Epistemic injustice and the philosophy of recognition, 2022
Limiting gaslighting to a form of epis-
temic injustice cannot adequately explain either unintent... more Limiting gaslighting to a form of epis- temic injustice cannot adequately explain either unintentional gaslighting or the ways in which the targets of gaslighting accept their deficit status as knowers. There are affective dimensions of gaslighting that are essen- tial to its functioning, including the ways in which gaslighting under- mines knowledge-claims. In addition, if gaslighting is unintentional, then there are unconscious dimensions to gaslighting that affect both the per- petrators and the targets. Yet, to date, the literature on gaslighting does not account for either the affective or unconscious dimensions of gas- lighting, which are essential to understanding how gaslighting works.
Belying the rhetoric of “We’re all in this together,” and “COVID as the great equalizer,” the pan... more Belying the rhetoric of “We’re all in this together,” and “COVID as the great equalizer,” the pandemic has brought into focus the “pre-existing conditions” of inequality—poverty, racism, lack of health care, lack of child care, women’s double burden, and the vulnerability of the elderly, among others. The coronavirus reveals gaping inequities in the length and quality of life caused by social and economic “pre-existing conditions.” It is the great unequalizer, the promise and ruse of “We’re all in this together.” The new normal for some, is the old normal for many others.
The first images of Earth from space taken by the Apollo missions met with contradictory response... more The first images of Earth from space taken by the Apollo missions met with contradictory responses that are telling in relation to the problems of globalism and the environmental movement today. This chapter shows how the “autoimmune” response to seeing the Earth from space signals the need to rethink our bond to the Earth, our status as earthlings, and our relationships with Earth’s co-inhabitants.
Americana : The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present; Hollywood, 2015
In the last decade, the prevalence of alcohol accompanied sexual assault has led the U.S. Departm... more In the last decade, the prevalence of alcohol accompanied sexual assault has led the U.S. Department of Justice to identify a distinct type of rape, "party rape," which they define as one that "occurs at an off-campus house or on or off campus fraternity and involves...plying a woman with alcohol or targeting an intoxicated woman" (Sampson 6; Armstrong, Hamilton, and Sweeney 484). Party rape is classified as a form of acquaintance rape, even if the perpetrator and the victim are strangers. In terms of sexual assault, party rape makes colleges and universities "hunting grounds" for sexual predators, many who never consider their activities rape, and most who never consider themselves rapists. A combination of factors comes to play in rape on college campuses, including popular culture artifacts such as popular novels and films. A combination of factors comes into play in rape on college campuses, including drugs and alcohol, gender stereotypes, and popul...
Americana : The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present; Hollywood, 2013
Several recent blockbuster Hollywood films feature teenage girls hunting and killing animals (Han... more Several recent blockbuster Hollywood films feature teenage girls hunting and killing animals (Hanna, Winter's Bone, The Hunger Games, Twilight: Breaking Dawn II). These films figure tough girls who stand up for themselves and who demonstrate their fortitude and no-nonsense attitudes by hunting animals. What does it mean that Hollywood's latest girl protagonists are more comfortable in the forest chasing animals than they are amongst their high school peers? And, how has Hollywood gone from Disney princesses who have a special bond with their animal friends to these Artemis figures wielding bows and arrows to take down their prey? It is noteworthy that these girls also are being hunted. And although they are not killed, they are beaten and subjected to violence. They are both hunters and prey. How should we interpret these representations of strong girls who are also abused? What is the relationship between their hunting animals and their being hunted?Conventionally, hunting ...
The images from wars in the Middle East that haunt us are those of young women killing and tortur... more The images from wars in the Middle East that haunt us are those of young women killing and torturing. Their media circulated stories share a sense of shock. They have both galvanized and confounded debates over feminism and women’s equality. And, as Oliver argues in this essay, they share, perhaps subliminally, the problematic notion of women as both offensive and defensive weapons of war, a notion that is symptomatic of fears of women’s “mysterious” powers.
