John Potts
Biographic Data
| ID | 1191677 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Potts |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Potts |
| SIGNATURE | POTTS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7617-2445 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1942 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Culturescape: Environment, Science, and Art at Bundanon
This article describes the website Culturescape: An Environmental Portrait of Bundanon. This online portrait, a collaboration combining environmental science and art, includes an interactive environmental map of the Bundanon region in New South Wales, Australia, and documentation of environmental artworks by Nigel Helyer, all initially installed at Bundanon. The interactive map displays soil quality data at Bundanon in sonified and visualized for…
Near-Death of the Author: Creativity in the Internet Age
Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium Part 6: Systems
Nigel Helyer and John PottsIn our paper, we describe the findings of the research project “When Science Meets Art: An Environmental Portrait of the Shoalhaven River Valley.” This three-year project, supported by an Australia Council Synapse grant and an ARC Linkage Grant, took an interdisciplinary approach in constructing an environmental portrait of the Bundanon region in rural New South Wales. Bundanon is a vast property of 1,100 hectares in th…
Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium: Systems
September 16 2020 Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium: Systems Nigel Helyer 0000-0002-5248-3222 , Nigel Helyer University, 62 MacGibbon Parade, Old Erowal Bay, NSW, 2540, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar John Potts 0000-0002-7617-2445 , John Potts Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109, Australia.…
Heavy Metal: An Interactive Environmental Art Installation
This article discusses Heavy Metal, an interactive installation work by Nigel Helyer. The authors situate this work within the context of a collaboration among environmental science, art and media theory, a three-year research project entitled When Science Meets Art: An Environmental Portrait of the Shoalhaven River Valley
The ‘radio service’: Religion and ABC national radio
This article discusses religious broadcasting in Australia on Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) Radio during the 1940s and 1950s. ABC policy in this period was strictly ecumenical, at a time when Protestant/Catholic sectarian bitterness was a significant social issue in Australia. The article considers the ABC’s motivation for this ecumenical policy, as well as the broadcasting strategies employed in pursuit of this approach. ABC religious…
Futurism, Futurology, Future Shock, Climate Change: Visions of the Future from 1909 to the Present
This essay charts a brief intellectual history of the futures – both utopian and dystopian – conceived in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It traces perspectives on the future since 1909, when the term ‘futurism’ was coined in the publication of the ‘The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism’. The essay maps changes in the vision of the future, taking a chronological approach in noting developments in the discourse on the future. A prominen…
Journeys through the Past
The Unacceptable
Confronting the issue of the unacceptable as a social category, this collection of international essays provides distinctive perspectives on the theme of what is deemed socially acceptable. The book r
What is Media Archaeology? * Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications and Implications
What is media archaeology? Jussi Parikka offers several answers to this question in his single-authored book, while he and Erkki Huhtamo provide a canon of authors, and a range of perspectives, in their coedited collection. In the introduction to the collection, which was published before Parikka's monograph, the editors make an attempt at a loose definition; and this looseness itself is a defining characteristic of this thing called media archae…
Where Did Charisma Go?
