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American Political Science Review, 1998
... CONTESTATIONS A series edited by WILLIAM E. CONNOLLY A complete list of titles in the series ... more ... CONTESTATIONS A series edited by WILLIAM E. CONNOLLY A complete list of titles in the series appears at the end of the book. Page 5. The Art of Being Free Taking Liberties with Tocqueville,Marx, andArendt Mark Reinhardt Cornell University Press Ithaca and London This ...
Farewell to Visual Studies, 2015
Response included in Elkins, Frank, and Manghani, eds., Farewell to Visual Studies (University Pa... more Response included in Elkins, Frank, and Manghani, eds., Farewell to Visual Studies (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2015).
Theory Event, 2012
The killing of Trayvon Martin is easily placed in the long history of American violence against b... more The killing of Trayvon Martin is easily placed in the long history of American violence against black people and amidst the related contemporary institutions that reproduce race as a structure of inequality. For that reason, both the broad outpouring of horror that the case generated when it first rose to national prominence and the polarization that soon followed pose puzzles about how white Americans understand racial subordination. This essay explores those puzzles, taking moments in the struggle over the meaning of the case as occasions that illuminate the forms of knowing and unknowing that mark white supremacy in a neoliberal era.
Political Theory, 1995
Page 1. BOOKS IN REVIEW LOOK WHO'S TALKING Political Subjects, Political Objects, and Politi... more Page 1. BOOKS IN REVIEW LOOK WHO'S TALKING Political Subjects, Political Objects, and Political Discourse in Contemporary Theory ... It speaks knowingly about the layers of irony and loops of reflexlvity that now mark mass-mediated public spheres. ...
JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies
Beginning with the unlikely pairing of Max Reinhardt and Groucho Marx, this article unpacks an ol... more Beginning with the unlikely pairing of Max Reinhardt and Groucho Marx, this article unpacks an old, politically troubling Jewish joke as a way of tracing two trajectories that unfolded between Austria and the United States. The first follows the author's family, the second the interdisciplinary field of American studies. The joke's commentary on the dilemmas of assimilation, as played out in the family history, frames a more sustained examination of how national identity was understood by the American studies project consolidated in Salzburg and the US just after World War II. Focusing on how the new field's ways of engaging and occluding problems of race, subordination, exploitation, and land-theft shaped an interpretation of American democracy's history and prospects, the article puts these issues in the context of Donald Trump's election as president and the urgency of understanding not only the ruptures but also the historical continuities his presidency repr...
Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies , 2019
This essay is based on a keynote lecture at a meeting of the Austrian Association for American St... more This essay is based on a keynote lecture at a meeting of the Austrian Association for American Studies, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies. Set against the backdrop of Trump's election, the essay begins by unpacking of a Jewish joke in relation to my own family's history, including its history at the very site in which the conference took place. Building on certain questions emerging from that exercise, it moves to a sustained examination the project of American Studies as manifested in the founding of the Salzburg Seminar. Noting in particular how the founding generation underplayed the structures of racial domination and obscured the dynamics of settler colonialism, the essay ends with a discussion of how the history of that project might inform the opportunities and challenges facing the field now.
Response included in Elkins, Frank, and Manghani, eds., Farewell to Visual Studies (University Pa... more Response included in Elkins, Frank, and Manghani, eds., Farewell to Visual Studies (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2015).
Just when they appear to be engaged in the revolutionary transformation of themselves and their m... more Just when they appear to be engaged in the revolutionary transformation of themselves and their material surroundings, in the creation of something that does not yet exist, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they timidly conjure up the spirits of the past to help them; they borrow their names, battle slogans, and costumes so as to stage the new world historical scene in this venerable disguise and borrowed language.
The killing of Trayvon Martin is easily placed in the long history of American violence against b... more The killing of Trayvon Martin is easily placed in the long history of American violence against black people and amidst the related contemporary institutions that reproduce race as a structure of inequality. For that reason, both the broad outpouring of horror that the case generated when it first rose to national prominence and the polarization that soon followed pose puzzles about how white Americans understand racial subordination. This essay explores those puzzles, taking moments in the struggle over the meaning of the case as occasions that illuminate the forms of knowing and unknowing that mark white supremacy in a neoliberal era.
