David Huebert
Biographic Data
| ID | 5407751 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Huebert |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Huebert |
| SIGNATURE | HUEBERT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Archival Futurism in Paul Auster’s The Book of Illusions
Through a reading of Paul Auster’s 2002 novel The Book of Illusions, this article explores the archival impulse in the context of queer theorist Lee Edelman’s schematization of “reproductive futurism.” I argue that The Book of Illusions positions the archive, rather than the child, as the object of futurity and suggest that Auster explores what I term “archival futurism” through two competing visions of the archive: David Zimmer, the protagonist …
Species Panic
Elaborating a concept of “species panic” and its intrinsic relation to interspecies desire, this article couples the concerns of animal studies and posthumanism with those of queer and transgender theory, synthesizing these positions through their shared commitment to unstable frameworks of gender, sexuality, and embodied identity. It argues that humans, androids, and electric and “genuine” animals do not exist in isolation in Philip K. Dick's 19…
A Tiger in the “Rooster Coop”: Techno-capitalism, Narrative Ambiguity, and Gandhian Traditionalism in The White Tiger
This article analyzes Aravind Adiga's 2008 novel The White Tiger through the rubric of “techno-capitalism,” the confluence of capitalist values (individualism, perpetual economic growth) and an increasingly technologized civilization. The central argument—that Adiga's narrator, Balram, is a morally ambiguous protagonist who is at once dubious and sympathetic—unfolds through three interlocking theses: 1) techno-capitalism provides the only clear r…
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Species Panic
Elaborating a concept of “species panic” and its intrinsic relation to interspecies desire, this article couples the concerns of animal studies and posthumanism with those of queer and transgender theory, synthesizing these positions through their shared commitment to unstable frameworks of gender, sexuality, and embodied identity. It argues that humans, androids, and electric and “genuine” animals do not exist in isolation in Philip K. Dick's 19…
A Tiger in the “Rooster Coop”: Techno-capitalism, Narrative Ambiguity, and Gandhian Traditionalism in The White Tiger
This article analyzes Aravind Adiga's 2008 novel The White Tiger through the rubric of “techno-capitalism,” the confluence of capitalist values (individualism, perpetual economic growth) and an increasingly technologized civilization. The central argument—that Adiga's narrator, Balram, is a morally ambiguous protagonist who is at once dubious and sympathetic—unfolds through three interlocking theses: 1) techno-capitalism provides the only clear r…
Archival Futurism in Paul Auster’s The Book of Illusions
Through a reading of Paul Auster’s 2002 novel The Book of Illusions, this article explores the archival impulse in the context of queer theorist Lee Edelman’s schematization of “reproductive futurism.” I argue that The Book of Illusions positions the archive, rather than the child, as the object of futurity and suggest that Auster explores what I term “archival futurism” through two competing visions of the archive: David Zimmer, the protagonist …
Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Contemporary Literature and Criticism (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Queer (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Argument (complex analysis (1 works) · Art (1 works)