Shuang Frost
Biographic Data
| ID | 747206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shuang Frost |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shuang |
| FAMILY NAME | Frost |
| SIGNATURE | FROST S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8744-2765 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Complex Causation, Reason, Freedom
In this symposium response, I suggest that a key to thinking about the implications of Hobbes’s materialism for his arguments about ethics, politics, and law is to trace his efforts to defend complex causation. I suggest that when we read Hobbes as trying to hold onto complex causation as an ontological and epistemological fact, we have to rethink the relationship between freedom, reason, sovereignty, and the law
The Attentive Body
Drawing on research in posthumanism, science and technology studies and biosemiotics, this essay analyses the challenges epigenetic processes pose for our understanding of embodied subjectivity. It uses the work of Charles Sanders Peirce to argue that epigenetic processes are indexical in their patterned logic, that they are meaning-making processes and that, consequently, they can be conceived as a form of attention. To conceive of bodies as pay…
The Biocultural is a Pluripotent Concept for Theory
This essay expounds on five themes raised by the symposium participants' engagement with the notion that humans are biocultural creatures. These themes concern the excitement and richness of non-binary concept development, the reconsideration of what constitutes knowledge, the possibilities and challenges of collaborative work, the methodological questions posed by cross-or trans-disciplinary research, and the ways that the multiscalar spatial an…
Devaluing Human Labor
Challenging the Human X Environment Framework
Challenges to the idea of the human raised in posthumanist inquiry present both problems and opportunities for understanding and organizing an environmental politics able to transform environmental degradation and address global climate change. This essay explains how arguments about human embodiment, symbiosis, and human embeddedness in social and material habitats have led to a reconceptualization of the human as well as the environment. Next, …
Biocultural Creatures
The laborious tissue
Re-considering the turn to biology in feminist theory
This article argues that feminist theorists should conceive of the life sciences not only as a factual resource but also as a figural resource. It proposes that in shifting our conceptual orientation to biological science from fact to figure, feminists will be able to give theoretical life to scientific findings about the ways in which social environments and material habitats are processes integral to our development, growth, and social and poli…
Introducing the New Materialisms
Book synopsis: New Materialisms rethinks the relevance of materialist philosophy in the midst of a world shaped by forces such as digital and biotechnologies, global warming, global capital, and population flows. Moving away from modes of inquiry that have prioritized the study of consciousness and subjectivity over matter, the essays in this collection show that any account of experience, agency, and political action demands renewed attention to…
Hobbes's Politically Subversive Messianism
Hobbes's Politically Subversive Messianism Samantha Frost (bio) James Martel . Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat. New York NY: Columbia University Press, 2007. 248 pages. $34.50 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-231-13984-7. In Subverting the Leviathan, James Martel offers an intriguing and multi-layered reading of Hobbes that seeks to wrest his work both from the misperception that he is an advocate of a brutally absolutist…
Hobbes and the Matter of Self-Consciousness
Observing that René Descartes’s dualistic philosophy haunts our conceptualization of matter, this essay argues that Thomas Hobbes develops a non-Cartesian materialism, which is to say that he articulates a materialism in which matter is not construed as essentially unthinking. Tracing his accounts of sense, perception, and thinking, this essay reconstructs Hobbes’s account of self-consciousness and proposes that in a subject conceived as wholly e…
Hobbes out of Bounds
Faking it
Etude du materialisme metaphysique de Hobbes qui s'appuie sur une connaissance des personnes (S. Cavell) en tant que corps pensants, d'une part, et qui implique une ethique de la dissimulation au niveau de l'action politique collective, d'autre part
Biocultural Creatures
Re-considering the turn to biology in feminist theory
This article argues that feminist theorists should conceive of the life sciences not only as a factual resource but also as a figural resource. It proposes that in shifting our conceptual orientation to biological science from fact to figure, feminists will be able to give theoretical life to scientific findings about the ways in which social environments and material habitats are processes integral to our development, growth, and social and poli…
Hobbes and the Matter of Self-Consciousness
