M J Shapiro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1310 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M J Shapiro |
| GIVEN NAMES | M J |
| FAMILY NAME | Shapiro |
| SIGNATURE | SHAPIRO M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5507-4136 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Responsibility of Writing
Mike Shapiro: My review of your How Black was My Valley for the journal American Book Review has left me with issues and questions I was only able to introduce given the journal’s 1500-word mandate. Because the diverse narrative threads in the book have captured my attention, I want to initiate an essay-length conversation that will bring out aspects of the book’s form in order to give it the critical attention it deserves. Your stunning introduc…
The bio-historiography of a lethal career
In a reading of Christopher Nolan's film Oppenheimer , the essay features a cinematic historiography of the creation of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The emphasis is on the role of sound in the film and the interaction of careers, both scientific and military. Much of the analysis is concerned with the contingencies through which Oppenheimer consummated a process that ended in an atrocity: his relationship to Judaism, his love of New Mexico, his…
Epilogue
This epilogue moves from an autoethnographic reflection about interior design magazines to an interrogation of the workings of predatory capitalism in contemporary times of crisis. The text asks why in the context of ongoing global crises (including pandemics, environmental disaster, and extreme poverty) ‘our attention still fails to focus except very episodically, on the suffering of distant others’. Through mobilizing the aesthetic subject, and…
Detours and Deviations of Letter and Spirit
Jacques Derrida delivered the basis of The Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, & the New International as a plenary address at the conference ‘Whither Marxism?’ hosted by the University of California, Riverside, in 1993. The longer book version was published in French the same year and appeared in English and Portuguese the following year. In the decade after the publication of Specters, Derrida’s analyses provoked a la…
Architecture as event space
Central to the conception of this article is the architectural theorist Bernard Tschumi's dictum, ‘There is no architecture without action, no architecture without events, no architecture without program ... no architecture without violence.’ Shaped as well by Eyal Weizman's conception of ‘forensic architecture’, the focus of the investigation is on Israel's architecture of security and on the corresponding Palestinian architecture of resistance.…
Composing Blackness
Composing Blackness:Moten's Black and Blur Michael J. Shapiro (bio) Fred Moten, Black and Blur: Consent not to be a Single Being. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2017. xii + 339 pp. $99.95 (hbk), 9780822370062, $27.95 (pb), 97808223370161. Fred Moten's Black and Blur composes a rejoinder to the historic catastrophe of slavery and its aftermath in persisting institutionalized racism. Inasmuch as catastrophe translates as a turning down, Moten r…
Insurrectional Arts
This chapter is inspired by contrasting passages in two stories. The first is in Jamaica Kincaid's story, ‘The Embassy of Cambodia'. Her narrator, who is following a transversality between two forms of atrocity: those practiced by states, as in the case of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge exterminism and that inflicted on abused migrant domestic workers from third world countries. The narrator notes that people in her village are too distracted to heed peo…
Go west, go east
This article is a commentary on Elizabeth Dauphinee’s book The Politics of Exile. Its focus is on her displacement – her dual sojourn that is, on the one hand, a physical migration (from Canada to Bosnia for research) and, on the other, a genre migration (from academic to literary writing). The main part of the analysis situates Dauphinee’s contribution among the Balkans War reflections of diverse exilic artists from the former Yugoslavia (writer…
Bosnian Blues
The Micropolitics of Justice
This article treats the micropolitics of justice. Whereas the macropolitics of justice involves the way states administer the law, an analysis of the “micropolitics” of justice focuses on the way individuals and collectives are affected by legality/illegalities, such that they participate in a culture of feelings or sensibilities and subsequently engage in discursive encounters about what is just. Because much of my concern is with the tension be…
Manfred Steger's ideological subjects
Hong Kong and Berlin
This essay is an analysis of Yau Nai-Hoi's film Eye in the Sky, a detective thriller set in present-day Hong Kong. Because the author viewed the film while attending the Berlin film festival, the essay focuses on the differential ways in which the two global cities manage their separation from their pasts. Berlin, now a unified national capital after a significant political reorientation, is full of large corporate and government buildings as wel…
Managing Urban Security
This article locates the contemporary security climate of the city of Los Angeles within a historical trajectory of modes of securitization. While some of the analysis treats the material and technological aspects of cities in general, and Los Angeles in particular, much of my emphasis, articulated in readings of both literary and film versions of police procedurals, is on discursive barriers. Ultimately, I suggest that, materially and discursive…
