Michael E Gardiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 128345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael E Gardiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael E |
| FAMILY NAME | Gardiner |
| SIGNATURE | GARDINER M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Western Ontario, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Automatic for the People? Cybernetics and Left‐Accelerationism
Cultural Studies: Theorizing Politics, Politicizing Theory
Rethinking everyday life: And Then Nothing Turns Itself Inside Out
Issue 2-3 (2004) includes articles on rethinking everyday life, the myth of everyday life, the persistence of everyday, everyday tragedy and creation, time and space in everyday life, everyday utopianism, profane illuminations, a different life - looking at Barthes and Foucault, rountine and ambiguity, shame, prescences, a mundane voice, limitations; and consumption of digital commodities in everyday life to name a few
Henri Lefebvre e la sociologia della noia
The French sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre combined a rigorous critique of modernity with the search for utopian potentialities located in the hidden recesses of the every-day. This article will focus on a topic that is arguably central to his ‘critique of everyday life’ but has been entirely overlooked in the literature thus far: that of boredom. Often dismissed as trivial, boredom can be understood as a touchstone through which wider…
An Autonomist Marcuse
This essay examines key Marcusean themes through the lens of Italian (post-)autonomist thinker Franco “Bifo” Berardi. Bifo criticizes Marcuse’s argument that repressed “authentic” human qualities need to be “liberated” to bring about universal human happiness, because what Bifo calls “semiocapitalism”—global capitalism in the age of digital networks, financialization, and computerization—effectively “subsumes” desires and libidinal energies vis-à…
Bakhtin, Boredom, and the 'Democratization of Skepticism
This article examines recent scholarly work on boredom by drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s account of modernity, irony, and mass skepticism. In The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin noted that, beginning in the 1840s, Western societies had been gripped by an “epidemic of boredom.” He was referring to a peculiarly modern form of mass boredom, associated with the “atrophy of experience” in a mechanized and urbanized social life—a boredom Elizabeth S. Go…
Critique of Accelerationism
The global financial crisis beginning in 2008 has encouraged the revitalization of a wide spectrum of leftist theorizing, but arguably the most audacious is that of 'accelerationism'. Left-accelerationism sees the intensification of certain tendencies in late capitalist society as a way to escape its gravitational orbit and 'repurpose' the very material infrastructure of capitalism itself, to universally emancipatory ends. The central task here i…
B akhtin, M ikhail
This entry sketches the key ideas and biographical context of Russian cultural and literary theorist Mikhail M. Bakhtin (1895–1975), as well as the work of the so‐called “Bakhtin Circle” that is associated with his name. Central concepts discussed include “alterity,” “dialogism,” “heteroglossia,” “intersubjectivity,” “polyphony,” and “carnival.”
Bakhtin and the ‘general intellect’
One of the key concepts in autonomist Marxism is the ‘general intellect’. As capitalism develops, labour and its products become increasingly ‘immaterial’, inasmuch as the physical side of production is taken over by automated systems. The result is that all aspects of the collective worker's affective, desiring and cognitive capabilities are now brought to bear on production itself. This problematises capitalistic notions of proprietary control,…
Bakhtin in the fullness of time: Bakhtinian theory and the process of social education
This special issue takes the works of Mikhail Bakhtin as its inspiration in the contemplation of the potential of dialogic scholarship for philosophy of education. Although a handful of recent EPAT
The Multitude Strikes Back? Boredom in an Age of Semiocapitalism
One of the most compelling arguments put forward by the so-called ‘autonomist’ tradition of Marxist thought is that the very affective and emotional registers of our lives are shaped fundamentally by transformations in the productive process now unfolding in the technologically-advanced societies of the global North. As such, the formation of subjectivity itself has become the privileged terrain of class struggle. Of special significance in this …
Post-Romantic irony in Bakhtin and Lefebvre
Although several writers have noted significant complementary features in the respective projects of Russian philosopher and cultural theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975) and the French social thinker Henri Lefebvre (1901–91), to date there has not been a systematic comparison of them. This article seeks to redress this oversight, by exploring some of the more intriguing of these conceptual dovetailings: first, their relationship to the intellect…
Henri Lefebvre and the 'Sociology of Boredom
The French sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre developed an account of modernity that combined rigorous critique, a rejection of nostalgia, left pessimism or transcendental appeals, and the search for utopian potentialities in the hidden recesses of the everyday. This article will focus on a topic that is arguably central to his 'critique of everyday life' but has been entirely overlooked in the literature thus far: that of boredom. Althou…
Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal
Book Review| January 01 2010 Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal. Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal . London: Pluto Press, 2008. xvii + 236 pp. Paperback, 24.95.White, Damian F. Michael E. Gardiner Michael E. Gardiner University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2010) 21 (1): 191–197. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.21.1.0191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Sit…
Marxism and the convergence of utopia and the everyday
The relationship of Marxist thought to the phenomena of everyday life and utopia, both separately and in terms of their intersection, is a complex and often ambiguous one. In this article, I seek to trace some of the theoretical filiations of a critical Marxist approach to their convergence (as stemming mainly from a Central European tradition), in order to tease out some of the more significant ambivalences and semantic shifts involved in its th…
Everyday Knowledge
Wild Publics and Grotesque Symposiums: Habermas and Bakhtin on Dialogue, Everyday Life and the Public Sphere
Critiques of Everyday Life
Wild Publics and Grotesque Symposiums: Habermas and Bakhtin on Dialogue, Everyday Life and the Public Sphere
Henri Lefebvre and the 'Sociology of Boredom
The French sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre developed an account of modernity that combined rigorous critique, a rejection of nostalgia, left pessimism or transcendental appeals, and the search for utopian potentialities in the hidden recesses of the everyday. This article will focus on a topic that is arguably central to his 'critique of everyday life' but has been entirely overlooked in the literature thus far: that of boredom. Althou…
Everyday Knowledge
Marxism and the convergence of utopia and the everyday
The relationship of Marxist thought to the phenomena of everyday life and utopia, both separately and in terms of their intersection, is a complex and often ambiguous one. In this article, I seek to trace some of the theoretical filiations of a critical Marxist approach to their convergence (as stemming mainly from a Central European tradition), in order to tease out some of the more significant ambivalences and semantic shifts involved in its th…
Critique of Accelerationism
The global financial crisis beginning in 2008 has encouraged the revitalization of a wide spectrum of leftist theorizing, but arguably the most audacious is that of 'accelerationism'. Left-accelerationism sees the intensification of certain tendencies in late capitalist society as a way to escape its gravitational orbit and 'repurpose' the very material infrastructure of capitalism itself, to universally emancipatory ends. The central task here i…
Bakhtin in the fullness of time: Bakhtinian theory and the process of social education
This special issue takes the works of Mikhail Bakhtin as its inspiration in the contemplation of the potential of dialogic scholarship for philosophy of education. Although a handful of recent EPAT
Automatic for the People? Cybernetics and Left‐Accelerationism
An Autonomist Marcuse
This essay examines key Marcusean themes through the lens of Italian (post-)autonomist thinker Franco “Bifo” Berardi. Bifo criticizes Marcuse’s argument that repressed “authentic” human qualities need to be “liberated” to bring about universal human happiness, because what Bifo calls “semiocapitalism”—global capitalism in the age of digital networks, financialization, and computerization—effectively “subsumes” desires and libidinal energies vis-à…
Bakhtin, Boredom, and the 'Democratization of Skepticism
This article examines recent scholarly work on boredom by drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s account of modernity, irony, and mass skepticism. In The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin noted that, beginning in the 1840s, Western societies had been gripped by an “epidemic of boredom.” He was referring to a peculiarly modern form of mass boredom, associated with the “atrophy of experience” in a mechanized and urbanized social life—a boredom Elizabeth S. Go…
Bakhtin and the ‘general intellect’
One of the key concepts in autonomist Marxism is the ‘general intellect’. As capitalism develops, labour and its products become increasingly ‘immaterial’, inasmuch as the physical side of production is taken over by automated systems. The result is that all aspects of the collective worker's affective, desiring and cognitive capabilities are now brought to bear on production itself. This problematises capitalistic notions of proprietary control,…
Critiques of Everyday Life
Wild Publics and Grotesque Symposiums: Habermas and Bakhtin on Dialogue, Everyday Life and the Public Sphere
Marxism and the convergence of utopia and the everyday
The relationship of Marxist thought to the phenomena of everyday life and utopia, both separately and in terms of their intersection, is a complex and often ambiguous one. In this article, I seek to trace some of the theoretical filiations of a critical Marxist approach to their convergence (as stemming mainly from a Central European tradition), in order to tease out some of the more significant ambivalences and semantic shifts involved in its th…
Everyday Knowledge
Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal
Book Review| January 01 2010 Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal. Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal . London: Pluto Press, 2008. xvii + 236 pp. Paperback, 24.95.White, Damian F. Michael E. Gardiner Michael E. Gardiner University of Western Ontario Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2010) 21 (1): 191–197. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.21.1.0191 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Sit…
