Daniel Worden
Biographic Data
| ID | 1090102 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Worden |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Worden |
| SIGNATURE | WORDEN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rochester Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1304-0832 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Work of Art in the Age of Transmedia Production (With Regards to Walter Benjamin)
This essay is a rewriting of Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility,” a classic text in critical theory and media studies. Appropriating Benjamin’s sentence, paragraph, and essay structures, the essay presents a series of theoretical reflections on the status of art during the current age of transmedia production. The essay seeks to contribute to a theory of contemporary art that moves beyond capitalist…
Neoliberal Nonfictions
Postmodern/Postwar and After
Amnesiac Fugue”
Perhaps no American writer better represents the fragmentation of civil society and collective politics generated by what we now describe as neoliberalism than Joan Didion. In a passage already quo
On Joan Didion
Joan Didion is one of the most celebrated writers of our time. From her novels and reportage to her recent memoirs, Didion has honed a hallmark style and authorial persona, both of which have led to encomiums and controversy in the press. Yet when compared to American writers of similar notoriety, there are comparably few scholarly treatments of Didion's writings. In this multivoiced essay, scholars of life writing, documentary, and fiction explo…
Oil Culture
The Politics of Comics
Comics and graphic novels are now widely accepted to be legitimate aesthetic and literary texts, suitable for study in all manner of university classrooms and scholarly projects. Comics studies scholarship was often preoccupied with arguing for the aesthetic legitimacy and literary complexity of comics and graphic novels, and now that this debate is more or less over, comics studies scholarship has begun to consider not just why and how we should…
Neoliberal Style
This essay charts how two important journalists, Alex Haley and Hunter S. Thompson, represent elements of the American counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, especially in their influential writings about the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, the Chicana/o movement, and drug culture. By analyzing The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, and Haley's and Thompson's other magazine writings for Playboy, Rolling Stone, and the Saturday …
Landscape Culture
California arts patron Albert Bender introduced Ansel Adams to Mary Hunter Austin in 1927 during a visit to New Mexico. In 1929, Adams returned to Santa Fe and Taos to take photographs that became his contribution to a collaboration with Austin, 1930 photobook Taos Pueblo. During his stay in Santa Fe, Adams also took a portrait photograph of Austin. Hoping to use portrait as a publicity photo for her lecture tours, Austin was disappointed to find…
The Trouble with Human Rights
The Trouble with Human Rights Daniel Worden (bio) A review of Robert Meister, After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights. New York: Columbia UP, 2011. In After Evil, Robert Meister provocatively documents the emergence of, the ethics of, and the regrettable lack of political change demanded by our contemporary understanding of human rights. This ambitious and persuasive book charts human rights as an ethical philosophy, a symbolic relation between su…
Neo-liberalism and the Western
The western usually seems to be a nostalgic genre with a conservative political message. However, one of the most prominent westerns of recent years, HBO’s Deadwood television series, offers a sustained and complex meditation on life within a world ordered entirely around the marketplace. Using the work of theorists Wendy Brown, Michel Foucault, David Harvey, and Fredric Jameson, I argue that Deadwood allegorizes life within neo-liberalism, and i…
Exploding the Western
Journal Article Exploding the Western: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier Get access Exploding the Western: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier. By Spurgeon Sara L.. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. x + 168 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $40.00, cloth; $17.95, paper.) Daniel Worden Daniel Worden Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarte…
Killing the Big Other
On Joan Didion
Joan Didion is one of the most celebrated writers of our time. From her novels and reportage to her recent memoirs, Didion has honed a hallmark style and authorial persona, both of which have led to encomiums and controversy in the press. Yet when compared to American writers of similar notoriety, there are comparably few scholarly treatments of Didion's writings. In this multivoiced essay, scholars of life writing, documentary, and fiction explo…
Landscape Culture
California arts patron Albert Bender introduced Ansel Adams to Mary Hunter Austin in 1927 during a visit to New Mexico. In 1929, Adams returned to Santa Fe and Taos to take photographs that became his contribution to a collaboration with Austin, 1930 photobook Taos Pueblo. During his stay in Santa Fe, Adams also took a portrait photograph of Austin. Hoping to use portrait as a publicity photo for her lecture tours, Austin was disappointed to find…
Killing the Big Other
Exploding the Western
Journal Article Exploding the Western: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier Get access Exploding the Western: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier. By Spurgeon Sara L.. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. x + 168 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $40.00, cloth; $17.95, paper.) Daniel Worden Daniel Worden Brandeis University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarte…
Neo-liberalism and the Western
The western usually seems to be a nostalgic genre with a conservative political message. However, one of the most prominent westerns of recent years, HBO’s Deadwood television series, offers a sustained and complex meditation on life within a world ordered entirely around the marketplace. Using the work of theorists Wendy Brown, Michel Foucault, David Harvey, and Fredric Jameson, I argue that Deadwood allegorizes life within neo-liberalism, and i…
The Trouble with Human Rights
The Trouble with Human Rights Daniel Worden (bio) A review of Robert Meister, After Evil: A Politics of Human Rights. New York: Columbia UP, 2011. In After Evil, Robert Meister provocatively documents the emergence of, the ethics of, and the regrettable lack of political change demanded by our contemporary understanding of human rights. This ambitious and persuasive book charts human rights as an ethical philosophy, a symbolic relation between su…
Landscape Culture
California arts patron Albert Bender introduced Ansel Adams to Mary Hunter Austin in 1927 during a visit to New Mexico. In 1929, Adams returned to Santa Fe and Taos to take photographs that became his contribution to a collaboration with Austin, 1930 photobook Taos Pueblo. During his stay in Santa Fe, Adams also took a portrait photograph of Austin. Hoping to use portrait as a publicity photo for her lecture tours, Austin was disappointed to find…
Oil Culture
The Politics of Comics
Comics and graphic novels are now widely accepted to be legitimate aesthetic and literary texts, suitable for study in all manner of university classrooms and scholarly projects. Comics studies scholarship was often preoccupied with arguing for the aesthetic legitimacy and literary complexity of comics and graphic novels, and now that this debate is more or less over, comics studies scholarship has begun to consider not just why and how we should…
Neoliberal Style
This essay charts how two important journalists, Alex Haley and Hunter S. Thompson, represent elements of the American counterculture in the 1960s and 1970s, especially in their influential writings about the Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, the Chicana/o movement, and drug culture. By analyzing The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, and Haley's and Thompson's other magazine writings for Playboy, Rolling Stone, and the Saturday …
Postmodern/Postwar and After
Amnesiac Fugue”
Perhaps no American writer better represents the fragmentation of civil society and collective politics generated by what we now describe as neoliberalism than Joan Didion. In a passage already quo
On Joan Didion
Joan Didion is one of the most celebrated writers of our time. From her novels and reportage to her recent memoirs, Didion has honed a hallmark style and authorial persona, both of which have led to encomiums and controversy in the press. Yet when compared to American writers of similar notoriety, there are comparably few scholarly treatments of Didion's writings. In this multivoiced essay, scholars of life writing, documentary, and fiction explo…
Neoliberal Nonfictions
The Work of Art in the Age of Transmedia Production (With Regards to Walter Benjamin)
This essay is a rewriting of Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility,” a classic text in critical theory and media studies. Appropriating Benjamin’s sentence, paragraph, and essay structures, the essay presents a series of theoretical reflections on the status of art during the current age of transmedia production. The essay seeks to contribute to a theory of contemporary art that moves beyond capitalist…
Art (10 works) · Literature (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Politics (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art history (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works)