Zahid R Chaudhary
Biographic Data
| ID | 940943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zahid R Chaudhary |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zahid R |
| FAMILY NAME | Chaudhary |
| SIGNATURE | CHAUDHARY Z R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Un/reading
Responding to the theme of this special issue's engagement with the work of Leo Bersani, "Un/reading" tracks the itinerary of a single quotation across the four appearances it makes in published work between 2011 and 2018. While it is easy to query whether Bersani was aware of the citational redundancy, this essay focuses on the pedagogy of reading it suggests, not only in terms of Bersani's own thought but for the critical humanities more genera…
Paranoid Publics
This article takes up the recent insurrection in Washington, DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud’s insight that delusional formations are attempts at recovery, this article reads QAnon as a part of a symptomatology of the social world
Sacrificing Citizenship
This article analyzes the discourse concerning the assimilation of Muslim minorities in the United States and suggests that calls for assimilation are solicitations for a form of self-renunciation and sacrifice. Yet such solicitations occur against the economic and political background of neoliberalism, in which all citizens are asked to make sacrifices for the sake of economic health. How does one read, then, the discourse of Muslim assimilation…
Desert Blooms
This essay considers the place of abstraction in documentary photography, a genre whose primary aesthetic-political commitment is usually assumed to be on the side of figuration, denotation, and facticity. Taking up photographer Fazal Sheikh's photographic series Desert Bloom, which records natural and human-made disturbances in the Naqab/Negev desert, the essay considers artistic abstraction in relation to other forms of economic, juridical, and…
This Time with Feeling
Through a psychoanalytic reading of Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary The Act of Killing, this essay considers the role of fantasy in genocidal Cold War violence. Considering both Oppenheimer’s film and also Frantz Fanon’s clinical case studies as investigations into impunity, the essay analyzes fantasy’s place in global violence and in the psychology of impunity. How does The Act of Killing signal a crisis in the global distribution of affect and…
Subjects in Difference: Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, and Postcolonial Theory
This essay aims to rethink historical difference in light of Walter Benjamin's formulation of mimesis and Frantz Fanon's phenomenology of difference. Divided into three parts, the essay engages Dipesh Chakrabarty's account of historical difference, considers how an understanding of mimesis might safeguard against some of the philosophical pitfalls within Chakrabarty's formulation, and revisits Fanon for an explication of a theory of mimesis and d…
The labor of mimesis
This article is a preliminary examination of the conception of mimesis as it unfolds in Rey Chow's work. Focusing on Chow's work on film, the article shows how Chow rejects a certain iconophobic imperative with which anti-orientalist critiques come laden, with all of the assumptions about surface/depth, misrepresentation/truth, and myth/reality that attend such iconophobia. Since there is no Archimedean point outside of the “fabulation” of the wo…
Humanity Adrift: Race, Materiality, and Allegory in Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men
This article aims for an account of materiality that helps apprehend race as a material reality while attending to its semiotic, aesthetic, and cultural signification. Through a close reading of Alfonso Cuarón's film, Children of Men (UK, 2006), the author argues that allegory is a figure for recasting the problematic of racial alterity as a materialist concern. Relying on Walter Benjamin's formulations on allegory as a privileged mode of represe…
Phantasmagoric Aesthetics: Colonial Violence and the Management of Perception
Click for larger view Figure 1 Interior of the Sikanderbagh after the Slaughter of 2,000 Rebels by the 93rd Highlanders and 4th Punjab Regiment. First Attack of Sir Colin Campbell in November 1857, Lucknow. Felice Beato, March or April 1858. The Alkazi Collection of Photography
Controlling the Ganymedes: The colonial gaze in J. R. Ackerley's Hindoo holiday
Phantasmagoric Aesthetics: Colonial Violence and the Management of Perception
Click for larger view Figure 1 Interior of the Sikanderbagh after the Slaughter of 2,000 Rebels by the 93rd Highlanders and 4th Punjab Regiment. First Attack of Sir Colin Campbell in November 1857, Lucknow. Felice Beato, March or April 1858. The Alkazi Collection of Photography
Humanity Adrift: Race, Materiality, and Allegory in Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men
This article aims for an account of materiality that helps apprehend race as a material reality while attending to its semiotic, aesthetic, and cultural signification. Through a close reading of Alfonso Cuarón's film, Children of Men (UK, 2006), the author argues that allegory is a figure for recasting the problematic of racial alterity as a materialist concern. Relying on Walter Benjamin's formulations on allegory as a privileged mode of represe…
