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Posthumanism Love In The Time Of AI (2023)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2023). Posthumanism Love In The Time Of AI. In J. Tambling (Ed.), The Bloomsbury Handbook to Literature and Psychoanalysis. Bloomsbury Publishing

Posthumanism, with its visions of disembodied technological transcendence, has tended to dismiss psychoanalysis, with its emphasis on bodily drives and unconscious fantasies, as part of the outmoded Humanist framework posthumanism criticises. This co... Read More about Posthumanism Love In The Time Of AI.

Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945 (2023)
Journal Article
Atkin, W. (2023). Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945. Dada/Surrealism, 24(1), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.17077/0084-9537.31902

This article explores the wartime works of Gherasim Luca and the Romanian surrealists during the 1940s, and considers how surrealist discourse was idiosyncratically reconfigured around the central themes of demons and black magic. Hermetically sealed... Read More about Demonic Surrealism in Bucharest: Revolutionary Nihilism in the Writings and Objects of Gherasim Luca, 1939-1945.

Chinese LGBTQ+ Online Social Movements: A Comparative Study Between the Collective Identity Framings in the #IAmGay and #IAmLes Protests (2023)
Journal Article
Huang, X. (2023). Chinese LGBTQ+ Online Social Movements: A Comparative Study Between the Collective Identity Framings in the #IAmGay and #IAmLes Protests. International Journal of Communication, 17(2023), 2689–2709

Collective identity framing is the process by which activists identify protagonists, antagonists, and audiences, three identity fields in social movements. Connective action facilitated by information communication technologies decentralizes social m... Read More about Chinese LGBTQ+ Online Social Movements: A Comparative Study Between the Collective Identity Framings in the #IAmGay and #IAmLes Protests.

Queer screens with Chinese characteristics?: Reimagining queer Chinese screen studies in the twenty-first century (2023)
Journal Article
Zhao, J. J., & Bao, H. (2023). Queer screens with Chinese characteristics?: Reimagining queer Chinese screen studies in the twenty-first century. Journal of Chinese Cinemas, 17(1), Article 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508061.2024.2312677

This introductory essay briefly reviews existing academic understandings and sociocultural imbrications of queer representations of and research on contemporary Chinese-language media and culture. We propose to conceptualize ‘queer Chinese screen stu... Read More about Queer screens with Chinese characteristics?: Reimagining queer Chinese screen studies in the twenty-first century.

‘Sissy capital’ and the governance of non-normative genders in China’s platform economy (2023)
Journal Article
Wang, S., & Bao, H. (2023). ‘Sissy capital’ and the governance of non-normative genders in China’s platform economy. China Information, 37(3), 342-362. https://doi.org/10.1177/0920203X221147481

This article examines Chinese government censorship in the intersection between queer and fan cultures and the government’s regulation of big tech companies and platform economies in the 2020s conjuncture. In the context of booming platform industrie... Read More about ‘Sissy capital’ and the governance of non-normative genders in China’s platform economy.

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon (2022)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2022). Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon. In The Palgrave Handbook of Psychosocial Studies (1-19). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61510-9_34-1

Black Skin, White Masks, by the experimental psychiatrist and anti-colonial militant, Franz Fanon, is regarded as a seminal text in the fields of postcolonial theory and critical race studies. Yet it has also been deeply influential on – and indeed c... Read More about Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon.

News Journalism and Twitter: Disruption, Adaption and Normalisation (2022)
Book
Dagoula, C. (2023). News Journalism and Twitter: Disruption, Adaption and Normalisation. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003231776

This book provides a critical account of the impact of Twitter on journalism, exploring how the news media has adapted to and normalised the use of the platform in the industry.

Offering a comprehensive understanding of Twitter uses for journalist... Read More about News Journalism and Twitter: Disruption, Adaption and Normalisation.

Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII (2022)
Book
Litten, R., & Wright, C. (Eds.). (2022). Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII. Lacanian Press

We now read Jacques Lacan’s seventeenth seminar from “the other side” of a fifty-year gap separating us from its initial delivery, at the Place du Panthéon, in the academic year 1969-1970. This is factually the case, yet viewing it this way is akin t... Read More about Returning To Lacan's Seminar XVII.

