Karen Pinkus
Biographic Data
| ID | 606132 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Pinkus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Pinkus |
| SIGNATURE | PINKUS K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cornell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse
Intermittent Grids
Today in the developed world, even among those most committed to decarbonization, intermittency (let alone massive disruption) of the grid is simply unthinkable. Demand for (clean) electricity is growing all over the globe. This essay summons images, strategies, and tactics from Italy of the 1960s to help think about the (electrical) grid in the time of climate change. To be sure, theorists, activists, and artists associated with radical movement…
Search for a Language”: Response to Ian Baucom
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Ambiguity, Ambience, Ambivalence, and the Environment
In this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium "Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur," the words ambiguity, ambivalence, and ambience are shown to share the common prefix, from Latin, ambi-, defined in most modern dictionaries as "around, on both sides." Ambi captures some, but not all, so Leo Spitzer has argued, of the multiple senses (physical surrounding, spiritual embrace, air) that Greeks infused into the prefix peri. Ambiguity …
Betrayal (of Nature) (in Homage to Harold Pinter): A Drama
Research Article| November 01 2012 "Betrayal (of Nature) (in Homage to Harold Pinter)": A Drama Karen Pinkus Karen Pinkus Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2012) 12 (3): 115–127. https://doi.org/10.2307/41949804 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Karen Pinkus; "Betrayal (of Nature) (in Homage to Harold Pinter)": A Drama. CR: The …
Carbon Management: A Gift of Time
Rather than a radical realignment of energy sources or usage, ‘carbon management’ appears as unassailably practical; a gift to future generations. This essay calls on deconstructive and impractical thinking to dislodge the security of carbon management as inadequate to the chaotic and unfathomable temporality of climate change
On Climate, Cars, and Literary Theory
Climate change mitigation discourse often centers around decadal timescales, human consumption, and that privileged object of human consumption, the automobile. Invoking literary theory, this essay insists that it is only by undoing certainty, by embracing unfathomability, and by realizing the irreconcilability of the human and the geologic-by thinking otherwise-that we can truly begin to address climate change
Zones of Exception: Biopolitical Territories in the Neoliberal Era
"Zones of Exception: Biopolitical Territories of the Neoliberal Era" explores the biopolitical in Roberto Esposito together with the notion of exception in Giorgio Agamben to think diverse scenarios of social, economic, and cultural conflict of the neoliberal era. Focusing on the Argentine piqueteros and the clandestini at the Centers of Temporary Permanence in Italy, we discuss how the economic rationality of neoliberal rule both produces "bare …
Language and Death: The Place of Negativity (Theory and History of Literature)
Explores the symbiosis of philosophy and literature in understanding negativity.
Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism
Self-Representation in Futurism and Punk
The following is a series of remarks on the photographic portrait of the Futurist/Punk artist. Can the photograph strive to constitute representation when it always already becomes immediately selfrepresentation inasmuch as the camera remains potentially in the technical grasp of the subject? Photography is permeated by the dominant model of the amateur snapshot, even when a particular photographer is taken in a professional context. We could ind…
Intermittent Grids
Today in the developed world, even among those most committed to decarbonization, intermittency (let alone massive disruption) of the grid is simply unthinkable. Demand for (clean) electricity is growing all over the globe. This essay summons images, strategies, and tactics from Italy of the 1960s to help think about the (electrical) grid in the time of climate change. To be sure, theorists, activists, and artists associated with radical movement…
On Climate, Cars, and Literary Theory
Climate change mitigation discourse often centers around decadal timescales, human consumption, and that privileged object of human consumption, the automobile. Invoking literary theory, this essay insists that it is only by undoing certainty, by embracing unfathomability, and by realizing the irreconcilability of the human and the geologic-by thinking otherwise-that we can truly begin to address climate change
Carbon Management: A Gift of Time
Rather than a radical realignment of energy sources or usage, ‘carbon management’ appears as unassailably practical; a gift to future generations. This essay calls on deconstructive and impractical thinking to dislodge the security of carbon management as inadequate to the chaotic and unfathomable temporality of climate change
Ambiguity, Ambience, Ambivalence, and the Environment
In this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium "Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur," the words ambiguity, ambivalence, and ambience are shown to share the common prefix, from Latin, ambi-, defined in most modern dictionaries as "around, on both sides." Ambi captures some, but not all, so Leo Spitzer has argued, of the multiple senses (physical surrounding, spiritual embrace, air) that Greeks infused into the prefix peri. Ambiguity …
Self-Representation in Futurism and Punk
The following is a series of remarks on the photographic portrait of the Futurist/Punk artist. Can the photograph strive to constitute representation when it always already becomes immediately selfrepresentation inasmuch as the camera remains potentially in the technical grasp of the subject? Photography is permeated by the dominant model of the amateur snapshot, even when a particular photographer is taken in a professional context. We could ind…
Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism
Zones of Exception: Biopolitical Territories in the Neoliberal Era
"Zones of Exception: Biopolitical Territories of the Neoliberal Era" explores the biopolitical in Roberto Esposito together with the notion of exception in Giorgio Agamben to think diverse scenarios of social, economic, and cultural conflict of the neoliberal era. Focusing on the Argentine piqueteros and the clandestini at the Centers of Temporary Permanence in Italy, we discuss how the economic rationality of neoliberal rule both produces "bare …
Language and Death: The Place of Negativity (Theory and History of Literature)
Explores the symbiosis of philosophy and literature in understanding negativity.
On Climate, Cars, and Literary Theory
Climate change mitigation discourse often centers around decadal timescales, human consumption, and that privileged object of human consumption, the automobile. Invoking literary theory, this essay insists that it is only by undoing certainty, by embracing unfathomability, and by realizing the irreconcilability of the human and the geologic-by thinking otherwise-that we can truly begin to address climate change
Carbon Management: A Gift of Time
Rather than a radical realignment of energy sources or usage, ‘carbon management’ appears as unassailably practical; a gift to future generations. This essay calls on deconstructive and impractical thinking to dislodge the security of carbon management as inadequate to the chaotic and unfathomable temporality of climate change
Betrayal (of Nature) (in Homage to Harold Pinter): A Drama
Research Article| November 01 2012 "Betrayal (of Nature) (in Homage to Harold Pinter)": A Drama Karen Pinkus Karen Pinkus Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google CR: The New Centennial Review (2012) 12 (3): 115–127. https://doi.org/10.2307/41949804 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Karen Pinkus; "Betrayal (of Nature) (in Homage to Harold Pinter)": A Drama. CR: The …
Ambiguity, Ambience, Ambivalence, and the Environment
In this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium "Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur," the words ambiguity, ambivalence, and ambience are shown to share the common prefix, from Latin, ambi-, defined in most modern dictionaries as "around, on both sides." Ambi captures some, but not all, so Leo Spitzer has argued, of the multiple senses (physical surrounding, spiritual embrace, air) that Greeks infused into the prefix peri. Ambiguity …
Search for a Language”: Response to Ian Baucom
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Intermittent Grids
Today in the developed world, even among those most committed to decarbonization, intermittency (let alone massive disruption) of the grid is simply unthinkable. Demand for (clean) electricity is growing all over the globe. This essay summons images, strategies, and tactics from Italy of the 1960s to help think about the (electrical) grid in the time of climate change. To be sure, theorists, activists, and artists associated with radical movement…
Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse
Computer Science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Climate change (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works)