Peter Hitchcock
Biographic Data
| ID | 640637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Hitchcock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Hitchcock |
| SIGNATURE | HITCHCOCK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Graduate Center, CUNY |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7606-5132 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Living the City
This essay attempts to read Samuel R. Delany's Times Square Red, Times Square Blue as not just a recollection of exception to "development" projects in New York City but as a trenchant way to queer the city as an urban ontology. Delany challenges normative assumptions about how and where sexuality, gender, and race should be visible in urban space, by offering instead a cognitive map of "living the city" as a Black gay man. Delany also takes on w…
Noir Affect
Biotheory
The Plantationocene and the Performative Commons
This article proposes that the commons is best understood as a relation among people, land, water, flora, and fauna that requires performance. The “performative commons” takes place in opposition to the alienating and disentangling work of the plantation machine and the systemic disarticulation of lifeworlds that marked the onset of racial capitalism and an epochal transformation of the earth identifiable as the Plantationocene
Immolation
It is a truism that the defeat of nefarious political hegemony, the dissolution of repressive power, the disarticulation of class control, and the redistribution of power and surplus all pivot on the concept of sacrifice. Struggle, in all its variegations, requires giving up on the comparative safety of homeostasis, or normative subjection, for the challenge of transformation. The chapter suggests the contemporary geography of power elicits a pre…
Randomized controlled trial of acceptance and commitment therapy versus traditional cognitive behavior therapy for social anxiety disorder
Counter-Fitting
This essay on postcolonialism, genre, and Africa will jump scales (in its own version of geo-aesthetic impossibility). The general idea is not to think generic incommensurability as necessarily disabling, but rather that the ill-fitting tropes of genre identification are productively engaged in a politics of non-conformance, here elaborated as a logic of counter-fitting. Counter-fitting, what does not fit generic expectation, is not counterfeitin…
The Worker Subjects
Romancização ou serialização
Este artigo explora a noção bakhtiniana de romancização no que se refere à sua teoria de tempo e serialização. Bakhtin, para quem o romance é histórico, mas sem história, remonta à Grécia antiga para traçar a história do romance. Sem dar a ele uma identidade fixa, compreende-o em termos de tendências e crises. A romancização, para Bakhtin, é um meio de tornar a história literária acessível a uma análise mais dialógica da forma e um modo discursiv…
The Leninist Hypothesis
Given the collapse of communism and actually existing socialism, we should not be surprised that there have been various attempts to revisit the meaning of V. I. Lenin and Leninism. While political answers have seemed relatively easy, several thinkers, including Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, and Etienne Balibar, have taken up some of the conceptual difficulties in play in Lenin's ideas (and in Mao's) with a view to recasting communism in the presen…
Accumulating Fictions
This essay examines both the nature of the economic crisis of 2007-2008 and the intensification of finance capital in its wake. Moving between aesthetics and economics, it considers, in particular, the emergence of the "dark pool" and its implications within a massive expansion of fictitious capital
Defining the World
Dialogics of the Oppressed
Oil in an American Imaginary
If money, according to Augier, comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek, capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt. Karl Marx, Capital It is common to view oil as emblematic of all that is dynamic and disastrous in advanced capitalism. Just as oil dominates commodity trade and circulation globally, so its symbolic order critically organises competing discourses about its human worth. The…
The ‘Mardi Gras’ Shipwreck
The ‘Mardi Gras’ Shipwreck is the remains of an early-19th-century sailing vessel lost in approximately 1220 m of water in the Gulf of Mexico. A recent archaeological investigation documented the wreck and recovered several artefacts, including glassware, ceramics, navigational instruments, a cannon, and a stove. Analyses of these artefacts and the surviving hull have led to preliminary conclusions on the nature of the vessel and its crew. © 2009…
Postcolonial Failure and the Politics of Nation
Research Article| October 01 2007 Postcolonial Failure and the Politics of Nation Peter Hitchcock Peter Hitchcock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (4): 727–752. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-043 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Hitchcock; Postcolonial Failure and the Politics of Nation. South Atlantic Quarte…
The Genre of Postcoloniality
This essay sets out to explore what happens to concepts of genre and postcoloniality when they are considered contiguously. The history of generic distinctions in literary form bears renewed scrutiny alongside the emergence of postcoloniality as an identity. Indeed, the latter presents specific problems for our understanding of the former. By reading several examples of genre critique (including Derrida and Bakhtin) alongside what is held to cons…
Decolonizing (the) English
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 3, Summer 2001
Risking the Griot's eye
