imaginary. These particularly…
Butterfly Redreaming
Usually, Zhuangzi’s parable of “the butterfly dream/dreaming butterfly” is read as an enigmatic version, from “the East”, of the Cartesian skeptical challenges to “objective reality” or else the Lacanian psycho-drama of the “pure gaze” in which “he”, Zhuangzi, “is a butterfly for nobody”, who stands for “the Real”. Retooling some of the critical insights from these standard dialectical or anxiogenic approaches to this allegorical puzzle of self-i…
Guest Editors' Introduction
Xenoracism and Double Whiteness
What unites Arizona's current xenophobic, border cultural politics and the exemplary life of Benjamin Franklin, "True-blue English/First American"? What transhistorical resonances and parallels are there in those states of affairs? Casting a double look at "the inside looking out" and "the outside looking in," Anglo Americana vis-à-vis (Post-)Pax Britannica and vice versa, this piece (re)turns to the postcolonial identity disorder endured then by…
Should My Bum Look Bigger in This
Should My Bum Look Bigger in This?—Re-dressing the Beauvoirean Femme Kyoo Lee (bio) But I who am bound by my mirroras well as my bedsee causes in coloras well as sex and sit here wonderingwhich me will surviveall these liberations. —Audre Lorde, "Who Said It Was Simple" Click for larger view View full resolution Look(s) again. [End Page 184] Video Interruptus—or Becoming Naked Again? I am looking at a black-and-white photo, the back of a woman st…
Why Asian Female Stereotypes Matter to All
Gender, race, ethnicity, class, religion, culture, etc., etc., etc.... How are we to rearticulate and retool those kaleidoscopic "problems" of social categories and identities each time differently, with different productivity, even as different "products"?-this capital, frontal problema, this "sufficient" bodily evidence in and of reality, "in front of you" and me . Such is the broad philosophical force, background and foreground, of the questio…
Why Not?—Or How to Home in on the Sound of White Silence
My response further highlights and contextualizes the discursive noise of white silence by linking it to the white “epistemology of ignorance” among others. This way, we can also see, quite vividly, how relational psychoanalytic thinking and postmodern theorizing translate each other. Such is how the inside-outside dyadic and dynamic, common to both strands of thinking, begins to shift its gears in the able hands of Harris, whose microaural atten…
Introduction
Introduction: Safe Alyson M. Cole and Kyoo Lee Click for larger view View full resolution BubbleBoy [End Page 14] Theorizing . . . Un/Safe? Bubble wrap, helmets, knee pads, protective goggles, liquid hand sanitizer, Lysol disinfectants, vaccines, multivitamins, mammograms, colonoscopies, Ziploc baggies, antislip shoe appliqués, antibiotics, anti-anxiety drugs, antibullying laws, antigravity machines, antihazing hotlines, antifeminism, anti-intell…
An Open-ended Song of the New International
Focusing on the paradoxical refrain in Derrida's autobiographical text, Monolingualism of the Other, namely, ‘Yes, I only have one language, yet it is not mine (Je n'ai qu'une langue, ce n'est pas la mienne),’ this article sets out to unravel points of connection between formal logic, natural language, bureaucratic violence, imperial politics and, most importantly, emancipatory practices and possibilities musically sustained by the contrapuntal t…
The Other of Dialogue
This paper is not about the silence of the other. Neither is it a phenomenological, hermeneutical, political, aesthetical or ethnographical account of silence taken as a form of existential practice. It concerns an ethics. It explores, rather than an ethics of semiotic care or recognition, an ethical structure, possibility or resources of silence, the still auditory, disclosed in the disrelational ontology of language: a richness and complexity o…
A Calligraphy of Time
This piece thematizes the material activity – accidentality – of time and its recursive flight from aesthetic categorization: how time brings order and disorder to, allegorically bifurcates, the scene of meaning-productive reading. ‘In what ways does ‘material’ inscription efface ‘artistic’ metaphors, their function and place in philosophy?’ A response to that issue, explored below, is: chrono-calligraphical
The Formative Power of Metony#metoo
What can we learn about #MeToo starting with a formal analysis of its structure? What does the linguistic affirmation of adding one “me” to another “me” ad infinitum create in its powerful drift? This metonymical structure, moving part by part, creates the wildfire spread of the movement, adding to its volatility, including its power against institutional structures that trade more in identity, the stability of an “I,” and the self-preservation o…
Why Asian Female Stereotypes Matter to All
Gender, race, ethnicity, class, religion, culture, etc., etc., etc.... How are we to rearticulate and retool those kaleidoscopic "problems" of social categories and identities each time differently, with different productivity, even as different "products"?-this capital, frontal problema, this "sufficient" bodily evidence in and of reality, "in front of you" and me . Such is the broad philosophical force, background and foreground, of the questio…