Paranoid Publics
This article takes up the recent insurrection in Washington, DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud’s insight that delusional formations are attempts at recovery, this article reads QAnon as a part of a symptomatology of the social world
Subjects in Difference: Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, and Postcolonial Theory
This essay aims to rethink historical difference in light of Walter Benjamin's formulation of mimesis and Frantz Fanon's phenomenology of difference. Divided into three parts, the essay engages Dipesh Chakrabarty's account of historical difference, considers how an understanding of mimesis might safeguard against some of the philosophical pitfalls within Chakrabarty's formulation, and revisits Fanon for an explication of a theory of mimesis and d…
Controlling the Ganymedes: The colonial gaze in J. R. Ackerley's Hindoo holiday
Phantasmagoric Aesthetics: Colonial Violence and the Management of Perception
Click for larger view Figure 1 Interior of the Sikanderbagh after the Slaughter of 2,000 Rebels by the 93rd Highlanders and 4th Punjab Regiment. First Attack of Sir Colin Campbell in November 1857, Lucknow. Felice Beato, March or April 1858. The Alkazi Collection of Photography
Humanity Adrift: Race, Materiality, and Allegory in Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men
This article aims for an account of materiality that helps apprehend race as a material reality while attending to its semiotic, aesthetic, and cultural signification. Through a close reading of Alfonso Cuarón's film, Children of Men (UK, 2006), the author argues that allegory is a figure for recasting the problematic of racial alterity as a materialist concern. Relying on Walter Benjamin's formulations on allegory as a privileged mode of represe…
The labor of mimesis
This article is a preliminary examination of the conception of mimesis as it unfolds in Rey Chow's work. Focusing on Chow's work on film, the article shows how Chow rejects a certain iconophobic imperative with which anti-orientalist critiques come laden, with all of the assumptions about surface/depth, misrepresentation/truth, and myth/reality that attend such iconophobia. Since there is no Archimedean point outside of the “fabulation” of the wo…
Subjects in Difference: Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, and Postcolonial Theory
This essay aims to rethink historical difference in light of Walter Benjamin's formulation of mimesis and Frantz Fanon's phenomenology of difference. Divided into three parts, the essay engages Dipesh Chakrabarty's account of historical difference, considers how an understanding of mimesis might safeguard against some of the philosophical pitfalls within Chakrabarty's formulation, and revisits Fanon for an explication of a theory of mimesis and d…
This Time with Feeling
Through a psychoanalytic reading of Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary The Act of Killing, this essay considers the role of fantasy in genocidal Cold War violence. Considering both Oppenheimer’s film and also Frantz Fanon’s clinical case studies as investigations into impunity, the essay analyzes fantasy’s place in global violence and in the psychology of impunity. How does The Act of Killing signal a crisis in the global distribution of affect and…
Sacrificing Citizenship
This article analyzes the discourse concerning the assimilation of Muslim minorities in the United States and suggests that calls for assimilation are solicitations for a form of self-renunciation and sacrifice. Yet such solicitations occur against the economic and political background of neoliberalism, in which all citizens are asked to make sacrifices for the sake of economic health. How does one read, then, the discourse of Muslim assimilation…
Desert Blooms
This essay considers the place of abstraction in documentary photography, a genre whose primary aesthetic-political commitment is usually assumed to be on the side of figuration, denotation, and facticity. Taking up photographer Fazal Sheikh's photographic series Desert Bloom, which records natural and human-made disturbances in the Naqab/Negev desert, the essay considers artistic abstraction in relation to other forms of economic, juridical, and…
Paranoid Publics
This article takes up the recent insurrection in Washington, DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud’s insight that delusional formations are attempts at recovery, this article reads QAnon as a part of a symptomatology of the social world
Un/reading
Responding to the theme of this special issue's engagement with the work of Leo Bersani, "Un/reading" tracks the itinerary of a single quotation across the four appearances it makes in published work between 2011 and 2018. While it is easy to query whether Bersani was aware of the citational redundancy, this essay focuses on the pedagogy of reading it suggests, not only in terms of Bersani's own thought but for the critical humanities more genera…
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