Mel Y. Chen
University of California, Berkeley
15 Papers
44 Citations
Mel Y. Chen is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Queer & Agency (philosophy). The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 14 publications.
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Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Mel Y. Chen
- 10 Jul 2012
TL;DR: Chen as mentioned in this paper argues that animacy undergirds much that is pressing and indeed volatile in contemporary culture, from animal rights debates to biosecurity concerns, and demonstrates how attention to the affective charge of matter challenges commonsense orderings of the world.
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Toxic Animacies, Inanimate Affections
TL;DR: The authors suggest that the queering and racializing of material other than human amounts to a kind of animacy that is built on the recognition that abstract concepts, inanimate objects, and things in between can be queered and racialized without human bodies present.
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‘The Stuff of Slow Constitution’: Reading Down Syndrome for Race, Disability, and the Timing that Makes Them So
Mel Y. Chen
- 23 Sep 2016
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors bring into historical perspective the interrelation of several notions such as race and disability, which at the present moment seem to risk, especially in the fixing language of diversity, being institutionalised as orthogonal in nature to one another rather than co-constitutive.
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A Questionnaire on Materialisms
Emily Apter,Ed Atkins,Armen Avanessian,Bill Brown,Giuliana Bruno,Julia Bryan-Wilson,D. Graham Burnett,Mel Y. Chen,Andrew G. Cole,Christoph Cox,Suhail Malik,T. J. Demos,Jeff Dolven,David T. Doris,Helmut Draxler,Patricia Falguières,Peter Galison,Alexander Galloway,Rachel Haidu,Graham Harman,Camille Henrot,Brooke Holmes,Tim Ingold,Caroline A. Jones,Alex Kitnick,Sam Lewitt,Helen Molesworth,Alexander Nemerov,Michael Newman,Spyros Papapetros,Susanne Pfeffer,Gregor Quack,Charles Ray,Matthew Ritchie,André Rottmann,Amie Siegel,Kerstin Stakemeier,Artie Vierkant,McKenzie Wark,Eyal Weizman,Christopher S. Wood,Zhang Ga +41 more
TL;DR: The authors explored what the rewards and risks of assigning agency to objects may be, and how, or if, such new materialisms can be productive for making and thinking about art today.