An Open-ended Song of the New International
Focusing on the paradoxical refrain in Derrida's autobiographical text, Monolingualism of the Other, namely, ‘Yes, I only have one language, yet it is not mine (Je n'ai qu'une langue, ce n'est pas la mienne),’ this article sets out to unravel points of connection between formal logic, natural language, bureaucratic violence, imperial politics and, most importantly, emancipatory practices and possibilities musically sustained by the contrapuntal t…
The Other of Dialogue
This paper is not about the silence of the other. Neither is it a phenomenological, hermeneutical, political, aesthetical or ethnographical account of silence taken as a form of existential practice. It concerns an ethics. It explores, rather than an ethics of semiotic care or recognition, an ethical structure, possibility or resources of silence, the still auditory, disclosed in the disrelational ontology of language: a richness and complexity o…
A Calligraphy of Time
This piece thematizes the material activity – accidentality – of time and its recursive flight from aesthetic categorization: how time brings order and disorder to, allegorically bifurcates, the scene of meaning-productive reading. ‘In what ways does ‘material’ inscription efface ‘artistic’ metaphors, their function and place in philosophy?’ A response to that issue, explored below, is: chrono-calligraphical
The Other of Dialogue
This paper is not about the silence of the other. Neither is it a phenomenological, hermeneutical, political, aesthetical or ethnographical account of silence taken as a form of existential practice. It concerns an ethics. It explores, rather than an ethics of semiotic care or recognition, an ethical structure, possibility or resources of silence, the still auditory, disclosed in the disrelational ontology of language: a richness and complexity o…
An Open-ended Song of the New International
Focusing on the paradoxical refrain in Derrida's autobiographical text, Monolingualism of the Other, namely, ‘Yes, I only have one language, yet it is not mine (Je n'ai qu'une langue, ce n'est pas la mienne),’ this article sets out to unravel points of connection between formal logic, natural language, bureaucratic violence, imperial politics and, most importantly, emancipatory practices and possibilities musically sustained by the contrapuntal t…
Introduction
Introduction: Safe Alyson M. Cole and Kyoo Lee Click for larger view View full resolution BubbleBoy [End Page 14] Theorizing . . . Un/Safe? Bubble wrap, helmets, knee pads, protective goggles, liquid hand sanitizer, Lysol disinfectants, vaccines, multivitamins, mammograms, colonoscopies, Ziploc baggies, antislip shoe appliqués, antibiotics, anti-anxiety drugs, antibullying laws, antigravity machines, antihazing hotlines, antifeminism, anti-intell…
Why Not?—Or How to Home in on the Sound of White Silence
My response further highlights and contextualizes the discursive noise of white silence by linking it to the white “epistemology of ignorance” among others. This way, we can also see, quite vividly, how relational psychoanalytic thinking and postmodern theorizing translate each other. Such is how the inside-outside dyadic and dynamic, common to both strands of thinking, begins to shift its gears in the able hands of Harris, whose microaural atten…
Should My Bum Look Bigger in This
Should My Bum Look Bigger in This?—Re-dressing the Beauvoirean Femme Kyoo Lee (bio) But I who am bound by my mirroras well as my bedsee causes in coloras well as sex and sit here wonderingwhich me will surviveall these liberations. —Audre Lorde, "Who Said It Was Simple" Click for larger view View full resolution Look(s) again. [End Page 184] Video Interruptus—or Becoming Naked Again? I am looking at a black-and-white photo, the back of a woman st…
Why Asian Female Stereotypes Matter to All
Gender, race, ethnicity, class, religion, culture, etc., etc., etc.... How are we to rearticulate and retool those kaleidoscopic "problems" of social categories and identities each time differently, with different productivity, even as different "products"?-this capital, frontal problema, this "sufficient" bodily evidence in and of reality, "in front of you" and me . Such is the broad philosophical force, background and foreground, of the questio…
Guest Editors' Introduction
Xenoracism and Double Whiteness
What unites Arizona's current xenophobic, border cultural politics and the exemplary life of Benjamin Franklin, "True-blue English/First American"? What transhistorical resonances and parallels are there in those states of affairs? Casting a double look at "the inside looking out" and "the outside looking in," Anglo Americana vis-à-vis (Post-)Pax Britannica and vice versa, this piece (re)turns to the postcolonial identity disorder endured then by…
Butterfly Redreaming
