Paolo Palladino
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 291337 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paolo Palladino |
| NOMBRES | Paolo |
| APELLIDO | Palladino |
| FIRMA | PALLADINO P |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8001-6691 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 142 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1987 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
What’s in a name? On affect, value and the bio-economy
In the Blink of an Eye
This paper examines the proposition that movement offers new insight into the relationship between human and non-human animals, a relationship that is important to understanding contemporary bio-political existence. It draws on a recent commemoration of transhumance, the seasonal movement of herds and herders, to analyse different conceptions of movement and their implications for the relationship between human and non-human animals. On this basi…
Transhumance Revisited
This paper advances the argument that transhumance, the seasonal movement of pastoral people and their livestock, is a useful site for critical reflection on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus (1988) and its importance to the understanding of mobility and process. It does so by bringing into dialogue ethnographic and historical perspectives on the resonance between transhumance and Deleuzian configurations of both nomadism an…
Population laboratories’ or ‘laboratory populations’? Making sense of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, 1965–1987
Miranda’s story
Biomedicine is today transforming the human condition, but how such transformation is to be understood is a matter of debate. I seek to contribute to the debate by focusing on recent developments within a relatively novel subfield of gerontology which is engaged in the bio-molecular and bio-demographic characterization of the processes associated with the development of the organism from birth to death. I argue that these developments aid underst…
Picturing the Messianic
In The Open (2002), a series of reflections on the historical endeavours to define the essential features of the human figure in relation to the biological existence it shares with animals, Giorgio Agamben offers a detailed reading of Titian's painting The Nymph and the Shepherd. He argues that the scene depicted enables the contemporary viewer to visualize the advent of radical freedom, the moment when the historical dialectic of nature and cult…
Ageing between Gerontology and Biomedicine
Squaring the Curve
In this article we observe that, while critical studies of biomedical interventions on the ageing body have focused on associated social and cultural reconfigurations of ageing and death, the epistemic practices of bio-gerontology have rarely been examined. Extending these rarer studies, we argue that changes in the scientific articulation of ageing processes and death over a longer historical period than has been considered hitherto offer import…
From Tragedy to Farce
This speculative essay is prompted by the formal characteristics of contemporary debates over the progress of medicine, namely their oscillation between claims about ever greater possibilities and dire warnings about threats to fundamental human values, and by a troublesome, yet resonant, phase from Nikolas Rose's reflections on contemporary governmental mechanisms. It seeks to push the terms medicine, state and market to their conceptual limit, …
On Silence and the Constitution of the Political Community
On Silence and the Constitution of the Political Community Paolo Palladino (bio) and Tiago Moreira (bio) Speech . . . serves to indicate what is useful and what is harmful, and so also what is just and what is unjust . . . The real difference between man and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes . . . a state. Aristotle, The Politic…
On the Political Animal and the Return of Just War
On the Political Animal and the Return of Just War Paolo Palladino (bio) Introduction As recurrent, bellicose arguments over the legitimacy of ‘rogue states’ attest, we are today witnessing a momentous struggle to assert a new international order, wherein recourse to the force of arms can once again be deemed ‘just’ (Elshtain, 2001; see also O’Donovan, 1995). Strikingly, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, which …
From Antigone to Phocion's Wife
Between truth and hope
In this article, we argue that contemporary biomedicine is shaped by two, seemingly incommensurable, organizational logics, the ‘regime of truth’ and the ‘regime of hope’. We articulate their features by drawing on debates sparked by the recent clinical trial of a new approach to the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease. We also argue that the ‘self’ is configured in the very same process whereby these two organizational logics interlock and become m…
Caveat Emptor
This article focuses on ‘revivalism’ and ‘resurrectionism’. While the former is a sociological label for contemporary rituals of dying and death, the latter is a label for contemporary practices of historiographical representation. By exploring the formal and substantive similarities between ‘revivalism’ and ‘resurrectionism’, this study offers a speculative reflection on the relationship between time, death and history in late modernity
Chemicals in the Field - Edmund Russell, War and Nature
Fight Club and the World Trade Center