Although the first two books, Lethal Love: Literury Feminist lnterpretutions of Biblical Love Sto... more Although the first two books, Lethal Love: Literury Feminist lnterpretutions of Biblical Love Stories and Murder ad Difference: Gender, Genre, and Schohrship 0fSiser~~'s Death, are part of her larger project to reinscribe women's subjectivity into biblical texts, Mieke Bal maintains that this latest book is the first of the trilogy which is "primarily a women's study endeavor." She suggests that unlike
Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion, 2019
With the upsurge in various forms of religion, especially dogmatic forms that kill in the name of... more With the upsurge in various forms of religion, especially dogmatic forms that kill in the name of good versus evil, there is an urgent need for intellectuals to acknowledge and analyze the role of religion in contemporary culture and politics. If there is to be any hope for peace, we need to understand how and why religion becomes the justification for violence. In a world where religious intolerance is growing, and the divide between the secular and the religious seems to be expanding, Julia Kristeva’s writings bridge the gap and once again provide a path where others have seen only an impasse. Her approach is unique in its insistent attempt to understand the violence both contained and unleashed by religion. Moreover, she rearticulates a notion of the sacred apart from religious dogmatism, a sense of the sacred that is precisely lacking in fundamentalism.
In this paper I develop a deconstructive analysis of the relationship between humanitarian aid an... more In this paper I develop a deconstructive analysis of the relationship between humanitarian aid and state sovereignty. First, I sketch Derrida's analysis of the Christian roots of contemporary concepts of tolerance, forgiveness, and hospitality. Second, I trace the history and etymology of the word ‘humanitarian’ to reveal its Christian heritage; and argue that ‘humanitarian’ is bound to the violence of Christ's crucifixion, on the one hand, and to the sovereignty of God, on the other. Third, I set out three phases in the politics of contemporary humanitarian aid in relation to an increasing concern for humanitarian warfare. I conclude that international humanitarian aid and humanitarian warfare are bound together through an autoimmune logic that simultaneously challenges and shores up state sovereignty. State sovereignty creates ‘refugees’, which necessitates humanitarian aid organizations to step in and literally fill the space between state borders, a space that has become...
Epistemic injustice and the philosophy of recognition, 2022
Limiting gaslighting to a form of epis-
temic injustice cannot adequately explain either unintent... more Limiting gaslighting to a form of epis- temic injustice cannot adequately explain either unintentional gaslighting or the ways in which the targets of gaslighting accept their deficit status as knowers. There are affective dimensions of gaslighting that are essen- tial to its functioning, including the ways in which gaslighting under- mines knowledge-claims. In addition, if gaslighting is unintentional, then there are unconscious dimensions to gaslighting that affect both the per- petrators and the targets. Yet, to date, the literature on gaslighting does not account for either the affective or unconscious dimensions of gas- lighting, which are essential to understanding how gaslighting works.
Belying the rhetoric of “We’re all in this together,” and “COVID as the great equalizer,” the pan... more Belying the rhetoric of “We’re all in this together,” and “COVID as the great equalizer,” the pandemic has brought into focus the “pre-existing conditions” of inequality—poverty, racism, lack of health care, lack of child care, women’s double burden, and the vulnerability of the elderly, among others. The coronavirus reveals gaping inequities in the length and quality of life caused by social and economic “pre-existing conditions.” It is the great unequalizer, the promise and ruse of “We’re all in this together.” The new normal for some, is the old normal for many others.
The first images of Earth from space taken by the Apollo missions met with contradictory response... more The first images of Earth from space taken by the Apollo missions met with contradictory responses that are telling in relation to the problems of globalism and the environmental movement today. This chapter shows how the “autoimmune” response to seeing the Earth from space signals the need to rethink our bond to the Earth, our status as earthlings, and our relationships with Earth’s co-inhabitants.
