Daniel R Mccarthy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1162383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel R Mccarthy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel R |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccarthy |
| SIGNATURE | MCCARTHY D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0138-6892 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Utopia, dystopia and method
Utopian and dystopian Science Fiction imaginaries of war are political interventions. A narrative methodology that relates individual texts to larger social imaginaries redeems the complex layers of these works. With this in place, we can map out the relationship between war and political order disclosed by utopian and dystopias texts, broadening our view of the elements comprising international thought in the process
A “journey to trust” for AI
An Introduction to International Relations
International Relations is a dynamic discipline, evolving in response to contemporary world politics. An Introduction to International Relations offers a foundational explanation of the theories, systems, actors and events that shape external relations between nations in today's global society. This edition retains the existing structure, grouping chapters on theories, international history and the 'traditional' and 'new' agendas, while acknowled…
Infrastructure and the integral state
Infrastructures are central to processes of state formation. The revival of materialism in International Relations has made an important contribution to our understanding of states through careful analysis of the politics of infrastructure and state building. Yet, to date, engagement with the state-theoretical tradition associated with the work of Antonio Gramsci, Nicos Poulantzas, and Bob Jessop has been absent. Through comparison with the exter…
Technology, culture and critical theory
Andrew Feenberg is a pioneer in the development of the philosophy of technology. Before his retirement, he was the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where he also directed the Applied Communication and Technology Laboratory (ACTL). He is the author or editor of thirteen books on Critical Theory, Western Marxism, and the philosophy of technology, including Lukács, Marx, and t…
Imposing evenness, preventing combination
The Socio-Technical Imaginaries (STI) approach in Science and Technology Studies (STS) has illuminated the central role of social imaginaries in shaping the politics of technology. Its emphasis on the multilinear forms of socio-technical development is a useful corrective to universalist explanations of technological change. However, STI lacks a clear account of how inter-societal interaction shapes the imaginaries of any given political communit…
Imagining the security of innovation
In US national security policy the protection of technological innovation is of signal importance. US policy stresses, on the one hand, the need to protect technological innovation to ensure its global economic and military predominance. This reflects the classic view of innovation articulated in security studies: technological innovation is the foundation of economic and military power. Yet this account captures only one aspect of technological …
Privatizing Political Authority
Cybersecurity sits at the intersection of public security concerns about critical infrastructure protection and private security concerns around the protection of property rights and civil liberties. Public-private partnerships have been embraced as the best way to meet the challenge of cybersecurity, enabling cooperation between private and public sectors to meet shared challenges. While the cybersecurity literature has focused on the practical …
Information is power? Transparency and fetishism in international relations
International actors, state and non-state, have embraced transparency as a solution to all manner of political problems. Theoretical analyses of these processes present transparency in a fetishtic manner, in which the social relations that generate transparency are misrecognized as the product of information itself. This paper will outline the theoretical problems that arise when transparency promotion is fetishized in International Relations the…
Technology and World Politics
A world of struggle
Political arguments are time-sensitive. Which one carries the day in a legislative battle, election contest or strategic discussion depends on its quality, its force, its acceptability and its timeliness. David Kennedy's excellent new volume, A world of struggle, has the benefit of quality, force, acceptability and timeliness. Coming at a moment of widespread disenchantment with expert rule among global publics, this book captures something of th…
The concept of transparency in International Relations
Transparency is an important concept in International Relations. The possibility of realizing transparency in practice operates as a central analytical axis defining distinct positions on core theoretical problems within the field, from the security dilemma to the function of international institutions and beyond. As a political practice, the pursuit of transparent governance is a dominant feature of global politics, promoted by a wide range of a…
Technology and ‘the International’ or
Technological determinism as a theory of social change has been thoroughly tarnished in social theory, science and technology studies, and the discipline of International Relations. If once claims to an ahistorical development of technology (e.g. Cohen, 1978) were treated with significant respect, this is no longer the case. Indeed, it is by now a ritual to disclaim any notion of technological determinism in theories of international relations an…
