Chris Fleming
Biographic Data
| ID | 197136 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chris Fleming |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chris |
| FAMILY NAME | Fleming |
| SIGNATURE | FLEMING C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0178-1676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On doing your own research: Conspiracy theory, distributed intelligence, and the ethics of knowing
The models used to analyse conspiracy theory have often been individualistic; conspiracy theorists have been seen to embody either faulty epistemology (believing things neither true nor justified) or to suffer from psychopathology. In this article, I will argue that the conception of the (disordered) mind common to both is inadequate to the task, and instead that conspiracy theory is better conceived along lines supplied by what colleagues and I …
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Speculativism
Language Games and Philosophy
In this article, Pierre Hadot examines the late philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the so-called “linguistic turn” in philosophy and the social sciences. Although certain interpreters of Wittgenstein have thought that Philosophical Investigations shows philosophy to be predicated on a series of confusions based on the misuse of language, Hadot argues contrarily that an understanding of Wittgenstein’s idea of “language games”—far from ending ph…
Violence in the Name of God: The Militant Jihadist Response to Modernity
This book traces the trajectory of militant jihadism to show how violence is more intentionally embraced as the centre of worship, social order and ideology. Undertaking an in-depth analysis of militant jihadist groups and utilising the work of René Girard, Joel Hodge argues that the extreme violence of militant jihadists is a response to modernity in two ways that have not been sufficiently explored by the existing literature. Firstly, it is a m…
Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Wellbeing
Modern Conspiracy: The Importance of Being Paranoid
"While conspiracy theory is often characterized in terms of the collapse of objectivity and Enlightenment reason, Modern Conspiracy traces the important role of conspiracy in the formation of the modern world: the scientific revolution, social contract theory, political sovereignty, religious paranoia and mass communication media. Rather than seeing the imminent death of Enlightenment reason and a regression to a new Dark Age in conspiratorial th…
Symmetrical Modernities
A review of Jane Bennett's The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings and Ethics (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001
Revolution, rupture, rhetoric
This article traces certain rhetorics of knowledge-change as well as a few models of such change. In particular, it focuses on models that emphasize novelty and sudden transformation. To this end, the works of Thomas Kuhn, and the debates surrounding his celebrated modeling of the paradigm, are explored. Having established – at least in an illustrative fashion – the role of novelty in Kuhn’s philosophy of science, we then look more briefly at the…
Providence Lost – By Genevieve Lloyd
The Art of the Hoax
Joshua Golding, Rationality and Religious Theism and Rodney D. Holder, God, the Multiverse, and Everything.
Joshua Golding, Rationality and Religious Theism. Hampshire, Ashgate, 2003, pp. 142, ISBN 0754615685 (Hbk), 0754615677 (Pbk). Rodney D. Holder, God, the Multiverse, and Everything. Hampshire, Ashgate, 2004, pp. 220, ISBN 0754651169.
In Memoriam: Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
Philosophy and Anthropology Late in 1998, replying to a question from Catherine Paoletti, the philosopher, Jacques Derrida was asked to reflect on aspects of his own early life. He remarked on his own decision to write in the first place that it was for him A form of resistance, of retreat. In this journal I kept (as a youth), there were things that were at once autobiographical and personal, but also, already sketches of little works on Rousseau…
Rene Girard: Violence and Mimesis
This text provides an introduction to the work and thought of René Girard, thought by many to be one of the most important, if controversial, cultural theorists of the 20th century
Dangerous Darwinism
We are concerned with a particular rhetorical narrative that appeared in the early stages of the Darwin debate but that has been fiercely resurgent in the past two decades. Freud wrote of Darwin's theory as one of three major blows to which human vanity had been submitted at the hands of science. Assertions that “Darwin's dangerous idea” came as a horrible shock to the Victorians and that it is still a profound psychological threat, and therefore…
Performance as Guerrilla Ontology: The Case of Stelarc
This article examines the work of the Australian performance artist, Stelarc, in terms of philosophies of mind and body. It argues that Stelarc's work can profitably be seen as a kind of performative `research' into the body; Stelarc's actions take the form of a hypothetical or speculative ontology which does not operate in order to represent possibility but to enact possibilities in real time and space. His work is compared with and shown to hav…
The Art of the Hoax
Revolution, rupture, rhetoric