Americana : The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present; Hollywood, 2015
In the last decade, the prevalence of alcohol accompanied sexual assault has led the U.S. Departm... more In the last decade, the prevalence of alcohol accompanied sexual assault has led the U.S. Department of Justice to identify a distinct type of rape, "party rape," which they define as one that "occurs at an off-campus house or on or off campus fraternity and involves...plying a woman with alcohol or targeting an intoxicated woman" (Sampson 6; Armstrong, Hamilton, and Sweeney 484). Party rape is classified as a form of acquaintance rape, even if the perpetrator and the victim are strangers. In terms of sexual assault, party rape makes colleges and universities "hunting grounds" for sexual predators, many who never consider their activities rape, and most who never consider themselves rapists. A combination of factors comes to play in rape on college campuses, including popular culture artifacts such as popular novels and films. A combination of factors comes into play in rape on college campuses, including drugs and alcohol, gender stereotypes, and popul...
Americana : The Journal of American Popular Culture, 1900 to Present; Hollywood, 2013
Several recent blockbuster Hollywood films feature teenage girls hunting and killing animals (Han... more Several recent blockbuster Hollywood films feature teenage girls hunting and killing animals (Hanna, Winter's Bone, The Hunger Games, Twilight: Breaking Dawn II). These films figure tough girls who stand up for themselves and who demonstrate their fortitude and no-nonsense attitudes by hunting animals. What does it mean that Hollywood's latest girl protagonists are more comfortable in the forest chasing animals than they are amongst their high school peers? And, how has Hollywood gone from Disney princesses who have a special bond with their animal friends to these Artemis figures wielding bows and arrows to take down their prey? It is noteworthy that these girls also are being hunted. And although they are not killed, they are beaten and subjected to violence. They are both hunters and prey. How should we interpret these representations of strong girls who are also abused? What is the relationship between their hunting animals and their being hunted?Conventionally, hunting ...
The images from wars in the Middle East that haunt us are those of young women killing and tortur... more The images from wars in the Middle East that haunt us are those of young women killing and torturing. Their media circulated stories share a sense of shock. They have both galvanized and confounded debates over feminism and women’s equality. And, as Oliver argues in this essay, they share, perhaps subliminally, the problematic notion of women as both offensive and defensive weapons of war, a notion that is symptomatic of fears of women’s “mysterious” powers.
Although the first two books, Lethal Love: Literury Feminist lnterpretutions of Biblical Love Sto... more Although the first two books, Lethal Love: Literury Feminist lnterpretutions of Biblical Love Stories and Murder ad Difference: Gender, Genre, and Schohrship 0fSiser~~'s Death, are part of her larger project to reinscribe women's subjectivity into biblical texts, Mieke Bal maintains that this latest book is the first of the trilogy which is "primarily a women's study endeavor." She suggests that unlike
Journal for Continental Philosophy of Religion, 2019
With the upsurge in various forms of religion, especially dogmatic forms that kill in the name of... more With the upsurge in various forms of religion, especially dogmatic forms that kill in the name of good versus evil, there is an urgent need for intellectuals to acknowledge and analyze the role of religion in contemporary culture and politics. If there is to be any hope for peace, we need to understand how and why religion becomes the justification for violence. In a world where religious intolerance is growing, and the divide between the secular and the religious seems to be expanding, Julia Kristeva’s writings bridge the gap and once again provide a path where others have seen only an impasse. Her approach is unique in its insistent attempt to understand the violence both contained and unleashed by religion. Moreover, she rearticulates a notion of the sacred apart from religious dogmatism, a sense of the sacred that is precisely lacking in fundamentalism.
In this paper I develop a deconstructive analysis of the relationship between humanitarian aid an... more In this paper I develop a deconstructive analysis of the relationship between humanitarian aid and state sovereignty. First, I sketch Derrida's analysis of the Christian roots of contemporary concepts of tolerance, forgiveness, and hospitality. Second, I trace the history and etymology of the word ‘humanitarian’ to reveal its Christian heritage; and argue that ‘humanitarian’ is bound to the violence of Christ's crucifixion, on the one hand, and to the sovereignty of God, on the other. Third, I set out three phases in the politics of contemporary humanitarian aid in relation to an increasing concern for humanitarian warfare. I conclude that international humanitarian aid and humanitarian warfare are bound together through an autoimmune logic that simultaneously challenges and shores up state sovereignty. State sovereignty creates ‘refugees’, which necessitates humanitarian aid organizations to step in and literally fill the space between state borders, a space that has become...
