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Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture. American Dolorologies presents a theoretically sophisticated intervention into contemporary equations of subjectivity with trauma. Simon Strick argues against a universalism of pain and instead foregrounds the intimate relations of bodily affect with racial and gender politics. In concise and original readings of medical debates, abolitionist photography, Enlightenment philosophy, and contemporary representations of torture, Strick shows the crucial function that evocations of "bodies in pain" serve in the politicization of differences. This book provides a historical contextualization of contemporary ideas of suffering, sympathy, and compassion, thus establishing an embodied genealogy of the pain that is at the heart of American democratic sentiment. Simon Strick is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin in Germany.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One: What Is Dolorology? -- Sentimentalism and Pain -- Pain and Biopolitics -- Pain and Speaking -- Chapters -- Chapter Two: Sublime Pain and the Subject of Sentimentalism -- Gendered Aesthetics -- Sublime Physiology -- Muscle Compassion -- The Racial Sublime -- Americanizing Pain -- Chapter Three: Anesthesia, Birthpain, and Civilization -- Medical Martyrs -- Anesthesia and the Medical Gaze -- The Pains of Reproduction -- Birthpain As Racial Relay -- Overcivilization and Self-Conduct -- From Women's Anesthesia to Feminist Eugenics -- Anesthesia and Democracy -- Chapter Four: Picturing Racial Pain -- Histories of the Back -- Gordon -- Peter -- Pain and Racial Memory -- White Pain and the Nation -- Biopolitical Portraits -- Margaret Garner's Necropolitics -- The Children of Louisiana -- Passing Over -- Theatrical Slavery -- National Protection -- Miscegenation Portrait -- Visual Dolorologies -- Chapter Five: Late Modern Pain -- Democratic Pornography -- Unscathed Life -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Contemporary reactions to neofascist movements for the most part focus on national contexts, and frequently pursue a simplistic argument about a dangerous 'repetition of history'. Warning that historical fascism might rise again like a revenant, commentators miss the fundamentally altered strategies of fascist actors in the era of digital communication and agitation. Introducing the critical term reflexive fascism, this article presents examples from Alt-Right 'meme' agitation to argue that 'reflexive fascism' presents a historiographic distortion: contemporary neofascist actors remake, revise and warp the very conceptions of post-war history and historical scholarship. Far from constituting a mere relapse into earlier states of history, the 'fascisms' currently erupting in many parts of the world and the internet are highly reflexive, self-referential, and include active re-imaginings of historical fascism and the institutional and discursive responses to it. Contemporary fascism is discussed as a reflexive undertaking that remakes post-war histories and democracies as 'risk productions' for ethnically understood nation states. It aspires not only to authoritarian desires, but agitates through a 'bottom-up' production of feelings of 'racial endangerment' for white people. Reflexive fascism is a model that can be used to understand how this updated 'fascism' cannot be imagined as the constitutive other of democracy and capitalism, but rather unfolds within and through the affective and communicative channels of these systems.

Der kalkulierte Skandal um Denken und Denken lassen hat nichts mit ›Meinungs- freiheit‹ zu tun. Schöneckers Seminar folgte rechtspopulistischen Strategien, die ›metapolitisch‹ Aufmerksamkeiten generieren und Debatten steuern. Der Artikel ordnet Seminar und Redner daher dem Agitationsfeld zu, das als »Alternative Rechte" definiert wird. Diese Alternative Rechte stilisiert sich als bedrohte Minderheit, die von einem vermeintlich ›linken‹ Mainstream unterdrückt wird. Von einer Politik der Marginalisierung ›Anderer‹ wechselt sie in das Genre der Unterdrückungs-Performance. Seminar und Debatte stellen den Bühnenboden solcher rechten Affektproduktion, die hohe Anschlusswerte zeitigt. Der Artikel parallelisiert die Vorgänge von Siegen mit dem Sokal Squared Hoax, der 2018 ähnliche ›Oppressionsszenarien‹ – z.B. durch Gender Studies – in den USA pro- duzierte. Anhand einer Lektüre dieser academic malpractice und einer kurzen Analyse des aufhaltsamen Aufstiegs des Psychologen Jordan Peterson, argumen- tiere ich, dass die Alternative Rechte ›Ereignisse‹ wie Siegen strategisch herstellt. Sie befeuert ein Diskursklima, in dem kritische Geisteswissenschaften als zugleich ›tyrannisch‹ und ›lächerlich‹, und sie selbst als ›Opfer‹ erscheinen, um zensorisch in die Forschungspolitik einzugreifen. ; To think and let think presents a calculated scandal that hinges not on ›free speech‹, but is situated within contemporary attention economies. Schönecker's seminar took cues from ›metapolitical‹ strategies of the right that generate atten- tion and frame debates. The article sorts seminar and its speakers into the agitational network that is defined as the »Alternative Rechte«. This network organizes itself over the self-stylization as an endangered minority, oppressed by an allegedly ›leftist‹ mainstream. The Alternative Right sheds the marginalization of ›Others‹ for performances of their own ›oppressedness‹. Seminar and the ensuing debate provide the stage on which such affective productions of the right take place and generate connectivity. The article parallelizes the events of Siegen with the Sokal Squared Hoax, which produced similar »scenarios of oppression« – e.g. through Gender Studies – in the US in 2018. Reading of this academic mal- practice, and briefly analyzing the resistable rise of psychologist Jordan Peterson, I conclude that the Alternative Right produces ›events‹ to generate discursive climates in which critical humanities appear at once ›tyrannical‹ and ›ridiculous‹, and they themselves as ›victims‹. The Alternative Right does not defend »scholarly freedom«, but work against its foundations.

