Hentyle Yapp
Biographic Data
| ID | 807070 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hentyle Yapp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hentyle |
| FAMILY NAME | Yapp |
| SIGNATURE | YAPP H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pomona College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Not To Be Governed Like This: Ai Weiwei, Foucault, and Illiberal Representation
In expressing critique, the main model for understanding the merits of such expressions is through a liberal democratic tradition with its ideas of free speech. Regardless of whether discontent is expressed through aesthetic or political means, it is primarily framed through a logic of representation and the presumption that the means of expression directly mediate and thus properly represent one's perspective. Under the governance structure of l…
The Ubiquity of Asia: Cai Guo-Qiang's Fireworks and Spectral Marxism
Asia is everywhere. Asia feels ubiquitous, from soft to hard power; from high to low culture; and from the Americas to Africa. In the American cycle of capital accumulation, under Giovanni Arrighi's schema, the overrepresentation of the United States was marked through representation-based and symbolic notions like Disneyfication (Jean Baudrillard) and "the ascendancy of whiteness" (Rey Chow). Under our contemporary Asian cycle of capital accumul…
The Difference Queer Aesthetics Make
Queer Aesthetics will be a new section for GLQ, and this essay explains its focus and rationale as it replaces the Moving Image Review. This essay outlines the need for queer aesthetics as an analytic as it relates to changes in liberal governance and media representation, subjectless critique, and academic discourse. In addition, it outlines a genealogy of queer aesthetics and form and questions the centrality of representation as a discourse fo…
To Free Speech from Free Speech: Marxism, Mediation, and Disability Aesthetics in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness
Liberalism glorifies free speech as the primary means to achieve progress. Free speech is presumed to involve a clear association across awareness, individual voice, collective speaking, and increased representation. Michel Foucault located a genealogy of related practices of speaking truth in the Stoic tradition of parrhesia. However, as he established, liberalism limits speech, as centrism and civility flatten all forms of speech as equivalent …
Feeling Down(town Julie Brown): The Sense of Up and Expiring Relationality
During the late 1980s and 1990s, the presence of women of color dancing on film and television greatly increased: Rosie Perez in Do the Right Thing, the Fly Girls from In Living Color, and Downtown Julie Brown hosting Club MTV. These figures were highly energetic and up, marking a positivity that can be distinguished from the depressed affects that have been centralized for the 21st century. This article historicizes the sense of up to rethink th…
To Punk, Yield, and Flail
At the intersection of social practice art and queer failure discourse, performativity pulses with possibility. This article tracks this strong performative force that undergirds theorizations of queer failure, social success, and performance. The author examines Julie Tolentino's community engagement project, The Magical Order (2014), which brings these divergent discourses together. Her collaboration with Larkin Street Youth Services, which ser…
Disability as Exception: China, Race, and Human Rights
In 1990 both China and the United States passed major disability legislation. Why and how does disability become a key category at the turn of the twenty-first century across the Pacific and globally? This essay argues for disability's centrality in accounting for neoliberalism, China’s rise, and global imaginaries of the non-West. I examine how legal and political engagements with disability overlap and differ in terms of how notions of individu…
Chinese lingering, meditation's practice: Reframing Endurance Art Beyond Resistance
This article explores the methodological possibilities of using meditation, breath, and affects to situate contemporary Chinese art, particularly Zhang Huan's 12 Square Meters and He Chengyao's 99 Needles. Through the haptic dimensions embedded within meditation, I complicate the oft-deployed frameworks of endurance art and conscious resistance applied to Chinese artists that “challenge” the state. I propose lingering as an alternative possibilit…
Disability as Exception: China, Race, and Human Rights
In 1990 both China and the United States passed major disability legislation. Why and how does disability become a key category at the turn of the twenty-first century across the Pacific and globally? This essay argues for disability's centrality in accounting for neoliberalism, China’s rise, and global imaginaries of the non-West. I examine how legal and political engagements with disability overlap and differ in terms of how notions of individu…
The Ubiquity of Asia: Cai Guo-Qiang's Fireworks and Spectral Marxism
Asia is everywhere. Asia feels ubiquitous, from soft to hard power; from high to low culture; and from the Americas to Africa. In the American cycle of capital accumulation, under Giovanni Arrighi's schema, the overrepresentation of the United States was marked through representation-based and symbolic notions like Disneyfication (Jean Baudrillard) and "the ascendancy of whiteness" (Rey Chow). Under our contemporary Asian cycle of capital accumul…
The Difference Queer Aesthetics Make