Post-Romantic irony in Bakhtin and Lefebvre
Although several writers have noted significant complementary features in the respective projects of Russian philosopher and cultural theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895–1975) and the French social thinker Henri Lefebvre (1901–91), to date there has not been a systematic comparison of them. This article seeks to redress this oversight, by exploring some of the more intriguing of these conceptual dovetailings: first, their relationship to the intellect…
Henri Lefebvre and the 'Sociology of Boredom
The French sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre developed an account of modernity that combined rigorous critique, a rejection of nostalgia, left pessimism or transcendental appeals, and the search for utopian potentialities in the hidden recesses of the everyday. This article will focus on a topic that is arguably central to his 'critique of everyday life' but has been entirely overlooked in the literature thus far: that of boredom. Althou…
The Multitude Strikes Back? Boredom in an Age of Semiocapitalism
One of the most compelling arguments put forward by the so-called ‘autonomist’ tradition of Marxist thought is that the very affective and emotional registers of our lives are shaped fundamentally by transformations in the productive process now unfolding in the technologically-advanced societies of the global North. As such, the formation of subjectivity itself has become the privileged terrain of class struggle. Of special significance in this …
B akhtin, M ikhail
This entry sketches the key ideas and biographical context of Russian cultural and literary theorist Mikhail M. Bakhtin (1895–1975), as well as the work of the so‐called “Bakhtin Circle” that is associated with his name. Central concepts discussed include “alterity,” “dialogism,” “heteroglossia,” “intersubjectivity,” “polyphony,” and “carnival.”
Bakhtin and the ‘general intellect’
One of the key concepts in autonomist Marxism is the ‘general intellect’. As capitalism develops, labour and its products become increasingly ‘immaterial’, inasmuch as the physical side of production is taken over by automated systems. The result is that all aspects of the collective worker's affective, desiring and cognitive capabilities are now brought to bear on production itself. This problematises capitalistic notions of proprietary control,…
Bakhtin in the fullness of time: Bakhtinian theory and the process of social education
This special issue takes the works of Mikhail Bakhtin as its inspiration in the contemplation of the potential of dialogic scholarship for philosophy of education. Although a handful of recent EPAT
Bakhtin, Boredom, and the 'Democratization of Skepticism
This article examines recent scholarly work on boredom by drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s account of modernity, irony, and mass skepticism. In The Arcades Project, Walter Benjamin noted that, beginning in the 1840s, Western societies had been gripped by an “epidemic of boredom.” He was referring to a peculiarly modern form of mass boredom, associated with the “atrophy of experience” in a mechanized and urbanized social life—a boredom Elizabeth S. Go…
Critique of Accelerationism
The global financial crisis beginning in 2008 has encouraged the revitalization of a wide spectrum of leftist theorizing, but arguably the most audacious is that of 'accelerationism'. Left-accelerationism sees the intensification of certain tendencies in late capitalist society as a way to escape its gravitational orbit and 'repurpose' the very material infrastructure of capitalism itself, to universally emancipatory ends. The central task here i…
An Autonomist Marcuse
This essay examines key Marcusean themes through the lens of Italian (post-)autonomist thinker Franco “Bifo” Berardi. Bifo criticizes Marcuse’s argument that repressed “authentic” human qualities need to be “liberated” to bring about universal human happiness, because what Bifo calls “semiocapitalism”—global capitalism in the age of digital networks, financialization, and computerization—effectively “subsumes” desires and libidinal energies vis-à…
Henri Lefebvre e la sociologia della noia
The French sociologist and philosopher Henri Lefebvre combined a rigorous critique of modernity with the search for utopian potentialities located in the hidden recesses of the every-day. This article will focus on a topic that is arguably central to his ‘critique of everyday life’ but has been entirely overlooked in the literature thus far: that of boredom. Often dismissed as trivial, boredom can be understood as a touchstone through which wider…
Cultural Studies: Theorizing Politics, Politicizing Theory
Rethinking everyday life: And Then Nothing Turns Itself Inside Out
Issue 2-3 (2004) includes articles on rethinking everyday life, the myth of everyday life, the persistence of everyday, everyday tragedy and creation, time and space in everyday life, everyday utopianism, profane illuminations, a different life - looking at Barthes and Foucault, rountine and ambiguity, shame, prescences, a mundane voice, limitations; and consumption of digital commodities in everyday life to name a few
Automatic for the People? Cybernetics and Left‐Accelerationism
Sociology (13 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Aesthetics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies (6 works)