Kara Keeling
Biographic Data
| ID | 640369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kara Keeling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kara |
| FAMILY NAME | Keeling |
| SIGNATURE | KEELING K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1083-0732 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Queer of Color Critique in a Moment of Danger
Chandan Reddy: This feels like a paradoxical moment—we have, on the one hand, the increasing institutionalization of "queer of color critiques," however uneven, and on the other hand, its ongoing targeting by right-wing and fascist social elements as outside the pale of legitimate social consciousness and educational endeavors. I'd like to begin by inviting each of you to reflect on the political and intellectual genealogies that informed your ea…
Queer Times, Black Futures
"Keeling's "Queer Times, Black Futures" explores the issues of gender and race"
“I Feel Love”: Race, Gender, Technē, and the (Im)Proper Sonic Habitus
"I Feel Love": Race, Gender, Technē, and the (Im)Proper Sonic Habitus
Discretionary technology bootlegging tensions in institutional healthcare work
We explore individuals who take some of their technology use ‘underground’, described as ‘bootlegging’, to enhance healthcare work. We find that healthcare professionals’ informal use of mobile applications in healthcare work sometimes ‘sticks out’ and this produces professional identity tensions: (1) conflict with perceptions of professional behaviour, and (2) defilement of expert judgment. Our analysis, moreover, reveals that identity work (i.e…
Pariah and Black Independent Cinema Today
Review Article| June 01 2015 Pariah and Black Independent Cinema Today: A Roundtable Discussion Kara Keeling; Kara Keeling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jennifer DeClue; Jennifer DeClue Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Yvonne Welbon; Yvonne Welbon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jacqueline Stewart; Jacqueline Stewart Search for other works by this author on: This Si…
Electric Feel: Transduction, errantry and the refrain
Electric Feel: Transduction, Errantry and the Refrain assesses what certain logics gleaned from selected popular music songs might offer to ongoing efforts to renegotiate bonds, institutions and political possibilities shaped by the violences characteristic of capitalism, cisgender and white supremacy, neoliberal multiculturalism and contemporary geopolitics. Making Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concepts of ‘the Refrain’, and ‘music’ availa…
Critical Theory and Popular Education
Functions traditionally attributed to the intellectual or to the artist currently are perceptible across broad segments of society. Their appearance is facilitated by digital technologies in ways that trouble any remaining distinctions between ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ for film and media scholars, theorists and makers. ‘Critical Theory and Popular Education’ explores the relevance of the conceptualization of ‘theory’ offered in Barbara Christian's …
Gazing Forward, Not Looking Back: Comfort Food without Nostalgia in the Novels of Polly Horvath
Conventionally, children are depicted finding comfort in the sensory appeal of food, as part of experiences that eventually will become sources of adult nostalgia. Polly Horvath’s novels provide narratives that depict the creation of such moments without the accompanying nostalgia. This essay analyzes two of Horvath’s most successful and food-focused novels, Everything on a Waffle and The Canning Season, using the disciplinary and theoretical fra…
Introduction: Listening to American Studies
Introduction: Listening to American Studies Kara Keeling (bio) and Josh Kun (bio) Why is it so difficult for so many people to listen? Why do they start talking when there's something to hear? -John Cage in the documentary Sound I remember everything I've ever heard. Every dropped nickel, raindrop drip-drop, sneaker squeak, and sheep bleat. Every jump rope chant, Miss Mary Mack Mack hand clap, and eenie meanie chili beanie oop bop-bop bellini met…
Looking for M
Daniel Peddle's film The Aggressives makes perceptible an intolerable yet quotidian violence, as the index of our time. Putting queer theories of temporality into proximity with anticolonial ones, this essay seeks to remain aware of what in The Aggressives escapes attempts to contain it yet nonetheless can be felt and perceived even though-or especially if-it remains unrecognizable or unintelligible to our current common senses. We can think of w…
The digital divide and the theory of optimal slack
