Scott Sharpe
Biographic Data
| ID | 139487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Sharpe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharpe |
| SIGNATURE | SHARPE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8843-8589 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Cosmic Subjectivity
As social scientists become increasingly aware of the limits of dominant models of subjectivity to address contemporary social, cultural, and environmental problems, Felix Guattari’s emphasis on the machinic and processual dimensions of subjective production offers crucial insights. This paper explores the potential of Guattari’s evocation of the “cosmos” for the reconceptualisation of subjectivity. Among the various concepts of exteriority that …
Untoward laughter and the micropolitical
From a commonsense perspective, an outburst of laughter appears to demonstrate little more than a lack of subjective will; it certainly does not register as having political significance. Yet, this is also to render the political in commonsense terms. As the emerging body of literature on the question of the micropolitical suggests, there is, beneath the essentially representational sphere of macropolitics, a micropolitics of affective force. In …
Pluralising affect
Witnessing Anti-White 'Racism
In a national survey of witnessing racism, ten per cent of respondents reported an event where they perceived a white Australian had been the target of racism. We discuss the social and political context in which claims of anti-white ‘racism’ have come to the fore. The paper introduces three analytical entry points from which to approach the problem of anti-white ‘racism’: an individual analysis, an analysis of power and its effects, and a histor…
Black-faced, red faces
Among incidences of everyday racism, offensive jokes are writ large as a way of establishing and maintaining social norms and policing the boundaries of the social body. Yet humour's possible deployment toward anti-racist ends constitutes an under-researched problem. This paper examines an incident of supposedly humorous blackface performance on an Australian family variety television show. The incident was notable as an occasion where humour was…
Affect
Somewhere between use and mere whim there is a place for the expressivity of affect as a concept. This paper raises the question of how the concept of affect might be mobilized without reducing its expressions to the logic of work. We suggest that the very attempt to put affect to work in order to solve pressing problems may be symptomatic of an anxiety to master the events of the world. With this in mind, we make a case for the importance of Geo…
Habits, style and how to wear them lightly
Contributing to cultural geography's emerging interest in the work of Felix Ravaisson, this article explores the relationship between the impersonal force of habit and the personalised production of subjectivity. More precisely, our concern is with the relationship between habit and the stylisation of self that can be witnessed in the production of the intellectual subject. Paying particular attention to the relationship he traces between habit, …
The Minute Interventions of Stewart Lee
The popular performer speaks in an already recognizable tongue, producing pleasure by an affirmation of what the audience already knows and feels. Yet affirmation is, at its best, much more than this, involving an openness into the coming into being of something that is genuinely new. In this article we explore the way that humour – and specifically the stand-up comedy of Stewart Lee – can cultivate an audience's bodily receptivity to novel modes…
Postcapitalist Encounters with Class and Community
Potentiality and Impotentiality in J. K. Gibson-Graham
Throughout their research, and most explicitly with their work on the concept of affect, J. K. Gibson-Graham think about our capacities and potentialities—the "visceral intensities" that accompany politics—without falling into a moralistic or purist critique of limiting powers. They refuse to dismiss as trivial or marginal those everyday economic ventures that cannot be measured against the yardstick of capitalism but that nonetheless extend capa…
Special Issue
I felt like I was punched in the stomach, y'know it was such a strong image, it was hard to look at ... You feel like it's a private moment, you feel ... it feels almost obscene looking at this. You feel like you are taking away the person's humanity a little ... a little bit (Singer, 2006). In contrast to contemporary philosophical understandings of emotion, an affect is not a response to an event ‘triggering bodily changes’. An affect is that e…
The Aesthetics of Urban Movement
This paper examines new forms of urban movement from the perspective of embodiment and habit. Utilising Felix Ravaisson's recently revived work, Of Habit, the paper explores the role of grace and embodiment in establishing alternate forms of mobile activity. I argue that it is the mixture of fear and mastery that has the potential to perpetuate certain habits of mobility, leading to an aestheticised relationship to the urban environment, which to…
The Contemporary and Eccentric Position of ‘The Winnebago Man
Unveiling Seductions beyond Societies of Control