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Working as a maid at the luxury Napoli hotel on the Vegas strip, Jessica James finds a naked man ... more Working as a maid at the luxury Napoli hotel on the Vegas strip, Jessica James finds a naked man unconscious in a bathtub with a note to call 911.
With only an old photograph to go on, Jessica James is sent on a mission by her dying mother to find a washed-up magician called the Mesmerizer. Along the way, Jessica gets way more than she bargained for when she stumbles into a black market organ ring and learns secrets about her mother that will change her own life forever.
Jessica is shocked by her mother's "deathbed" confession that the man Jessica thought was her father is not. Her biological father is some magician dude that passed through Whitefish twenty-five years ago. Why does Jessica's mother insist on seeing him again? How far will Jessica go to find him and bring him back?
Jessica arrives in Las Vegas penniless and with nowhere to turn. She tracks down an old high school friend, Mackenzie, and crashes on her couch. But Kennie Czarnowski is not what she seems. And the price of a place to sleep may cost Jessica everything. Jessica learns the hard way that in Vegas, the stakes are high and everyone is an illusionist.
With wit and grit, Jessica and her posse take on the seamy underbelly of Vegas. Dauntless, determined, and awkwardly endearing, Jessica James continues to delight readers.
Once JACKAL gets its hooks into you, you won't be able to put it down.
“Grab the reins and hang on tight for another wild and crazy ride with cowgirl philosopher Jessica James as she makes her way through the sleazy glitz of Las Vegas where everybody’s packing heat and corruption is business-as-usual. Nobody tops Kelly Oliver for delivering fast-paced narrative, quirky characters, and a plot as twisty as a bucking bronco—all of this leavened with Oliver’s trademark wry humor.” —Caroline Taylor, author of Loose Ends and The Typist
“Vegas is the perfect setting for this intriguing and entertaining thriller where every character is a master of illusion. The novel begins with Oliver's dogged and witty protagonist, Jessica James, on a quest to find her birth father, a magician that has performed a seemingly permanent disappearing act. She enlists the help of an old friend, whose Facebook profile proves a cover for a dangerous job that soon threatens everyone around her. Oliver knows how to keep ratcheting up the stakes until the reader feels like they have their own mortgage riding on the roulette wheel.” —Cate Holahan, USA Today best selling author of The Widower’s Wife.
"Great cast of characters. A smart and sexy high stakes trip to Las Vegas." ---Tracee de Hahn, author of Swiss Vendetta
What does it mean to be a responsible subject in a world of pervasive violence? How should we be... more What does it mean to be a responsible subject in a world of pervasive violence? How should we be responsible witnesses in the face of gross injustice? Indeed, how should we respond to atrocities that often leave us speechless and powerless?
In this seminal volume, Kelly Oliver articulates a “response ethics” as an alternative to mainstream moral frameworks such as utilitarianism and Kantianism. Oliver’s response ethics is grounded in an innovative understanding of subjectivity. Insofar as one’s subjectivity is informed by the social, and our sense of self is constituted by our ability to respond to our environment, reconceptualizing subjectivity transforms our ethical responsibility to others.
Oliver’s engagement in various debates in applied ethics, ranging from our ecological commitments to the death penalty, from sexual assaults on campus to reproductive technology, shows the relevance of response ethics in contemporary society. In the age of pervasive war, assaults, murder, and prejudice, Response Ethics offers timely contributions to the field of ethics.
This volume brings together scholars of philosophy, law, and literature, including prominent De... more This volume brings together scholars of philosophy, law, and literature, including prominent Derrideans alongside activist scholars, to elucidate and expand upon an important project of Derrida’s final years, the seminars he conducted on the death penalty from 1999 to 2001.
Deconstructing the Death Penalty provides remarkable insight into Derrida’s ethical and political work. Beyond exploring the implications of Derrida’s thought on capital punishment and mass incarceration, the contributors also elucidate the philosophical groundwork for his subsequent deconstructions of sovereign power and the human/animal divide. Because Derrida was concerned with the logic of the death penalty, rather than the death penalty itself, his seminars have proven useful to scholars and activists opposing all forms of state sanctioned killing.