(2000). Risking the Griot's eye: Decolonisation and Contemporary African Cinema. Social Identities: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 263-284
The Grotesque of the Body Electric
Cosmopolitan Contraries
The Bakhtin Centre and the State of the Archive
Research Article| July 01 1998 The Bakhtin Centre and the State of the Archive: An Interview with David Shepherd Peter Hitchcock Peter Hitchcock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (3-4): 753–772. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-97-3/4-753 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Hitchcock; The Bakhtin Centre and the State of …
Introduction
Other| July 01 1998 Introduction: Bakhtin/“Bakhtin” Peter Hitchcock Peter Hitchcock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (3-4): 511–536. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-97-3/4-511 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Hitchcock; Introduction: Bakhtin/“Bakhtin”. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1998; 97 (3-4): 511–536. doi: ht…
Dialogics of the Oppressed
"It Dread Inna Inglan"
Postmodern Culture - Volume 4, Number 1, September 1993
Oil in an American Imaginary
If money, according to Augier, comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek, capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt. Karl Marx, Capital It is common to view oil as emblematic of all that is dynamic and disastrous in advanced capitalism. Just as oil dominates commodity trade and circulation globally, so its symbolic order critically organises competing discourses about its human worth. The…
The Plantationocene and the Performative Commons
This article proposes that the commons is best understood as a relation among people, land, water, flora, and fauna that requires performance. The “performative commons” takes place in opposition to the alienating and disentangling work of the plantation machine and the systemic disarticulation of lifeworlds that marked the onset of racial capitalism and an epochal transformation of the earth identifiable as the Plantationocene
The Genre of Postcoloniality
This essay sets out to explore what happens to concepts of genre and postcoloniality when they are considered contiguously. The history of generic distinctions in literary form bears renewed scrutiny alongside the emergence of postcoloniality as an identity. Indeed, the latter presents specific problems for our understanding of the former. By reading several examples of genre critique (including Derrida and Bakhtin) alongside what is held to cons…
The ‘Mardi Gras’ Shipwreck
The ‘Mardi Gras’ Shipwreck is the remains of an early-19th-century sailing vessel lost in approximately 1220 m of water in the Gulf of Mexico. A recent archaeological investigation documented the wreck and recovered several artefacts, including glassware, ceramics, navigational instruments, a cannon, and a stove. Analyses of these artefacts and the surviving hull have led to preliminary conclusions on the nature of the vessel and its crew. © 2009…
Decolonizing (the) English
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 3, Summer 2001
The othering of cultural studies
Romancização ou serialização
Este artigo explora a noção bakhtiniana de romancização no que se refere à sua teoria de tempo e serialização. Bakhtin, para quem o romance é histórico, mas sem história, remonta à Grécia antiga para traçar a história do romance. Sem dar a ele uma identidade fixa, compreende-o em termos de tendências e crises. A romancização, para Bakhtin, é um meio de tornar a história literária acessível a uma análise mais dialógica da forma e um modo discursiv…
The Leninist Hypothesis
Given the collapse of communism and actually existing socialism, we should not be surprised that there have been various attempts to revisit the meaning of V. I. Lenin and Leninism. While political answers have seemed relatively easy, several thinkers, including Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, and Etienne Balibar, have taken up some of the conceptual difficulties in play in Lenin's ideas (and in Mao's) with a view to recasting communism in the presen…
Postcolonial Failure and the Politics of Nation
Research Article| October 01 2007 Postcolonial Failure and the Politics of Nation Peter Hitchcock Peter Hitchcock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (4): 727–752. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-043 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Hitchcock; Postcolonial Failure and the Politics of Nation. South Atlantic Quarte…
Cosmopolitan Contraries
Introduction
Other| July 01 1998 Introduction: Bakhtin/“Bakhtin” Peter Hitchcock Peter Hitchcock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (3-4): 511–536. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-97-3/4-511 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Hitchcock; Introduction: Bakhtin/“Bakhtin”. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1998; 97 (3-4): 511–536. doi: ht…
The aesthetics of alienation, or China's ‘fifth generation’
In the Chinese democratic revolutionary movement, it was the intellectuals who were the first to awaken. (Mao Zedong) If you want to build something, if you want to create something new, you have to put something on fire first. (Chen Kaige) To turn the world upside down, to stake out the right to imagine another: these are the tasks we are still faced with. (Rey Chow)
Cultural Studies and the Prospects for a Multicultural Materialism
"It Dread Inna Inglan"
Postmodern Culture - Volume 4, Number 1, September 1993
The othering of cultural studies
Dialogics of the Oppressed
The Grotesque of the Body Electric
Cosmopolitan Contraries
The Bakhtin Centre and the State of the Archive
