Department of Anthropology

Hoon Song

612-624-8980
Anthropology Room 395 HHHCtr

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • Suicide
  • US and East Asia
  • Sovereignty
  • Whiteness
  • Cyberspace/culture
  • Biopolitics
  • Critical Theory
  • Psychoanalysis

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Anthropology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2000.

Publications

  • The Great Pigeon Massacre: The Bestiary Biopolitics of Whiteness in a Deindustralizing America. Song, Hoon, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, forthcoming.
  • “The Great Pigeon Massacre in a Deindustrializing American Region”. Song, Hoon, 2000.
  • “The Bad Multitude of Four: The Analytics of ‘Unwrapping’ the Four-Field Bundle”. Song, Hoon, 2005.
  • “Seeing Oneself Seeing Oneself: White Nihilism in Ethnography and Theory”. Song, Hoon, December, 2006.
  • “Roland Barthes’ ‘Text’ and Aleatoric Music: Is ‘the Birth of the Reader’ the Birth of the Listener?”. Song, Hoon, Jeongwon Joe, 2001.

Courses Taught

  • Anth 8810 - Ideas of the Sacred
  • Anth 4019 - Symbolic Anthropology
  • Anth 3003 - Cultural Anthropology
  • Anth 5980 - Time and Apocalyptic Reason (Topics in Anthropology)
  • Anth 8001 - Ethnography, Theory, History
  • Anth 4980 - Whiteness and the Trouble with Trash (Topics course)
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