This article traces certain rhetorics of knowledge-change as well as a few models of such change. In particular, it focuses on models that emphasize novelty and sudden transformation. To this end, the works of Thomas Kuhn, and the debates surrounding his celebrated modeling of the paradigm, are explored. Having established – at least in an illustrative fashion – the role of novelty in Kuhn’s philosophy of science, we then look more briefly at the…
Dangerous Darwinism
We are concerned with a particular rhetorical narrative that appeared in the early stages of the Darwin debate but that has been fiercely resurgent in the past two decades. Freud wrote of Darwin's theory as one of three major blows to which human vanity had been submitted at the hands of science. Assertions that “Darwin's dangerous idea” came as a horrible shock to the Victorians and that it is still a profound psychological threat, and therefore…
Performance as Guerrilla Ontology: The Case of Stelarc
This article examines the work of the Australian performance artist, Stelarc, in terms of philosophies of mind and body. It argues that Stelarc's work can profitably be seen as a kind of performative `research' into the body; Stelarc's actions take the form of a hypothetical or speculative ontology which does not operate in order to represent possibility but to enact possibilities in real time and space. His work is compared with and shown to hav…
Rene Girard: Violence and Mimesis
This text provides an introduction to the work and thought of René Girard, thought by many to be one of the most important, if controversial, cultural theorists of the 20th century
In Memoriam: Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
Philosophy and Anthropology Late in 1998, replying to a question from Catherine Paoletti, the philosopher, Jacques Derrida was asked to reflect on aspects of his own early life. He remarked on his own decision to write in the first place that it was for him A form of resistance, of retreat. In this journal I kept (as a youth), there were things that were at once autobiographical and personal, but also, already sketches of little works on Rousseau…
Joshua Golding, Rationality and Religious Theism and Rodney D. Holder, God, the Multiverse, and Everything.
Joshua Golding, Rationality and Religious Theism. Hampshire, Ashgate, 2003, pp. 142, ISBN 0754615685 (Hbk), 0754615677 (Pbk). Rodney D. Holder, God, the Multiverse, and Everything. Hampshire, Ashgate, 2004, pp. 220, ISBN 0754651169.
The Art of the Hoax
Providence Lost – By Genevieve Lloyd
Revolution, rupture, rhetoric
This article traces certain rhetorics of knowledge-change as well as a few models of such change. In particular, it focuses on models that emphasize novelty and sudden transformation. To this end, the works of Thomas Kuhn, and the debates surrounding his celebrated modeling of the paradigm, are explored. Having established – at least in an illustrative fashion – the role of novelty in Kuhn’s philosophy of science, we then look more briefly at the…
Symmetrical Modernities
A review of Jane Bennett's The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings and Ethics (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001
Modern Conspiracy: The Importance of Being Paranoid
"While conspiracy theory is often characterized in terms of the collapse of objectivity and Enlightenment reason, Modern Conspiracy traces the important role of conspiracy in the formation of the modern world: the scientific revolution, social contract theory, political sovereignty, religious paranoia and mass communication media. Rather than seeing the imminent death of Enlightenment reason and a regression to a new Dark Age in conspiratorial th…
Routledge Handbook of Indigenous Wellbeing
Violence in the Name of God: The Militant Jihadist Response to Modernity
This book traces the trajectory of militant jihadism to show how violence is more intentionally embraced as the centre of worship, social order and ideology. Undertaking an in-depth analysis of militant jihadist groups and utilising the work of René Girard, Joel Hodge argues that the extreme violence of militant jihadists is a response to modernity in two ways that have not been sufficiently explored by the existing literature. Firstly, it is a m…
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Speculativism
Language Games and Philosophy
In this article, Pierre Hadot examines the late philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein and the so-called “linguistic turn” in philosophy and the social sciences. Although certain interpreters of Wittgenstein have thought that Philosophical Investigations shows philosophy to be predicated on a series of confusions based on the misuse of language, Hadot argues contrarily that an understanding of Wittgenstein’s idea of “language games”—far from ending ph…
On doing your own research: Conspiracy theory, distributed intelligence, and the ethics of knowing
The models used to analyse conspiracy theory have often been individualistic; conspiracy theorists have been seen to embody either faulty epistemology (believing things neither true nor justified) or to suffer from psychopathology. In this article, I will argue that the conception of the (disordered) mind common to both is inadequate to the task, and instead that conspiracy theory is better conceived along lines supplied by what colleagues and I …
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