Disrupted Knowledge: Scholarship in a Time of Change

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Series Information
Title Page
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Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: ‘Then, There and Everywhere’ – Situating Disrupted Knowledge
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Chapter 1 ‘Pubs, Primark & Pasta-Making Machines’: Social Class, the ‘Covidiot’ and Neoliberal Narratives of Consumer Practice
	1 Introduction
	2 Enterprising Subjects, ‘Hero-Consumers’ and ‘Consumer-Citizenship’
		2.1 The Enterprising ‘Lockdown Subject’
		2.2 The ‘Consumer-Citizen’ and ‘Hero-Consumer’
	3 Pubs, Primark and ‘Covidiots’: Neoliberalism and Lockdown Regulation
		3.1 The ‘Covidiot’ as Contemporary ‘Folk Devil’
		3.2 The ‘Drink’ Problem
		3.3 Primark and the ‘Hordes’
	4 Conclusion
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Chapter 2 ‘A Huge Social Experiment’: Postdigital Social Connectivity under Lockdown Conditions
	1 Introduction
	2 The Postdigital Phase of Domestic Mediatization
	3 Household Internet Use during Lockdown Conditions
		3.1 Types of Platforms Accessed by Householders
	4 The Upsurge in Video Calling during Lockdowns
	5 The Visual Qualities of Video Calling
	6 The Frictions of Video Calling as a Scopic Medium
	7 Conclusion
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Chapter 3 The Colour of Technology: Covid-19, Race, and the Pulse Oximeter
	1 Racialisation and Medicalisation
	2 Facial Recognition
	3 The Pulse Oximeter
	4 Race, the Pulse Oximeter, and Covid-19
	5 Adjusting for Race
	6 P.O. and the Materiality of Race
	7 Covid-19 Cut
	8 Conclusion
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Chapter 4 The Pedagogy of the Distressed: Truth-Twisters and Toxification of Higher Education
	1 The Rise of Truth-Twisting
	2 Truth-Twisters and the ‘Blob’
	3 The Toxification of Higher Education
	4 Conclusion – Defending Critical Pedagogy
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Chapter 5 ‘This Is Britain, Get a Grip’: Race and Racism in Britain Today
	1 Racism, Whiteness and the State
	2 Methods for Studying Race and Racism
	3 ‘This Is Great Britain’: Racism and National Identity on Facebook
		3.1 Britishness
		3.2 Racism and Anti-racism
	4 Conclusion
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Chapter 6 Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Fake: Politicised Medical Commentaries in China in the Covid-19 Pandemic
	1 Introduction
	2 Background
		2.1 Overt Nationalist Sentiments and Subtle Dissenting Opinions
		2.2 The Politics of Debates on Traditional Chinese Medicine
	3 Analytical Discussion
		3.1 Expressing Medical Expert Opinions
		3.2 Influenced by Nationalist Sentiments
		3.3 Driven by Different Ideologies
	4 Conclusion
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Chapter 7 Representing the Stasi: Archives, Knowledge, and Citizenship in the Former German Democratic Republic
	1 Introduction: the Stasi as a Site of Institutionalised Memory and Knowledge
	2 The Stasi and the Nazis: before 1989
		2.1 The Stasi and the Nazis: a Contemporary Debate on the ‘NS-Archive’
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Chapter 8 (Not) Being the ‘Cool Disabled Person’: Queering / Cripping Postfeminist Girlhood on Social Media
	1 Disabled Girls and Social Media
	2 Methods
	3 ‘Defining’ Disability
	4 Queer-Crip Identities, and Disabled Performance Artists
	5 ‘It’s Difficult’: the Affects of Postfeminist Girlhood
	6 Queering/ Cripping Postfeminist Girlhood
	7 Conclusion
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Chapter 9 ‘Self, Self, Self’: Masculine Modes of Sexual Self-Representation and the Disruptive Politics of Jouissance on OnlyFans.com
	1 Introduction: Disruptive Desires
	2 Situating Jouissance
	3 Onlyfans.com, Josh Moore and Sexual Self-Representation
	4 Enigmatic Jouissance and Interpassive Desires
	5 Conclusion
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Chapter 10 Pandemic Dating: Masculinity, Dating Practice and Risk within the Context of Covid-19
	1 Introduction
	2 Just Keep ‘Swiping’ …
	3 ‘Un-mask-uline’? Physical Risk and Male Bodies
	4 Post-dating in a Pandemic
	5 Dating from a Distance
	6 Technological Affordances: Covid-19 Features
	7 Post-Covid Masculinity
	8 Risks and Dick Pics
	9 Rejection and Resisting Restrictions
	10 Conclusion
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Chapter 11 Post-lockdown Sex: Uncertain Intimacies, Cultures of Desire, and UK Sex Clubs
	1 Introduction
	2 Disrupting Methodologies: Sex Clubs and the Emergence of Uncertain Intimacy
	3 Cultures of Desire and Uncertain Intimacies
		3.1 Social Sex
		3.2 Scopophilic Touching
		3.3 Physically Compelled
			3.3.1 The Spell Was Broken
	4 Conclusion
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Chapter 12 Pain and Suffering, Uterus Trumpets and the Wild Ride: Autoethnographic Aca-fandom, Para-social Relationships and Diane Podcast
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Chapter 13 ‘Standing in Your Cardigan’: Evocative Objects, Ordinary Intensities, and Queer Sociality in the Swiftian Pop Song
	1 Introduction
	2 Evocative Objects in the Swiftian Song
	3 ‘Something That Feels Like Something’ – Ordinary Intensities and Intense Commodities in folklore and evermore
	4 ‘betty’ as a Queer Evocative Object
	5 Conclusion – a Disrupted World?
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Chapter 14 My Doubtful Cézanne  Assembling Emergent Knowledges of Matter and Mattering through Painting-by-Numbers and Autoethnography during Covid
	1 Theoretical Signposts
	2 Part One: Autoethnographies of Being and Knowing
		2.1 First Story: Being with Nature through Cézanne-by-Numbers
		2.2 Second Story: On Not Learning to Paint or Make ‘Art’, but Learning to Know Differently
	3 Part Two: an Emergent Methodology
		3.1 Making Visible the More-Than-Human in Autoethnography
		3.2 To Conclude: In Support of Careful Knowledge Practices in Academia
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Conclusion
	1 Critical Disruptions
	2 Discourse, Materiality and Effect
	3 Neoliberalism and Commodification
	4 Media, Citizenship, Social Relations and Objects
	5 The Cultural Politics of (In)Visibility, the Scopic and How We Do and Don’t ‘See’
	6 Self-Reflexivity and Auto-ethnography
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