The volume establishes Derrida's importance for continuing debates on capital punishment, mass incarceration, and police brutality. At the same time, by deconstructing the theologico-political logic of the death penalty, it works to construct a new, versatile abolitionism, one capable of confronting all forms the death penalty might take.
Carceral Humanitarianism: Logics of Refugee Detention, 2017
Carceral humanitarianism has replaced any properly political solution to the “refugee crisis” by ... more Carceral humanitarianism has replaced any properly political solution to the “refugee crisis” by turning it into a matter humanitarian aid or charity, on the one hand, and of national security, on the other, thereby justifying military interventions. The protection of basic human rights of refugees supposedly protected by international law is handed off to international humanitarian organizations, or bartered among nation-states as bargaining chips in international trade agreements. In a myriad of increasingly complex ways, humanitarian aid operates in tandem with new forms of “humanitarian” warfare. The military and humanitarian aid organizations work together to deliver, manage, and police food, water, shelter, medical care to refugees. We could even say that humanitarian aid is the flip side of humanitarian war.
Genes to die for—and someone does…
When Jessica James wakes up half naked behind a dumpster in ... more Genes to die for—and someone does…
When Jessica James wakes up half naked behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago, she thinks at first the hot intern feeding her Fiery Mule Slammers slipped her a Mickey. But after a pattern of similar incidents around Northwestern Research Hospital, Jessica realizes she wasn't raped, she was robbed. Hunting for the predator, Jessica discovers secrets about her own identity that force her to rethink her past. The solution to the mystery lies in the cowgirl philosopher’s boot-cut genes.
Humanitarian aid is both the “cure” and the “poison.” It’s the cure insofar as right now it is on... more Humanitarian aid is both the “cure” and the “poison.” It’s the cure insofar as right now it is only chance we’ve got for helping refugees under current immigration and asylum policies of most nation states. That is to say, until we move beyond nation states and their alibi of humanitarian aid, groups such as Doctors without Borders and The Red Cross are absolutely necessary, and their volunteers and aid workers are praiseworthy. Yet, as long as we hold onto the alibi of humanitarian aid, a more properly political solution will not be forthcoming. As long as we continue to turn asylum seekers into criminals and charity cases, in need of incarceration or rescue, then we have no hope of addressing the fundamental crisis of mass migration due to terrorism, civil wars, draught, famine, and climate change. As long as we continue to treat refugees as fungible or disposable, we risk “the worst.”
With more wit than grace, philosophy graduate student Jessica James stumbles into murder mysterie... more With more wit than grace, philosophy graduate student Jessica James stumbles into murder mysteries, human trafficking rings, mafia drug deals, art scams, and corporate corruption. Each book in the COWGIRL TRILOGY is an entertaining page-turner with kick-ass heroines, and timely subplots, including the epidemic of date-rape on college campuses, sex trafficking and prostitution in the fracking boom, and black market sales of Ivy League eggs for In Vitro Fertilization, along with environmental issues.
(Divergent), and other strong and resourceful characters have decimated the fairytale archetype o... more (Divergent), and other strong and resourceful characters have decimated the fairytale archetype of the helpless girl waiting to be rescued. Giving as good as they get, these young women access reserves of aggression to liberate themselves—but who truly benefits? By meeting violence with violence, are women turning victimization into entertainment? Are they playing out old fantasies, institutionalizing their abuse? In Hunting Girls, Kelly Oliver examines popular culture's fixation on representing young women as predators and prey and the implication that violence—especially sexual violence—is an inevitable, perhaps even celebrated, part of a woman's maturity. In such films as Kick-Ass (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Maleficent (2014), power, control, and danger drive the story, but traditional relationships of care constrict the narrative, and even the protagonist's love interest adds to her suffering. To underscore the threat of these depictions, Oliver locates their manifestation of violent sex in the growing prevalence of campus rape, the valorization of woman's lack of consent, and the new urgency to implement affirmative consent apps and policies.
