Michael E Lipscomb
Biographic Data
| ID | 2023295 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael E Lipscomb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael E |
| FAMILY NAME | Lipscomb |
| SIGNATURE | LIPSCOMB M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Winthrop University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Violence, Nonviolence, and the Utopian Structure of Environmental Democracy
The current era of environmental crises and their seeming intractability, particularly in the context of an entrenched capitalist order, has given rise to a deep-felt pessimism about the possibility of meaningful change. Despite this pessimism, a utopian impulse can still be imagined within the very terms of that pessimism. Drawing from the work of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler, an analysis of the iterated violence that cons…
The Distortion of Nature’s Image
Damian Gerber’s The Distortion of Nature’s Image: Reification and the Ecological Crisis is a provocative work that will be of particular interest to environmental and progressive political theorist
Ecology and Revolution
Democracy and Communicative Rifts
This paper explores the descriptive, critical, and prescriptive potential of a discourse approach for the analysis of environmental policy processes by examining the political controversy surrounding the siting of a radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Following the work of Michel Foucault, we take different discourses as being immediately incommensurable with one another, thereby leading to breakdowns in communication among th…
The Theory of Communicative Action and the Aesthetic Moment
In the serious play of questions and answers, in the work of reciprocal elucidation, the rights of each person are in some sense immanent in the discussion. They depend only on the dialogue situation. The person asking questions is merely exercising the right that has been given him: to remain unconvinced, to perceive a contradiction, to require more information, to emphasize different postulates, to point out faulty reasoning, etc. Michel Foucau…
Violence, Nonviolence, and the Utopian Structure of Environmental Democracy
The current era of environmental crises and their seeming intractability, particularly in the context of an entrenched capitalist order, has given rise to a deep-felt pessimism about the possibility of meaningful change. Despite this pessimism, a utopian impulse can still be imagined within the very terms of that pessimism. Drawing from the work of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler, an analysis of the iterated violence that cons…
Democracy and Communicative Rifts
This paper explores the descriptive, critical, and prescriptive potential of a discourse approach for the analysis of environmental policy processes by examining the political controversy surrounding the siting of a radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Following the work of Michel Foucault, we take different discourses as being immediately incommensurable with one another, thereby leading to breakdowns in communication among th…
Democracy and Communicative Rifts
This paper explores the descriptive, critical, and prescriptive potential of a discourse approach for the analysis of environmental policy processes by examining the political controversy surrounding the siting of a radioactive waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada. Following the work of Michel Foucault, we take different discourses as being immediately incommensurable with one another, thereby leading to breakdowns in communication among th…
The Theory of Communicative Action and the Aesthetic Moment
In the serious play of questions and answers, in the work of reciprocal elucidation, the rights of each person are in some sense immanent in the discussion. They depend only on the dialogue situation. The person asking questions is merely exercising the right that has been given him: to remain unconvinced, to perceive a contradiction, to require more information, to emphasize different postulates, to point out faulty reasoning, etc. Michel Foucau…
Ecology and Revolution
The Distortion of Nature’s Image
Damian Gerber’s The Distortion of Nature’s Image: Reification and the Ecological Crisis is a provocative work that will be of particular interest to environmental and progressive political theorist
Violence, Nonviolence, and the Utopian Structure of Environmental Democracy
The current era of environmental crises and their seeming intractability, particularly in the context of an entrenched capitalist order, has given rise to a deep-felt pessimism about the possibility of meaningful change. Despite this pessimism, a utopian impulse can still be imagined within the very terms of that pessimism. Drawing from the work of Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, and Judith Butler, an analysis of the iterated violence that cons…
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