The digital divide and exclusion from the knowledge society have become important subjects of government policy. This article compares online communities located in two UK housing estates. Both have relatively high levels of computer literacy but also significant numbers of novices and non-users. It is argued that one estate is achieving a higher level of inclusion because it combines teamwork with optimal levels of organizational slack. Further,…
The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense
Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movements based in the United States. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s notion of “the cinematic”—not just as a phenomenon confined to moving-image media such as film and television but as a set of processes involved in the production and reproduction of social reality itself —Keeling describes how the cinematic st…
Queer Film and Media Pedagogy
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (GLBTQ) scholars today face an unprecedented travesty of their long-standing struggles for liberation and equality both in academe and throughout the public sphere. Notwithstanding increased positive GLBTQ representation in films and on television, anti-GLBTQ violence and disempowering legislative initiatives evidence a pervasive chipping away at hard-won pro-GLBTQ battles by neoconservative and ne…
Passing for human: Bamboozledand digital humanism
(2005). Passing for human: Bamboozled and digital humanism. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 237-250
Expanding the terrain of Black intellectual inquiry: An introduction to the graduate student panels at the James A. Snead Memorial Conference
In the Interval”: Frantz Fanon and the “Problems” Of Visual Representation
Research Article| December 01 2003 "In the Interval": Frantz Fanon and the "Problems" Of Visual Representation Kara Keeling Kara Keeling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 91–117. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.13.2.91 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kara Keeling; "In the Interval": Frantz Fanon and the "Problems" Of Visual Represe…
Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949 (review)
Anna Everett's explicit aim in Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949 is to preserve and position "the history of black film criticism . . . alongside the canonical histories of white critical writing on cinema." In Returning the Gaze, Everett achieves this goal by retrieving and presenting a rich archive of writing about film published in popular Black journals and newspapers at the beginning of the 20th Century. Plac…
Ghetto Heaven”: Set It Off and the Valorization of Black Lesbian Butch-Femme Sociality
(2003). “Ghetto Heaven”: Set It Off and the Valorization of Black Lesbian Butch-Femme Sociality. The Black Scholar: Vol. 33, Black Film & Culture, pp. 33-46
A Homegrown Revolutionary”: Tupac Shakur and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party
(1999). “A Homegrown Revolutionary”?: Tupac Shakur and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party. The Black Scholar: Vol. 29, Black Women Writers, pp. 59-63
Looking for M
Daniel Peddle's film The Aggressives makes perceptible an intolerable yet quotidian violence, as the index of our time. Putting queer theories of temporality into proximity with anticolonial ones, this essay seeks to remain aware of what in The Aggressives escapes attempts to contain it yet nonetheless can be felt and perceived even though-or especially if-it remains unrecognizable or unintelligible to our current common senses. We can think of w…
Introduction: Listening to American Studies
Introduction: Listening to American Studies Kara Keeling (bio) and Josh Kun (bio) Why is it so difficult for so many people to listen? Why do they start talking when there's something to hear? -John Cage in the documentary Sound I remember everything I've ever heard. Every dropped nickel, raindrop drip-drop, sneaker squeak, and sheep bleat. Every jump rope chant, Miss Mary Mack Mack hand clap, and eenie meanie chili beanie oop bop-bop bellini met…
Passing for human: Bamboozledand digital humanism
(2005). Passing for human: Bamboozled and digital humanism. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 237-250
A Homegrown Revolutionary”: Tupac Shakur and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party
(1999). “A Homegrown Revolutionary”?: Tupac Shakur and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party. The Black Scholar: Vol. 29, Black Women Writers, pp. 59-63
Discretionary technology bootlegging tensions in institutional healthcare work
We explore individuals who take some of their technology use ‘underground’, described as ‘bootlegging’, to enhance healthcare work. We find that healthcare professionals’ informal use of mobile applications in healthcare work sometimes ‘sticks out’ and this produces professional identity tensions: (1) conflict with perceptions of professional behaviour, and (2) defilement of expert judgment. Our analysis, moreover, reveals that identity work (i.e…
