Steve Garlick
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 117256 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Steve Garlick |
| NOMBRES | Steve |
| APELLIDO | Garlick |
| FIRMA | GARLICK S |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5283-3301 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2002 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Technologies of (in)security
Although there is much feminist work that has examined the intersection of gender and neoliberalism, critical work on men and masculinities remains underdeveloped in this area. This article suggests that complexity theory is a crucial resource for a critical analysis of the ways in which masculinities contribute to the ongoing maintenance of neoliberal socio-economic systems. Critical work on neoliberalism and capitalist economics has recently be…
Of men and markets
A key aspect of Friedrich von Hayek's thought is the importance he places on the concept of complexity and the way that it limits human capacities for knowledge and control. Interrogating the intersection of complexity, neoliberal theory and systems of gender relations, this paper examines the place of masculinity in Hayek's work. Reading against the grain of Hayek's texts, I draw out the gendered assumptions that are embedded in them to consider…
The nature of markets
The relationship between masculinity, neoliberalism, and capitalist economy is difficult to analyse. This is apparent when we consider recent studies of neoliberal capitalism, which are almost entirely books about men, and yet this feature consistently escapes critical attention. In contrast, this article brings this relation into focus, and suggests that the critique of hegemonic masculinities is an important feature of the critique of neolibera…
The Return of Nature
It has generally been taken for granted within the field of Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities (CSMM) that the object of attention and concern is to be found within 'the social' and in opposition to naturalizing claims about gender. Nature is not entirely absent from CSMM, often appearing either as malleable material or as a stable basis for the social construction of bodies. In this article, however, I suggest that the time is ripe to dev…
Learning about the Emotional Lives of Kangaroos, Cognitive Justice and Environmental Sustainability
This paper reports on research into wildlife emotion, interpretation and usefulness as a means for broad-scale learning about environmental sustainability. Part of the Australian landscape for 16 million years, the iconic kangaroo has characteristics that make them suited, as wild animals, for humans to learn about environmental integrity. A ‘new way of knowing’ about sustainability is proposed that seeks to learn directly from wildlife through t…
The Biopolitics of Masturbation
Masturbation is a neglected topic in debates around biopower and biopolitics. This article takes Michel Foucault's recasting of the idea of a regulatory, population-level form of biopower in terms of 'mechanisms of security' as its starting point for an investigation into the ways in which bodies enter into and are reshaped by biopolitical discourses on masturbation. While the notion of security faded from view in favour of Foucault's better know…
Complexity, Masculinity, and Critical Theory
This article takes as its starting point Christian Fuchs's Internet and Society (2008), which deploys selected aspects of Herbert Marcuse's work in the construction of a critical theory of techno-social systems and informational capitalism. Going beyond Fuchs's emphasis on dialectics, I argue for a deeper engagement with Marcuse's distinctive combination of Marxian, psychoanalytic, and phenomenological theory in order to formulate a theoretical f…
A New Sexual Revolution? Critical Theory, Pornography, and the Internet
The "sexual revolution" was a central element of North American culture in the 1960s. Today, sex is increasingly central to mainstream culture, in large part due to the Internet, and we might wonder whether we are living through a comparable period of sexual history. In this article, I revisit the work of Herbert Marcuse-the original theorist of the sexual revolution-to ask whether it can contribute to a critical theory of sexuality in the era of…
Masculinity, Pornography, and the History of Masturbation
Uncanny sex
The prospect of cloning human beings is an issue that has taken center-stage in public concern over biotechnology in recent years. While a significant literature has emerged around many of the difficult questions that are raised here, this article argues that cloning also serves as a potent signifier of anxieties over the place of “sex” in the natural order of things. In analyzing this connection, it proposes that the idea of human cloning unsett…
Taking Control of Sex
It is widely acknowledged that gender is a key category in pornography, yet the relation of the latter to contemporary masculinities remains relatively obscure. Although there is a substantial critical literature on the positioning and treatment of women in pornography, the connection between the consumption of pornographic images and the social construction of hegemonic masculinity has been more often presumed than examined. This lacuna becomes …
Given time
The invention of photography in the early 19th century changed the way that we see the world, and has played an important role in the development of western science. Notably, photographic vision is implicated in the definition of a new temporal relation to the natural world at the same time as modern biological science emerges as a disciplinary formation. It is this coincidence in birth that is central to this study. I suggest that by examining t…
Celia Roberts, Messengers of Sex
Biological technoscience has been attracting a lot of attention in recent years.Topics such as genomics, cloning, and stem cell research have generated many hopes and fears for the future.In Messengers of Sex, Celia Roberts makes the case that, as genes have captured our interest, we have lost sight of the importance of hormones.She rightly points out that while contemporary genetics promises much, the scale of hormonal interventions into human a…