The cessationist view expressed by John Chrysostom at the end of the fourth century — that the spiritual gifts were no longer evident, and that they were so obscure as to be foreign to contemporary Christianity — became the prevailing line within the church. Yet Paul’s charismata had conveyed significant spiritual charge in the first century, which was not entirely dissipated in the second, and lingered into the third and even the fourth. While t…
The Age of Media: Charisma and Celebrity
The words ‘fame’ and ‘celebrity’ derive from the Latin fama and celebritas . For the Romans, fama meant news, public opinion, a person’s reputation, or the glory and renown of a figure known to the public. Celebritas meant the state of being busy or crowded, as in a crowded festive day; its meaning was extended to the reputation or renown of a person celebrated by the public. 1 Fame for the Romans was a public virtue, the celebration of great ach…
The History of a Word
This book is a history of the word ‘charisma’, and the meanings associated with that word, over a duration spanning the first century AD to the twenty-first. In a severely brief outline, this history is as follows: the term ‘charisma’ emerged in the early Christian church of the first century; charisma was eclipsed as a religious concept within the church by the end of the third century; it lay submerged for many centuries, with intermittent appe…
Charisma Eclipsed
Paul may have been the leading Christian missionary of the period and his writings may constitute a significant portion of the New Testament, but the legacy of his thought and preaching was mixed. Even in the first and second centuries, his thought was not the dominant influence in the developing church. While some of his emphases — such as the importance of divine grace — were accepted into mainstream Christian theology, others — including his c…
Paul Invents Charisma
The meaning of charisma as a special quality or gift within certain individuals derives from the New Testament writings of Paul. In his epistles, written in Greek in the period c. AD 50–62, Paul endowed the word with a religious significance: he used ‘charisma’ to mean ‘the gift of God’s grace’. The term is strongly linked to the older Greek word charis , which occupies a crucial role in Pauline theology as the grace of God offering salvation. Pa…
Weber Reinvents Charisma
Charisma as theorised and defined by Max Weber (1864–1920) is one those terms, like Thomas Kuhn’s ‘paradigm shift’, that has exerted an influence far beyond the discipline in which it was first encased. Weber articulated ‘charisma’ as one of three forms of authority within his massive work Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft , published posthumously in German in 1922, translated to English first in 1947 and later in 1968 as Economy and Society . 1 Unfini…
Twentieth-Century Charismatics
The Charismatic Renewal movement commencing in the 1960s revived the Pauline belief that any individual Christian may be divinely empowered; the gifts of speaking in tongues, healing and prophecy — as well as other Pauline charismata — were thought to issue forth in moments of religious ecstasy. These twentieth-century charismatics — both Protestant and Catholic — returned to a literal interpretation of Paul’s epistles concerning charisma as spir…
That Elusive Something Called Charisma
In this final chapter I return to some of the issues raised in Chapter 1. The relationship between charisma of the first century and that of the twenty-first is reconsidered, as is the connection — if any — between the two charismas of contemporary culture: the secular and the Christian. A re-examination of these questions may illuminate the cultural role currently played by charisma. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. T…
The Roots of Charisma
The word ‘charisma’ did not appear until the first century AD, generated within an environment informed by Jewish and Graeco-Roman cultures. While ‘charisma’ was a late Greek word, it is possible to trace its roots — as term and concept — back several centuries, on two registers: the range of meanings associated with the root Greek word charis , and the precedents in ancient cultures for the idea of spiritual gifts. These meanings and usages, ope…
Charisma Past, Present and Future
In recent years, an article in the China Daily mentioned charisma as part of leadership skills; a Japanese film was titled Charisma; a Bollywood actress was named Karisma Kapoor.1 The international spread of the word charisma has proceeded largely by phonetic transliteration (the Japanese equates to ‘karisuma’ with meaning close to the Western sense of charisma) or direct use of the Western word (as in Mandarin). Polish has imported the word as ‘…
A History of Charisma
This book traces the history of the word 'charisma', and the various meanings assigned to it, from its first century origins in Christian theology to its manifestations in twenty-first century politic
Culture and Technology
We are 'going virtual' in more and more areas of our lives - from shopping to education, filing systems to love affairs. How can we assess the relationship between technology and culture when culture is so imbued with technology? This clear, concise and readable text aims to offer the student a one-stop guide through this complex and slippery terrain. Introducing a wealth of theoretical perspectives in a lucid and engaging style and covering a ra…
Protestants in Russia
Journal Article Protestants in Russia by J. A. Hebly (translated by John Pott). Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1976, 192 pp. $3.65 Get access Vladimir G. Marinich Vladimir G. Marinich Howard Community College Columbia, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 38, Issue 3, Fall 1977, Pages 276–277, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709813 Published: 01 Octob…
"Francis Asbury "The Prophet of the Long Road
A History of Charisma
This book traces the history of the word 'charisma', and the various meanings assigned to it, from its first century origins in Christian theology to its manifestations in twenty-first century politic
Futurism, Futurology, Future Shock, Climate Change: Visions of the Future from 1909 to the Present
This essay charts a brief intellectual history of the futures – both utopian and dystopian – conceived in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It traces perspectives on the future since 1909, when the term ‘futurism’ was coined in the publication of the ‘The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism’. The essay maps changes in the vision of the future, taking a chronological approach in noting developments in the discourse on the future. A prominen…
"Francis Asbury "The Prophet of the Long Road
Protestants in Russia
Journal Article Protestants in Russia by J. A. Hebly (translated by John Pott). Grand Rapids, Michigan: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1976, 192 pp. $3.65 Get access Vladimir G. Marinich Vladimir G. Marinich Howard Community College Columbia, Maryland Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 38, Issue 3, Fall 1977, Pages 276–277, https://doi.org/10.2307/3709813 Published: 01 Octob…
Culture and Technology
We are 'going virtual' in more and more areas of our lives - from shopping to education, filing systems to love affairs. How can we assess the relationship between technology and culture when culture is so imbued with technology? This clear, concise and readable text aims to offer the student a one-stop guide through this complex and slippery terrain. Introducing a wealth of theoretical perspectives in a lucid and engaging style and covering a ra…
Where Did Charisma Go?
