E Tyler Graham
Biographic Data
| ID | 1637428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Tyler Graham |
| GIVEN NAMES | E Tyler |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM E T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northland College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Addiction and Abstraction in the Safdie Brothers’ Heaven Knows What
This article argues that the Safdie Brothers’ 2014 film Heaven Knows What is a particularly striking example of how certain recent addiction narratives figure value abstraction within everyday social reproduction. The Safdies’ film exemplifies the re-emergent popularity of the addiction narrative trope in 2010s North America. However, Heaven Knows What also registers broader crises of proletarian reproduction, rather than marking states of impove…
The danger of Durkheim
The purpose of this article is to shed light on an ambiguity in Émile Durkheim's theory of social effervescence. Durkheim's failure to distinguish two kinds of effervescence at the heart of the religious rite has left a dangerous legacy in the study of religion. If his work is read, however, in light of René Girard's theory of the violent origins of religion, his analysis of la société can retain the distinction between the effervescence of the c…
The danger of Durkheim
The purpose of this article is to shed light on an ambiguity in Émile Durkheim's theory of social effervescence. Durkheim's failure to distinguish two kinds of effervescence at the heart of the religious rite has left a dangerous legacy in the study of religion. If his work is read, however, in light of René Girard's theory of the violent origins of religion, his analysis of la société can retain the distinction between the effervescence of the c…
The danger of Durkheim
The purpose of this article is to shed light on an ambiguity in Émile Durkheim's theory of social effervescence. Durkheim's failure to distinguish two kinds of effervescence at the heart of the religious rite has left a dangerous legacy in the study of religion. If his work is read, however, in light of René Girard's theory of the violent origins of religion, his analysis of la société can retain the distinction between the effervescence of the c…
Addiction and Abstraction in the Safdie Brothers’ Heaven Knows What
This article argues that the Safdie Brothers’ 2014 film Heaven Knows What is a particularly striking example of how certain recent addiction narratives figure value abstraction within everyday social reproduction. The Safdies’ film exemplifies the re-emergent popularity of the addiction narrative trope in 2010s North America. However, Heaven Knows What also registers broader crises of proletarian reproduction, rather than marking states of impove…
Epistemology (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Abstraction (1 work) · Ambiguity (1 work) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 work) · Emile Durkheim and Sociology (1 work) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (1 work) · Heaven (1 work)