Robert Briggs
Biographic Data
| ID | 189345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Briggs |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Briggs |
| SIGNATURE | BRIGGS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Curtin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3441-0940 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the specific existence of animal culture: Life Torn Asunder
While the thought of animal culture is readily accepted in the environmental humanities and in posthumanist critiques of human exceptionalism, this paper seeks to re-examine this acceptance in view of the ambivalence of that concept’s institutional and intellectual origins. For the critical affirmation of animal culture presents as a curious historical object when viewed from the perspective of the late twentieth-century literary-theoretical inte…
Democracy without People
In Politics of Friendship Derrida characterises his extended discussion as a contribution to a genealogical deconstruction of the link that ties democracy to autochthony. In Rogues a few years later, he adds to this work by articulating what might be figured as an extensionist hypothesis, raising the question of ‘how far’ ‘the people of demo cracy’ is to be extended. Here, I read these two lines of problematisation alongside each other, seeing in…
Social disconnection correlates of a “Wish to Die” among a large community-dwelling cohort of older adults
Introduction: Social disconnection and deaths by suicide among older adults are both important public health concerns, particularly in the context of ageing populations. The association between death ideation and behaviours, and social disconnection is well established and both functional and structural social relationships have been identified as predictive of suicide-related thoughts and behaviours. The "Wish to Die" (WTD) involves thoughts of …
Derrida's Nonpower-From Writing to Zoopower
Derrida's displacement (after Bentham) of reason in favor of suffering as the key question in thinking about animals and his subsequent remarks on a "nonpower at the heart of power" are often taken as foregrounding a compassionate ethics in the face of the vulnerable (animal) other. This paper traces a genealogy of Derrida's occasional remarks on power and passivity to question whether this ethical reading adequately accounts for Derrida's "conce…
DIY John Curtin: Uncertain futures for heritage and citizenship in the era of digital friends and foes
This article introduces some of the problems confronting the popularization of national, civic and cultural heritage in the era of complex digital systems and social networks. Taking contemporary knowledge of John Curtin (Australia’s wartime PM) as its point of departure, the discussion explores some of the broader transformations of the conditions of citizenship, communication, heritage and knowledge production, and considers their implications …
The future of prediction: Speculating on William Gibson's meta-science-fiction
Ever since famed science fiction (SF) author Ursula Le Guin insisted that SF is ‘not about the future’ but rather ‘about the present’, critics of SF narratives have largely rejected the genre's popularly held associations with the function of ‘prediction’. Recent celebration of ex-cyberpunk William Gibson's Pattern Recognition as ‘artistically ambitious’ SF, notwithstanding its ‘present-day’ setting, thus appears to mark the inevitable conclusion…
Understanding the past evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Merging data and glaciological modeling
Shameless: Reconceiving the Problem of Student Plagiarism
There are few education-related topics that are more talked about today than student plagiarism. Few issues in higher education are more likely to prompt a frown of disapproval from professional ed
Just Traditions? Deconstruction, Critical Legal Studies, and Analytic Jurisprudence
At the time of its presentation, Derrida's 'Force of law' represented deconstruction's perhaps most direct statement on the possibility of justice and its most explicit engagement with law. The ensuing responses to that paper have typically focused on deconstruction's position regarding the force and authority of law, and especially on what is taken as Derrida's theory of justice. As such, 'Force of law' is often discussed in isolation to mainstr…
Just Traditions? Deconstruction, Critical Legal Studies, and Analytic Jurisprudence
At the time of its presentation, Derrida's 'Force of law' represented deconstruction's perhaps most direct statement on the possibility of justice and its most explicit engagement with law. The ensuing responses to that paper have typically focused on deconstruction's position regarding the force and authority of law, and especially on what is taken as Derrida's theory of justice. As such, 'Force of law' is often discussed in isolation to mainstr…
Wild Thoughts: A Deconstructive Environmental Ethics
Although environmental ethics has become more familiar and comfortable with the work of postmodernism, in particular continues to be depicted as destructive and nihilistic. A close examination of some specific works of deconstruction, however, shows that, far from denying responsibilities to the environment, deconstruction seeks to affirm a radical obligation toward the other. Because this possibility is habitually ruled out by denunciations of d…
Finally but Why?”: (Re)visions of the Humanities and the Democratic Ideal
Discipline and disclaim: Countermanding orders of (inter)disciplinarity 1
(1998). Discipline and disclaim: Countermanding orders of (inter)disciplinarity1. Continuum: Vol. 12, Philosophy and cultural studies, pp. 131-145
Culture and Pedagogy: On the Popular Art of Reviewing Popular Art
This article explores the influence of contemporary cultural studies on the transformation of the prevailing concepts and practices of culture - including notions of 'mass' and 'high' culture. The author draws on the different views of a variety of authors, such as John Hartley, Q. D. Leavis, Ken Gelder and Catherine Lumby
DIY John Curtin: Uncertain futures for heritage and citizenship in the era of digital friends and foes
This article introduces some of the problems confronting the popularization of national, civic and cultural heritage in the era of complex digital systems and social networks. Taking contemporary knowledge of John Curtin (Australia’s wartime PM) as its point of departure, the discussion explores some of the broader transformations of the conditions of citizenship, communication, heritage and knowledge production, and considers their implications …
The future of prediction: Speculating on William Gibson's meta-science-fiction