The cessationist view expressed by John Chrysostom at the end of the fourth century — that the spiritual gifts were no longer evident, and that they were so obscure as to be foreign to contemporary Christianity — became the prevailing line within the church. Yet Paul’s charismata had conveyed significant spiritual charge in the first century, which was not entirely dissipated in the second, and lingered into the third and even the fourth. While t…
The Age of Media: Charisma and Celebrity
The words ‘fame’ and ‘celebrity’ derive from the Latin fama and celebritas . For the Romans, fama meant news, public opinion, a person’s reputation, or the glory and renown of a figure known to the public. Celebritas meant the state of being busy or crowded, as in a crowded festive day; its meaning was extended to the reputation or renown of a person celebrated by the public. 1 Fame for the Romans was a public virtue, the celebration of great ach…
The History of a Word
This book is a history of the word ‘charisma’, and the meanings associated with that word, over a duration spanning the first century AD to the twenty-first. In a severely brief outline, this history is as follows: the term ‘charisma’ emerged in the early Christian church of the first century; charisma was eclipsed as a religious concept within the church by the end of the third century; it lay submerged for many centuries, with intermittent appe…
Charisma Eclipsed
Paul may have been the leading Christian missionary of the period and his writings may constitute a significant portion of the New Testament, but the legacy of his thought and preaching was mixed. Even in the first and second centuries, his thought was not the dominant influence in the developing church. While some of his emphases — such as the importance of divine grace — were accepted into mainstream Christian theology, others — including his c…
Paul Invents Charisma
The meaning of charisma as a special quality or gift within certain individuals derives from the New Testament writings of Paul. In his epistles, written in Greek in the period c. AD 50–62, Paul endowed the word with a religious significance: he used ‘charisma’ to mean ‘the gift of God’s grace’. The term is strongly linked to the older Greek word charis , which occupies a crucial role in Pauline theology as the grace of God offering salvation. Pa…
Weber Reinvents Charisma
Charisma as theorised and defined by Max Weber (1864–1920) is one those terms, like Thomas Kuhn’s ‘paradigm shift’, that has exerted an influence far beyond the discipline in which it was first encased. Weber articulated ‘charisma’ as one of three forms of authority within his massive work Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft , published posthumously in German in 1922, translated to English first in 1947 and later in 1968 as Economy and Society . 1 Unfini…
Twentieth-Century Charismatics
The Charismatic Renewal movement commencing in the 1960s revived the Pauline belief that any individual Christian may be divinely empowered; the gifts of speaking in tongues, healing and prophecy — as well as other Pauline charismata — were thought to issue forth in moments of religious ecstasy. These twentieth-century charismatics — both Protestant and Catholic — returned to a literal interpretation of Paul’s epistles concerning charisma as spir…
That Elusive Something Called Charisma
In this final chapter I return to some of the issues raised in Chapter 1. The relationship between charisma of the first century and that of the twenty-first is reconsidered, as is the connection — if any — between the two charismas of contemporary culture: the secular and the Christian. A re-examination of these questions may illuminate the cultural role currently played by charisma. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. T…
The Roots of Charisma
The word ‘charisma’ did not appear until the first century AD, generated within an environment informed by Jewish and Graeco-Roman cultures. While ‘charisma’ was a late Greek word, it is possible to trace its roots — as term and concept — back several centuries, on two registers: the range of meanings associated with the root Greek word charis , and the precedents in ancient cultures for the idea of spiritual gifts. These meanings and usages, ope…
Charisma Past, Present and Future
