Rob Wilkie
Biographic Data
| ID | 6893572 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rob Wilkie |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rob |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilkie |
| SIGNATURE | WILKIE R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Machine of Affirmations
Nihilism in its classic Nietzschean sense—the ruins of all values—is the general condition of existence of Trumpism. In contrast to Noam Chomsky's argument that Trump, while authoritarian, is not a fascist, this article analyzes Trumpism in relation to nihilism and argues that Trump is a machine of affirmations for the collapse of all values—democracy, equality, justice . . . caused by the profound alienation of labor in contemporary capitalism. …
Giorgio Agamben's “Cenobitic Communism” and the Limits of Posthumanism
Contemporary cultural theory has been overtaken with a posthumanist concern for the “biopolitical” or the definition and organization of “life.” Life, in the posthumanist turn, is re-defined as “postlife,” or as that which breaks with enlightenment and scientific attempts to contain life and actively resists categorization, conceptualization, and theorization. This essay is a critique of the “postlife” theories of the posthumanist turn, which hav…
The Digital Condition
The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth century— developments which make up the concept of the “digital”—has brought us to what might be the most contradictory moment in human history. The digital revolution has made it possible not only to imagine but to actually realize a world in which social inequality and poverty are vanquished. But instead these developments have …
Postmodernism as Usual
Postmodernism as Usual: “Theory” in the American Academy Today Rob Wilkie Mas’ud Zavarzadeh and Donald Morton. Theory as Resistance. New York: Guilford Press, 1994. By opening up a field of inquiry into the production and reproduction of subjectivities, postmodern theory offered the potential to radically transform the object of literary studies. No longer would intellectual work in the Humanities be limited to the scholarly documentation and ann…
A Machine of Affirmations
Nihilism in its classic Nietzschean sense—the ruins of all values—is the general condition of existence of Trumpism. In contrast to Noam Chomsky's argument that Trump, while authoritarian, is not a fascist, this article analyzes Trumpism in relation to nihilism and argues that Trump is a machine of affirmations for the collapse of all values—democracy, equality, justice . . . caused by the profound alienation of labor in contemporary capitalism. …
Postmodernism as Usual
Postmodernism as Usual: “Theory” in the American Academy Today Rob Wilkie Mas’ud Zavarzadeh and Donald Morton. Theory as Resistance. New York: Guilford Press, 1994. By opening up a field of inquiry into the production and reproduction of subjectivities, postmodern theory offered the potential to radically transform the object of literary studies. No longer would intellectual work in the Humanities be limited to the scholarly documentation and ann…
The Digital Condition
The acceleration in science, technology, communication, and production that began in the second half of the twentieth century— developments which make up the concept of the “digital”—has brought us to what might be the most contradictory moment in human history. The digital revolution has made it possible not only to imagine but to actually realize a world in which social inequality and poverty are vanquished. But instead these developments have …
Giorgio Agamben's “Cenobitic Communism” and the Limits of Posthumanism
Contemporary cultural theory has been overtaken with a posthumanist concern for the “biopolitical” or the definition and organization of “life.” Life, in the posthumanist turn, is re-defined as “postlife,” or as that which breaks with enlightenment and scientific attempts to contain life and actively resists categorization, conceptualization, and theorization. This essay is a critique of the “postlife” theories of the posthumanist turn, which hav…
A Machine of Affirmations
Nihilism in its classic Nietzschean sense—the ruins of all values—is the general condition of existence of Trumpism. In contrast to Noam Chomsky's argument that Trump, while authoritarian, is not a fascist, this article analyzes Trumpism in relation to nihilism and argues that Trump is a machine of affirmations for the collapse of all values—democracy, equality, justice . . . caused by the profound alienation of labor in contemporary capitalism. …
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