The meaning of materiality
Gramsican approaches in International Relations (IR) have sought to outline the relationship between ideas and material forces in the construction of world order. Scholars working within this broad school have sought to emphasise that ideas are material forces, and must be considered as concrete historical structures (Cox, 1987) central to the establishment of particular historical and hegemonic blocs. This literature has primarily focused on the…
Open Networks and the Open Door
Journal Article Open Networks and the Open Door: American Foreign Policy and the Narration of the Internet Get access Daniel R. McCarthy Daniel R. McCarthy Aberystwyth University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 89–111, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2010.00124.x Published: 22 December 2010
Technology and ‘the International’ or
Technological determinism as a theory of social change has been thoroughly tarnished in social theory, science and technology studies, and the discipline of International Relations. If once claims to an ahistorical development of technology (e.g. Cohen, 1978) were treated with significant respect, this is no longer the case. Indeed, it is by now a ritual to disclaim any notion of technological determinism in theories of international relations an…
Imposing evenness, preventing combination
The Socio-Technical Imaginaries (STI) approach in Science and Technology Studies (STS) has illuminated the central role of social imaginaries in shaping the politics of technology. Its emphasis on the multilinear forms of socio-technical development is a useful corrective to universalist explanations of technological change. However, STI lacks a clear account of how inter-societal interaction shapes the imaginaries of any given political communit…
Imagining the security of innovation
In US national security policy the protection of technological innovation is of signal importance. US policy stresses, on the one hand, the need to protect technological innovation to ensure its global economic and military predominance. This reflects the classic view of innovation articulated in security studies: technological innovation is the foundation of economic and military power. Yet this account captures only one aspect of technological …
A world of struggle
Political arguments are time-sensitive. Which one carries the day in a legislative battle, election contest or strategic discussion depends on its quality, its force, its acceptability and its timeliness. David Kennedy's excellent new volume, A world of struggle, has the benefit of quality, force, acceptability and timeliness. Coming at a moment of widespread disenchantment with expert rule among global publics, this book captures something of th…
The meaning of materiality
Gramsican approaches in International Relations (IR) have sought to outline the relationship between ideas and material forces in the construction of world order. Scholars working within this broad school have sought to emphasise that ideas are material forces, and must be considered as concrete historical structures (Cox, 1987) central to the establishment of particular historical and hegemonic blocs. This literature has primarily focused on the…
Privatizing Political Authority
Cybersecurity sits at the intersection of public security concerns about critical infrastructure protection and private security concerns around the protection of property rights and civil liberties. Public-private partnerships have been embraced as the best way to meet the challenge of cybersecurity, enabling cooperation between private and public sectors to meet shared challenges. While the cybersecurity literature has focused on the practical …
Open Networks and the Open Door
Journal Article Open Networks and the Open Door: American Foreign Policy and the Narration of the Internet Get access Daniel R. McCarthy Daniel R. McCarthy Aberystwyth University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 89–111, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2010.00124.x Published: 22 December 2010
Infrastructure and the integral state
Infrastructures are central to processes of state formation. The revival of materialism in International Relations has made an important contribution to our understanding of states through careful analysis of the politics of infrastructure and state building. Yet, to date, engagement with the state-theoretical tradition associated with the work of Antonio Gramsci, Nicos Poulantzas, and Bob Jessop has been absent. Through comparison with the exter…
Information is power? Transparency and fetishism in international relations
International actors, state and non-state, have embraced transparency as a solution to all manner of political problems. Theoretical analyses of these processes present transparency in a fetishtic manner, in which the social relations that generate transparency are misrecognized as the product of information itself. This paper will outline the theoretical problems that arise when transparency promotion is fetishized in International Relations the…
Open Networks and the Open Door
Journal Article Open Networks and the Open Door: American Foreign Policy and the Narration of the Internet Get access Daniel R. McCarthy Daniel R. McCarthy Aberystwyth University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Foreign Policy Analysis, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 89–111, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1743-8594.2010.00124.x Published: 22 December 2010
The meaning of materiality
