Ed Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ed Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ed |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The biopolitics of pandemics
Responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, in ‘The Biopolitics of Pandemics,’ Ed Cohen discusses the contradictions in medical, juridical, and popular thought that conceive of both disease and immunity as things that happen to individual bodies, belying our profound interconnectedness and interdependence
Self, Not-Self, Not Not-Self But Not Self, or The Knotty Paradoxes of ‘Autoimmunity’
What indeed does man know about himself? [...] Does not nature keep secret from him most things, even about his body, e.g. the convolutions of the intestines, the quick flow of the blood currents
Dare to Care
Both Michel Foucault and Bernard Stiegler underscore the importance of “care” as a political and philosophical value. This article juxtaposes Stiegler's embrace of “mystagogy” and Foucault's use of “psychagogy” in order to suggest why each of these thinkers dares to care
Sometimes Sex Is Just a Pain in the Ass; Or, the Paradox of Sexual Politics
In the wake of the US Supreme Court decision in Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, US citizens can now claim a right to marriage without regard to their genital anatomy. No doubt this genital indiscrimination has much to recommend it. Yet we might wonder why this achievement represents the culmination of almost fifty years of sexual politics. To answer this question, the essay returns Guy Hocquenghem's seminal 1972 text Homosexual Desire to consider th…
Live Thinking, or the Psychagogy of Michel Foucault
In his last years lecturing at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault repeatedly alighted on the figure of the psychagogue as an exemplar of "living philosophy." The psychagogue, in contradistinction to his confrere the pedagogue, addresses the truth by addressing the soul, the psyche, truthfully. At the Greek inception of the politics-philosophy nexus, Foucault argues, psychagogy offered a tekhne for governing this conjoint truth practice and th…
The Paradoxical Politics of Viral Containment; or, How Scale Undoes Us One and All
How do we contain emerging viral epidemics? This is a question that obsesses us of late. Not yet ten years into the third millennium, the world has already weathered a bevy of actual or feared viral epidemics: HIV/AIDS, sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), and most recently a novel influenza A (H1N1) also known as swine flu. While these contagious matters have received considered and considerable att…
I am the face of success’
Child welfare systems have struggled to create innovative, culturally sensitive programmes to address the multiple and pervasive barriers that exist in engaging child welfare parent clients in their service plans. Peer mentor programmes—those in which parents who have successfully navigated the child welfare system and reunified with their children, mentor parents newly entering the system—are designed to address some of these barriers, to improv…
A Policy called Milieu, or The Human Organism's Vital Space
Conclusion
A Body Worth Having, or A System of Natural Governance
Opening Up a Few Concepts
Incorporating Immunity, or The Defensive Poetics of Modern Medicine
Living Before and Beyond the Law, or A Reasonable Organism Defends Itself
Index
A Body Worth Defending
Biological immunity as we know it does not exist until the late nineteenth century. Nor does the premise that organisms defend themselves at the cellular or molecular levels. For nearly two thousand years "immunity," a legal concept invented in ancient Rome, serves almost exclusively political and juridical ends. "Self-defense" also originates in a juridico-political context; it emerges in the mid-seventeenth century, during the English Civil War…
Aids
This essay considers key themes in the history of HIV/AIDS, including biopolitics, affective communities, epidemics, and the meanings of immunity. It traces a set of intellectual, existential, and material connections between bioscientific inquiry, human existence, care, and community. The authors emphasize the ways that human vulnerability bespeaks social life
Immune Communities, Common Immunities
This essay focuses on the controversy incited by Thabo Mbeki's comments at the Thirteenth International AIDS Conference, held in Durban in 2000, which unleashed a deluge of opprobrium that has inundated the South African president since then. By analyzing the ensuing discursive conflict, it makes visible and intelligible some unarticulated and unarticulable assumptions about bioscience as a natural and exclusive framework for comprehending and ad…
A Body Worth Having
