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In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the human or animal. Within the field of linguistics, animacy has been described variously as a quality of agency, awareness, mobility, sentience, or liveness. Chen turns to cognitive linguistics to stress how language habitually differentiates the animate and the inanimate. Expanding this construct, Chen argues that animacy undergirds much that is pressing and indeed volatile in contemporary culture, from animal rights debates to biosecurity concerns.Chens book is the first to bring the concept of animacy together with queer of color scholarship, critical animal studies, and disability theory. Through analyses of dehumanizing insults, the meanings of queerness, animal protagonists in recent Asian/American art and film, the lead in toys panic in 2007, and the social lives of environmental illness, Animacies illuminates a hierarchical politics infused by race, sexuality, and ability. In this groundbreaking book, Chen rethinks the criteria governing agency and receptivity, health and toxicity, productivity and stillnessand demonstrates how attention to the affective charge of matter challenges commonsense orderings of the world.
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Emily Chen
Interesting but Dense Reads
While I appreciate the diverse perspectives in this collection, some chapters felt overly dense and hard to get through. I think it’s a valuable book for academic discussions, but it can be a challenge for casual readers like me.
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Emily Chen
Interesting but Dense Reads
While I appreciate the diverse perspectives in this collection, some chapters felt overly dense and hard to get through. I think it’s a valuable book for academic discussions, but it can be a challenge for casual readers like me.
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Aisha Malik
An Essential Read for Activists
As an activist, I found the discussions in 'Racial Mattering and Queer Affect' to be extremely relevant to my work. The range of topics covered is impressive, and it really encourages critical thinking about modern issues. Would love to see more works like this!
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Aisha Malik
An Essential Read for Activists
As an activist, I found the discussions in 'Racial Mattering and Queer Affect' to be extremely relevant to my work. The range of topics covered is impressive, and it really encourages critical thinking about modern issues. Would love to see more works like this!
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