American Political Science Review, 1998
... CONTESTATIONS A series edited by WILLIAM E. CONNOLLY A complete list of titles in the series ... more ... CONTESTATIONS A series edited by WILLIAM E. CONNOLLY A complete list of titles in the series appears at the end of the book. Page 5. The Art of Being Free Taking Liberties with Tocqueville,Marx, andArendt Mark Reinhardt Cornell University Press Ithaca and London This ...
Farewell to Visual Studies, 2015
Response included in Elkins, Frank, and Manghani, eds., Farewell to Visual Studies (University Pa... more Response included in Elkins, Frank, and Manghani, eds., Farewell to Visual Studies (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2015).
Theory Event, 2012
The killing of Trayvon Martin is easily placed in the long history of American violence against b... more The killing of Trayvon Martin is easily placed in the long history of American violence against black people and amidst the related contemporary institutions that reproduce race as a structure of inequality. For that reason, both the broad outpouring of horror that the case generated when it first rose to national prominence and the polarization that soon followed pose puzzles about how white Americans understand racial subordination. This essay explores those puzzles, taking moments in the struggle over the meaning of the case as occasions that illuminate the forms of knowing and unknowing that mark white supremacy in a neoliberal era.
Political Theory, 1995
Page 1. BOOKS IN REVIEW LOOK WHO'S TALKING Political Subjects, Political Objects, and Politi... more Page 1. BOOKS IN REVIEW LOOK WHO'S TALKING Political Subjects, Political Objects, and Political Discourse in Contemporary Theory ... It speaks knowingly about the layers of irony and loops of reflexlvity that now mark mass-mediated public spheres. ...
JAAAS: Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies
Beginning with the unlikely pairing of Max Reinhardt and Groucho Marx, this article unpacks an ol... more Beginning with the unlikely pairing of Max Reinhardt and Groucho Marx, this article unpacks an old, politically troubling Jewish joke as a way of tracing two trajectories that unfolded between Austria and the United States. The first follows the author's family, the second the interdisciplinary field of American studies. The joke's commentary on the dilemmas of assimilation, as played out in the family history, frames a more sustained examination of how national identity was understood by the American studies project consolidated in Salzburg and the US just after World War II. Focusing on how the new field's ways of engaging and occluding problems of race, subordination, exploitation, and land-theft shaped an interpretation of American democracy's history and prospects, the article puts these issues in the context of Donald Trump's election as president and the urgency of understanding not only the ruptures but also the historical continuities his presidency repr...
Journal of the Austrian Association for American Studies , 2019
This essay is based on a keynote lecture at a meeting of the Austrian Association for American St... more This essay is based on a keynote lecture at a meeting of the Austrian Association for American Studies, commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies. Set against the backdrop of Trump's election, the essay begins by unpacking of a Jewish joke in relation to my own family's history, including its history at the very site in which the conference took place. Building on certain questions emerging from that exercise, it moves to a sustained examination the project of American Studies as manifested in the founding of the Salzburg Seminar. Noting in particular how the founding generation underplayed the structures of racial domination and obscured the dynamics of settler colonialism, the essay ends with a discussion of how the history of that project might inform the opportunities and challenges facing the field now.
Response included in Elkins, Frank, and Manghani, eds., Farewell to Visual Studies (University Pa... more Response included in Elkins, Frank, and Manghani, eds., Farewell to Visual Studies (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2015).
Just when they appear to be engaged in the revolutionary transformation of themselves and their m... more Just when they appear to be engaged in the revolutionary transformation of themselves and their material surroundings, in the creation of something that does not yet exist, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they timidly conjure up the spirits of the past to help them; they borrow their names, battle slogans, and costumes so as to stage the new world historical scene in this venerable disguise and borrowed language.
The killing of Trayvon Martin is easily placed in the long history of American violence against b... more The killing of Trayvon Martin is easily placed in the long history of American violence against black people and amidst the related contemporary institutions that reproduce race as a structure of inequality. For that reason, both the broad outpouring of horror that the case generated when it first rose to national prominence and the polarization that soon followed pose puzzles about how white Americans understand racial subordination. This essay explores those puzzles, taking moments in the struggle over the meaning of the case as occasions that illuminate the forms of knowing and unknowing that mark white supremacy in a neoliberal era.