Chris Vanderwees
Biographic Data
| ID | 459820 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Vanderwees |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Vanderwees |
| SIGNATURE | VANDERWEES C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Library of Parliament |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6379-3111 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Philosophy After Lacan
Hand grenade film
Mad Men and the Falling Bodies of 9/11
In this article, Daniel Adleman and Chris Vanderwees explore the unique manner in which AMC’s Mad Men remediates traumatic images of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack on Manhattan’s Twin Towers. The authors take up the production of the show’s title sequence, the media controversy surrounding its representation of 9/11’s falling bodies, and Don Draper’s perilous trajectory over the course of the series. Their analyses lead Adleman and Vander…
Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric
Introduction—Lacan in America
Vues nouvelles sur l'auto-analyse de Freud et la découverte de la psychanalyse (Vienne, 23 juillet 1988) / New Views on Freud's Self-Analysis and the Discovery of Psychoanalysis (Vienna, July 23, 1988…
Correspondence with Fliess initiates in Freud an evolutionary process, equivalent to that which will produce, when it is invented, the psychoanalytic situation. The first letters set up the themes that will be the subject of Freud's self-analysis, particularly in the dream of "Irma's injection." These letters finally evoke the circumstances of the break between Freud and Fliess and the unconscious causes of their disagreement
The Social Imaginary of Ruination
Background Although the popularity of ruins has accompanied Western modernity in waves since the eighteenth century, the post-9/11 decade marks a notable resurgence of the imagery, aesthetics, and rhetoric of ruins, especially in American culture. This article was completed a few months prior to the global COVID-19 crisis. Analysis While many scholars dismiss contemporary forms of ruin gazing as a mindless fascination with disaster and destructio…
Paranoid pleasure
This article explores the implications of paranoid pleasure and pornography in contemporary technocultures from a psychoanalytic perspective. If new media technologies not only interpellate desiring subjects as Peeping Toms, watching, stalking, and looking at each other, the author contends that subjects also live with the anxiety of being peeped, perhaps especially when engaged in private acts such as the consumption of online pornography. The a…
Introduction—High Fantasy, Political Dreams, and the Mainstream
Traces of the Virtual
This article approaches Joel Meyerowitz’s Ground Zero photography in Aftermath through a theorization of aesthetics and the event. I attempt to move beyond the common scholarly claim that Meyerowitz’s images of ruins and destruction have simply functioned as government propaganda for the War on Terror. I draw from Jill Bennett’s recent work on aesthetics and Gilles Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense in order to conceptualize photography as an affective…
Introduction—Lynching and Its Legacies
Introduction—Le legs du lynchage
Traces of Austerity, or The Writing on the Wall
In this series of photographs, I document, juxtapose, and recontextualize graffiti, signage, and written messages found in Toronto’s downtown core through 2013 and 2014. I approach each image, each captured inscription, through the political and ethical demands of the trace and as communicative of other traces. Photographs in this series are meant to stand alone, but are also recontextualized through their associative connections to a larger and …
Photographs of Falling Bodies and the Ethics of Vulnerability in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The article explores the ethical and political relationship between Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and the photographs of those who fell (or leapt) from the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. Drawing on Judith Butler’s theorization of the ethics of vulnerability, the article briefly outlines ongoing debates around the photography of atrocity in order to suggest that rather than reaffirm tropes of American excepti…
Bank Street
Bank Street is the major north-south artery in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada’s capital city. Named for its initial geographic proximity to the Ottawa River bank in the 19th century, the street now runs north from the city limits at Belmeade Road through various villages (Vernon, Spring Hill, Metcalfe, Greely, South Gloucester, Leitrum, and Blossum Park), north through multiple large neighbourhoods (Hunt Club, Alta Vista, Old Ottawa South, The Glebe, Ce…
Aesthetics of Terror
This dissertation investigates cultural responses to visual representations of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. I examine the aesthetics, contexts, and politics of post-9/11 visual culture across a range of media with a primary focus on photography and fiction. Recent scholarly articles and book length surveys on post-9/11 culture overwhelmingly charge popular literary and visual texts with participating in the reproduction of hegemonic …
Paranoid pleasure
This article explores the implications of paranoid pleasure and pornography in contemporary technocultures from a psychoanalytic perspective. If new media technologies not only interpellate desiring subjects as Peeping Toms, watching, stalking, and looking at each other, the author contends that subjects also live with the anxiety of being peeped, perhaps especially when engaged in private acts such as the consumption of online pornography. The a…
Introduction—High Fantasy, Political Dreams, and the Mainstream
Traces of the Virtual