Foucault on Freedom
After Kant
Research Article| January 01 2006 After Kant: Re-thinking Hermeneutics and Aesthetics Michael J. Shapiro Michael J. Shapiro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2006) 15 (1): 7–10. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711231 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael J. Shapiro; After Kant: Re-thinking Hermeneutics and Aesthetics. The Good Society 1 January 2006; 15 (1): 7–10. doi…
The Sublime Today
Inspired by Immanuel Kant's analytic of the sublime and Jacques Rancière's Kant-influenced politics of aesthetics, this article focuses on a reading of the film Dirty Pretty Things, directed by Stephen Frears. In parallel with this reading, the article analyses the way politics can be construed, not on the basis of Kant's politics but in terms of how it can be thought as a result of the insights in his Critique of Judgment. The article concludes …
The Fog of War’
Panel Participants
Social Science, Geophilosophy and Inequality
This chapter begins with a treatment of the inauspicious debut of social science in Hawaii, noting how it aided and abetted colonization. However, although much of the analysis is aimed at elucidating current political issues in Hawaii, its organizing concern is with a general critique of the historical role of social and political science “knowledge.” Accordingly, much of the chapter deals with a trajectory of discourses on political analysis, n…
Bourdieu, the state and method
(2002). Bourdieu, the state and method. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 610-618
Partition Blues
Codes and violence
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Sounds of Nationhood
Commentary on Peter Taylor's essay
Literary Geography and Sovereign Violence
The initial impetus for this article Alexis de Tocqueville's discussion of influence of democracy on the family, from which epigraph on social versus kindred ties taken. Restricting his observations to a comparison between traditional aristocratic in Europe and white bourgeois in nineteenth-century America, and perceiving what he regarded as a spirit of equality prevailing around domestic hearth,2 Tocqueville imagined, simultaneously, a breakdown…
Metaphor in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Analysts of human conduct have become increasingly cognizant of the fragility of their subjects and objects. Even empiricist forms of social science, now less dependent on an orthodox understanding of the application of the scientific code, have become more accepting of the inevitably rhetorical component of knowledge related communication. And alternative philosophies of the social sciences, departing from the austere scientific subject the unin…
The Sublime Today
Inspired by Immanuel Kant's analytic of the sublime and Jacques Rancière's Kant-influenced politics of aesthetics, this article focuses on a reading of the film Dirty Pretty Things, directed by Stephen Frears. In parallel with this reading, the article analyses the way politics can be construed, not on the basis of Kant's politics but in terms of how it can be thought as a result of the insights in his Critique of Judgment. The article concludes …
Sounds of Nationhood
The Events of Discourse and the Ethics of Global Hospitality
Go west, go east
This article is a commentary on Elizabeth Dauphinee’s book The Politics of Exile. Its focus is on her displacement – her dual sojourn that is, on the one hand, a physical migration (from Canada to Bosnia for research) and, on the other, a genre migration (from academic to literary writing). The main part of the analysis situates Dauphinee’s contribution among the Balkans War reflections of diverse exilic artists from the former Yugoslavia (writer…
Partition Blues
Narrating the Nation, Unwelcoming the Stranger
Managing Urban Security
This article locates the contemporary security climate of the city of Los Angeles within a historical trajectory of modes of securitization. While some of the analysis treats the material and technological aspects of cities in general, and Los Angeles in particular, much of my emphasis, articulated in readings of both literary and film versions of police procedurals, is on discursive barriers. Ultimately, I suggest that, materially and discursive…
Bourdieu, the state and method
(2002). Bourdieu, the state and method. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 610-618
Spatiality and Policy Discourse
Insurrectional Arts
This chapter is inspired by contrasting passages in two stories. The first is in Jamaica Kincaid's story, ‘The Embassy of Cambodia'. Her narrator, who is following a transversality between two forms of atrocity: those practiced by states, as in the case of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge exterminism and that inflicted on abused migrant domestic workers from third world countries. The narrator notes that people in her village are too distracted to heed peo…
Architecture as event space
Central to the conception of this article is the architectural theorist Bernard Tschumi's dictum, ‘There is no architecture without action, no architecture without events, no architecture without program ... no architecture without violence.’ Shaped as well by Eyal Weizman's conception of ‘forensic architecture’, the focus of the investigation is on Israel's architecture of security and on the corresponding Palestinian architecture of resistance.…
Bosnian Blues
After Kant