Queer Aesthetics will be a new section for GLQ, and this essay explains its focus and rationale as it replaces the Moving Image Review. This essay outlines the need for queer aesthetics as an analytic as it relates to changes in liberal governance and media representation, subjectless critique, and academic discourse. In addition, it outlines a genealogy of queer aesthetics and form and questions the centrality of representation as a discourse fo…
To Punk, Yield, and Flail
At the intersection of social practice art and queer failure discourse, performativity pulses with possibility. This article tracks this strong performative force that undergirds theorizations of queer failure, social success, and performance. The author examines Julie Tolentino's community engagement project, The Magical Order (2014), which brings these divergent discourses together. Her collaboration with Larkin Street Youth Services, which ser…
Chinese lingering, meditation's practice: Reframing Endurance Art Beyond Resistance
This article explores the methodological possibilities of using meditation, breath, and affects to situate contemporary Chinese art, particularly Zhang Huan's 12 Square Meters and He Chengyao's 99 Needles. Through the haptic dimensions embedded within meditation, I complicate the oft-deployed frameworks of endurance art and conscious resistance applied to Chinese artists that “challenge” the state. I propose lingering as an alternative possibilit…
Chinese lingering, meditation's practice: Reframing Endurance Art Beyond Resistance
This article explores the methodological possibilities of using meditation, breath, and affects to situate contemporary Chinese art, particularly Zhang Huan's 12 Square Meters and He Chengyao's 99 Needles. Through the haptic dimensions embedded within meditation, I complicate the oft-deployed frameworks of endurance art and conscious resistance applied to Chinese artists that “challenge” the state. I propose lingering as an alternative possibilit…
Disability as Exception: China, Race, and Human Rights
In 1990 both China and the United States passed major disability legislation. Why and how does disability become a key category at the turn of the twenty-first century across the Pacific and globally? This essay argues for disability's centrality in accounting for neoliberalism, China’s rise, and global imaginaries of the non-West. I examine how legal and political engagements with disability overlap and differ in terms of how notions of individu…
Feeling Down(town Julie Brown): The Sense of Up and Expiring Relationality
During the late 1980s and 1990s, the presence of women of color dancing on film and television greatly increased: Rosie Perez in Do the Right Thing, the Fly Girls from In Living Color, and Downtown Julie Brown hosting Club MTV. These figures were highly energetic and up, marking a positivity that can be distinguished from the depressed affects that have been centralized for the 21st century. This article historicizes the sense of up to rethink th…
To Punk, Yield, and Flail
At the intersection of social practice art and queer failure discourse, performativity pulses with possibility. This article tracks this strong performative force that undergirds theorizations of queer failure, social success, and performance. The author examines Julie Tolentino's community engagement project, The Magical Order (2014), which brings these divergent discourses together. Her collaboration with Larkin Street Youth Services, which ser…
To Free Speech from Free Speech: Marxism, Mediation, and Disability Aesthetics in Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s A City of Sadness
Liberalism glorifies free speech as the primary means to achieve progress. Free speech is presumed to involve a clear association across awareness, individual voice, collective speaking, and increased representation. Michel Foucault located a genealogy of related practices of speaking truth in the Stoic tradition of parrhesia. However, as he established, liberalism limits speech, as centrism and civility flatten all forms of speech as equivalent …
The Ubiquity of Asia: Cai Guo-Qiang's Fireworks and Spectral Marxism
Asia is everywhere. Asia feels ubiquitous, from soft to hard power; from high to low culture; and from the Americas to Africa. In the American cycle of capital accumulation, under Giovanni Arrighi's schema, the overrepresentation of the United States was marked through representation-based and symbolic notions like Disneyfication (Jean Baudrillard) and "the ascendancy of whiteness" (Rey Chow). Under our contemporary Asian cycle of capital accumul…
The Difference Queer Aesthetics Make
Queer Aesthetics will be a new section for GLQ, and this essay explains its focus and rationale as it replaces the Moving Image Review. This essay outlines the need for queer aesthetics as an analytic as it relates to changes in liberal governance and media representation, subjectless critique, and academic discourse. In addition, it outlines a genealogy of queer aesthetics and form and questions the centrality of representation as a discourse fo…
Not To Be Governed Like This: Ai Weiwei, Foucault, and Illiberal Representation
In expressing critique, the main model for understanding the merits of such expressions is through a liberal democratic tradition with its ideas of free speech. Regardless of whether discontent is expressed through aesthetic or political means, it is primarily framed through a logic of representation and the presumption that the means of expression directly mediate and thus properly represent one's perspective. Under the governance structure of l…
Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Communication (2 works)