Organizing nature
Contemporary understandings of nature, or what is ‘natural’, are increasingly subject to debate in our bio-technological age. In this article, I argue that ideas about nature and biology bear a largely unacknowledged relation to normative ideas about sex in western science and philosophy. By examining the concepts of nature and sex in the writings of prominent 18th-century thinkers such as Kant, Rousseau, Burke and Linnaeus, I try to show that in…
Code-Scripting the Body
It is generally acknowledged that molecular biology has been enamored with discourses of information theory and cybernetics from its earliest days. Equally common, in critical theory, is the belief that biological science has lost purchase on important dimensions of embodied life as a result. This essay suggests, however, that when we examine the work of 'cyberscience' pioneers such as Edwin Schrödinger, Norbert Wiener, and Claude Shannon, we fin…
The Role of Universities in Building Local Economic Capacities
As the knowledge economy develops and intensifies, increasing pressure is being placed on universities to help in local economic capacity building to meet the challenges of globalization. This article explores this expanded university role from the perspective of the provision of policy analysis and advice they can provide. It proposes the use of mixed‐methods analysis, combining informed empirical modeling and “intensive” case studies to reveal …
Mendel's Generation
The use of informatic metaphors and models derived from mid-20th-century cyberscience in molecular biology has been the subject of much controversy. Many social critics have argued that informatic discourses implicitly privilege a disembodied or implicitly masculine conception of life that is most fully realized in contemporary genomics. In this paper, I offer a different perspective on these issues by returning to the 18th-century work of Gregor…
What is a Man
The author argues that research into men and masculinities has failed to seriously engage with some central insights of queer theory. In particular, an interrogation of how the institution of heterosexuality underlies modern constructs of masculinity has been largely untouched. Although queer theory owes much to postwar French philosophy, the author draws here on its earlier German heritage, especially Heidegger's understanding of 'technology,' t…
The beauty of friendship
The importance of friendship in the later work of Michel Foucault is increasingly being recognized, but the relationship between friendship and Foucault's concept of `life as a work of art' is not well understood. Friendship, traditionally associated with `masculine' virtue, can be seen to undergo significant change in connection with the emergence of modern sexuality. I suggest that Foucault's work alerts us to the fact that friendship is a key …
Revealing the Unseen
Contemporary cultural criticism is increasingly recognizing the central place that tourism occupies in organizing interactions, both economic and social, between different peoples in the world today. In this paper, I take up the question of what role photography plays in determining the nature of touristic experience.By drawing on Martin Heidegger's account of modernity as the epoch of modern technology, I seek to articulate an understanding of t…
Revealing the Unseen
Contemporary cultural criticism is increasingly recognizing the central place that tourism occupies in organizing interactions, both economic and social, between different peoples in the world today. In this paper, I take up the question of what role photography plays in determining the nature of touristic experience.By drawing on Martin Heidegger's account of modernity as the epoch of modern technology, I seek to articulate an understanding of t…
The nature of markets
The relationship between masculinity, neoliberalism, and capitalist economy is difficult to analyse. This is apparent when we consider recent studies of neoliberal capitalism, which are almost entirely books about men, and yet this feature consistently escapes critical attention. In contrast, this article brings this relation into focus, and suggests that the critique of hegemonic masculinities is an important feature of the critique of neolibera…
The Return of Nature
It has generally been taken for granted within the field of Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities (CSMM) that the object of attention and concern is to be found within 'the social' and in opposition to naturalizing claims about gender. Nature is not entirely absent from CSMM, often appearing either as malleable material or as a stable basis for the social construction of bodies. In this article, however, I suggest that the time is ripe to dev…
What is a Man
The author argues that research into men and masculinities has failed to seriously engage with some central insights of queer theory. In particular, an interrogation of how the institution of heterosexuality underlies modern constructs of masculinity has been largely untouched. Although queer theory owes much to postwar French philosophy, the author draws here on its earlier German heritage, especially Heidegger's understanding of 'technology,' t…
Masculinity, Pornography, and the History of Masturbation
A New Sexual Revolution? Critical Theory, Pornography, and the Internet
The "sexual revolution" was a central element of North American culture in the 1960s. Today, sex is increasingly central to mainstream culture, in large part due to the Internet, and we might wonder whether we are living through a comparable period of sexual history. In this article, I revisit the work of Herbert Marcuse-the original theorist of the sexual revolution-to ask whether it can contribute to a critical theory of sexuality in the era of…
Taking Control of Sex