Curating queerness and queering curation: Exhibiting queer Chinese art in Europe (2022)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2022). Curating queerness and queering curation: Exhibiting queer Chinese art in Europe. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 9(1-2), 313-332. https://doi.org/10.1386/JCCA_00069_1

This article examines the curatorial strategies of the Secret Love exhibition, the biggest queer Chinese art exhibition outside Asia to date. The exhibition brought together 150 works created by 27 queer Chinese artists. It first took place at the Mu... Read More about Curating queerness and queering curation: Exhibiting queer Chinese art in Europe.

The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times (2022)
Journal Article
Mutibwa, D. H. (2022). The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times. Societies, 12(5), Article 135. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc12050135

This article explores arts, cultural and community engagement (ACCE) in the context of enduring austerity in England. Working with a methodically crafted synthesis of theoretical perspectives drawn from (1) the critical political economy (CPE) tradit... Read More about The (Un)Changing Political Economy of Arts, Cultural and Community Engagement, the Creative Economy and Place-Based Development during Austere Times.

Bad Hombres at the Border: Masculinity and Mexico in Rambo Last Blood (2022)
Book Chapter
Frame, G. (2022). Bad Hombres at the Border: Masculinity and Mexico in Rambo Last Blood. In H. Loyo, & J. A. Tarancón (Eds.), Screening the Crisis: US Cinema and Social Change in the Wake of the 2008 Crash (279-292). Bloomsbury Academic

The Rambo series (1982-2019) has functioned as a barometer of US domestic and foreign policies across its forty year history. At first a traumatised veteran of the war in Vietnam, John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) became a hard-bodied defender of US in... Read More about Bad Hombres at the Border: Masculinity and Mexico in Rambo Last Blood.

The new generation: Contemporary Chinese art in the diaspora (2022)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2022). The new generation: Contemporary Chinese art in the diaspora. Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 9(1-2), 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1386/jcca_00053_2

This Special Issue of Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art focuses on the social significance and political relevance of diaspora Chinese art in the contemporary era. Although artists and authors may hold different stances towards Chinese and diaspora... Read More about The new generation: Contemporary Chinese art in the diaspora.

Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema (2022)
Journal Article
Bao, H. (2022). Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema. Feminist Media Studies, 22(5), 1278-1281. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2022.2077798

This article examines the history of representing transgender people in independent films produced in mainland China from the 1990s to present. Tracing a brief history of the transgender representation on Chinese screen, this article illustrates the... Read More about Ways of seeing transgender in independent Chinese cinema.

Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review (2022)
Journal Article
Charles, A., Hare-Duke, L., Nudds, H., Franklin, D., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Gust, O., Ng, F., Evans, E., Knox, E., Townsend, E., Yeo, C., & Slade, M. (2022). Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review. PLoS ONE, 17(5), Article e0266722. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266722

Content and trigger warnings give information about the content of material prior to receiving it. Different typologies of content warnings have emerged across multiple sectors, including health, social media, education and entertainment. Benefits ar... Read More about Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review.

Teaching Demons and Eating Nazis: Morality in Trump-era Fantasy Comedy (2022)
Book Chapter
Frame, G., & Andrews, H. (2022). Teaching Demons and Eating Nazis: Morality in Trump-era Fantasy Comedy. In K. McNally (Ed.), American Television during a Television Presidency. Wayne State University Press

Donald Trump’s personality is arguably symptomatic of the values of the contemporary era. His aggressive individualism, narcissism and selfishness were no impediment to securing the presidency, which suggests the normalisation, indeed, valorisation,... Read More about Teaching Demons and Eating Nazis: Morality in Trump-era Fantasy Comedy.

Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums (2022)
Journal Article
Mansell, J., De Little, A., & Jamieson, A. (2022). Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums. Science Museum Group Journal, https://doi.org/10.15180/221704

This article reports on the experimental methodology and key findings of the AHRC-funded impact and engagement project Sonic Futures: Collecting, Curating and Engaging with Sound at the National Science and Media Museum (2020–21). The project underto... Read More about Staging listening: new methods for engaging audiences with sound in museums.

'Queer/ing China': Theorizing Chinese genders and sexualities through a transnational lens (2022)
Preprint / Working Paper
Zhao, J. J., & Bao, H. 'Queer/ing China': Theorizing Chinese genders and sexualities through a transnational lens

In this viewpoint essay, using ‘queer/ing China’ as a heuristic, we explore ‘queerness’ and ‘Chineseness’ through an intersectional approach that is attuned to the encounters, syntheses and dissonances of local, transnational and global queer and fem... Read More about 'Queer/ing China': Theorizing Chinese genders and sexualities through a transnational lens.