This article approaches Joel Meyerowitz’s Ground Zero photography in Aftermath through a theorization of aesthetics and the event. I attempt to move beyond the common scholarly claim that Meyerowitz’s images of ruins and destruction have simply functioned as government propaganda for the War on Terror. I draw from Jill Bennett’s recent work on aesthetics and Gilles Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense in order to conceptualize photography as an affective…
Photographs of Falling Bodies and the Ethics of Vulnerability in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The article explores the ethical and political relationship between Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and the photographs of those who fell (or leapt) from the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. Drawing on Judith Butler’s theorization of the ethics of vulnerability, the article briefly outlines ongoing debates around the photography of atrocity in order to suggest that rather than reaffirm tropes of American excepti…
Bank Street
Bank Street is the major north-south artery in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada’s capital city. Named for its initial geographic proximity to the Ottawa River bank in the 19th century, the street now runs north from the city limits at Belmeade Road through various villages (Vernon, Spring Hill, Metcalfe, Greely, South Gloucester, Leitrum, and Blossum Park), north through multiple large neighbourhoods (Hunt Club, Alta Vista, Old Ottawa South, The Glebe, Ce…
Aesthetics of Terror
This dissertation investigates cultural responses to visual representations of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. I examine the aesthetics, contexts, and politics of post-9/11 visual culture across a range of media with a primary focus on photography and fiction. Recent scholarly articles and book length surveys on post-9/11 culture overwhelmingly charge popular literary and visual texts with participating in the reproduction of hegemonic …
Photographs of Falling Bodies and the Ethics of Vulnerability in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
The article explores the ethical and political relationship between Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and the photographs of those who fell (or leapt) from the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. Drawing on Judith Butler’s theorization of the ethics of vulnerability, the article briefly outlines ongoing debates around the photography of atrocity in order to suggest that rather than reaffirm tropes of American excepti…
Traces of Austerity, or The Writing on the Wall
In this series of photographs, I document, juxtapose, and recontextualize graffiti, signage, and written messages found in Toronto’s downtown core through 2013 and 2014. I approach each image, each captured inscription, through the political and ethical demands of the trace and as communicative of other traces. Photographs in this series are meant to stand alone, but are also recontextualized through their associative connections to a larger and …
Traces of the Virtual
This article approaches Joel Meyerowitz’s Ground Zero photography in Aftermath through a theorization of aesthetics and the event. I attempt to move beyond the common scholarly claim that Meyerowitz’s images of ruins and destruction have simply functioned as government propaganda for the War on Terror. I draw from Jill Bennett’s recent work on aesthetics and Gilles Deleuze’s The Logic of Sense in order to conceptualize photography as an affective…
Introduction—Lynching and Its Legacies
Introduction—Le legs du lynchage
Paranoid pleasure
This article explores the implications of paranoid pleasure and pornography in contemporary technocultures from a psychoanalytic perspective. If new media technologies not only interpellate desiring subjects as Peeping Toms, watching, stalking, and looking at each other, the author contends that subjects also live with the anxiety of being peeped, perhaps especially when engaged in private acts such as the consumption of online pornography. The a…
Introduction—High Fantasy, Political Dreams, and the Mainstream
The Social Imaginary of Ruination
Background Although the popularity of ruins has accompanied Western modernity in waves since the eighteenth century, the post-9/11 decade marks a notable resurgence of the imagery, aesthetics, and rhetoric of ruins, especially in American culture. This article was completed a few months prior to the global COVID-19 crisis. Analysis While many scholars dismiss contemporary forms of ruin gazing as a mindless fascination with disaster and destructio…
Introduction—Lacan in America
Vues nouvelles sur l'auto-analyse de Freud et la découverte de la psychanalyse (Vienne, 23 juillet 1988) / New Views on Freud's Self-Analysis and the Discovery of Psychoanalysis (Vienna, July 23, 1988…
Correspondence with Fliess initiates in Freud an evolutionary process, equivalent to that which will produce, when it is invented, the psychoanalytic situation. The first letters set up the themes that will be the subject of Freud's self-analysis, particularly in the dream of "Irma's injection." These letters finally evoke the circumstances of the break between Freud and Fliess and the unconscious causes of their disagreement
Mad Men and the Falling Bodies of 9/11
In this article, Daniel Adleman and Chris Vanderwees explore the unique manner in which AMC’s Mad Men remediates traumatic images of the 11 September 2001 terrorist attack on Manhattan’s Twin Towers. The authors take up the production of the show’s title sequence, the media controversy surrounding its representation of 9/11’s falling bodies, and Don Draper’s perilous trajectory over the course of the series. Their analyses lead Adleman and Vander…
Psychoanalysis and the New Rhetoric
Hand grenade film
Philosophy After Lacan
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