Gramsican approaches in International Relations (IR) have sought to outline the relationship between ideas and material forces in the construction of world order. Scholars working within this broad school have sought to emphasise that ideas are material forces, and must be considered as concrete historical structures (Cox, 1987) central to the establishment of particular historical and hegemonic blocs. This literature has primarily focused on the…
Technology and ‘the International’ or
Technological determinism as a theory of social change has been thoroughly tarnished in social theory, science and technology studies, and the discipline of International Relations. If once claims to an ahistorical development of technology (e.g. Cohen, 1978) were treated with significant respect, this is no longer the case. Indeed, it is by now a ritual to disclaim any notion of technological determinism in theories of international relations an…
Technology and World Politics
A world of struggle
Political arguments are time-sensitive. Which one carries the day in a legislative battle, election contest or strategic discussion depends on its quality, its force, its acceptability and its timeliness. David Kennedy's excellent new volume, A world of struggle, has the benefit of quality, force, acceptability and timeliness. Coming at a moment of widespread disenchantment with expert rule among global publics, this book captures something of th…
The concept of transparency in International Relations
Transparency is an important concept in International Relations. The possibility of realizing transparency in practice operates as a central analytical axis defining distinct positions on core theoretical problems within the field, from the security dilemma to the function of international institutions and beyond. As a political practice, the pursuit of transparent governance is a dominant feature of global politics, promoted by a wide range of a…
Privatizing Political Authority
Cybersecurity sits at the intersection of public security concerns about critical infrastructure protection and private security concerns around the protection of property rights and civil liberties. Public-private partnerships have been embraced as the best way to meet the challenge of cybersecurity, enabling cooperation between private and public sectors to meet shared challenges. While the cybersecurity literature has focused on the practical …
Information is power? Transparency and fetishism in international relations
International actors, state and non-state, have embraced transparency as a solution to all manner of political problems. Theoretical analyses of these processes present transparency in a fetishtic manner, in which the social relations that generate transparency are misrecognized as the product of information itself. This paper will outline the theoretical problems that arise when transparency promotion is fetishized in International Relations the…
Imposing evenness, preventing combination
The Socio-Technical Imaginaries (STI) approach in Science and Technology Studies (STS) has illuminated the central role of social imaginaries in shaping the politics of technology. Its emphasis on the multilinear forms of socio-technical development is a useful corrective to universalist explanations of technological change. However, STI lacks a clear account of how inter-societal interaction shapes the imaginaries of any given political communit…
Imagining the security of innovation
In US national security policy the protection of technological innovation is of signal importance. US policy stresses, on the one hand, the need to protect technological innovation to ensure its global economic and military predominance. This reflects the classic view of innovation articulated in security studies: technological innovation is the foundation of economic and military power. Yet this account captures only one aspect of technological …
Technology, culture and critical theory
Andrew Feenberg is a pioneer in the development of the philosophy of technology. Before his retirement, he was the Canada Research Chair in Philosophy of Technology in the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University, where he also directed the Applied Communication and Technology Laboratory (ACTL). He is the author or editor of thirteen books on Critical Theory, Western Marxism, and the philosophy of technology, including Lukács, Marx, and t…
An Introduction to International Relations
International Relations is a dynamic discipline, evolving in response to contemporary world politics. An Introduction to International Relations offers a foundational explanation of the theories, systems, actors and events that shape external relations between nations in today's global society. This edition retains the existing structure, grouping chapters on theories, international history and the 'traditional' and 'new' agendas, while acknowled…
Infrastructure and the integral state
Infrastructures are central to processes of state formation. The revival of materialism in International Relations has made an important contribution to our understanding of states through careful analysis of the politics of infrastructure and state building. Yet, to date, engagement with the state-theoretical tradition associated with the work of Antonio Gramsci, Nicos Poulantzas, and Bob Jessop has been absent. Through comparison with the exter…
Utopia, dystopia and method
Utopian and dystopian Science Fiction imaginaries of war are political interventions. A narrative methodology that relates individual texts to larger social imaginaries redeems the complex layers of these works. With this in place, we can map out the relationship between war and political order disclosed by utopian and dystopias texts, broadening our view of the elements comprising international thought in the process
A “journey to trust” for AI
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