Wie nähert man sich dem transnationalen und identitären Rechtsextremismus, der sog. Alt-Right? Der Aufsatz vergleicht zwei rassistische Internet-Pranks, und ihr Investment in Gefühl, Männlichkeit und ‹whiteness›. Die Alt-Right produziert affektive und atmosphärische Effekte, die gegenwärtige Medien- und Diskursklimata in Richtung antagonistischer Anordnungen von Race, Gender und Politik kippen lässt. Beide Beispiele evozieren ‹whiteness› als prekarisierte Subjektposition, indem sie strategisch und punktuell Situationen der affektiven Identifizierung mit rassistisch-identitären und antidemokratischen Diskursen produzieren. Diese affektiven Folgen der Online-Transgression erfordern ein Analysemodell, dass auf die kollektivierende Arbeit von Gefühlen ausgerichtet ist. ; How do we approach the torrent of right-wing online extremism called the Alt-Right? The article compares two racist ‹internet-pranks› and the performances of feeling, masculinity, and whiteness they invest in, to argue that they produce affects and atmospheres tilting current media environments and discursive climates towards racial, gendered, and political antagonism. Both examples evoke ‹whiteness› as precarized subjectivity, and I parse how these ‹pranks› strategically produce momentous instances of affective identification with racist identitarian and antidemocratic discourses. The affective results of online transgressions suggest a model of analysis attuned to the collectivizing work of feeling, rather than classical approaches to neofascism as an ‹infecting› mode of hateful thought.

What is dolorology? -- Sublime pain and the subject of sentimentalism -- Anesthesia, birthpain and civilization -- Picturing racial pain -- Late modern pain

American Dolorologies presents a theoretically sophisticated intervention into contemporary equations of subjectivity with trauma. Simon Strick argues against a universalism of pain and instead foregrounds the intimate relations of bodily affect with racial and gender politics. In concise and original readings of medical debates, abolitionist photography, Enlightenment philosophy, and contemporary representations of torture, Strick shows the crucial function that evocations of "bodies in pain" serve in the politicization of differences. This book provides a historical contextualization of contemporary ideas of suffering, sympathy, and compassion, thus establishing an embodied genealogy of the pain that is at the heart of American democratic sentiment. Print versions available for purchase at https://sunypress.edu/Books/A/American-Dolorologies ; Open Access version supported by Knowledge Unlatched ; VoR ; SUNY Press ; N/A

Offers a critical history of the role of pain, suffering, and compassion in democratic culture. American Dolorologies presents a theoretically sophisticated intervention into contemporary equations of subjectivity with trauma. Simon Strick argues against a universalism of pain and instead foregrounds the intimate relations of bodily affect with racial and gender politics. In concise and original readings of medical debates, abolitionist photography, Enlightenment philosophy, and contemporary representations of torture, Strick shows the crucial function that evocations of "bodies in pain" serve in the politicization of differences. This book provides a historical contextualization of contemporary ideas of suffering, sympathy, and compassion, thus establishing an embodied genealogy of the pain that is at the heart of American democratic sentiment. Simon Strick is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin in Germany.

Dem Faschismus geht es gut - er ist Meme, Konsumgut und Gefühlswelt geworden. Seine Gewaltträume und Männerfantasien finden im Netz ein perfektes Biotop. Rechte Agitator*innen schaffen marktfähige Gefühlsmuster, die von YouTube und den Parlamenten bis auf die Straße reichen. Sie bauen anziehende Gegenrealitäten - und gewinnen damit Wahlen, Follower und Publikum. Von GamerGate bis Halle, "großer Austausch" bis "Corona-Lüge" - Simon Strick untersucht die affektiven Strategien rechter Akteur*innen. Zahlreiche Analysen zeigen, wie sie Gefährdungsgefühle für Weiße und Männer populär und anschlussfähig machen: Dieser Faschismus spricht die Sprache der Risikogesellschaft und manipuliert effektiv demokratische Öffentlichkeiten. Distanzierung ist kein Mittel gegen diese rechte Gefühlsrevolution. Auf Rechte Gefühle muss kollektiv und affektiv geantwortet werden. "Stricks geballte Ladung an Information, Deutung und Theorie [ist] die wohl intelligenteste und umfassendste Darstellung des zeitgenössischen Faschismus und seines fundamentalen Gestaltwandels darstellt. Pflichtlektüre für alle "Nie-Wieder"-Strategen!" (deutschlandfunkkultur.de)