M Driscoll
Biographic Data
| ID | 12431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Driscoll |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Driscoll |
| SIGNATURE | DRISCOLL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5348-6054 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Blacks weather, Whites climate
This essay explores the intersections of race, weather and climate. Earth science construes weather as the temperature and precipitation that impacts environments. Thinking about how this applies to bodies has come into vogue in trying to understand the disproportionate number of COVID-19 infections and deaths for Blacks and Latinx people. Arline Geronimus pioneered this in 1992 when she transposed the notion of "weathering" from its standard mea…
Seeds and (Nest) Eggs of Empire
Grass Stage's Theater of Precarity in Shanghai
Little Society is the most play from the most important avant-garde theater troupe in Shanghai—Grass Stage/Cao Taliban. Founded in early 2005, the director Zhao Chuan decided to make Grass Stage an amateur-only group. The great majority of Grass Stage's 200 or so members have lacked any experience in the arts before joining the troupe. The generative praxis of Grass Stage has resulted in several independent productions by members, one which was b…
Hyperneoliberalism
Japan has gone from being the paradigmatic developmental state in the 1960s and 1970s to being a representative neoliberal state today. This dramatic ideological and political-economic transformation has come so suddenly that it qualifies as a kind of “hyperneoliberalism.” Whereas in the 1970s and 1980s Japan's labor market was characterized by life-time employment and generous benefits—producing the seemingly ubiquitous subjectivity of the “sala…
Asia's Unknown Uprisings, Vol. 2
Tabloid Coloniality
The March 1, 1919, mobilization for Korean independence was the single largest threat to Japan's imperial rule in its half century of existence. Referred to reverently as the Sam'il Undong, the protest was initially centered in Seoul but quickly spread into towns and villages. Japanese colonial elites were stunned by the large-scale protests. After gathering themselves and violently repressing the movement, the colonists reacted to the demonstrat…
Michael SCHILTZ. The Money Doctors from Japan
Journal Article Michael Schiltz. The Money Doctors from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895–1937. Get access Michael Schiltz. The Money Doctors from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895–1937. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, number 339.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center. 2012. Pp. xix, 268. $39.95. Mark Driscoll Mark Driscoll University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Se…
Obama/Osama/Ōkawa
U.S. president Barack Obama bowed deeply to the Japanese emperor Akihito in November 2009, which set off a huge outcry by conservatives and neoconservatives. Dick Cheney steamed, "There is no reason for an American president to be bowing to anyone. Our friends and allies don't expect it, and our enemies see it as a sign of weakness." My essay argues that Obama's bows to Akihito followed by a slight bow to Chinese president Hu Jintao several month…
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque
In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention to the peripheries, where figures including Chinese coolies, Japanese pimps, trafficked Japanese women, and Korean tenant farmers supplied the vital energy that drove Japan's empire. He identifies three phases of Japan's capitalist expansion, ea…
Looting the Theory Commons
Looting the Theory Commons: Hardt and Negri's Commonwealth Mark Driscoll (bio) Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Commonwealth. Cambridge: Belknap P, 2011. A few months ago a graduate student came to see me to discuss her section on postcolonial studies for her Ph.D. exams. Talking about the ways the Japanese colonial past continues to affect everyday life in South Korea, she reflected that, "this is what Hardt and Negri call the coloniality of pow…
Kobayashi Yoshinori Is Dead
The Effect of Enforcement History and Ordinance Provisions on Merchant Compliance With Tobacco-Control Laws
Two studies examined merchant compliance with tobacco-sales laws. The first study examined the efficacy of assessing merchant compliance with tobacco-sales laws at the community level in a longitudinal, multitown intervention. Results indicated that individual merchants' compliance was consistent in communities involved in a tobacco-control intervention. The second study investigated the impact of history of involvement in a tobacco-control inter…
From kino-eye to anime -eye/ ai
As a contribution to the new critical work on animation and new media, this article re-animates the forgotten Japanese philosopher of media Imamura Taihei. Imamura'swork of the late 1930s and 1940s is not only the first attempt in Japanese to conceptualize the difference between film and animation, but his two major works Theory of Animation (1948) and Theory of Documentary Film (1940) represent the earliest philosophical attempt to think through…
What's Real About Virtual Reality
What's Real About Virtual Reality
Hyperneoliberalism
Japan has gone from being the paradigmatic developmental state in the 1960s and 1970s to being a representative neoliberal state today. This dramatic ideological and political-economic transformation has come so suddenly that it qualifies as a kind of “hyperneoliberalism.” Whereas in the 1970s and 1980s Japan's labor market was characterized by life-time employment and generous benefits—producing the seemingly ubiquitous subjectivity of the “sala…