In this essay we examine the metaphorical rendition of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, which took place on 11 September 2001, as attacks on "civilization." Our principal aim is to understand how it has proven to be as affective as it seems to have been thus far. We do so by turning to film, a medium that is quintessentially metaphorical and whose own affective power rests on the reconfiguration of time and space. More specifical…
The politics of death
In this paper, the most recent writings by Giorgio Agamben and Bruno Latour are brought into dialog by examining what light they shed on contemporary debates concerning “end of life” decisions. More specifically, the paper focuses on the debates sparked by Diane Pretty's request for a grant of immunity against legal prosecution if her husband were to assist her to commit suicide and so terminate her increasingly unbearable suffering from motor ne…
Between Knowledge and Practice
In this paper, I examine the historical development of a clinical test for `familial adenomatous polyposis' (FAP), an inherited condition which often leads to cancer of the colon. By paying attention to continuities and changes, especially in the engagement between those medical professionals and patients involved in the development of this test, I reconsider the relationship between knowledge and practice, with an eye to Michel Foucault's and Pa…
Discourses of Smoking, Health, and the Just Society
This paper locates the political impact of Bernie Ecclestone's controversial donation to the Labour Party, just before its election to government in 1997, in a recurrent concern among British socialists about the relationship between smoking, health, and the just society. It does so by turning to an earlier episode in the history of British socialism, specifically to Horace Joules' political agitation from 1951 onward, within the Socialist Medica…
Medicine Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Journal Article Medicine Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Get access PAOLO PALLADINO PAOLO PALLADINO *Department of History, Lancaster UniversityLancaster LAI 4YG, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 14, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 539–551, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/14.3.539 Published: 01 December 2001
And the Answer is ... 42
Icarus' Flight
In this paper, I consider Thomas Soderquist's recent call for a biographical approach to historical narrative. He stresses in particular the need to pay greater attention to the existential struggles of our historical actors. Echoing Raphael Samuel, he argues that this will help us to move away from the hermeneutic of suspicion, which underlies the dominant sociological approach, toward a hermeneutic of edification. Ultimately, this approach will…
Waving goodbye to history? A response to Keith Jenkins
In response to Purvis and Weatherill, Penelope Corfield reiterates her contention that some women's history is broadening fruitfully into gender history. It is ironic that some feminists should express disapproval of the trend and the nomenclature, when modern feminism itself pioneered the identification of 'gender' as a social construct. But, whatever the polemics, the quest for a separate 'herstory' has been quietly abandoned. Feminist though i…
On writing the Histor(ies) of modern Medicine
In this essay, I consider the distinction between experimental scientists and clinicians which has been used to structure most writing on the history of modern medicine. The most immediate aim is to draw out the sociological presupposition of this historiography, to show their problematic nature, and to suggest an alternative, ethnographic approach. The ultimate aim is to open some space which may help to re-establish historiography as a politica…
Entomology, Ecology, and Agriculture
Science and Imperialism
Between truth and hope
In this article, we argue that contemporary biomedicine is shaped by two, seemingly incommensurable, organizational logics, the ‘regime of truth’ and the ‘regime of hope’. We articulate their features by drawing on debates sparked by the recent clinical trial of a new approach to the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease. We also argue that the ‘self’ is configured in the very same process whereby these two organizational logics interlock and become m…
The political economy of applied research
Squaring the Curve
In this article we observe that, while critical studies of biomedical interventions on the ageing body have focused on associated social and cultural reconfigurations of ageing and death, the epistemic practices of bio-gerontology have rarely been examined. Extending these rarer studies, we argue that changes in the scientific articulation of ageing processes and death over a longer historical period than has been considered hitherto offer import…
Between Craft and Science
The relationship between science and technology is one of the most controversial problems confronting historians and philosophers interested in technology and its history. As John Staudenmaier has pointed out, they have argued ceaselessly over competing interpretations of the relationship.' Some of them-notably, the philosopher Mario Bunge-have maintained that successful technological practice depends on the systematic application of scientific k…
Wizards and Devotees
L'A. etudie l'histoire et la technologie des sciences aux Etats-Unis et en Angleterre entre 1880 et 1930, en comparant le developpement de l'agriculture, et particulierement la reproduction des plantes au travers des biographies de Burbank (L.) et Beaven (E.S.)