Usually, Zhuangzi’s parable of “the butterfly dream/dreaming butterfly” is read as an enigmatic version, from “the East”, of the Cartesian skeptical challenges to “objective reality” or else the Lacanian psycho-drama of the “pure gaze” in which “he”, Zhuangzi, “is a butterfly for nobody”, who stands for “the Real”. Retooling some of the critical insights from these standard dialectical or anxiogenic approaches to this allegorical puzzle of self-i…
Buttery Flies
This piece revisits this old Asian American trope, "the perpetual foreigner-stranger over there and here," by showing how and why irony, "invAsian" irony in particular, becomes the constant in the cultural ontology and phenomenology of Asian Americana, where the Asian American subject still figures as encroaching builder or unbuilding resident, a transfigurative threat to the narrative coherence of the nationalist US imaginary. These particularly…
For (The) Real
Building on the textually (Dolven), temporally (Salamon) and topographically (Webster) illuminated analyses of Vanessa Place’s Rape Jokes, this piece articulates the “rationally” contrarian ethics of the real (gendered body) dummified in her reiterative metapoetic practice by critically exploring its communicative potentials as well as its radically composed platform itself
The Formative Power of Metony#metoo
What can we learn about #MeToo starting with a formal analysis of its structure? What does the linguistic affirmation of adding one “me” to another “me” ad infinitum create in its powerful drift? This metonymical structure, moving part by part, creates the wildfire spread of the movement, adding to its volatility, including its power against institutional structures that trade more in identity, the stability of an “I,” and the self-preservation o…
Hypatia’s Gaze
This piece of philosophy and poetry in performance—pointing to the painting by Raphael, “The School of Athens” (15092–1511) where Hypatia (355–415), the philosopher of perfect posture, is positioned prominently and peripherally, politely—philosophises on and in the particularly poignant, perplexing presence of philosopHERs in plight, part and parcel of the primary problems of “Platonically” platoonised philosophy, past and present. Power Point #1…
Coeditors’ Introduction
Coeditors’ Introduction Alyson Cole and Kyoo Lee Issue 10.1 presents four articles, each of which explores generative ways to reread, rediscover, or recast some of the contemporary classics and cocooned concepts in theory. First, “In the Firstness of Sexual Difference,” MD Murtagh, via Luce Irigaray, uncovers in Charles Sanders Peirce’s trichotomic categories a conception of incorporeal feminism and American pragmatism, which the author proffers …
Retro II
Retro II: To Us To-Day Alyson Cole and Kyoo Lee Slowly but surely, we have been working on this issue since Summer 2020, which inevitably doubled. The Covid-19 pandemic remains challenging on all levels, and while we hope that by the time the issue appears in print the situation will have become at least more manageable, our hopes remain vulnerably our own and what we need, in (re)turn, in the face of this kind of epochal crisis and ecological di…
Retro I
Retro I: Return Forward Alyson Cole and Kyoo Lee We thought we were going RETRO but then we could not proceed at all, and here we are beginning to return forward—still in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. Preparation for this inaugural issue on RETRO, delayed due to COVID-19, has been particularly challenging. The anxiety, emergency, sickness, devastation, death, growing precarity on every register ... all of that disrupted many lives so rad…
‘Our “China Within”’
In this article I have set out to draw an ethnographically inflected, composite scene of what I would loosely term ‘Sinopsy’ today, drawing on a series of explorative conversations on ‘psychoanalysis in China’ and the questionnaire-based interviews I undertook (between 2015 and 2020) with 18 psychoanalysts, psychotherapists, psychological counselors and engaged academics in or from mainland China, ranging from seasoned professionals to new-genera…
Coeditors’ Introduction
Coeditors’ IntroductionRetro III: As We Restart Alyson Cole and Kyoo Lee the covid-19 pandemic drags on, and, as the world is now trying to recover from it by learning to at least live with it better, philoSOPHIA has arrived at the third and final issue of RETRO. The fact that this series ended up being framed by the turbulent temporality of the current pandemic is something that some future editors of philoSOPHIA, too, might find worth rememberi…
Going Polyphonic I
Going Polyphonic I: With Namita Goswami et al. Alyson Cole and Kyoo Lee This time around, we go polyphonic. The articles in the next two issues, Vol. 13 and Vol. 14, explore critical questions, paradigm-shifting idseas, and fresh connections arising from the intimately networked fields of intersectional, decolonial, and trans studies today. “Polyphonia,” a term we borrowed from music, is meant to characterize ways in which each piece as in a “not…
Caroline Bergvall's Medievalist Poetics
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