Looking Away from the Material Self: Collective Ethics in Neoliberal Environments

Sarah E.  Howden

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Vol. 45 No. 2 (2021): Special Issue: Neoliberal Environments

Looking Away from the Material Self: Collective Ethics in Neoliberal Environments

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Submitted: July 12, 2021
Published: 2021-07-14

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Alltucker, Ken. “‘Totally Unacceptable’: Testing Delays for Labs to Prioritize COVID-19 Tests for Some, Not Others.” USA Today, 9 Aug. 2020, www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/08/09/covid-testing-.
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How to Cite

Howden, S. E. . (2021). Looking Away from the Material Self: Collective Ethics in Neoliberal Environments. Studies in Canadian Literature, 45(2), 48–71. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/32497

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[1] Alaimo, Stacy. Bodily Natures: Science, Environment and the Material Self. Indiana UP, 2010.

[2] Alltucker, Ken. “‘Totally Unacceptable’: Testing Delays for Labs to Prioritize COVID-19 Tests for Some, Not Others.” USA Today, 9 Aug. 2020, www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2020/08/09/covid-testing-.

[3] Antonetta, Susanne. Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir. Counterpoint, 2001.

[4] Beck, Ulrich. Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity. Translated by Mark Ritter, SAGE Publications, 1992.

[5] Berlant, Lauren. Cruel Optimism. Duke UP, 2011.

[6] Braidotti, Rosi. The Posthuman. Polity Press, 2013.

[7] Cleveland Clinic. “I Wear Because I Care | Wear a Mask.” YouTube, 24 July 2020, www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY-AQsdQqus.

[8] Derrida, Jacques. Dissemination. Translated by Barbara Johnson, U of Chicago P, 1981.

[9] Dickinson, Adam. Anatomic. Coach House Books, 2018.

[10] Dickinson, Adam. “‘The Human Endocrine System Represents a Kind of Poetics’: Adam Dickinson on His Poetic, Chemical Autobiography.” Open Book, 24 May 2018, open-book.ca/News/The-Human-Endocrine-System-Represents-a-Kind-of-Poetics-Adam-Dickinson-on-His-Poetic-Chemical-Autobiography.

[11] Dobson, Kit. “Neoliberalism and the Limits of the Human: Rawi Hage’s Cockroach.” Textual Practice, vol. 29, no. 2, 2015, pp. 255-71. Scholar’s Portal, doi:10.1080/0950236X.2014.993519.

[12] Gates, Bill. “Bill Gates on GPS: ‘Testing Insanity’ Is Unique to U.S.” Interview by Fareed Zakaria. GPS, CNN, 9 Aug. 2020, ww.cnn.com/videos/health/2020/08/09/billgates-testing-coronavirus-gpsvpx.cnn.

[13] Giroux, Henry A. Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Politics Beyond the Age of Greed. Paradigm Publishers, 2008.

[14] Lacan, Jacques. “The Mirror Stage as Formative of the I Function.” Écrits: A Selection, translated by Bruce Fink, W.W. Norton, 1996, pp. 3-9.

[15] Leger. “Leger’s Weekly Survey.” Leger, 21 Sept. 2020, leger360.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Legers-Weekly-Survey-September-21st-2020-min.pdf.

[16] Leung, Nancy H.L., et al. “Respiratory Virus Shedding in Exhaled Breath and Efficacy of Face Masks.” Nature Medicine, vol. 26, Apr. 2020, pp. 676-80.

[17] Luxton, Meg. “Doing Neoliberalism: Perverse Individualism in Personal Life.” Neoliberalism and Everyday Life, edited by Susan Bradley and Meg Luxton, McGill-Queen’s UP, 2010, pp. 163-83.

[18] Martin, Jonathan. “Trump to Governors on Ventilators: ‘Try Getting It Yourselves.’” The New York Times, 16 Mar. 2020, www.nytimes.com/2020/03/16/us/politics/trumpcoronavirus-respirators.html.

[19] Madrigal, Alexis C., and Robinson Meyer. “Private Labs Are Fueling a New Coronavirus Testing Crisis.” The Atlantic, 31 Mar. 2020, www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/next-covid-19-testing-crisis/609193/.

[20] Milne, Heather. Poetry Matters: Neoliberalism, Affect and the Posthuman in Twenty-First Century North American Feminist Poetics. U of Iowa P, 2018.

[21] Sherwin, Susan. “Whither Bioethics? How Feminism Can Help Reorient Bioethics.” International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 2008, pp. 7-27. Project Muse, muse.jhu.edu/article/261648.

[22] Shotwell, Alexis. Against Purity: Living Ethically in Compromised Times. U of Minnesota P, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, ebookcentral-proquest-com.myaccess.library.utoronto. ca/lib/utoronto/detail.action?docID=4525960.

[23] Terada, Rei. Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno. Harvard UP, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, ebookcentral-proquest-com.myaccess.library.utoronto.ca/lib/utoronto/detail.action?docID=3300788.

[24] Wilson, Julie A. Neoliberalism. Routledge, 2018.

[25] Yong, Ed. “How the Pandemic Defeated America.” The Atlantic, 4 Aug. 2020, www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/09/coronavirus-american-failure/614191/.