Taking the bare bodies that starred in the recent Air New Zealand in-flight safety demonstration and advertising campaign as its starting point, this paper stages an encounter between bareness and security in order to think about how affective atmospheres might be engineered and manipulated within spaces of aeromobility. From a representational perspective the bare bodies appeal to a particular economy of truth through the unveiling of the corpor…
Appearing True in the social sciences
In early 2009 Keith Windschuttle, an Australian historian and editor of the conservative journal Quadrant, was caught out having accepted for publication a fraudulent piece of academic research, a hoax which aimed to reveal the hypocrisy of Windschuttle’s public stance on standards of scholarship. Over 10 years after the Sokal affair, the Windschuttle hoax raises in a new way the question of the relationship of social science to the problem of tr…
Disney-Pixar to the rescue
Yea-Saying Laughter
Escaping Monstropolis
In Monstropolis, the virtual world of monsters in the 2001 Pixar-animated Disney movie Monsters, Inc., the screams of human children are the source of energy. In this paper, the energy shortage (or ‘scream shortage’) depicted in Monsters, Inc. serves as a subtle and engaging allegory, drawing attention to the non-virtual world's concerns with energy supplies, particularly oil. Peak oil, the time at which the global production of oil reaches its m…
Laughing with the Yes Men
It is symptomatic of a culture addicted to novelty that culture jamming has already been subject to pronouncements of its redundancy as a political strategy. For academic and artist Steve Mann, for
Children and Peak Oil
Place ‘From One Glance’
Associations between place and wine are historically deep. Past and current narratives of wine production are wedded to environment attributes of particular places, and in both the European and Australasian settings this has been codified by way of formal labelling requirements for the place of origin for wines. In this paper we explore the role of place references on the front labels of Australian and New Zealand wines through a small initial su…
Unveiling Seductions beyond Societies of Control
Taking the bare bodies that starred in the recent Air New Zealand in-flight safety demonstration and advertising campaign as its starting point, this paper stages an encounter between bareness and security in order to think about how affective atmospheres might be engineered and manipulated within spaces of aeromobility. From a representational perspective the bare bodies appeal to a particular economy of truth through the unveiling of the corpor…
Black-faced, red faces
Among incidences of everyday racism, offensive jokes are writ large as a way of establishing and maintaining social norms and policing the boundaries of the social body. Yet humour's possible deployment toward anti-racist ends constitutes an under-researched problem. This paper examines an incident of supposedly humorous blackface performance on an Australian family variety television show. The incident was notable as an occasion where humour was…
The Minute Interventions of Stewart Lee
The popular performer speaks in an already recognizable tongue, producing pleasure by an affirmation of what the audience already knows and feels. Yet affirmation is, at its best, much more than this, involving an openness into the coming into being of something that is genuinely new. In this article we explore the way that humour – and specifically the stand-up comedy of Stewart Lee – can cultivate an audience's bodily receptivity to novel modes…
Potentiality and Impotentiality in J. K. Gibson-Graham
Throughout their research, and most explicitly with their work on the concept of affect, J. K. Gibson-Graham think about our capacities and potentialities—the "visceral intensities" that accompany politics—without falling into a moralistic or purist critique of limiting powers. They refuse to dismiss as trivial or marginal those everyday economic ventures that cannot be measured against the yardstick of capitalism but that nonetheless extend capa…
Affect
Somewhere between use and mere whim there is a place for the expressivity of affect as a concept. This paper raises the question of how the concept of affect might be mobilized without reducing its expressions to the logic of work. We suggest that the very attempt to put affect to work in order to solve pressing problems may be symptomatic of an anxiety to master the events of the world. With this in mind, we make a case for the importance of Geo…
The Aesthetics of Urban Movement
This paper examines new forms of urban movement from the perspective of embodiment and habit. Utilising Felix Ravaisson's recently revived work, Of Habit, the paper explores the role of grace and embodiment in establishing alternate forms of mobile activity. I argue that it is the mixture of fear and mastery that has the potential to perpetuate certain habits of mobility, leading to an aestheticised relationship to the urban environment, which to…
Place ‘From One Glance’
Associations between place and wine are historically deep. Past and current narratives of wine production are wedded to environment attributes of particular places, and in both the European and Australasian settings this has been codified by way of formal labelling requirements for the place of origin for wines. In this paper we explore the role of place references on the front labels of Australian and New Zealand wines through a small initial su…
