Julienne Obadia
Biographic Data
| ID | 188115 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julienne Obadia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julienne |
| FAMILY NAME | Obadia |
| SIGNATURE | OBADIA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Independent Researcher Edinburgh Scotland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1655-1558 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
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Contracts, Polyamory, and Late Liberalism
This article examines norms of labor and individuation inaugurated by late liberal directives to optimize intimate life as a site of personal fulfilment. Analyzing ethnographic material on US polyamory, I identify "the contract complex"—a set of techniques for managing multiple relationships—as a person-making regime that enables dramatic intimate transformations while extending classical liberalism's hierarchical privileging of autonomy over dep…
Responsibility, Respectability, Recognition, and Polyamory
Introduction
Introduction:Overwhelmed by Proximity Julienne Obadia In 1951, Hannah Arendt (1951) observed that subjects of mass modernity were lonely, even as they were surrounded by others. The danger of this loneliness was acute for Arendt, who argued that such feelings were an enabling condition for the rise of totalitarianism. Even Georg Simmel (1950), who had celebrated mass society and the freedom that anonymous urban life could bring, nevertheless note…
Assembly by Aggregation
From Tom Wolfe's "me generation" to the imputed digital narcissism of millennials, cultural critics have interpreted American neoliberalism as producing a crisis of hyper-individualism characterized by greed, selfishness, and a general incapacity to cooperate with others. This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork with an American intentional community, Oak Haven, to argue that, even as the notion of community is so often heralded as an antidot…
Introduction
Introduction:Overwhelmed by Proximity Julienne Obadia In 1951, Hannah Arendt (1951) observed that subjects of mass modernity were lonely, even as they were surrounded by others. The danger of this loneliness was acute for Arendt, who argued that such feelings were an enabling condition for the rise of totalitarianism. Even Georg Simmel (1950), who had celebrated mass society and the freedom that anonymous urban life could bring, nevertheless note…
Assembly by Aggregation
From Tom Wolfe's "me generation" to the imputed digital narcissism of millennials, cultural critics have interpreted American neoliberalism as producing a crisis of hyper-individualism characterized by greed, selfishness, and a general incapacity to cooperate with others. This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork with an American intentional community, Oak Haven, to argue that, even as the notion of community is so often heralded as an antidot…
Responsibility, Respectability, Recognition, and Polyamory
Introduction
Introduction:Overwhelmed by Proximity Julienne Obadia In 1951, Hannah Arendt (1951) observed that subjects of mass modernity were lonely, even as they were surrounded by others. The danger of this loneliness was acute for Arendt, who argued that such feelings were an enabling condition for the rise of totalitarianism. Even Georg Simmel (1950), who had celebrated mass society and the freedom that anonymous urban life could bring, nevertheless note…
Assembly by Aggregation
From Tom Wolfe's "me generation" to the imputed digital narcissism of millennials, cultural critics have interpreted American neoliberalism as producing a crisis of hyper-individualism characterized by greed, selfishness, and a general incapacity to cooperate with others. This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork with an American intentional community, Oak Haven, to argue that, even as the notion of community is so often heralded as an antidot…
Contracts, Polyamory, and Late Liberalism
This article examines norms of labor and individuation inaugurated by late liberal directives to optimize intimate life as a site of personal fulfilment. Analyzing ethnographic material on US polyamory, I identify "the contract complex"—a set of techniques for managing multiple relationships—as a person-making regime that enables dramatic intimate transformations while extending classical liberalism's hierarchical privileging of autonomy over dep…
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Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)