Critically engaging the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derri... more Critically engaging the work of Immanuel Kant, Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida together with her own observations on contemporary politics, environmental degradation, and the pursuit of a just and sustainable world, Kelly Oliver lays the groundwork for a politics and ethics that embraces otherness without exploiting difference. Rooted firmly in human beings' relationship to the planet and to each other, Oliver shows peace is possible only if we maintain our ties to earth and world.
Oliver begins with Immanuel Kant and his vision of politics grounded on earth as a finite surface shared by humans. She then incorporates Hannah Arendt's belief in plural worlds constituted through human relationships; Martin Heidegger's warning that alienation from the Earth endangers not only politics but also the very essence of being human; and Jacques Derrida's meditations on the singular worlds individuals, human and otherwise, create and how they inform the reality we inhabit. Each of these theorists, Oliver argues, resists the easy idealism of world citizenship and globalism, yet they all think about the earth against the globe to advance a grounded ethics. They contribute to a philosophy that avoids globalization's totalizing and homogenizing impulses and instead help build a framework for living within and among the world's rich biodiversity.
Using the contributions of Freud and Kristeva to diagnose what Oliver calls the culture of outrag... more Using the contributions of Freud and Kristeva to diagnose what Oliver calls the culture of outrage, Oliver interrogates the fundamentalism of political correctness, and the call for safe spaces, particularly in relation to gender and sexuality. The era of outrage saw Trump elected by voicing and inspiring outrage. His followers uncritically believe everything he says because it is expressed with anger and outrage. Civility is suspected of being “political,” a new dirty word. It’s hard to argue with outrage. Virulent intolerance fueled by hatred threatens the open dialogue necessary for critical thought and debate. Oliver uses Julia Kristeva’s notions of abjection, purity, and fundamentalism to diagnose the culture of outrage. As “suffering,” Kristeva’s “fantasy of the suffering father” has replaced the father of the law; white men increasingly claim the position of victim. Culture wars have become contests of suffering, the position of the victim having become privileged (cf. Berlant). College students are calling for safe spaces from words and triggering ideas. Again, while it is crucial to acknowledge that words can hurt, this supposed safe space is a fantasy that harkens back to the fantasy of maternal unity; the call for a safe space is a form of fundamentalism where safety means protection from anyone who thinks differently.
This important new book examines the status of refugees from a philosophical perspective. The co... more This important new book examines the status of refugees from a philosophical perspective. The contributors explore the conditions faced by refugees and clarify the conceptual, practical, and ethical issues confronting the contemporary global community with respect to refugees. The book takes up topics ranging from practical matters, such as the social and political production of refugees, refugee status and the tension between citizen rights and human rights, and the handling of detention and deportation, to more conceptual and theoretical concerns, such as the ideology, rhetoric, and propaganda that sustain systems of exclusion and expulsion, to the ethical dimensions that invoke hospitality and transnational responsibility. Ideal for students and scholars in Political and Social Philosophy and Migration Studies more broadly, the book provides a critical commentary on material responses to contemporary refugee crises as a means of opening pathways to more pointed assessments of both the political and ideological underpinnings of statelessness.
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The term “Gaslighting” originated with Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gaslight (... more Course Description The term “Gaslighting” originated with Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gaslight (known in the United States as Angel Street). It was made into a British film in 1940, and the more famous 1944 American film (directed by George Cukor and starring Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, and Charles Boyer). Decades later, the term to gaslight became a verb, meaning to intentionally manipulate someone to make them think they’re crazy. More recently, feminist philosophers, particularly those working in social epistemology, have analyzed gaslighting in relation to gender norms. Increasingly, gaslighting is being used to describe the ways in which oppressed and marginalized peoples are manipulated into not trusting their own feelings, beliefs, or what they know to be true from their own experience.
Beginning with the play and films, we will work out way up to contemporary philosophical literature that analyzes gaslighting, with special attention to psycho-social gaslighting, racial gaslighting, epistemological gaslighting, political gaslighting, medical gaslighting, and affective gaslighting.