Transhumance Revisited
This paper advances the argument that transhumance, the seasonal movement of pastoral people and their livestock, is a useful site for critical reflection on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus (1988) and its importance to the understanding of mobility and process. It does so by bringing into dialogue ethnographic and historical perspectives on the resonance between transhumance and Deleuzian configurations of both nomadism an…
Between Knowledge and Practice
In this paper, I examine the historical development of a clinical test for `familial adenomatous polyposis' (FAP), an inherited condition which often leads to cancer of the colon. By paying attention to continuities and changes, especially in the engagement between those medical professionals and patients involved in the development of this test, I reconsider the relationship between knowledge and practice, with an eye to Michel Foucault's and Pa…
The politics of death
In this paper, the most recent writings by Giorgio Agamben and Bruno Latour are brought into dialog by examining what light they shed on contemporary debates concerning “end of life” decisions. More specifically, the paper focuses on the debates sparked by Diane Pretty's request for a grant of immunity against legal prosecution if her husband were to assist her to commit suicide and so terminate her increasingly unbearable suffering from motor ne…
Population laboratories’ or ‘laboratory populations’? Making sense of the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging, 1965–1987
Discourses of Smoking, Health, and the Just Society
This paper locates the political impact of Bernie Ecclestone's controversial donation to the Labour Party, just before its election to government in 1997, in a recurrent concern among British socialists about the relationship between smoking, health, and the just society. It does so by turning to an earlier episode in the history of British socialism, specifically to Horace Joules' political agitation from 1951 onward, within the Socialist Medica…
Picturing the Messianic
In The Open (2002), a series of reflections on the historical endeavours to define the essential features of the human figure in relation to the biological existence it shares with animals, Giorgio Agamben offers a detailed reading of Titian's painting The Nymph and the Shepherd. He argues that the scene depicted enables the contemporary viewer to visualize the advent of radical freedom, the moment when the historical dialectic of nature and cult…
Medicine Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Journal Article Medicine Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Get access PAOLO PALLADINO PAOLO PALLADINO *Department of History, Lancaster UniversityLancaster LAI 4YG, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 14, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 539–551, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/14.3.539 Published: 01 December 2001
On writing the Histor(ies) of modern Medicine
In this essay, I consider the distinction between experimental scientists and clinicians which has been used to structure most writing on the history of modern medicine. The most immediate aim is to draw out the sociological presupposition of this historiography, to show their problematic nature, and to suggest an alternative, ethnographic approach. The ultimate aim is to open some space which may help to re-establish historiography as a politica…
Science for whom? Agricultural development and the theory of induced innovation
Fight Club and the World Trade Center
In this essay we examine the metaphorical rendition of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, which took place on 11 September 2001, as attacks on "civilization." Our principal aim is to understand how it has proven to be as affective as it seems to have been thus far. We do so by turning to film, a medium that is quintessentially metaphorical and whose own affective power rests on the reconfiguration of time and space. More specifical…
Waving goodbye to history? A response to Keith Jenkins
In response to Purvis and Weatherill, Penelope Corfield reiterates her contention that some women's history is broadening fruitfully into gender history. It is ironic that some feminists should express disapproval of the trend and the nomenclature, when modern feminism itself pioneered the identification of 'gender' as a social construct. But, whatever the polemics, the quest for a separate 'herstory' has been quietly abandoned. Feminist though i…
Science, technology, and the economy
This article examines some connections between scientific research, technological innovation, and British agriculture, during the period I920-70. This is a history of very effective linking between these activities: the total factor productivity of British farmers nearly doubled between the i950s and i99os, and much of this increase was mediated by technical changes.2 One of the major, but often hidden, such mediating agents was the sowing of imp…
Ecological Theory and Pest Control Practice
During the 1960s, the relationship between ecological theory and pest control practice was the subject of controversy between two groups of entomologists, one based in California and the other in Canada. Both groups were committed to the development of an `ecological' pest control strategy based on the integration of `biological control' — the use of predators and parasites to control pest populations — and the dominant chemical approach. Yet, th…
Science for whom? Agricultural development and the theory of induced innovation
Ecological Theory and Pest Control Practice
During the 1960s, the relationship between ecological theory and pest control practice was the subject of controversy between two groups of entomologists, one based in California and the other in Canada. Both groups were committed to the development of an `ecological' pest control strategy based on the integration of `biological control' — the use of predators and parasites to control pest populations — and the dominant chemical approach. Yet, th…
The political economy of applied research
Stereochemistry and the Nature of Life
Science and Imperialism
Between Craft and Science
The relationship between science and technology is one of the most controversial problems confronting historians and philosophers interested in technology and its history. As John Staudenmaier has pointed out, they have argued ceaselessly over competing interpretations of the relationship.' Some of them-notably, the philosopher Mario Bunge-have maintained that successful technological practice depends on the systematic application of scientific k…
Wizards and Devotees
L'A. etudie l'histoire et la technologie des sciences aux Etats-Unis et en Angleterre entre 1880 et 1930, en comparant le developpement de l'agriculture, et particulierement la reproduction des plantes au travers des biographies de Burbank (L.) et Beaven (E.S.)