This article considers the historical contingencies within which 'the body' becomes incorporated as a legal and political metonym for 'the person'. Extrapolating from C.B. Macpherson's understanding of 'possessive individualism', it asks why we assume that to be a person means to have 'a body', and explores the political and ethical consequences of substantializing the living processes that subtend the human organism. Considering the English codi…
Assessing Model Fidelity in Two Family Group Decision-Making Programs
As family group decision-making (FGDM) is a relatively new child welfare intervention, research has not adequately explored its implementation in multiple contexts or the degree to which implementation matches the previously defined goals, principles, and structures of the model. This article outlines the key components of FGDM and discusses the findings from a two county study of FGDM. Data collected from multiple sources participating in Califo…
Metaphorical Immunity
Derived from Roman law, for more than two thousand years, immunity served almost exclusively as a juridico-political concept that modulated the criteria of inclusion and exclusion determining how citizens became subjects of European nation-states. However, once introduced into bio-science in the wake of—and as an explanation for—Pasteur's vaccination experiments, biological "immunity" began to be used to describe a "natural" and necessary functio…
Confessions of a Pseudo-Victorianist, or How I Fell Ass-Backwards and Landed in a Period (A Screed)
There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, is absolutely necessary if one is to go on looking and reflecting at all. — Foucault, The Use of Pleasure I AM NOT NOW, nor have I ever been, a Victorianist. Nor will I ever be one. This is not to say that I do not teach courses focusing on nineteenth-century texts and contexts, that I have not recurrently wri…
Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle
Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle scrutinises ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle, whose influence stretched from the 1890s, when economic depression signalled the end of Britain's role as 'the workshop of the world', to 1914 when world war accelerated imperial decline. This collaborative venture by new and established scholars includes discussion …
The ‘hyperreal’ vs. the ‘really real’
Legislating the Norm
Research Article| January 01 1989 Legislating the Norm: From Sodomy to Gross Indecency Ed Cohen Ed Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (1): 181–217. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-88-1-181 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ed Cohen; Legislating the Norm: From Sodomy to Gross Indecency. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 Januar…
(R)evolutionary scenes
A Body Worth Defending
Biological immunity as we know it does not exist until the late nineteenth century. Nor does the premise that organisms defend themselves at the cellular or molecular levels. For nearly two thousand years "immunity," a legal concept invented in ancient Rome, serves almost exclusively political and juridical ends. "Self-defense" also originates in a juridico-political context; it emerges in the mid-seventeenth century, during the English Civil War…
I am the face of success’
Child welfare systems have struggled to create innovative, culturally sensitive programmes to address the multiple and pervasive barriers that exist in engaging child welfare parent clients in their service plans. Peer mentor programmes—those in which parents who have successfully navigated the child welfare system and reunified with their children, mentor parents newly entering the system—are designed to address some of these barriers, to improv…
A Body Worth Having
This article considers the historical contingencies within which 'the body' becomes incorporated as a legal and political metonym for 'the person'. Extrapolating from C.B. Macpherson's understanding of 'possessive individualism', it asks why we assume that to be a person means to have 'a body', and explores the political and ethical consequences of substantializing the living processes that subtend the human organism. Considering the English codi…
The Paradoxical Politics of Viral Containment; or, How Scale Undoes Us One and All
How do we contain emerging viral epidemics? This is a question that obsesses us of late. Not yet ten years into the third millennium, the world has already weathered a bevy of actual or feared viral epidemics: HIV/AIDS, sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), and most recently a novel influenza A (H1N1) also known as swine flu. While these contagious matters have received considered and considerable att…
Assessing Model Fidelity in Two Family Group Decision-Making Programs
As family group decision-making (FGDM) is a relatively new child welfare intervention, research has not adequately explored its implementation in multiple contexts or the degree to which implementation matches the previously defined goals, principles, and structures of the model. This article outlines the key components of FGDM and discusses the findings from a two county study of FGDM. Data collected from multiple sources participating in Califo…