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We will spend a month reading and discussing Nietzsche’s On The Genealogy of M... more Course Description We will spend a month reading and discussing Nietzsche’s On The Genealogy of Morals, along with some of contemporary work inspired by OGM that takes up issues related to feminism, queer theory, environmental philosophy, and capital punishment. For the rest of the semester, we will read selected works by Foucault, long with some of the very latest scholarship that uses Foucaultian genealogies to engage issues in feminism, queer theory, terrorism, disability studies, and critical race theory. The seminar will feature virtual visits by the authors of the contemporary texts we are reading.
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temic injustice cannot adequately explain either unintentional gaslighting
or the ways in which the targets of gaslighting accept their deficit status
as knowers. There are affective dimensions of gaslighting that are essen-
tial to its functioning, including the ways in which gaslighting under-
mines knowledge-claims. In addition, if gaslighting is unintentional, then
there are unconscious dimensions to gaslighting that affect both the per-
petrators and the targets. Yet, to date, the literature on gaslighting does
not account for either the affective or unconscious dimensions of gas-
lighting, which are essential to understanding how gaslighting works.
temic injustice cannot adequately explain either unintentional gaslighting
or the ways in which the targets of gaslighting accept their deficit status
as knowers. There are affective dimensions of gaslighting that are essen-
tial to its functioning, including the ways in which gaslighting under-
mines knowledge-claims. In addition, if gaslighting is unintentional, then
there are unconscious dimensions to gaslighting that affect both the per-
petrators and the targets. Yet, to date, the literature on gaslighting does
not account for either the affective or unconscious dimensions of gas-
lighting, which are essential to understanding how gaslighting works.
With only an old photograph to go on, Jessica James is sent on a mission by her dying mother to find a washed-up magician called the Mesmerizer. Along the way, Jessica gets way more than she bargained for when she stumbles into a black market organ ring and learns secrets about her mother that will change her own life forever.
Jessica is shocked by her mother's "deathbed" confession that the man Jessica thought was her father is not. Her biological father is some magician dude that passed through Whitefish twenty-five years ago. Why does Jessica's mother insist on seeing him again? How far will Jessica go to find him and bring him back?
Jessica arrives in Las Vegas penniless and with nowhere to turn. She tracks down an old high school friend, Mackenzie, and crashes on her couch. But Kennie Czarnowski is not what she seems. And the price of a place to sleep may cost Jessica everything. Jessica learns the hard way that in Vegas, the stakes are high and everyone is an illusionist.
With wit and grit, Jessica and her posse take on the seamy underbelly of Vegas. Dauntless, determined, and awkwardly endearing, Jessica James continues to delight readers.
Once JACKAL gets its hooks into you, you won't be able to put it down.
“Grab the reins and hang on tight for another wild and crazy ride with cowgirl philosopher Jessica James as she makes her way through the sleazy glitz of Las Vegas where everybody’s packing heat and corruption is business-as-usual. Nobody tops Kelly Oliver for delivering fast-paced narrative, quirky characters, and a plot as twisty as a bucking bronco—all of this leavened with Oliver’s trademark wry humor.”
—Caroline Taylor, author of Loose Ends and The Typist
“Vegas is the perfect setting for this intriguing and entertaining thriller where every character is a master of illusion. The novel begins with Oliver's dogged and witty protagonist, Jessica James, on a quest to find her birth father, a magician that has performed a seemingly permanent disappearing act. She enlists the help of an old friend, whose Facebook profile proves a cover for a dangerous job that soon threatens everyone around her. Oliver knows how to keep ratcheting up the stakes until the reader feels like they have their own mortgage riding on the roulette wheel.”
—Cate Holahan, USA Today best selling author of The Widower’s Wife.
"Great cast of characters. A smart and sexy high stakes trip to Las Vegas."
---Tracee de Hahn, author of Swiss Vendetta
In this seminal volume, Kelly Oliver articulates a “response ethics” as an alternative to mainstream moral frameworks such as utilitarianism and Kantianism. Oliver’s response ethics is grounded in an innovative understanding of subjectivity. Insofar as one’s subjectivity is informed by the social, and our sense of self is constituted by our ability to respond to our environment, reconceptualizing subjectivity transforms our ethical responsibility to others.
