Sheryl N Hamilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1506903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheryl N Hamilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheryl N |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamilton |
| SIGNATURE | HAMILTON S N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Introduction
Already undone, or undone from the start, we are formed, and as formed, we come to be always partially undone by what we come to sense and know (Butler 2015, 11).What to make of the sign posted in
Mediating Disease Cultures
Keywords: Disease and Communication, Media and Science, Health and Communication, Cultural Studies of Science, Journalism
Envisioning a Habitus of Hygiene
Background Public health posters exhorting viewers to wash their hands to prevent the spread of communicable disease are common in airports, shopping malls, hospitals, and workplaces. Yet the poster remains understudied by scholars working in communication, health, and governance. Analysis Analyzing a large corpus of Canadian public health posters targeting handwashing, this article identifies three themes: the articulation of an embodied pedagog…
Hands in Cont(r)act
This article examines the persistence of the handshake in business circles despite its implication in the spread of communicable disease in contemporary pandemic culture. An examination of business etiquette discourse suggests that even during disease outbreaks or flu season, the business handshake remains an important visual and haptic legal gesture. While it may no longer produce a binding legal contract, it stages the parties as contractable s…
The Charismatic Cultural Life of Cybernetics
Background Despite cybernetics’ short, incandescent life as a scientific knowledge, it has had an enduring cultural legacy. Analysis This article reads Norbert Wiener, the “father of cybernetics,” as a visible scientist, through an analysis of his media profile, in order to explore cybernetics as a popular culture phenomenon in the United States in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Conclusion and implications Cybernetics emerges in the post-WWII era …
Rituals of intimate legal touch
This article situates recent attempts to regulate the end-of-game handshake in youth team sports within a broader context of the troubling of touch within pandemic culture. It suggests that the end-of-game handshake is most productively understood as simultaneously: embodied ritual, form of intimate touch, and legal gesture. The analysis invites readers not only to understand the handshake as a complex and meaningful quotidian ritual, but also to…
Sheryl N. Hamilton Thinking Through Chronotope
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It Won’t Always Be Wrong’
How to govern in the face of radical diversity and seemingly intractable conflict? A key question after 9/11, it is also central to dark fantasy literature.The literary answer is a return to legal rational authority, specifically bureaucracy. We examine the novel, Benighted (Kit Whitfield), where the Department for the Ongoing Regulation of Lycanthropic Activity must manage relations between the dominant lycanthropes and the despised underclass o…
From Mad Scientist to Bad Scientist
Journal Article From Mad Scientist to Bad Scientist: Richard Seed as Biogovernmental Event Get access Neil Gerlach, Neil Gerlach 1Neil Gerlach is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. He thanks the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for its generous financial support of his biotechnological research. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
Preserving Self in the City of the Imagination
A city ~~~its architecture constantly mutating, where it is always night, where memories last for twelve hours, where aliens walk among city dwellers and yet everyone is a stranger~~~a description we suggest applies as easily to Georg Simmel's work on the city as it does to Alex Proyas' 1998 film, Dark City. Both are cities of the imag- ination. Vivian Sobchak suggests that a city of the imagination, "Owjes] no necessary allegiance to representat…
Introduction
The intellectual encounter between the social sciences and science fiction has been rich and varied. This Introduction examines how sf literature, sf criticism, and social science theory and practice have intersected and influenced each other. We suggest a four-part typology, analyzing how the social sciences have employed sf, how sf has dealt with the social, how sf criticism has addressed social theory, and how science fiction has itself emerge…
Virtual Gender
No abstract available
Who Write the Book of Life
Telling the Future, Managing the Present
This essay analyzes the techno-futurist vision of mid-to late-1990s business restructuring literature, arguing that the genre prominently employs sf strategies and assumptions. Three central figures emerge: the virtual organization, depicted as a revolutionary phenomenon that transcends the material constraints of “real” corporation; the cyborg employee, seen as the ultimate fantasy of merging the worker with the technologies of capitalism; and c…
The Last Chess Game
If you win, you win in one of two ways. Some make their final move, throw “check-mate” in their opponent’s face, laugh. Some say nothing, show nothing, simply sit and watch as the other player discovers just exactly what has happened. Some win the first way, others the second. So, it’s okay to laugh at the loss of another, and it’s okay to show nothing at all, but what you must never do is look pleased with yourself. Because this implies that the…
Incomplete Determinism
Using Foucauldian discourse analysis, this paper examines five temporal regularities produced in emergent cyberculture discourse in the immediate post-WWII period in the United States. The construction of entropy as social; the understanding of systemic change in evolutionary terms; the embrace of the present as a revolutionary historical discontinuity; the adoption of a machine standard of condensed time; and the shaping of memory as a notion of…
Rituals of intimate legal touch
This article situates recent attempts to regulate the end-of-game handshake in youth team sports within a broader context of the troubling of touch within pandemic culture. It suggests that the end-of-game handshake is most productively understood as simultaneously: embodied ritual, form of intimate touch, and legal gesture. The analysis invites readers not only to understand the handshake as a complex and meaningful quotidian ritual, but also to…
Introduction
Already undone, or undone from the start, we are formed, and as formed, we come to be always partially undone by what we come to sense and know (Butler 2015, 11).What to make of the sign posted in
Hands in Cont(r)act