Pariah and Black Independent Cinema Today
Review Article| June 01 2015 Pariah and Black Independent Cinema Today: A Roundtable Discussion Kara Keeling; Kara Keeling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jennifer DeClue; Jennifer DeClue Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Yvonne Welbon; Yvonne Welbon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jacqueline Stewart; Jacqueline Stewart Search for other works by this author on: This Si…
Ghetto Heaven”: Set It Off and the Valorization of Black Lesbian Butch-Femme Sociality
(2003). “Ghetto Heaven”: Set It Off and the Valorization of Black Lesbian Butch-Femme Sociality. The Black Scholar: Vol. 33, Black Film & Culture, pp. 33-46
Queer of Color Critique in a Moment of Danger
Chandan Reddy: This feels like a paradoxical moment—we have, on the one hand, the increasing institutionalization of "queer of color critiques," however uneven, and on the other hand, its ongoing targeting by right-wing and fascist social elements as outside the pale of legitimate social consciousness and educational endeavors. I'd like to begin by inviting each of you to reflect on the political and intellectual genealogies that informed your ea…
The digital divide and the theory of optimal slack
The digital divide and exclusion from the knowledge society have become important subjects of government policy. This article compares online communities located in two UK housing estates. Both have relatively high levels of computer literacy but also significant numbers of novices and non-users. It is argued that one estate is achieving a higher level of inclusion because it combines teamwork with optimal levels of organizational slack. Further,…
A Homegrown Revolutionary”: Tupac Shakur and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party
(1999). “A Homegrown Revolutionary”?: Tupac Shakur and the Legacy of the Black Panther Party. The Black Scholar: Vol. 29, Black Women Writers, pp. 59-63
Expanding the terrain of Black intellectual inquiry: An introduction to the graduate student panels at the James A. Snead Memorial Conference
In the Interval”: Frantz Fanon and the “Problems” Of Visual Representation
Research Article| December 01 2003 "In the Interval": Frantz Fanon and the "Problems" Of Visual Representation Kara Keeling Kara Keeling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Qui Parle (2003) 13 (2): 91–117. https://doi.org/10.1215/quiparle.13.2.91 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Kara Keeling; "In the Interval": Frantz Fanon and the "Problems" Of Visual Represe…
Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949 (review)
Anna Everett's explicit aim in Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949 is to preserve and position "the history of black film criticism . . . alongside the canonical histories of white critical writing on cinema." In Returning the Gaze, Everett achieves this goal by retrieving and presenting a rich archive of writing about film published in popular Black journals and newspapers at the beginning of the 20th Century. Plac…
Ghetto Heaven”: Set It Off and the Valorization of Black Lesbian Butch-Femme Sociality
(2003). “Ghetto Heaven”: Set It Off and the Valorization of Black Lesbian Butch-Femme Sociality. The Black Scholar: Vol. 33, Black Film & Culture, pp. 33-46
Passing for human: Bamboozledand digital humanism
(2005). Passing for human: Bamboozled and digital humanism. Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 237-250
Queer Film and Media Pedagogy
Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, and queer (GLBTQ) scholars today face an unprecedented travesty of their long-standing struggles for liberation and equality both in academe and throughout the public sphere. Notwithstanding increased positive GLBTQ representation in films and on television, anti-GLBTQ violence and disempowering legislative initiatives evidence a pervasive chipping away at hard-won pro-GLBTQ battles by neoconservative and ne…
The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense
Kara Keeling contends that cinema and cinematic processes had a profound significance for twentieth-century anticapitalist Black Liberation movements based in the United States. Drawing on Gilles Deleuze’s notion of “the cinematic”—not just as a phenomenon confined to moving-image media such as film and television but as a set of processes involved in the production and reproduction of social reality itself —Keeling describes how the cinematic st…
The digital divide and the theory of optimal slack