It is widely acknowledged that gender is a key category in pornography, yet the relation of the latter to contemporary masculinities remains relatively obscure. Although there is a substantial critical literature on the positioning and treatment of women in pornography, the connection between the consumption of pornographic images and the social construction of hegemonic masculinity has been more often presumed than examined. This lacuna becomes …
Technologies of (in)security
Although there is much feminist work that has examined the intersection of gender and neoliberalism, critical work on men and masculinities remains underdeveloped in this area. This article suggests that complexity theory is a crucial resource for a critical analysis of the ways in which masculinities contribute to the ongoing maintenance of neoliberal socio-economic systems. Critical work on neoliberalism and capitalist economics has recently be…
The Biopolitics of Masturbation
Masturbation is a neglected topic in debates around biopower and biopolitics. This article takes Michel Foucault's recasting of the idea of a regulatory, population-level form of biopower in terms of 'mechanisms of security' as its starting point for an investigation into the ways in which bodies enter into and are reshaped by biopolitical discourses on masturbation. While the notion of security faded from view in favour of Foucault's better know…
The beauty of friendship
The importance of friendship in the later work of Michel Foucault is increasingly being recognized, but the relationship between friendship and Foucault's concept of `life as a work of art' is not well understood. Friendship, traditionally associated with `masculine' virtue, can be seen to undergo significant change in connection with the emergence of modern sexuality. I suggest that Foucault's work alerts us to the fact that friendship is a key …
Complexity, Masculinity, and Critical Theory
This article takes as its starting point Christian Fuchs's Internet and Society (2008), which deploys selected aspects of Herbert Marcuse's work in the construction of a critical theory of techno-social systems and informational capitalism. Going beyond Fuchs's emphasis on dialectics, I argue for a deeper engagement with Marcuse's distinctive combination of Marxian, psychoanalytic, and phenomenological theory in order to formulate a theoretical f…
Given time
The invention of photography in the early 19th century changed the way that we see the world, and has played an important role in the development of western science. Notably, photographic vision is implicated in the definition of a new temporal relation to the natural world at the same time as modern biological science emerges as a disciplinary formation. It is this coincidence in birth that is central to this study. I suggest that by examining t…
The beauty of friendship
The importance of friendship in the later work of Michel Foucault is increasingly being recognized, but the relationship between friendship and Foucault's concept of `life as a work of art' is not well understood. Friendship, traditionally associated with `masculine' virtue, can be seen to undergo significant change in connection with the emergence of modern sexuality. I suggest that Foucault's work alerts us to the fact that friendship is a key …
Revealing the Unseen
Contemporary cultural criticism is increasingly recognizing the central place that tourism occupies in organizing interactions, both economic and social, between different peoples in the world today. In this paper, I take up the question of what role photography plays in determining the nature of touristic experience.By drawing on Martin Heidegger's account of modernity as the epoch of modern technology, I seek to articulate an understanding of t…
What is a Man
The author argues that research into men and masculinities has failed to seriously engage with some central insights of queer theory. In particular, an interrogation of how the institution of heterosexuality underlies modern constructs of masculinity has been largely untouched. Although queer theory owes much to postwar French philosophy, the author draws here on its earlier German heritage, especially Heidegger's understanding of 'technology,' t…
Mendel's Generation
The use of informatic metaphors and models derived from mid-20th-century cyberscience in molecular biology has been the subject of much controversy. Many social critics have argued that informatic discourses implicitly privilege a disembodied or implicitly masculine conception of life that is most fully realized in contemporary genomics. In this paper, I offer a different perspective on these issues by returning to the 18th-century work of Gregor…
Code-Scripting the Body
It is generally acknowledged that molecular biology has been enamored with discourses of information theory and cybernetics from its earliest days. Equally common, in critical theory, is the belief that biological science has lost purchase on important dimensions of embodied life as a result. This essay suggests, however, that when we examine the work of 'cyberscience' pioneers such as Edwin Schrödinger, Norbert Wiener, and Claude Shannon, we fin…
The Role of Universities in Building Local Economic Capacities
As the knowledge economy develops and intensifies, increasing pressure is being placed on universities to help in local economic capacity building to meet the challenges of globalization. This article explores this expanded university role from the perspective of the provision of policy analysis and advice they can provide. It proposes the use of mixed‐methods analysis, combining informed empirical modeling and “intensive” case studies to reveal …
Given time
The invention of photography in the early 19th century changed the way that we see the world, and has played an important role in the development of western science. Notably, photographic vision is implicated in the definition of a new temporal relation to the natural world at the same time as modern biological science emerges as a disciplinary formation. It is this coincidence in birth that is central to this study. I suggest that by examining t…