Observing that René Descartes’s dualistic philosophy haunts our conceptualization of matter, this essay argues that Thomas Hobbes develops a non-Cartesian materialism, which is to say that he articulates a materialism in which matter is not construed as essentially unthinking. Tracing his accounts of sense, perception, and thinking, this essay reconstructs Hobbes’s account of self-consciousness and proposes that in a subject conceived as wholly e…
The Attentive Body
Drawing on research in posthumanism, science and technology studies and biosemiotics, this essay analyses the challenges epigenetic processes pose for our understanding of embodied subjectivity. It uses the work of Charles Sanders Peirce to argue that epigenetic processes are indexical in their patterned logic, that they are meaning-making processes and that, consequently, they can be conceived as a form of attention. To conceive of bodies as pay…
Faking it
Etude du materialisme metaphysique de Hobbes qui s'appuie sur une connaissance des personnes (S. Cavell) en tant que corps pensants, d'une part, et qui implique une ethique de la dissimulation au niveau de l'action politique collective, d'autre part
Devaluing Human Labor
Faking it
Etude du materialisme metaphysique de Hobbes qui s'appuie sur une connaissance des personnes (S. Cavell) en tant que corps pensants, d'une part, et qui implique une ethique de la dissimulation au niveau de l'action politique collective, d'autre part
Hobbes out of Bounds
Hobbes and the Matter of Self-Consciousness
Observing that René Descartes’s dualistic philosophy haunts our conceptualization of matter, this essay argues that Thomas Hobbes develops a non-Cartesian materialism, which is to say that he articulates a materialism in which matter is not construed as essentially unthinking. Tracing his accounts of sense, perception, and thinking, this essay reconstructs Hobbes’s account of self-consciousness and proposes that in a subject conceived as wholly e…
Introducing the New Materialisms
Book synopsis: New Materialisms rethinks the relevance of materialist philosophy in the midst of a world shaped by forces such as digital and biotechnologies, global warming, global capital, and population flows. Moving away from modes of inquiry that have prioritized the study of consciousness and subjectivity over matter, the essays in this collection show that any account of experience, agency, and political action demands renewed attention to…
Hobbes's Politically Subversive Messianism
Hobbes's Politically Subversive Messianism Samantha Frost (bio) James Martel . Subverting the Leviathan: Reading Thomas Hobbes as a Radical Democrat. New York NY: Columbia University Press, 2007. 248 pages. $34.50 (cloth). ISBN 978-0-231-13984-7. In Subverting the Leviathan, James Martel offers an intriguing and multi-layered reading of Hobbes that seeks to wrest his work both from the misperception that he is an advocate of a brutally absolutist…
Re-considering the turn to biology in feminist theory
This article argues that feminist theorists should conceive of the life sciences not only as a factual resource but also as a figural resource. It proposes that in shifting our conceptual orientation to biological science from fact to figure, feminists will be able to give theoretical life to scientific findings about the ways in which social environments and material habitats are processes integral to our development, growth, and social and poli…
The laborious tissue
Challenging the Human X Environment Framework
Challenges to the idea of the human raised in posthumanist inquiry present both problems and opportunities for understanding and organizing an environmental politics able to transform environmental degradation and address global climate change. This essay explains how arguments about human embodiment, symbiosis, and human embeddedness in social and material habitats have led to a reconceptualization of the human as well as the environment. Next, …
Biocultural Creatures
Devaluing Human Labor
The Biocultural is a Pluripotent Concept for Theory
This essay expounds on five themes raised by the symposium participants' engagement with the notion that humans are biocultural creatures. These themes concern the excitement and richness of non-binary concept development, the reconsideration of what constitutes knowledge, the possibilities and challenges of collaborative work, the methodological questions posed by cross-or trans-disciplinary research, and the ways that the multiscalar spatial an…
The Attentive Body
Drawing on research in posthumanism, science and technology studies and biosemiotics, this essay analyses the challenges epigenetic processes pose for our understanding of embodied subjectivity. It uses the work of Charles Sanders Peirce to argue that epigenetic processes are indexical in their patterned logic, that they are meaning-making processes and that, consequently, they can be conceived as a form of attention. To conceive of bodies as pay…
Complex Causation, Reason, Freedom
In this symposium response, I suggest that a key to thinking about the implications of Hobbes’s materialism for his arguments about ethics, politics, and law is to trace his efforts to defend complex causation. I suggest that when we read Hobbes as trying to hold onto complex causation as an ontological and epistemological fact, we have to rethink the relationship between freedom, reason, sovereignty, and the law
Epistemology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought (5 works) · Creatures (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Law (3 works)