WSQ: Viral : Vol 40 Nos. 1 & 2 Spring/Summer 2012: WSQ Volume 40, Numbers 1&2 Spring/Summer 2012 (Women's Studies Quarterly, 40) - Softcover

Clough, Patricia; Puar, Jasbir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558617922 ISBN 13: 9781558617926

Publisher: THE FEMINIST PRESS, 2012

Synopsis

The word viral has come to mean the transit of electronic information at an intensified speed and reach. Viral also refers to indiscriminate exchanges, often linked with notions of bodily contamination, uncontainability and unwelcome transgression of border and boundaries. Here the editors invite a rethinking of institutions of education, family, religion, health, military and law to introduce an inventive cultural criticism about social media, financial markets, pollution and genetics. Also included are artist's projects exploring technological and political registers.

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About the Author

Patricia Clough: Patricia Ticineto Clough is Professor of Sociology, Women’s Studies, and Intercultural Studies at Queens College and the Graduate School of the City University of New York. Her books include Autoaffection (2000), Feminist Thought (1995) and The End(s) of Ethnography (1992, revised 1998).


Jasbir Puar: Jasbir Puar is a professor of Women's & Gender Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (Duke University Press 2007), which won the 2007 Cultural Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies, and is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Art India as well as Bully Bloggers and Oh! Industry.

Edition details

• Publisher: THE FEMINIST PRESS
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1558617922
• ISBN 13: 9781558617926
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350