Celia Roberts, Messengers of Sex
Biological technoscience has been attracting a lot of attention in recent years.Topics such as genomics, cloning, and stem cell research have generated many hopes and fears for the future.In Messengers of Sex, Celia Roberts makes the case that, as genes have captured our interest, we have lost sight of the importance of hormones.She rightly points out that while contemporary genetics promises much, the scale of hormonal interventions into human a…
Organizing nature
Contemporary understandings of nature, or what is ‘natural’, are increasingly subject to debate in our bio-technological age. In this article, I argue that ideas about nature and biology bear a largely unacknowledged relation to normative ideas about sex in western science and philosophy. By examining the concepts of nature and sex in the writings of prominent 18th-century thinkers such as Kant, Rousseau, Burke and Linnaeus, I try to show that in…
Uncanny sex
The prospect of cloning human beings is an issue that has taken center-stage in public concern over biotechnology in recent years. While a significant literature has emerged around many of the difficult questions that are raised here, this article argues that cloning also serves as a potent signifier of anxieties over the place of “sex” in the natural order of things. In analyzing this connection, it proposes that the idea of human cloning unsett…
Taking Control of Sex
It is widely acknowledged that gender is a key category in pornography, yet the relation of the latter to contemporary masculinities remains relatively obscure. Although there is a substantial critical literature on the positioning and treatment of women in pornography, the connection between the consumption of pornographic images and the social construction of hegemonic masculinity has been more often presumed than examined. This lacuna becomes …
A New Sexual Revolution? Critical Theory, Pornography, and the Internet
The "sexual revolution" was a central element of North American culture in the 1960s. Today, sex is increasingly central to mainstream culture, in large part due to the Internet, and we might wonder whether we are living through a comparable period of sexual history. In this article, I revisit the work of Herbert Marcuse-the original theorist of the sexual revolution-to ask whether it can contribute to a critical theory of sexuality in the era of…
Masculinity, Pornography, and the History of Masturbation
Complexity, Masculinity, and Critical Theory
This article takes as its starting point Christian Fuchs's Internet and Society (2008), which deploys selected aspects of Herbert Marcuse's work in the construction of a critical theory of techno-social systems and informational capitalism. Going beyond Fuchs's emphasis on dialectics, I argue for a deeper engagement with Marcuse's distinctive combination of Marxian, psychoanalytic, and phenomenological theory in order to formulate a theoretical f…
Learning about the Emotional Lives of Kangaroos, Cognitive Justice and Environmental Sustainability
This paper reports on research into wildlife emotion, interpretation and usefulness as a means for broad-scale learning about environmental sustainability. Part of the Australian landscape for 16 million years, the iconic kangaroo has characteristics that make them suited, as wild animals, for humans to learn about environmental integrity. A ‘new way of knowing’ about sustainability is proposed that seeks to learn directly from wildlife through t…
The Biopolitics of Masturbation
Masturbation is a neglected topic in debates around biopower and biopolitics. This article takes Michel Foucault's recasting of the idea of a regulatory, population-level form of biopower in terms of 'mechanisms of security' as its starting point for an investigation into the ways in which bodies enter into and are reshaped by biopolitical discourses on masturbation. While the notion of security faded from view in favour of Foucault's better know…
The Return of Nature
It has generally been taken for granted within the field of Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities (CSMM) that the object of attention and concern is to be found within 'the social' and in opposition to naturalizing claims about gender. Nature is not entirely absent from CSMM, often appearing either as malleable material or as a stable basis for the social construction of bodies. In this article, however, I suggest that the time is ripe to dev…
The nature of markets
The relationship between masculinity, neoliberalism, and capitalist economy is difficult to analyse. This is apparent when we consider recent studies of neoliberal capitalism, which are almost entirely books about men, and yet this feature consistently escapes critical attention. In contrast, this article brings this relation into focus, and suggests that the critique of hegemonic masculinities is an important feature of the critique of neolibera…
Technologies of (in)security
Although there is much feminist work that has examined the intersection of gender and neoliberalism, critical work on men and masculinities remains underdeveloped in this area. This article suggests that complexity theory is a crucial resource for a critical analysis of the ways in which masculinities contribute to the ongoing maintenance of neoliberal socio-economic systems. Critical work on neoliberalism and capitalist economics has recently be…
Of men and markets
A key aspect of Friedrich von Hayek's thought is the importance he places on the concept of complexity and the way that it limits human capacities for knowledge and control. Interrogating the intersection of complexity, neoliberal theory and systems of gender relations, this paper examines the place of masculinity in Hayek's work. Reading against the grain of Hayek's texts, I draw out the gendered assumptions that are embedded in them to consider…
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