A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory

Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Imre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, and Justin Sully Part I Lineages 1 1 Frankfurt - New York - San Diego 1924-1968; or, Critical Theory 3 Andrew Pendakis 2 Vienna 1899 - Paris 1981; or, Psychoanalysis 25 James Penney 3 Paris 1955-1968; or, Structuralism 41 Sean Homer 4 Birmingham - Urbana-Champaign 1964-1990; or, Cultural Studies 59 Paul Smith 5 Baltimore - New Haven 1966-1983; or, Deconstruction 73 Michael O'Driscoll 6 Paris - Boston - Berkeley - the Mexico/Texas Borderlands 1949-1990; or, Gender and Sexuality 91 Sarah Brophy 7 Delhi/Ahmednagar Fort - Washington, DC/Birmingham Jail - Pretoria/Robben Island 1947-1994; or, Race, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 115 Neil ten Kortenaar 8 Petrograd/Leningrad - Havana - Beijing 1917-1991; or, Marxist Theory and Socialist Practice 129 Peter Hitchcock 9 Chile - Seattle - Cairo 1973-2017?; or, Globalization and Neoliberalism 147 Myka Tucker-Abramson Part II Problematics 167 Section A: Living and Laboring 167 10 Subjectivity 173 William Callison 11 Diaspora and Migration 191 Ghassan Hage 12 Community, Collectivity, Affinities 205 Miranda Joseph 13 Feminism 223 Rosemary Hennessy 14 Gender and Queer Theory 243 Amber Jamilla Musser 15 Social Divisions and Hierarchies 255 Randy Martin 16 Work and Precarity 269 Jason Read Section B: Being and Knowing 283 17 Religion and Secularism 287 Jerilyn Sambrooke 18 Affect 301 Marija Cetinic and Jeff Diamanti 19 Indigenous Epistemes 313 Rauna Kuokkanen 20 The Everyday, Taste, Class 327 Ben Highmore 21 Disability Studies 339 Anna Mollow 22 Unsound 357 Veit Erlmann 23 Screen Life 371 Toby Miller 24 Digital and New Media 387 Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 25 Science and Technology 403 Priscilla Wald Section C: Structures of Agency and Belonging 419 26 Circulation 423 Will Straw 27 Cultural Production 435 Sarah Brouillette 28 Decolonization 449 Jennifer Wenzel 29 Race and Ethnicity 465 Min Hyoung Song 30 Humanism 477 Nina Power 31 Nature 489 Stephanie LeMenager

Imre Szeman is a Canada Research Chair of Cultural Studies and Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, and adjunct professor of Visual and Critical Studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design University. He is the founder of the Canadian Association of Cultural Studies and a founding member of the US Cultural Studies Association. He is the author or editor of many books, including most recently, Contemporary Marxist Theory: An Anthology (2014), Popular Culture: A User's Guide (3rd revised edition, 2013), After Globalization (Wiley Blackwell, 2011), and Cultural Theory: An Anthology (Wiley Blackwell, 2010). Sarah Blacker is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, Germany. Located at the intersection of science and technology studies, critical theory, and cultural studies, her research explores the politics of genomic medicine and health disparities' relation to racial inequalities in North America. She is co-editor of the journal Reviews in Cultural Theory. Justin Sully teaches literary and cultural studies at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His research tracks the cultural history of statistics and the political aesthetics of enumeration in film, television, and digital media. He is co-editor of the journal Reviews in Cultural Theory.