Self, Not-Self, Not Not-Self But Not Self, or The Knotty Paradoxes of ‘Autoimmunity’
What indeed does man know about himself? [...] Does not nature keep secret from him most things, even about his body, e.g. the convolutions of the intestines, the quick flow of the blood currents
Live Thinking, or the Psychagogy of Michel Foucault
In his last years lecturing at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault repeatedly alighted on the figure of the psychagogue as an exemplar of "living philosophy." The psychagogue, in contradistinction to his confrere the pedagogue, addresses the truth by addressing the soul, the psyche, truthfully. At the Greek inception of the politics-philosophy nexus, Foucault argues, psychagogy offered a tekhne for governing this conjoint truth practice and th…
Immune Communities, Common Immunities
This essay focuses on the controversy incited by Thabo Mbeki's comments at the Thirteenth International AIDS Conference, held in Durban in 2000, which unleashed a deluge of opprobrium that has inundated the South African president since then. By analyzing the ensuing discursive conflict, it makes visible and intelligible some unarticulated and unarticulable assumptions about bioscience as a natural and exclusive framework for comprehending and ad…
Sometimes Sex Is Just a Pain in the Ass; Or, the Paradox of Sexual Politics
In the wake of the US Supreme Court decision in Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, US citizens can now claim a right to marriage without regard to their genital anatomy. No doubt this genital indiscrimination has much to recommend it. Yet we might wonder why this achievement represents the culmination of almost fifty years of sexual politics. To answer this question, the essay returns Guy Hocquenghem's seminal 1972 text Homosexual Desire to consider th…
Legislating the Norm
Research Article| January 01 1989 Legislating the Norm: From Sodomy to Gross Indecency Ed Cohen Ed Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (1): 181–217. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-88-1-181 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ed Cohen; Legislating the Norm: From Sodomy to Gross Indecency. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 Januar…
(R)evolutionary scenes
The ‘hyperreal’ vs. the ‘really real’
Legislating the Norm
Research Article| January 01 1989 Legislating the Norm: From Sodomy to Gross Indecency Ed Cohen Ed Cohen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (1989) 88 (1): 181–217. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-88-1-181 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Ed Cohen; Legislating the Norm: From Sodomy to Gross Indecency. South Atlantic Quarterly 1 Januar…
Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle
Cultural Politics at the Fin de Siècle scrutinises ways in which current conflicts of 'race', class, and gender have their origins in the cultural politics of the last fin de siècle, whose influence stretched from the 1890s, when economic depression signalled the end of Britain's role as 'the workshop of the world', to 1914 when world war accelerated imperial decline. This collaborative venture by new and established scholars includes discussion …
Confessions of a Pseudo-Victorianist, or How I Fell Ass-Backwards and Landed in a Period (A Screed)
There are times in life when the question of knowing if one can think differently than one thinks, and perceive differently than one sees, is absolutely necessary if one is to go on looking and reflecting at all. — Foucault, The Use of Pleasure I AM NOT NOW, nor have I ever been, a Victorianist. Nor will I ever be one. This is not to say that I do not teach courses focusing on nineteenth-century texts and contexts, that I have not recurrently wri…
Metaphorical Immunity
Derived from Roman law, for more than two thousand years, immunity served almost exclusively as a juridico-political concept that modulated the criteria of inclusion and exclusion determining how citizens became subjects of European nation-states. However, once introduced into bio-science in the wake of—and as an explanation for—Pasteur's vaccination experiments, biological "immunity" began to be used to describe a "natural" and necessary functio…
Assessing Model Fidelity in Two Family Group Decision-Making Programs
As family group decision-making (FGDM) is a relatively new child welfare intervention, research has not adequately explored its implementation in multiple contexts or the degree to which implementation matches the previously defined goals, principles, and structures of the model. This article outlines the key components of FGDM and discusses the findings from a two county study of FGDM. Data collected from multiple sources participating in Califo…
Immune Communities, Common Immunities
