Steven Shaviro

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Steven Shaviro (2007)

Steven Shaviro (

subjectivity. He earned a B.A. in English in 1975, M.A. in English in 1978, and a Ph.D. in English in 1981, all from Yale University.[1] From 1984 to 2004, he was a professor of English at the University of Washington,[2] and since 2004 teaches film, culture and English at Wayne State University
, where he is the DeRoy Professor of English.

Career

His most widely read book is Doom Patrols, a "theoretical fiction" that outlines the state of

music videos
as an artform.

Shaviro has written a book about film theory, The Cinematic Body, which according to the preface is "about postmodernism, the politics of human bodies, constructions of masculinity, and the aesthetics of masochism."[2] It also examines Julia Kristeva's concept of abjection and the dominance of Lacanian tropes in contemporary academic film theory. According to Shaviro, the use of psychoanalysis has mirrored the actions of a cult, with its own religious texts (essays by Freud and Lacan).

Shaviro's book Connected, Or, What It Means to Live in the Network Society, appeared in 2003. A later book, Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics was published in May 2009.[3] Five years later, he wrote a book about speculative realism in philosophy, inspired by Alfred North Whitehead.[4][5]

In 2023 Shaviro wrote in a Facebook post, "Although I do not advocate violating federal and state criminal codes, I think it is far more admirable to kill a racist, homophobic or transphobic speaker than it is to shout them down."[6][7] Wayne State University President M. Roy Wilson suspended Shaviro with pay and referred the matter to law enforcement.[7]

Bibliography

  • Shaviro, Steven (1990). Passion and Excess: Blanchot, Bataille, and Literary Theory, Tallahassee: Florida State University Press.
  • ——— (1993). The Cinematic Body, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • ——— (1997): Doom Patrols: A Theoretical Fiction about Postmodernism, London: Serpent's Tail.
  • ——— (2003). Connected, or What it Means to Live in the Network Society, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
  • ——— (2009). Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
  • ——— (2010). Post Cinematic Affect, Winchester: Zer0 books.
  • ——— (2014). The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
  • ——— (2016). Discognition, Repeater Books.
  • ——— (2017). Digital Music Videos, Rutgers University Press, 2017.

References

  1. ^ "Vita". www.shaviro.com. Retrieved 2023-03-30.
  2. ^ a b Carpenter, Novella. "Avant-Prof: An Interview With Steve Shaviro". www.altx.com. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  3. ISSN 2292-0811
    . Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  4. ^ rsharp (2014-11-28). "Interview with Steven Shaviro, author of 'The Universe of Things'". University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  5. ^ "The Universe of Things". University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  6. ^ McDuffie, Candace (29 March 2023). "Michigan Professor Suspended for Saying It's 'More Admirable To Kill a Racist' Speaker Than Protest". The Root. Retrieved 30 March 2023.
  7. ^ a b Stunson, Mike (28 March 2023). "Professor's Facebook post justified murder, Michigan university says. He's suspended". Lexington Herald-Leader. Retrieved 30 March 2023.

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