Research Article| January 01 2006 After Kant: Re-thinking Hermeneutics and Aesthetics Michael J. Shapiro Michael J. Shapiro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2006) 15 (1): 7–10. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711231 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael J. Shapiro; After Kant: Re-thinking Hermeneutics and Aesthetics. The Good Society 1 January 2006; 15 (1): 7–10. doi…
The Fog of War’
Images of Planetary Danger
Leprince D'amour” and the Resumption of Playing at Paul's
“LEPRINCE D'AMOUR” AND THE RESUMPTION OF PLAYING AT PAUL'S Get access MICHAEL SHAPIRO MICHAEL SHAPIRO University of Illinois Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Notes and Queries, Volume 18, Issue 1, January 1971, Pages 14–16, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/18-1-14 Published: 01 January 1971
Metaphor in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Analysts of human conduct have become increasingly cognizant of the fragility of their subjects and objects. Even empiricist forms of social science, now less dependent on an orthodox understanding of the application of the scientific code, have become more accepting of the inevitably rhetorical component of knowledge related communication. And alternative philosophies of the social sciences, departing from the austere scientific subject the unin…
International/Intertextual Relations
Drawing on the philosophies and intellectual approaches of numerous contemporary social critics (Nietzche, Foucault, Barthes, among others), this collection sheds light on the relationship between international theory and political power. Using such disciplines as geneaology, deconstruction, semiotics, feminist psychoanalytical theory, and intertextualism, these readings address such diverse topics as: sovereignty, terrorism, the psychology of wa…
Spatiality and Policy Discourse
Wimp English
Images of Planetary Danger
Iconicity in Language
Harry Friedman
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Narrating the Nation, Unwelcoming the Stranger
Representational violence
Of late, critical and polemical commentaries aimed at politicizing language have been focused on the damaging effects of what Judith Butler has called “excitable speech,” utterances intended to incite violence toward persons with recognizable social identities: religious groups, ethnic groups, and gays and lesbians, among others. Apart from the problem of neglecting the meaning slippage involved in assigning an unmediated causal effect to speech …
Genres of the public interest
The Events of Discourse and the Ethics of Global Hospitality
Commentary on Peter Taylor's essay
Literary Geography and Sovereign Violence
The initial impetus for this article Alexis de Tocqueville's discussion of influence of democracy on the family, from which epigraph on social versus kindred ties taken. Restricting his observations to a comparison between traditional aristocratic in Europe and white bourgeois in nineteenth-century America, and perceiving what he regarded as a spirit of equality prevailing around domestic hearth,2 Tocqueville imagined, simultaneously, a breakdown…
Codes and violence
Redescriptions: Political Thought, Conceptual History and Feminist Theory is an international refereed open access journal, which publishes contributions on the transdisciplinary study of concepts. In classical rhetoric, ‘redescription’ refers to a rhetorical move that alters the use of a concept in one respect or another. The journal draws attention to conceptual moves within political theory, conceptual history and feminist thought, and highlig…
Sounds of Nationhood
Social Science, Geophilosophy and Inequality
This chapter begins with a treatment of the inauspicious debut of social science in Hawaii, noting how it aided and abetted colonization. However, although much of the analysis is aimed at elucidating current political issues in Hawaii, its organizing concern is with a general critique of the historical role of social and political science “knowledge.” Accordingly, much of the chapter deals with a trajectory of discourses on political analysis, n…
Bourdieu, the state and method
(2002). Bourdieu, the state and method. Review of International Political Economy: Vol. 9, No. 4, pp. 610-618
Partition Blues
The Fog of War’
Panel Participants
Foucault on Freedom
After Kant
Research Article| January 01 2006 After Kant: Re-thinking Hermeneutics and Aesthetics Michael J. Shapiro Michael J. Shapiro Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2006) 15 (1): 7–10. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711231 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael J. Shapiro; After Kant: Re-thinking Hermeneutics and Aesthetics. The Good Society 1 January 2006; 15 (1): 7–10. doi…
The Sublime Today
Inspired by Immanuel Kant's analytic of the sublime and Jacques Rancière's Kant-influenced politics of aesthetics, this article focuses on a reading of the film Dirty Pretty Things, directed by Stephen Frears. In parallel with this reading, the article analyses the way politics can be construed, not on the basis of Kant's politics but in terms of how it can be thought as a result of the insights in his Critique of Judgment. The article concludes …
Managing Urban Security
This article locates the contemporary security climate of the city of Los Angeles within a historical trajectory of modes of securitization. While some of the analysis treats the material and technological aspects of cities in general, and Los Angeles in particular, much of my emphasis, articulated in readings of both literary and film versions of police procedurals, is on discursive barriers. Ultimately, I suggest that, materially and discursive…
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