In recent years, an article in the China Daily mentioned charisma as part of leadership skills; a Japanese film was titled Charisma; a Bollywood actress was named Karisma Kapoor.1 The international spread of the word charisma has proceeded largely by phonetic transliteration (the Japanese equates to ‘karisuma’ with meaning close to the Western sense of charisma) or direct use of the Western word (as in Mandarin). Polish has imported the word as ‘…
A History of Charisma
This book traces the history of the word 'charisma', and the various meanings assigned to it, from its first century origins in Christian theology to its manifestations in twenty-first century politic
The Unacceptable
Confronting the issue of the unacceptable as a social category, this collection of international essays provides distinctive perspectives on the theme of what is deemed socially acceptable. The book r
What is Media Archaeology? * Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications and Implications
What is media archaeology? Jussi Parikka offers several answers to this question in his single-authored book, while he and Erkki Huhtamo provide a canon of authors, and a range of perspectives, in their coedited collection. In the introduction to the collection, which was published before Parikka's monograph, the editors make an attempt at a loose definition; and this looseness itself is a defining characteristic of this thing called media archae…
Journeys through the Past
Heavy Metal: An Interactive Environmental Art Installation
This article discusses Heavy Metal, an interactive installation work by Nigel Helyer. The authors situate this work within the context of a collaboration among environmental science, art and media theory, a three-year research project entitled When Science Meets Art: An Environmental Portrait of the Shoalhaven River Valley
The ‘radio service’: Religion and ABC national radio
This article discusses religious broadcasting in Australia on Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) Radio during the 1940s and 1950s. ABC policy in this period was strictly ecumenical, at a time when Protestant/Catholic sectarian bitterness was a significant social issue in Australia. The article considers the ABC’s motivation for this ecumenical policy, as well as the broadcasting strategies employed in pursuit of this approach. ABC religious…
Futurism, Futurology, Future Shock, Climate Change: Visions of the Future from 1909 to the Present
This essay charts a brief intellectual history of the futures – both utopian and dystopian – conceived in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It traces perspectives on the future since 1909, when the term ‘futurism’ was coined in the publication of the ‘The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism’. The essay maps changes in the vision of the future, taking a chronological approach in noting developments in the discourse on the future. A prominen…
Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium: Systems
September 16 2020 Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium: Systems Nigel Helyer 0000-0002-5248-3222 , Nigel Helyer University, 62 MacGibbon Parade, Old Erowal Bay, NSW, 2540, Australia. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar John Potts 0000-0002-7617-2445 , John Potts Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109, Australia.…
Abstracts from the Spectra 2018 Symposium Part 6: Systems
Nigel Helyer and John PottsIn our paper, we describe the findings of the research project “When Science Meets Art: An Environmental Portrait of the Shoalhaven River Valley.” This three-year project, supported by an Australia Council Synapse grant and an ARC Linkage Grant, took an interdisciplinary approach in constructing an environmental portrait of the Bundanon region in rural New South Wales. Bundanon is a vast property of 1,100 hectares in th…
Culturescape: Environment, Science, and Art at Bundanon
This article describes the website Culturescape: An Environmental Portrait of Bundanon. This online portrait, a collaboration combining environmental science and art, includes an interactive environmental map of the Bundanon region in New South Wales, Australia, and documentation of environmental artworks by Nigel Helyer, all initially installed at Bundanon. The interactive map displays soil quality data at Bundanon in sonified and visualized for…
Near-Death of the Author: Creativity in the Internet Age
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