The digital divide and exclusion from the knowledge society have become important subjects of government policy. This article compares online communities located in two UK housing estates. Both have relatively high levels of computer literacy but also significant numbers of novices and non-users. It is argued that one estate is achieving a higher level of inclusion because it combines teamwork with optimal levels of organizational slack. Further,…
Looking for M
Daniel Peddle's film The Aggressives makes perceptible an intolerable yet quotidian violence, as the index of our time. Putting queer theories of temporality into proximity with anticolonial ones, this essay seeks to remain aware of what in The Aggressives escapes attempts to contain it yet nonetheless can be felt and perceived even though-or especially if-it remains unrecognizable or unintelligible to our current common senses. We can think of w…
Introduction: Listening to American Studies
Introduction: Listening to American Studies Kara Keeling (bio) and Josh Kun (bio) Why is it so difficult for so many people to listen? Why do they start talking when there's something to hear? -John Cage in the documentary Sound I remember everything I've ever heard. Every dropped nickel, raindrop drip-drop, sneaker squeak, and sheep bleat. Every jump rope chant, Miss Mary Mack Mack hand clap, and eenie meanie chili beanie oop bop-bop bellini met…
Electric Feel: Transduction, errantry and the refrain
Electric Feel: Transduction, Errantry and the Refrain assesses what certain logics gleaned from selected popular music songs might offer to ongoing efforts to renegotiate bonds, institutions and political possibilities shaped by the violences characteristic of capitalism, cisgender and white supremacy, neoliberal multiculturalism and contemporary geopolitics. Making Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's concepts of ‘the Refrain’, and ‘music’ availa…
Critical Theory and Popular Education
Functions traditionally attributed to the intellectual or to the artist currently are perceptible across broad segments of society. Their appearance is facilitated by digital technologies in ways that trouble any remaining distinctions between ‘theory’ and ‘practice’ for film and media scholars, theorists and makers. ‘Critical Theory and Popular Education’ explores the relevance of the conceptualization of ‘theory’ offered in Barbara Christian's …
Gazing Forward, Not Looking Back: Comfort Food without Nostalgia in the Novels of Polly Horvath
Conventionally, children are depicted finding comfort in the sensory appeal of food, as part of experiences that eventually will become sources of adult nostalgia. Polly Horvath’s novels provide narratives that depict the creation of such moments without the accompanying nostalgia. This essay analyzes two of Horvath’s most successful and food-focused novels, Everything on a Waffle and The Canning Season, using the disciplinary and theoretical fra…
Pariah and Black Independent Cinema Today
Review Article| June 01 2015 Pariah and Black Independent Cinema Today: A Roundtable Discussion Kara Keeling; Kara Keeling Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jennifer DeClue; Jennifer DeClue Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Yvonne Welbon; Yvonne Welbon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jacqueline Stewart; Jacqueline Stewart Search for other works by this author on: This Si…
“I Feel Love”: Race, Gender, Technē, and the (Im)Proper Sonic Habitus
"I Feel Love": Race, Gender, Technē, and the (Im)Proper Sonic Habitus
Discretionary technology bootlegging tensions in institutional healthcare work
We explore individuals who take some of their technology use ‘underground’, described as ‘bootlegging’, to enhance healthcare work. We find that healthcare professionals’ informal use of mobile applications in healthcare work sometimes ‘sticks out’ and this produces professional identity tensions: (1) conflict with perceptions of professional behaviour, and (2) defilement of expert judgment. Our analysis, moreover, reveals that identity work (i.e…
Queer Times, Black Futures
"Keeling's "Queer Times, Black Futures" explores the issues of gender and race"
Queer of Color Critique in a Moment of Danger
Chandan Reddy: This feels like a paradoxical moment—we have, on the one hand, the increasing institutionalization of "queer of color critiques," however uneven, and on the other hand, its ongoing targeting by right-wing and fascist social elements as outside the pale of legitimate social consciousness and educational endeavors. I'd like to begin by inviting each of you to reflect on the political and intellectual genealogies that informed your ea…
Sociology (14 works) · Art (10 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · Art history (5 works)