Disney-Pixar to the rescue
Laughing with the Yes Men
It is symptomatic of a culture addicted to novelty that culture jamming has already been subject to pronouncements of its redundancy as a political strategy. For academic and artist Steve Mann, for
Children and Peak Oil
Witnessing Anti-White 'Racism
In a national survey of witnessing racism, ten per cent of respondents reported an event where they perceived a white Australian had been the target of racism. We discuss the social and political context in which claims of anti-white ‘racism’ have come to the fore. The paper introduces three analytical entry points from which to approach the problem of anti-white ‘racism’: an individual analysis, an analysis of power and its effects, and a histor…
Habits, style and how to wear them lightly
Contributing to cultural geography's emerging interest in the work of Felix Ravaisson, this article explores the relationship between the impersonal force of habit and the personalised production of subjectivity. More precisely, our concern is with the relationship between habit and the stylisation of self that can be witnessed in the production of the intellectual subject. Paying particular attention to the relationship he traces between habit, …
Yea-Saying Laughter
Escaping Monstropolis
In Monstropolis, the virtual world of monsters in the 2001 Pixar-animated Disney movie Monsters, Inc., the screams of human children are the source of energy. In this paper, the energy shortage (or ‘scream shortage’) depicted in Monsters, Inc. serves as a subtle and engaging allegory, drawing attention to the non-virtual world's concerns with energy supplies, particularly oil. Peak oil, the time at which the global production of oil reaches its m…
The Contemporary and Eccentric Position of ‘The Winnebago Man
Cosmic Subjectivity
As social scientists become increasingly aware of the limits of dominant models of subjectivity to address contemporary social, cultural, and environmental problems, Felix Guattari’s emphasis on the machinic and processual dimensions of subjective production offers crucial insights. This paper explores the potential of Guattari’s evocation of the “cosmos” for the reconceptualisation of subjectivity. Among the various concepts of exteriority that …
Untoward laughter and the micropolitical
From a commonsense perspective, an outburst of laughter appears to demonstrate little more than a lack of subjective will; it certainly does not register as having political significance. Yet, this is also to render the political in commonsense terms. As the emerging body of literature on the question of the micropolitical suggests, there is, beneath the essentially representational sphere of macropolitics, a micropolitics of affective force. In …
Special Issue
I felt like I was punched in the stomach, y'know it was such a strong image, it was hard to look at ... You feel like it's a private moment, you feel ... it feels almost obscene looking at this. You feel like you are taking away the person's humanity a little ... a little bit (Singer, 2006). In contrast to contemporary philosophical understandings of emotion, an affect is not a response to an event ‘triggering bodily changes’. An affect is that e…
Laughing with the Yes Men
It is symptomatic of a culture addicted to novelty that culture jamming has already been subject to pronouncements of its redundancy as a political strategy. For academic and artist Steve Mann, for
Children and Peak Oil
Place ‘From One Glance’
Associations between place and wine are historically deep. Past and current narratives of wine production are wedded to environment attributes of particular places, and in both the European and Australasian settings this has been codified by way of formal labelling requirements for the place of origin for wines. In this paper we explore the role of place references on the front labels of Australian and New Zealand wines through a small initial su…
Escaping Monstropolis
In Monstropolis, the virtual world of monsters in the 2001 Pixar-animated Disney movie Monsters, Inc., the screams of human children are the source of energy. In this paper, the energy shortage (or ‘scream shortage’) depicted in Monsters, Inc. serves as a subtle and engaging allegory, drawing attention to the non-virtual world's concerns with energy supplies, particularly oil. Peak oil, the time at which the global production of oil reaches its m…
Yea-Saying Laughter
Appearing True in the social sciences
In early 2009 Keith Windschuttle, an Australian historian and editor of the conservative journal Quadrant, was caught out having accepted for publication a fraudulent piece of academic research, a hoax which aimed to reveal the hypocrisy of Windschuttle’s public stance on standards of scholarship. Over 10 years after the Sokal affair, the Windschuttle hoax raises in a new way the question of the relationship of social science to the problem of tr…
Disney-Pixar to the rescue
The Contemporary and Eccentric Position of ‘The Winnebago Man
Unveiling Seductions beyond Societies of Control
