Contributors ix Acknowledgments xv Introduction xviiImre Szeman, Sarah Blacker, and Justin Sully Part I Lineages 1 1 Frankfurt – New York – San Diego 1924–1968; or, Critical Theory 3Andrew Pendakis 2 Vienna 1899 – Paris 1981; or, Psychoanalysis 25James Penney 3 Paris 1955–1968; or, Structuralism 41Sean Homer 4 Birmingham – Urbana‐Champaign 1964–1990; or, Cultural Studies 59Paul Smith 5 Baltimore – New Haven 1966–1983; or, Deconstruction 73Michael O’Driscoll 6 Paris – Boston – Berkeley – the Mexico/Texas Borderlands 1949–1990; or, Gender and Sexuality 91Sarah Brophy 7 Delhi/Ahmednagar Fort – Washington, DC/Birmingham Jail – Pretoria/Robben Island 1947–1994; or, Race, Colonialism, Postcolonialism 115Neil ten Kortenaar 8 Petrograd/Leningrad – Havana – Beijing 1917–1991; or, Marxist Theory and Socialist Practice 129Peter Hitchcock 9 Chile – Seattle – Cairo 1973–2017?; or, Globalization and Neoliberalism 147Myka Tucker‐Abramson Part II Problematics 167 Section A: Living and Laboring 167 10 Subjectivity 173William Callison 11 Diaspora and Migration 191Ghassan Hage 12 Community, Collectivity, Affinities 205Miranda Joseph 13 Feminism 223Rosemary Hennessy 14 Gender and Queer Theory 243Amber Jamilla Musser 15 Social Divisions and Hierarchies 255Randy Martin 16 Work and Precarity 269Jason Read Section B: Being and Knowing 283 17 Religion and Secularism 287Jerilyn Sambrooke 18 Affect 301Marija Cetinić and Jeff Diamanti 19 Indigenous Epistemes 313Rauna Kuokkanen 20 The Everyday, Taste, Class 327Ben Highmore 21 Disability Studies 339Anna Mollow 22 Unsound 357Veit Erlmann 23 Screen Life 371Toby Miller 24 Digital and New Media 387Wendy Hui Kyong Chun 25 Science and Technology 403Priscilla Wald Section C: Structures of Agency and Belonging 419 26 Circulation 423Will Straw 27 Cultural Production 435Sarah Brouillette 28 Decolonization 449Jennifer Wenzel 29 Race and Ethnicity 465Min Hyoung Song 30 Humanism 477Nina Power 31 Nature 489Stephanie LeMenager 32 Scale 503Justin Sully 33 Narrative 517Marie‐Laure Ryan Index 531

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