This article examines the persistence of the handshake in business circles despite its implication in the spread of communicable disease in contemporary pandemic culture. An examination of business etiquette discourse suggests that even during disease outbreaks or flu season, the business handshake remains an important visual and haptic legal gesture. While it may no longer produce a binding legal contract, it stages the parties as contractable s…
The Last Chess Game
If you win, you win in one of two ways. Some make their final move, throw “check-mate” in their opponent’s face, laugh. Some say nothing, show nothing, simply sit and watch as the other player discovers just exactly what has happened. Some win the first way, others the second. So, it’s okay to laugh at the loss of another, and it’s okay to show nothing at all, but what you must never do is look pleased with yourself. Because this implies that the…
Introduction
The intellectual encounter between the social sciences and science fiction has been rich and varied. This Introduction examines how sf literature, sf criticism, and social science theory and practice have intersected and influenced each other. We suggest a four-part typology, analyzing how the social sciences have employed sf, how sf has dealt with the social, how sf criticism has addressed social theory, and how science fiction has itself emerge…
Incomplete Determinism
Using Foucauldian discourse analysis, this paper examines five temporal regularities produced in emergent cyberculture discourse in the immediate post-WWII period in the United States. The construction of entropy as social; the understanding of systemic change in evolutionary terms; the embrace of the present as a revolutionary historical discontinuity; the adoption of a machine standard of condensed time; and the shaping of memory as a notion of…
Telling the Future, Managing the Present
This essay analyzes the techno-futurist vision of mid-to late-1990s business restructuring literature, arguing that the genre prominently employs sf strategies and assumptions. Three central figures emerge: the virtual organization, depicted as a revolutionary phenomenon that transcends the material constraints of “real” corporation; the cyborg employee, seen as the ultimate fantasy of merging the worker with the technologies of capitalism; and c…
The Last Chess Game
If you win, you win in one of two ways. Some make their final move, throw “check-mate” in their opponent’s face, laugh. Some say nothing, show nothing, simply sit and watch as the other player discovers just exactly what has happened. Some win the first way, others the second. So, it’s okay to laugh at the loss of another, and it’s okay to show nothing at all, but what you must never do is look pleased with yourself. Because this implies that the…
Virtual Gender
No abstract available
Who Write the Book of Life
Introduction
The intellectual encounter between the social sciences and science fiction has been rich and varied. This Introduction examines how sf literature, sf criticism, and social science theory and practice have intersected and influenced each other. We suggest a four-part typology, analyzing how the social sciences have employed sf, how sf has dealt with the social, how sf criticism has addressed social theory, and how science fiction has itself emerge…
Preserving Self in the City of the Imagination
A city ~~~its architecture constantly mutating, where it is always night, where memories last for twelve hours, where aliens walk among city dwellers and yet everyone is a stranger~~~a description we suggest applies as easily to Georg Simmel's work on the city as it does to Alex Proyas' 1998 film, Dark City. Both are cities of the imag- ination. Vivian Sobchak suggests that a city of the imagination, "Owjes] no necessary allegiance to representat…
From Mad Scientist to Bad Scientist
Journal Article From Mad Scientist to Bad Scientist: Richard Seed as Biogovernmental Event Get access Neil Gerlach, Neil Gerlach 1Neil Gerlach is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. He thanks the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for its generous financial support of his biotechnological research. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Sch…
It Won’t Always Be Wrong’
How to govern in the face of radical diversity and seemingly intractable conflict? A key question after 9/11, it is also central to dark fantasy literature.The literary answer is a return to legal rational authority, specifically bureaucracy. We examine the novel, Benighted (Kit Whitfield), where the Department for the Ongoing Regulation of Lycanthropic Activity must manage relations between the dominant lycanthropes and the despised underclass o…
Sheryl N. Hamilton Thinking Through Chronotope
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Charismatic Cultural Life of Cybernetics
Background Despite cybernetics’ short, incandescent life as a scientific knowledge, it has had an enduring cultural legacy. Analysis This article reads Norbert Wiener, the “father of cybernetics,” as a visible scientist, through an analysis of his media profile, in order to explore cybernetics as a popular culture phenomenon in the United States in the late 1940s and the 1950s. Conclusion and implications Cybernetics emerges in the post-WWII era …
Rituals of intimate legal touch
This article situates recent attempts to regulate the end-of-game handshake in youth team sports within a broader context of the troubling of touch within pandemic culture. It suggests that the end-of-game handshake is most productively understood as simultaneously: embodied ritual, form of intimate touch, and legal gesture. The analysis invites readers not only to understand the handshake as a complex and meaningful quotidian ritual, but also to…
Mediating Disease Cultures
Keywords: Disease and Communication, Media and Science, Health and Communication, Cultural Studies of Science, Journalism
Envisioning a Habitus of Hygiene
Background Public health posters exhorting viewers to wash their hands to prevent the spread of communicable disease are common in airports, shopping malls, hospitals, and workplaces. Yet the poster remains understudied by scholars working in communication, health, and governance. Analysis Analyzing a large corpus of Canadian public health posters targeting handwashing, this article identifies three themes: the articulation of an embodied pedagog…
Hands in Cont(r)act
This article examines the persistence of the handshake in business circles despite its implication in the spread of communicable disease in contemporary pandemic culture. An examination of business etiquette discourse suggests that even during disease outbreaks or flu season, the business handshake remains an important visual and haptic legal gesture. While it may no longer produce a binding legal contract, it stages the parties as contractable s…
Introduction
Already undone, or undone from the start, we are formed, and as formed, we come to be always partially undone by what we come to sense and know (Butler 2015, 11).What to make of the sign posted in
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