Anti-Apocalypse : exercises in genealogical criticism

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Anti-Apocalypse : exercises in genealogical criticism

Lee Quinby

University of Minnesota Press, c1994

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Bibliography: p. 187-196

Includes index

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ISBN 9780816622788

内容説明

As the year 2000 looms, apocalyptic thought abounds. In politics, science, philosophy, popular culture, and feminist discourse, apprehensions of the End appear in images of cultural decline and urban chaos; forecasts of the end of history and ecological devastation; visions of a New Age of triumphant technology or a gender-free Utopia. There is, the author contends, a threatening "regime of truth" prevailing in the United States; and this regime, with its enforcement of absolute truth and morality, imperils democracy. She offers a powerful critique of the millenarian rhetoric that currently pervades American culture. In doing so, she develops strategies for resisting its tyrannies. Drawing on feminist and Foucauldian theory, Quinby explores the complex relationship between power, truth, ethics, and apocalypse. She exposes the ramifications of this relationship in areas as diverse as jeanswear magazine advertising; the Human Genome project; contemporary feminism and philosophy; texts by Henry Adams and Zora Neale Hurston; and radical democratic activism. By bringing together such a wide range of topics, Quinby shows how apocalypse weaves its way through a vast network of seemingly unrelated discourse and practices. Tracing the deployment of power through systems of alliance, sexuality, and technology, Quinby reveals how these power relationships produce conflicting modes of subjectivity that create possibilities for resistance. She promotes a variety of critical stances: genealogical feminism, an ethics of the flesh, and "pissed criticism", as challenges to apocalyptic claims for absolute truth and universal morality.

目次

  • Introduction - apocalyptic fits. Part I Genealogy now eu(jean)ics: the new fashion in power
  • genealogical feminism: a politic way of looking
  • philosophy today - not-for-prophet thought. Part II The re-creations and recreations of Adam and Eve: reading modernist texts in postmodern contexts
  • conceiving the new man - Henry Adams and the birth of ironic apocalypse
  • "Woman got de key" - Zora Neale Hurston and resistance to apocalypse. Part III A book of revelry: the decline and fall of the American empire
  • urination and civilization - practising pissed criticism
  • resistance on the home front - re(con)figuring home space as a practice of freedom.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780816622795

内容説明

Anti-Apocalypse was first published in 1994. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. As the year 2000 looms, heralding a new millennium, apocalyptic thought abounds-and not merely among religious radicals. In politics, science, philosophy, popular culture, and feminist discourse, apprehensions of the End appear in images of cultural decline and urban chaos, forecasts of the end of history and ecological devastation, and visions of a new age of triumphant technology or a gender-free utopia. There is, Lee Quinby contends, a threatening "regime of truth" prevailing in the United States-and this regime, with its enforcement of absolute truth and morality, imperils democracy. In Anti-Apocalypse, Quinby offers a powerful critique of the millenarian rhetoric that pervades American culture. In doing so, she develops strategies for resisting its tyrannies. Drawing on feminist and Foucauldian theory, Quinby explores the complex relationship between power, truth, ethics, and apocalypse. She exposes the ramifications of this relationship in areas as diverse as jeanswear magazine advertising, the Human Genome project, contemporary feminism and philosophy, texts by Henry Adams and Zora Neale Hurston, and radical democratic activism. By bringing together such a wide range of topics, Quinby shows how apocalypse weaves its way through a vast network of seemingly unrelated discourses and practices. Tracing the deployment of power through systems of alliance, sexuality, and technology, Quinby reveals how these power relationships produce conflicting modes of subjectivity that create possibilities for resistance. She promotes a variety of critical stances-genealogical feminism, an ethics of the flesh, and "pissed criticism"-as challenges to apocalyptic claims for absolute truth and universal morality. Far-reaching in its implications for social and cultural theory as well as for political activism, Anti-Apocalypse will engage readers across the cultural spectrum and challenge them to confront one of the most subtle and insidious orthodoxies of our day. Lee Quinby is associate professor of English and American studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. She is the author of Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America (1991) and coeditor (with Irene Diamond) of Feminism and Foucault: Reflections on Resistance (1988).

目次

  • Introduction - apocalyptic fits. Part I Genealogy now eu(jean)ics: the new fashion in power
  • genealogical feminism: a politic way of looking
  • philosophy today - not-for-prophet thought. Part II The re-creations and recreations of Adam and Eve: reading modernist texts in postmodern contexts
  • conceiving the new man - Henry Adams and the birth of ironic apocalypse
  • "Woman got de key" - Zora Neale Hurston and resistance to apocalypse. Part III A book of revelry: the decline and fall of the American empire
  • urination and civilization - practising pissed criticism
  • resistance on the home front - re(con)figuring home space as a practice of freedom.

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