Chad Shomura
Biographic Data
| ID | 704534 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chad Shomura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chad |
| FAMILY NAME | Shomura |
| SIGNATURE | SHOMURA C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Yellow Matter
This essay circles yellow matter to conceive Asian/America in excess of what Sylvia Wynter calls Man. Yellow matter names various materialities caught in the wake of yellow peril and that surface in the reverberations of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and imperial expansion and war. This essay tends to yellow matter at its most abstract and ethereal—where it coincides with a potential to vary. It theorizes the powers of yellow matter by …
Decolonial Mood Work
This essay develops "decolonial mood work," a political project that changes affective orientations toward crises in settler society and prospects for decolonization. Decolonial mood work is a crucial supplement to scholarship that has focused on demystifying the ideological dimensions of settler colonialism. This essay shows that the regulation of affect is a central, though less addressed, operation of settler state and society. Its case is the…
Ocean Passages
The Pacific is dense, layered, vast. It is full, not just of creatures beautiful and sublime but also histories of war, nuclear testing, colonial settlement, ecological disruption, and capitalist extraction. Moreover, it is rich in stories, meaning, and life shared among humans and nonhumans. As the twenty-first century unfolds, will the Pacific offer devastation or life?Erin Suzuki's Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American…
Politics in the Time of Covid
Vital Impasse
The good life in the United States has hit a crisis, yet people remain wedded to it. Lauren Berlant has called this kind of situation an "impasse," which indicates the seeming unavailability of alternatives when the good life appears out of reach. In this essay, I develop impasse to show that the good life, while establishing how life ought to be lived, tacitly circumscribes what life is. The good life is founded on what Mel Chen has called an "a…
New Humanisms
Product Review| December 01 2016 New Humanisms A review of Lee, Rachel C., The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies (New York: New York University Press, 2014), and Weheliye, Alexander G., Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014). Cited in the text as ec and hv, respectively. Chad Shomura Chad Shomura Search …
These Are Bad People" - Enemy Combatants and the Homopolitics of the "War on Terror
These Are Bad People"i -Enemy Combatants and the Homopolitics of the "War on Terror" Chad Shomura (bio) The "ethical" trend is in fact the "state of exception."ii Jacques Rancière The real thing about evil... isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon …
Politics in the Time of Covid
Vital Impasse
The good life in the United States has hit a crisis, yet people remain wedded to it. Lauren Berlant has called this kind of situation an "impasse," which indicates the seeming unavailability of alternatives when the good life appears out of reach. In this essay, I develop impasse to show that the good life, while establishing how life ought to be lived, tacitly circumscribes what life is. The good life is founded on what Mel Chen has called an "a…
These Are Bad People" - Enemy Combatants and the Homopolitics of the "War on Terror
These Are Bad People"i -Enemy Combatants and the Homopolitics of the "War on Terror" Chad Shomura (bio) The "ethical" trend is in fact the "state of exception."ii Jacques Rancière The real thing about evil... isn't any of what you said. You figure out one side of it - the human side, say - and the eternal side goes into shadow. Or vice versa. It's like the old saw: What does a dragon in its shell look like? Well no one can ever tell, for as soon …
New Humanisms
Product Review| December 01 2016 New Humanisms A review of Lee, Rachel C., The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies (New York: New York University Press, 2014), and Weheliye, Alexander G., Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human (Durham: Duke University Press, 2014). Cited in the text as ec and hv, respectively. Chad Shomura Chad Shomura Search …
Politics in the Time of Covid
Vital Impasse
The good life in the United States has hit a crisis, yet people remain wedded to it. Lauren Berlant has called this kind of situation an "impasse," which indicates the seeming unavailability of alternatives when the good life appears out of reach. In this essay, I develop impasse to show that the good life, while establishing how life ought to be lived, tacitly circumscribes what life is. The good life is founded on what Mel Chen has called an "a…
Ocean Passages
The Pacific is dense, layered, vast. It is full, not just of creatures beautiful and sublime but also histories of war, nuclear testing, colonial settlement, ecological disruption, and capitalist extraction. Moreover, it is rich in stories, meaning, and life shared among humans and nonhumans. As the twenty-first century unfolds, will the Pacific offer devastation or life?Erin Suzuki's Ocean Passages: Navigating Pacific Islander and Asian American…
Decolonial Mood Work
This essay develops "decolonial mood work," a political project that changes affective orientations toward crises in settler society and prospects for decolonization. Decolonial mood work is a crucial supplement to scholarship that has focused on demystifying the ideological dimensions of settler colonialism. This essay shows that the regulation of affect is a central, though less addressed, operation of settler state and society. Its case is the…
Yellow Matter
This essay circles yellow matter to conceive Asian/America in excess of what Sylvia Wynter calls Man. Yellow matter names various materialities caught in the wake of yellow peril and that surface in the reverberations of racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and imperial expansion and war. This essay tends to yellow matter at its most abstract and ethereal—where it coincides with a potential to vary. It theorizes the powers of yellow matter by …
Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Materialism (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)