Discourse Volume 39, Number 2, Spring 2017 (Photoelectric Technologies of Liberation)
Discourse explores a variety of topics in contemporary cultural studies, theories of media and literature, and the politics of sexuality, including questions of language and psychoanalysis. The journal publishes valuable and innovative essays on a wide range of cultural phenomena, promoting theoretical approaches to literature, film, the visual arts, and related media.
Discourse Volume 39, Number 2 (Spring 2017)
Photoelectric Technologies of Liberation
With Guest Coeditor Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Concerning Violence, Part I: The People Are Missing
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Concerning Violence, Part II: Fanon and the Intelligent Machine: Reflections from a Conversation with Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
Derrida’s Negotiations as a Technique of Liberation
Drucilla Cornell
Rockin’ It in Blue: A Black Existential Essay on Jimi Hendrix
Lewis R. Gordon
“Order Is the Best We Can Hope For”: Sicario and the Sacrificial Violence of the Law
Kojo Koram
The Nature of Political Heroes: Some Aesthetic Considerations
Jane Anna Gordon
Remembering the Spectacle of Disaster after 9/11: Review of 9/11 and the Visual Culture of Disaster by Thomas Stubblefield
Michael Anthony Turcios
Contributors