Steven Shaviro

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Steven Shaviro (2007)

Steven Shaviro (/ʃəˈvɪroʊ/; born April 3, 1954) is an American academic, philosopher and cultural critic whose areas of interest include film theory, time, science fiction, panpsychism, capitalism, affect and subjectivity. He earned a PhD from Yale in 1981, and teaches Film, Culture and English at the University of Washington.[1]

Work[]

His most widely read book is Doom Patrols, a "theoretical fiction" that outlines the state of postmodernism during the early 1990s, using poetic language, personal anecdotes, and creative prose. He has also written extensively about 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."[1] 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.[2] Five years later, he wrote a book about speculative realism in philosophy, inspired by Alfred North Whitehead.[3][4]

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.
  • ——— (in progress). Stranded in the Jungle.
  • ——— (in progress). Critical Beatdown.

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Carpenter, Novella. "Avant-Prof: An Interview With Steve Shaviro". www.altx.com. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  2. ^ Ralón, Laureano (2013-02-22). "Interview with Steven Shaviro". Figure/Ground. ISSN 2292-0811. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
  3. ^ rsharp (2014-11-28). "Interview with Steven Shaviro, author of 'The Universe of Things'". University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved 2020-05-25.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  4. ^ "The Universe of Things". University of Minnesota Press. Retrieved 2020-05-25.

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