Ever since famed science fiction (SF) author Ursula Le Guin insisted that SF is ‘not about the future’ but rather ‘about the present’, critics of SF narratives have largely rejected the genre's popularly held associations with the function of ‘prediction’. Recent celebration of ex-cyberpunk William Gibson's Pattern Recognition as ‘artistically ambitious’ SF, notwithstanding its ‘present-day’ setting, thus appears to mark the inevitable conclusion…
Shameless: Reconceiving the Problem of Student Plagiarism
There are few education-related topics that are more talked about today than student plagiarism. Few issues in higher education are more likely to prompt a frown of disapproval from professional ed
Discipline and disclaim: Countermanding orders of (inter)disciplinarity 1
(1998). Discipline and disclaim: Countermanding orders of (inter)disciplinarity1. Continuum: Vol. 12, Philosophy and cultural studies, pp. 131-145
Culture and Pedagogy: On the Popular Art of Reviewing Popular Art
This article explores the influence of contemporary cultural studies on the transformation of the prevailing concepts and practices of culture - including notions of 'mass' and 'high' culture. The author draws on the different views of a variety of authors, such as John Hartley, Q. D. Leavis, Ken Gelder and Catherine Lumby
Discipline and disclaim: Countermanding orders of (inter)disciplinarity 1
(1998). Discipline and disclaim: Countermanding orders of (inter)disciplinarity1. Continuum: Vol. 12, Philosophy and cultural studies, pp. 131-145
Just Traditions? Deconstruction, Critical Legal Studies, and Analytic Jurisprudence
At the time of its presentation, Derrida's 'Force of law' represented deconstruction's perhaps most direct statement on the possibility of justice and its most explicit engagement with law. The ensuing responses to that paper have typically focused on deconstruction's position regarding the force and authority of law, and especially on what is taken as Derrida's theory of justice. As such, 'Force of law' is often discussed in isolation to mainstr…
Just Traditions? Deconstruction, Critical Legal Studies, and Analytic Jurisprudence
At the time of its presentation, Derrida's 'Force of law' represented deconstruction's perhaps most direct statement on the possibility of justice and its most explicit engagement with law. The ensuing responses to that paper have typically focused on deconstruction's position regarding the force and authority of law, and especially on what is taken as Derrida's theory of justice. As such, 'Force of law' is often discussed in isolation to mainstr…
Wild Thoughts: A Deconstructive Environmental Ethics
Although environmental ethics has become more familiar and comfortable with the work of postmodernism, in particular continues to be depicted as destructive and nihilistic. A close examination of some specific works of deconstruction, however, shows that, far from denying responsibilities to the environment, deconstruction seeks to affirm a radical obligation toward the other. Because this possibility is habitually ruled out by denunciations of d…
Finally but Why?”: (Re)visions of the Humanities and the Democratic Ideal
Shameless: Reconceiving the Problem of Student Plagiarism
There are few education-related topics that are more talked about today than student plagiarism. Few issues in higher education are more likely to prompt a frown of disapproval from professional ed
Understanding the past evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet: Merging data and glaciological modeling
DIY John Curtin: Uncertain futures for heritage and citizenship in the era of digital friends and foes
This article introduces some of the problems confronting the popularization of national, civic and cultural heritage in the era of complex digital systems and social networks. Taking contemporary knowledge of John Curtin (Australia’s wartime PM) as its point of departure, the discussion explores some of the broader transformations of the conditions of citizenship, communication, heritage and knowledge production, and considers their implications …
The future of prediction: Speculating on William Gibson's meta-science-fiction
Ever since famed science fiction (SF) author Ursula Le Guin insisted that SF is ‘not about the future’ but rather ‘about the present’, critics of SF narratives have largely rejected the genre's popularly held associations with the function of ‘prediction’. Recent celebration of ex-cyberpunk William Gibson's Pattern Recognition as ‘artistically ambitious’ SF, notwithstanding its ‘present-day’ setting, thus appears to mark the inevitable conclusion…
Derrida's Nonpower-From Writing to Zoopower
Derrida's displacement (after Bentham) of reason in favor of suffering as the key question in thinking about animals and his subsequent remarks on a "nonpower at the heart of power" are often taken as foregrounding a compassionate ethics in the face of the vulnerable (animal) other. This paper traces a genealogy of Derrida's occasional remarks on power and passivity to question whether this ethical reading adequately accounts for Derrida's "conce…
Social disconnection correlates of a “Wish to Die” among a large community-dwelling cohort of older adults
Introduction: Social disconnection and deaths by suicide among older adults are both important public health concerns, particularly in the context of ageing populations. The association between death ideation and behaviours, and social disconnection is well established and both functional and structural social relationships have been identified as predictive of suicide-related thoughts and behaviours. The "Wish to Die" (WTD) involves thoughts of …
On the specific existence of animal culture: Life Torn Asunder
While the thought of animal culture is readily accepted in the environmental humanities and in posthumanist critiques of human exceptionalism, this paper seeks to re-examine this acceptance in view of the ambivalence of that concept’s institutional and intellectual origins. For the critical affirmation of animal culture presents as a curious historical object when viewed from the perspective of the late twentieth-century literary-theoretical inte…
Democracy without People
In Politics of Friendship Derrida characterises his extended discussion as a contribution to a genealogical deconstruction of the link that ties democracy to autochthony. In Rogues a few years later, he adds to this work by articulating what might be figured as an extensionist hypothesis, raising the question of ‘how far’ ‘the people of demo cracy’ is to be extended. Here, I read these two lines of problematisation alongside each other, seeing in…
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