Research Article| July 01 1998 The Bakhtin Centre and the State of the Archive: An Interview with David Shepherd Peter Hitchcock Peter Hitchcock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (3-4): 753–772. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-97-3/4-753 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Hitchcock; The Bakhtin Centre and the State of …
Introduction
Other| July 01 1998 Introduction: Bakhtin/“Bakhtin” Peter Hitchcock Peter Hitchcock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1998) 97 (3-4): 511–536. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-97-3/4-511 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Hitchcock; Introduction: Bakhtin/“Bakhtin”. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 July 1998; 97 (3-4): 511–536. doi: ht…
Risking the Griot's eye
(2000). Risking the Griot's eye: Decolonisation and Contemporary African Cinema. Social Identities: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 263-284
Decolonizing (the) English
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 3, Summer 2001
The Genre of Postcoloniality
This essay sets out to explore what happens to concepts of genre and postcoloniality when they are considered contiguously. The history of generic distinctions in literary form bears renewed scrutiny alongside the emergence of postcoloniality as an identity. Indeed, the latter presents specific problems for our understanding of the former. By reading several examples of genre critique (including Derrida and Bakhtin) alongside what is held to cons…
Postcolonial Failure and the Politics of Nation
Research Article| October 01 2007 Postcolonial Failure and the Politics of Nation Peter Hitchcock Peter Hitchcock Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2007) 106 (4): 727–752. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-2007-043 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Peter Hitchcock; Postcolonial Failure and the Politics of Nation. South Atlantic Quarte…
The ‘Mardi Gras’ Shipwreck
The ‘Mardi Gras’ Shipwreck is the remains of an early-19th-century sailing vessel lost in approximately 1220 m of water in the Gulf of Mexico. A recent archaeological investigation documented the wreck and recovered several artefacts, including glassware, ceramics, navigational instruments, a cannon, and a stove. Analyses of these artefacts and the surviving hull have led to preliminary conclusions on the nature of the vessel and its crew. © 2009…
Dialogics of the Oppressed
Oil in an American Imaginary
If money, according to Augier, comes into the world with a congenital blood-stain on one cheek, capital comes dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt. Karl Marx, Capital It is common to view oil as emblematic of all that is dynamic and disastrous in advanced capitalism. Just as oil dominates commodity trade and circulation globally, so its symbolic order critically organises competing discourses about its human worth. The…
Defining the World
Accumulating Fictions
This essay examines both the nature of the economic crisis of 2007-2008 and the intensification of finance capital in its wake. Moving between aesthetics and economics, it considers, in particular, the emergence of the "dark pool" and its implications within a massive expansion of fictitious capital
Romancização ou serialização
Este artigo explora a noção bakhtiniana de romancização no que se refere à sua teoria de tempo e serialização. Bakhtin, para quem o romance é histórico, mas sem história, remonta à Grécia antiga para traçar a história do romance. Sem dar a ele uma identidade fixa, compreende-o em termos de tendências e crises. A romancização, para Bakhtin, é um meio de tornar a história literária acessível a uma análise mais dialógica da forma e um modo discursiv…
The Leninist Hypothesis
Given the collapse of communism and actually existing socialism, we should not be surprised that there have been various attempts to revisit the meaning of V. I. Lenin and Leninism. While political answers have seemed relatively easy, several thinkers, including Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, and Etienne Balibar, have taken up some of the conceptual difficulties in play in Lenin's ideas (and in Mao's) with a view to recasting communism in the presen…
Counter-Fitting
This essay on postcolonialism, genre, and Africa will jump scales (in its own version of geo-aesthetic impossibility). The general idea is not to think generic incommensurability as necessarily disabling, but rather that the ill-fitting tropes of genre identification are productively engaged in a politics of non-conformance, here elaborated as a logic of counter-fitting. Counter-fitting, what does not fit generic expectation, is not counterfeitin…
The Worker Subjects
Immolation
It is a truism that the defeat of nefarious political hegemony, the dissolution of repressive power, the disarticulation of class control, and the redistribution of power and surplus all pivot on the concept of sacrifice. Struggle, in all its variegations, requires giving up on the comparative safety of homeostasis, or normative subjection, for the challenge of transformation. The chapter suggests the contemporary geography of power elicits a pre…
Randomized controlled trial of acceptance and commitment therapy versus traditional cognitive behavior therapy for social anxiety disorder
The Plantationocene and the Performative Commons
This article proposes that the commons is best understood as a relation among people, land, water, flora, and fauna that requires performance. The “performative commons” takes place in opposition to the alienating and disentangling work of the plantation machine and the systemic disarticulation of lifeworlds that marked the onset of racial capitalism and an epochal transformation of the earth identifiable as the Plantationocene
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