Viral
WSQ Volume 40, Numbers 1&2 Spring/Summer 2012
June 2012
Trade Paperback · 320 Pages
$25.00 U.S. · $27.50 CAN
ISBN 9781558617926
The Feminist Press at CUNY
Trade Paperback · 320 Pages
$25.00 U.S. · $27.50 CAN
ISBN 9781558617926
The Feminist Press at CUNY
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Description
When we think of something as viral, we often think of 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. In this issue of WSQ, the editors invite a rethinking of institutions of education, family, religion, health, military, media, and law to inaugurate an inventive cultural criticism on topics ranging from social media, hacking, clouding, and financial markets to pollution, genetics, and robotics.
Viral will also include interdisciplinary artists' projects, each exploring the technological, political, and biological registers of viral culture. These include a meditation on the US military's use of PowerPoint slides and an experiment involving the artist's own hepatitis C-infected blood and plant life. An ongoing social media campaign is being created with input from media maven Johanna Blakley, managing director and director of research at the Norman Lear Center, University of Southern California, and will continue after the issue is published.
Patricia Clough is a professor of sociology, women's studies, and intercultural studies at Queen's College, CUNY, and The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Jasbir Puar is a professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University.
Viral will also include interdisciplinary artists' projects, each exploring the technological, political, and biological registers of viral culture. These include a meditation on the US military's use of PowerPoint slides and an experiment involving the artist's own hepatitis C-infected blood and plant life. An ongoing social media campaign is being created with input from media maven Johanna Blakley, managing director and director of research at the Norman Lear Center, University of Southern California, and will continue after the issue is published.
Patricia Clough is a professor of sociology, women's studies, and intercultural studies at Queen's College, CUNY, and The Graduate Center, CUNY.
Jasbir Puar is a professor of women's and gender studies at Rutgers University.
About the Authors
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.
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.