This essay focuses on the controversy incited by Thabo Mbeki's comments at the Thirteenth International AIDS Conference, held in Durban in 2000, which unleashed a deluge of opprobrium that has inundated the South African president since then. By analyzing the ensuing discursive conflict, it makes visible and intelligible some unarticulated and unarticulable assumptions about bioscience as a natural and exclusive framework for comprehending and ad…
A Body Worth Having
This article considers the historical contingencies within which 'the body' becomes incorporated as a legal and political metonym for 'the person'. Extrapolating from C.B. Macpherson's understanding of 'possessive individualism', it asks why we assume that to be a person means to have 'a body', and explores the political and ethical consequences of substantializing the living processes that subtend the human organism. Considering the English codi…
A Policy called Milieu, or The Human Organism's Vital Space
Conclusion
A Body Worth Having, or A System of Natural Governance
Opening Up a Few Concepts
Incorporating Immunity, or The Defensive Poetics of Modern Medicine
Living Before and Beyond the Law, or A Reasonable Organism Defends Itself
Index
A Body Worth Defending
Biological immunity as we know it does not exist until the late nineteenth century. Nor does the premise that organisms defend themselves at the cellular or molecular levels. For nearly two thousand years "immunity," a legal concept invented in ancient Rome, serves almost exclusively political and juridical ends. "Self-defense" also originates in a juridico-political context; it emerges in the mid-seventeenth century, during the English Civil War…
Aids
This essay considers key themes in the history of HIV/AIDS, including biopolitics, affective communities, epidemics, and the meanings of immunity. It traces a set of intellectual, existential, and material connections between bioscientific inquiry, human existence, care, and community. The authors emphasize the ways that human vulnerability bespeaks social life
I am the face of success’
Child welfare systems have struggled to create innovative, culturally sensitive programmes to address the multiple and pervasive barriers that exist in engaging child welfare parent clients in their service plans. Peer mentor programmes—those in which parents who have successfully navigated the child welfare system and reunified with their children, mentor parents newly entering the system—are designed to address some of these barriers, to improv…
The Paradoxical Politics of Viral Containment; or, How Scale Undoes Us One and All
How do we contain emerging viral epidemics? This is a question that obsesses us of late. Not yet ten years into the third millennium, the world has already weathered a bevy of actual or feared viral epidemics: HIV/AIDS, sudden acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), and most recently a novel influenza A (H1N1) also known as swine flu. While these contagious matters have received considered and considerable att…
Live Thinking, or the Psychagogy of Michel Foucault
In his last years lecturing at the Collège de France, Michel Foucault repeatedly alighted on the figure of the psychagogue as an exemplar of "living philosophy." The psychagogue, in contradistinction to his confrere the pedagogue, addresses the truth by addressing the soul, the psyche, truthfully. At the Greek inception of the politics-philosophy nexus, Foucault argues, psychagogy offered a tekhne for governing this conjoint truth practice and th…
Self, Not-Self, Not Not-Self But Not Self, or The Knotty Paradoxes of ‘Autoimmunity’
What indeed does man know about himself? [...] Does not nature keep secret from him most things, even about his body, e.g. the convolutions of the intestines, the quick flow of the blood currents
Dare to Care
Both Michel Foucault and Bernard Stiegler underscore the importance of “care” as a political and philosophical value. This article juxtaposes Stiegler's embrace of “mystagogy” and Foucault's use of “psychagogy” in order to suggest why each of these thinkers dares to care
Sometimes Sex Is Just a Pain in the Ass; Or, the Paradox of Sexual Politics
In the wake of the US Supreme Court decision in Obergefell et al. v. Hodges, US citizens can now claim a right to marriage without regard to their genital anatomy. No doubt this genital indiscrimination has much to recommend it. Yet we might wonder why this achievement represents the culmination of almost fifty years of sexual politics. To answer this question, the essay returns Guy Hocquenghem's seminal 1972 text Homosexual Desire to consider th…
The biopolitics of pandemics
Responding to the Covid-19 pandemic, in ‘The Biopolitics of Pandemics,’ Ed Cohen discusses the contradictions in medical, juridical, and popular thought that conceive of both disease and immunity as things that happen to individual bodies, belying our profound interconnectedness and interdependence
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