Seth Rudy
Biographic Data
| ID | 371850 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Seth Rudy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Seth |
| FAMILY NAME | Rudy |
| SIGNATURE | RUDY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7910-0973 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Gender's ontoformativity, or refusing to be spat out of reality
In this article, I argue that queer women - especially cis and trans lesbians - have more in common than contemporary fissures either allow for or acknowledge. Lesbians who recognised their queer sexuality in the 1970s have in common with trans women the shared condition of being, in the words of the 1970s radical feminist Marilyn Frye, 'spat summarily out of reality'. We also share the experience of refusing to accept this condition. I make this…
I don’t know what gender is, but I do, and I can, and we all do’
What follows is an interview with Clare Hemmings, Professor of Feminist Theory and Head of the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics. A leading figure in UK feminist theory, her research insists that we acknowledge matters of ambivalence and uncertainty in our history-making, storytelling and theorising. As such, it contributes to and has productively intervened in many fields, including feminist epistemology, affect theo…
Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain
Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of liter
Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain
Collapse and Reconstitution
By the middle of the century, the progress of learning and the continued attempts by encyclopedists and encyclopedic works to provide a record of that progress had revealed the irreconcilability inherent in the pursuit of complete knowledge in the fullest sense of the phrase. Full comprehensiveness and total connectivity, while perhaps perfectly united in divine omniscience and still the final objective of Enlightenment, continued to pose tremend…
Worlds Apart
In the early eighteenth century, a new generation of encyclopedias and encyclopedists began to claim that they could put some version of complete knowledge in hand. John Harris and Ephraim Chambers both believed that some understanding of the relationships between the different branches of knowledge would prove useful not only to the reader but to the continued advancement of knowledge itself. Harris, for example, stressed in 1704 that his Lexico…
Mid-Century Experiments in Encyclopedism
To whatever extent the public perception of the literary marketplace in the early eighteenth century gave new purchase to ancient woes about an overabundance of writing and the difficulty of distinguishing the worthy from the unremarkable, by the 1740s such complaints had again become thoroughly commonplace. As they had for decades, missives about the impossibility (or, at the very least, the inconvenience) of attempting to read and understand ev…
Knowledge and the Systematic Reader
Though digital media have unquestionably affected the features and functions of modern encyclopedias, such works also continue to be shaped by factors thoroughly conventional by the end of the historical Enlightenment. As William Smellie, editor of the first Encyclopædia Britannica (1768-71) wrote, 'utility ought to be the principal intention of every publication. Wherever this intention does not plainly appear, neither the books nor their author…
If everything is moving where is here?’
In her 2003 collection of essays Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, poet Lisa Robertson describes a shifting and dissolving Vancouver. Through a consideration of the theoretical work of geographer Doreen Massey and architect Rem Koolhaas, we explore the ways that, for Robertson, space is not reducible to singular, official narratives, but is the result of the complex and contradictory accretion of multiple hist…
Pope, Swift, and the Poetics of Posterity
Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift both believed, with varying degrees of self-assuredness, that some part of themselves would outlast their lives. They differed, however, as to precisely what would or could endure. From their earliest works, including Swift's A Tale of a Tub and Pope's Pastorals, through their joint efforts as members of the Scriblerus Club, and on to later achievements, such as The Dunciad, Pope's Imitations of Horace, and Verse…
Gender's ontoformativity, or refusing to be spat out of reality
In this article, I argue that queer women - especially cis and trans lesbians - have more in common than contemporary fissures either allow for or acknowledge. Lesbians who recognised their queer sexuality in the 1970s have in common with trans women the shared condition of being, in the words of the 1970s radical feminist Marilyn Frye, 'spat summarily out of reality'. We also share the experience of refusing to accept this condition. I make this…
I don’t know what gender is, but I do, and I can, and we all do’
What follows is an interview with Clare Hemmings, Professor of Feminist Theory and Head of the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics. A leading figure in UK feminist theory, her research insists that we acknowledge matters of ambivalence and uncertainty in our history-making, storytelling and theorising. As such, it contributes to and has productively intervened in many fields, including feminist epistemology, affect theo…
Pope, Swift, and the Poetics of Posterity
Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift both believed, with varying degrees of self-assuredness, that some part of themselves would outlast their lives. They differed, however, as to precisely what would or could endure. From their earliest works, including Swift's A Tale of a Tub and Pope's Pastorals, through their joint efforts as members of the Scriblerus Club, and on to later achievements, such as The Dunciad, Pope's Imitations of Horace, and Verse…
If everything is moving where is here?’
In her 2003 collection of essays Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture, poet Lisa Robertson describes a shifting and dissolving Vancouver. Through a consideration of the theoretical work of geographer Doreen Massey and architect Rem Koolhaas, we explore the ways that, for Robertson, space is not reducible to singular, official narratives, but is the result of the complex and contradictory accretion of multiple hist…
Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain
Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain tells the story of long-term aspirations to comprehend, record, and disseminate complete knowledge of the world. It draws on a wide range of liter
Literature and Encyclopedism in Enlightenment Britain
Collapse and Reconstitution
By the middle of the century, the progress of learning and the continued attempts by encyclopedists and encyclopedic works to provide a record of that progress had revealed the irreconcilability inherent in the pursuit of complete knowledge in the fullest sense of the phrase. Full comprehensiveness and total connectivity, while perhaps perfectly united in divine omniscience and still the final objective of Enlightenment, continued to pose tremend…
Worlds Apart
In the early eighteenth century, a new generation of encyclopedias and encyclopedists began to claim that they could put some version of complete knowledge in hand. John Harris and Ephraim Chambers both believed that some understanding of the relationships between the different branches of knowledge would prove useful not only to the reader but to the continued advancement of knowledge itself. Harris, for example, stressed in 1704 that his Lexico…
Mid-Century Experiments in Encyclopedism
To whatever extent the public perception of the literary marketplace in the early eighteenth century gave new purchase to ancient woes about an overabundance of writing and the difficulty of distinguishing the worthy from the unremarkable, by the 1740s such complaints had again become thoroughly commonplace. As they had for decades, missives about the impossibility (or, at the very least, the inconvenience) of attempting to read and understand ev…
Knowledge and the Systematic Reader
Though digital media have unquestionably affected the features and functions of modern encyclopedias, such works also continue to be shaped by factors thoroughly conventional by the end of the historical Enlightenment. As William Smellie, editor of the first Encyclopædia Britannica (1768-71) wrote, 'utility ought to be the principal intention of every publication. Wherever this intention does not plainly appear, neither the books nor their author…
I don’t know what gender is, but I do, and I can, and we all do’
What follows is an interview with Clare Hemmings, Professor of Feminist Theory and Head of the Department of Gender Studies at the London School of Economics. A leading figure in UK feminist theory, her research insists that we acknowledge matters of ambivalence and uncertainty in our history-making, storytelling and theorising. As such, it contributes to and has productively intervened in many fields, including feminist epistemology, affect theo…
Gender's ontoformativity, or refusing to be spat out of reality
In this article, I argue that queer women - especially cis and trans lesbians - have more in common than contemporary fissures either allow for or acknowledge. Lesbians who recognised their queer sexuality in the 1970s have in common with trans women the shared condition of being, in the words of the 1970s radical feminist Marilyn Frye, 'spat summarily out of reality'. We also share the experience of refusing to accept this condition. I make this…
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