Oliver’s engagement in various debates in applied ethics, ranging from our ecological commitments to the death penalty, from sexual assaults on campus to reproductive technology, shows the relevance of response ethics in contemporary society. In the age of pervasive war, assaults, murder, and prejudice, Response Ethics offers timely contributions to the field of ethics.
Deconstructing the Death Penalty provides remarkable insight into Derrida’s ethical and political work. Beyond exploring the implications of Derrida’s thought on capital punishment and mass incarceration, the contributors also elucidate the philosophical groundwork for his subsequent deconstructions of sovereign power and the human/animal divide. Because Derrida was concerned with the logic of the death penalty, rather than the death penalty itself, his seminars have proven useful to scholars and activists opposing all forms of state sanctioned killing.
The volume establishes Derrida's importance for continuing debates on capital punishment, mass incarceration, and police brutality. At the same time, by deconstructing the theologico-political logic of the death penalty, it works to construct a new, versatile abolitionism, one capable of confronting all forms the death penalty might take.
When Jessica James wakes up half naked behind a dumpster in downtown Chicago, she thinks at first the hot intern feeding her Fiery Mule Slammers slipped her a Mickey. But after a pattern of similar incidents around Northwestern Research Hospital, Jessica realizes she wasn't raped, she was robbed. Hunting for the predator, Jessica discovers secrets about her own identity that force her to rethink her past. The solution to the mystery lies in the cowgirl philosopher’s boot-cut genes.
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In Hunting Girls, Kelly Oliver examines popular culture's fixation on representing young women as predators and prey and the implication that violence—especially sexual violence—is an inevitable, perhaps even celebrated, part of a woman's maturity. In such films as Kick-Ass (2010), The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011), and Maleficent (2014), power, control, and danger drive the story, but traditional relationships of care constrict the narrative, and even the protagonist's love interest adds to her suffering. To underscore the threat of these depictions, Oliver locates their manifestation of violent sex in the growing prevalence of campus rape, the valorization of woman's lack of consent, and the new urgency to implement affirmative consent apps and policies.
Oliver begins with Immanuel Kant and his vision of politics grounded on earth as a finite surface shared by humans. She then incorporates Hannah Arendt's belief in plural worlds constituted through human relationships; Martin Heidegger's warning that alienation from the Earth endangers not only politics but also the very essence of being human; and Jacques Derrida's meditations on the singular worlds individuals, human and otherwise, create and how they inform the reality we inhabit. Each of these theorists, Oliver argues, resists the easy idealism of world citizenship and globalism, yet they all think about the earth against the globe to advance a grounded ethics. They contribute to a philosophy that avoids globalization's totalizing and homogenizing impulses and instead help build a framework for living within and among the world's rich biodiversity.
The term “Gaslighting” originated with Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gaslight (known in the United States as Angel Street). It was made into a British film in 1940, and the more famous 1944 American film (directed by George Cukor and starring Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, and Charles Boyer). Decades later, the term to gaslight became a verb, meaning to intentionally manipulate someone to make them think they’re crazy. More recently, feminist philosophers, particularly those working in social epistemology, have analyzed gaslighting in relation to gender norms. Increasingly, gaslighting is being used to describe the ways in which oppressed and marginalized peoples are manipulated into not trusting their own feelings, beliefs, or what they know to be true from their own experience.
Beginning with the play and films, we will work out way up to contemporary philosophical literature that analyzes gaslighting, with special attention to psycho-social gaslighting, racial gaslighting, epistemological gaslighting, political gaslighting, medical gaslighting, and affective gaslighting.
We will spend a month reading and discussing Nietzsche’s On The Genealogy of Morals, along with some of contemporary work inspired by OGM that takes up issues related to feminism, queer theory, environmental philosophy, and capital punishment. For the rest of the semester, we will read selected works by Foucault, long with some of the very latest scholarship that uses Foucaultian genealogies to engage issues in feminism, queer theory, terrorism, disability studies, and critical race theory. The seminar will feature virtual visits by the authors of the contemporary texts we are reading.