Bringing the world into the laboratory, or the (ir)resistible rise of Drosophila melanogaster
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People, Institutions, and Ideas
La nature de la diversite genetique et les methodes d'etude de cette diversite montrent les relations existant entre les idees des geneticiens et les institutions
Science, technology, and the economy
This article examines some connections between scientific research, technological innovation, and British agriculture, during the period I920-70. This is a history of very effective linking between these activities: the total factor productivity of British farmers nearly doubled between the i950s and i99os, and much of this increase was mediated by technical changes.2 One of the major, but often hidden, such mediating agents was the sowing of imp…
Entomology, Ecology, and Agriculture
Waving goodbye to history? A response to Keith Jenkins
In response to Purvis and Weatherill, Penelope Corfield reiterates her contention that some women's history is broadening fruitfully into gender history. It is ironic that some feminists should express disapproval of the trend and the nomenclature, when modern feminism itself pioneered the identification of 'gender' as a social construct. But, whatever the polemics, the quest for a separate 'herstory' has been quietly abandoned. Feminist though i…
On writing the Histor(ies) of modern Medicine
In this essay, I consider the distinction between experimental scientists and clinicians which has been used to structure most writing on the history of modern medicine. The most immediate aim is to draw out the sociological presupposition of this historiography, to show their problematic nature, and to suggest an alternative, ethnographic approach. The ultimate aim is to open some space which may help to re-establish historiography as a politica…
And the Answer is ... 42
Icarus' Flight
In this paper, I consider Thomas Soderquist's recent call for a biographical approach to historical narrative. He stresses in particular the need to pay greater attention to the existential struggles of our historical actors. Echoing Raphael Samuel, he argues that this will help us to move away from the hermeneutic of suspicion, which underlies the dominant sociological approach, toward a hermeneutic of edification. Ultimately, this approach will…
Discourses of Smoking, Health, and the Just Society
This paper locates the political impact of Bernie Ecclestone's controversial donation to the Labour Party, just before its election to government in 1997, in a recurrent concern among British socialists about the relationship between smoking, health, and the just society. It does so by turning to an earlier episode in the history of British socialism, specifically to Horace Joules' political agitation from 1951 onward, within the Socialist Medica…
Medicine Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Journal Article Medicine Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Get access PAOLO PALLADINO PAOLO PALLADINO *Department of History, Lancaster UniversityLancaster LAI 4YG, UK E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, Volume 14, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 539–551, https://doi.org/10.1093/shm/14.3.539 Published: 01 December 2001
Between Knowledge and Practice
In this paper, I examine the historical development of a clinical test for `familial adenomatous polyposis' (FAP), an inherited condition which often leads to cancer of the colon. By paying attention to continuities and changes, especially in the engagement between those medical professionals and patients involved in the development of this test, I reconsider the relationship between knowledge and practice, with an eye to Michel Foucault's and Pa…
Chemicals in the Field - Edmund Russell, War and Nature
Fight Club and the World Trade Center
In this essay we examine the metaphorical rendition of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, which took place on 11 September 2001, as attacks on "civilization." Our principal aim is to understand how it has proven to be as affective as it seems to have been thus far. We do so by turning to film, a medium that is quintessentially metaphorical and whose own affective power rests on the reconfiguration of time and space. More specifical…
The politics of death
In this paper, the most recent writings by Giorgio Agamben and Bruno Latour are brought into dialog by examining what light they shed on contemporary debates concerning “end of life” decisions. More specifically, the paper focuses on the debates sparked by Diane Pretty's request for a grant of immunity against legal prosecution if her husband were to assist her to commit suicide and so terminate her increasingly unbearable suffering from motor ne…
Caveat Emptor
This article focuses on ‘revivalism’ and ‘resurrectionism’. While the former is a sociological label for contemporary rituals of dying and death, the latter is a label for contemporary practices of historiographical representation. By exploring the formal and substantive similarities between ‘revivalism’ and ‘resurrectionism’, this study offers a speculative reflection on the relationship between time, death and history in late modernity
On the Political Animal and the Return of Just War
On the Political Animal and the Return of Just War Paolo Palladino (bio) Introduction As recurrent, bellicose arguments over the legitimacy of ‘rogue states’ attest, we are today witnessing a momentous struggle to assert a new international order, wherein recourse to the force of arms can once again be deemed ‘just’ (Elshtain, 2001; see also O’Donovan, 1995). Strikingly, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, which …
From Antigone to Phocion's Wife
Between truth and hope
In this article, we argue that contemporary biomedicine is shaped by two, seemingly incommensurable, organizational logics, the ‘regime of truth’ and the ‘regime of hope’. We articulate their features by drawing on debates sparked by the recent clinical trial of a new approach to the treatment of Parkinson’s Disease. We also argue that the ‘self’ is configured in the very same process whereby these two organizational logics interlock and become m…
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