Taking the bare bodies that starred in the recent Air New Zealand in-flight safety demonstration and advertising campaign as its starting point, this paper stages an encounter between bareness and security in order to think about how affective atmospheres might be engineered and manipulated within spaces of aeromobility. From a representational perspective the bare bodies appeal to a particular economy of truth through the unveiling of the corpor…
Postcapitalist Encounters with Class and Community
Potentiality and Impotentiality in J. K. Gibson-Graham
Throughout their research, and most explicitly with their work on the concept of affect, J. K. Gibson-Graham think about our capacities and potentialities—the "visceral intensities" that accompany politics—without falling into a moralistic or purist critique of limiting powers. They refuse to dismiss as trivial or marginal those everyday economic ventures that cannot be measured against the yardstick of capitalism but that nonetheless extend capa…
Special Issue
I felt like I was punched in the stomach, y'know it was such a strong image, it was hard to look at ... You feel like it's a private moment, you feel ... it feels almost obscene looking at this. You feel like you are taking away the person's humanity a little ... a little bit (Singer, 2006). In contrast to contemporary philosophical understandings of emotion, an affect is not a response to an event ‘triggering bodily changes’. An affect is that e…
The Aesthetics of Urban Movement
This paper examines new forms of urban movement from the perspective of embodiment and habit. Utilising Felix Ravaisson's recently revived work, Of Habit, the paper explores the role of grace and embodiment in establishing alternate forms of mobile activity. I argue that it is the mixture of fear and mastery that has the potential to perpetuate certain habits of mobility, leading to an aestheticised relationship to the urban environment, which to…
The Minute Interventions of Stewart Lee
The popular performer speaks in an already recognizable tongue, producing pleasure by an affirmation of what the audience already knows and feels. Yet affirmation is, at its best, much more than this, involving an openness into the coming into being of something that is genuinely new. In this article we explore the way that humour – and specifically the stand-up comedy of Stewart Lee – can cultivate an audience's bodily receptivity to novel modes…
Affect
Somewhere between use and mere whim there is a place for the expressivity of affect as a concept. This paper raises the question of how the concept of affect might be mobilized without reducing its expressions to the logic of work. We suggest that the very attempt to put affect to work in order to solve pressing problems may be symptomatic of an anxiety to master the events of the world. With this in mind, we make a case for the importance of Geo…
Habits, style and how to wear them lightly
Contributing to cultural geography's emerging interest in the work of Felix Ravaisson, this article explores the relationship between the impersonal force of habit and the personalised production of subjectivity. More precisely, our concern is with the relationship between habit and the stylisation of self that can be witnessed in the production of the intellectual subject. Paying particular attention to the relationship he traces between habit, …
Black-faced, red faces
Among incidences of everyday racism, offensive jokes are writ large as a way of establishing and maintaining social norms and policing the boundaries of the social body. Yet humour's possible deployment toward anti-racist ends constitutes an under-researched problem. This paper examines an incident of supposedly humorous blackface performance on an Australian family variety television show. The incident was notable as an occasion where humour was…
Pluralising affect
Witnessing Anti-White 'Racism
In a national survey of witnessing racism, ten per cent of respondents reported an event where they perceived a white Australian had been the target of racism. We discuss the social and political context in which claims of anti-white ‘racism’ have come to the fore. The paper introduces three analytical entry points from which to approach the problem of anti-white ‘racism’: an individual analysis, an analysis of power and its effects, and a histor…
Untoward laughter and the micropolitical
From a commonsense perspective, an outburst of laughter appears to demonstrate little more than a lack of subjective will; it certainly does not register as having political significance. Yet, this is also to render the political in commonsense terms. As the emerging body of literature on the question of the micropolitical suggests, there is, beneath the essentially representational sphere of macropolitics, a micropolitics of affective force. In …
Cosmic Subjectivity
As social scientists become increasingly aware of the limits of dominant models of subjectivity to address contemporary social, cultural, and environmental problems, Felix Guattari’s emphasis on the machinic and processual dimensions of subjective production offers crucial insights. This paper explores the potential of Guattari’s evocation of the “cosmos” for the reconceptualisation of subjectivity. Among the various concepts of exteriority that …
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