From kino-eye to anime -eye/ ai
As a contribution to the new critical work on animation and new media, this article re-animates the forgotten Japanese philosopher of media Imamura Taihei. Imamura'swork of the late 1930s and 1940s is not only the first attempt in Japanese to conceptualize the difference between film and animation, but his two major works Theory of Animation (1948) and Theory of Documentary Film (1940) represent the earliest philosophical attempt to think through…
What's Real About Virtual Reality
From kino-eye to anime -eye/ ai
As a contribution to the new critical work on animation and new media, this article re-animates the forgotten Japanese philosopher of media Imamura Taihei. Imamura'swork of the late 1930s and 1940s is not only the first attempt in Japanese to conceptualize the difference between film and animation, but his two major works Theory of Animation (1948) and Theory of Documentary Film (1940) represent the earliest philosophical attempt to think through…
The Effect of Enforcement History and Ordinance Provisions on Merchant Compliance With Tobacco-Control Laws
Two studies examined merchant compliance with tobacco-sales laws. The first study examined the efficacy of assessing merchant compliance with tobacco-sales laws at the community level in a longitudinal, multitown intervention. Results indicated that individual merchants' compliance was consistent in communities involved in a tobacco-control intervention. The second study investigated the impact of history of involvement in a tobacco-control inter…
Kobayashi Yoshinori Is Dead
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque
Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque
In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention to the peripheries, where figures including Chinese coolies, Japanese pimps, trafficked Japanese women, and Korean tenant farmers supplied the vital energy that drove Japan's empire. He identifies three phases of Japan's capitalist expansion, ea…
Looting the Theory Commons
Looting the Theory Commons: Hardt and Negri's Commonwealth Mark Driscoll (bio) Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Commonwealth. Cambridge: Belknap P, 2011. A few months ago a graduate student came to see me to discuss her section on postcolonial studies for her Ph.D. exams. Talking about the ways the Japanese colonial past continues to affect everyday life in South Korea, she reflected that, "this is what Hardt and Negri call the coloniality of pow…
Obama/Osama/Ōkawa
U.S. president Barack Obama bowed deeply to the Japanese emperor Akihito in November 2009, which set off a huge outcry by conservatives and neoconservatives. Dick Cheney steamed, "There is no reason for an American president to be bowing to anyone. Our friends and allies don't expect it, and our enemies see it as a sign of weakness." My essay argues that Obama's bows to Akihito followed by a slight bow to Chinese president Hu Jintao several month…
Tabloid Coloniality
The March 1, 1919, mobilization for Korean independence was the single largest threat to Japan's imperial rule in its half century of existence. Referred to reverently as the Sam'il Undong, the protest was initially centered in Seoul but quickly spread into towns and villages. Japanese colonial elites were stunned by the large-scale protests. After gathering themselves and violently repressing the movement, the colonists reacted to the demonstrat…
Michael SCHILTZ. The Money Doctors from Japan
Journal Article Michael Schiltz. The Money Doctors from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895–1937. Get access Michael Schiltz. The Money Doctors from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895–1937. (Harvard East Asian Monographs, number 339.) Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Asia Center. 2012. Pp. xix, 268. $39.95. Mark Driscoll Mark Driscoll University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Se…
Asia's Unknown Uprisings, Vol. 2
Grass Stage's Theater of Precarity in Shanghai
Little Society is the most play from the most important avant-garde theater troupe in Shanghai—Grass Stage/Cao Taliban. Founded in early 2005, the director Zhao Chuan decided to make Grass Stage an amateur-only group. The great majority of Grass Stage's 200 or so members have lacked any experience in the arts before joining the troupe. The generative praxis of Grass Stage has resulted in several independent productions by members, one which was b…
Hyperneoliberalism
Japan has gone from being the paradigmatic developmental state in the 1960s and 1970s to being a representative neoliberal state today. This dramatic ideological and political-economic transformation has come so suddenly that it qualifies as a kind of “hyperneoliberalism.” Whereas in the 1970s and 1980s Japan's labor market was characterized by life-time employment and generous benefits—producing the seemingly ubiquitous subjectivity of the “sala…
Seeds and (Nest) Eggs of Empire
Blacks weather, Whites climate
This essay explores the intersections of race, weather and climate. Earth science construes weather as the temperature and precipitation that impacts environments. Thinking about how this applies to bodies has come into vogue in trying to understand the disproportionate number of COVID-19 infections and deaths for Blacks and Latinx people. Arline Geronimus pioneered this in 1992 when she transposed the notion of "weathering" from its standard mea…
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