Damien Mcloughlin
Biographic Data
| ID | 224805 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Damien Mcloughlin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Damien |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcloughlin |
| SIGNATURE | MCLOUGHLIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9689-1690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Origins of Neoliberal Authoritarianism
This essay intervenes in contemporary debates around neoliberalism and its relationship to both authoritarianism and social democracy. It does so by reconstructing the debate on Thatcherism that took place between Stuart Hall and Bob Jessop in the 1980s. Both authors provide materialist analyses of Thatcherism that point to important continuities, at the level of both political economy and authoritarian political technique, between her hegemonic …
Effective communication during organizational change
Purpose There is a growing consensus about the role of communication in facilitating employees' acceptance of and support for organizational change initiatives. However, little is known about why communication breakdowns occur during change or how change recipients' cultural values can influence the effectiveness of communication in this context. The study addresses this gap. Design/methodology/approach The authors develop a theoretical framework…
The biopolitics of the Buribunks
This essay reads ‘The Buribunks’ as a biopolitical parody of the Hegelian dialectic. Schmitt tells us that the essence of the Buribunk is the fact that they keep a diary. For the Buribunks, this is a means of realising reason in History and through it, they become the instruments of World-Spirit. Yet the ‘noble realm’ that emerges when the Buribunks overcome the Master-Slave relationship looks more like the world of biopolitical management that w…
Interview with Vicki Kirby
In this interview, Vicki Kirby discusses her research into the relationship between nature and culture, focusing in particular on her recent edited collection, What If Culture Was Nature All Along? The volume appears in the 'New Materialisms' series, and so the interview begins by situating the collection with respect to the recent materialist turn in social theory. Kirby discusses the influence of deconstruction on her thought, and the way that …
Agamben and Radical Politics
12 essays on Giorgio Agamben's thinking about economy and government, revolt and revolutionGiorgio Agamben's analysis of sovereignty was profoundly influential for critical theory as it grappled with issues of security and state violence in the wake of 11 September 2001. But what does his work have to say in an age characterised by financial crisis and political revolts? The 12 essays in this volume provide new perspectives on economy and politic…
Post-Marxism and the Politics of Human Rights
On Political and Economic Theology
Giorgio Agamben's The Kingdom and the Glory opens by intervening in a debate between the jurist Carl Schmitt and the theologian Erik Peterson. Peterson's "Monotheism as a Political Problem" undermined Schmitt's thesis that the modern concept of sovereignty derives from Christian theology by arguing that divine monarchy is a Judaic and Greek idea that was liquidated by the doctrine of the Trinity. Agamben, by contrast, argues that the Trinity pres…
Rethinking Agamben
The Fiction of Sovereignty and the Real State of Exception
Agamben is perhaps best known for his analysis of the “logic of sovereignty” drawn from Carl Schmitt. This article examines the critique of sovereignty that Agamben develops through his reading of Walter Benjamin’s messianism. For Agamben, Schmitt’s analysis of sovereignty claims that the state of exception is a juridical condition, in that the law survives its suspension in the form of the “force-of-law.” Drawing on Benjamin, Agamben argues that…
From Voice to Infancygiorgio Agamben on the Existence of Language
The main concern of Agamben's work, prior to the Homo Sacer project, is how to understand the existence of or potentiality for language. Contemporary philosophy casts language as the unsayable presupposition of discourse. Agamben criticises this as an incomplete nihilism that remains within the horizon of metaphysics, and attempts to think the experience of language without an unsayable ground. I examine Agamben's critique of the role of the inef…
Giorgio Agamben on Security, Government and the Crisis of Law
In State of Exception, Giorgio Agamben argues that contemporary security politics is an extension of a crisis into which the liberal constitutional state entered after World War I, when the state of exception ‘became the rule’. Agamben has been criticised for focusing too narrowly on the problem of sovereignty and for failing to explain the causes of the crisis he identifies, yet he also describes this process as one in which the state of excepti…
Giorgio Agamben
The Sacred and the Unspeakable
The Sacred and the Unspeakable:Giorgio Agamben's Ontological Politics Daniel McLoughlin (bio) "it may be that only if we are able to decipher the political meaning of pure Being will we be able to master the bare life that expresses our subjection to political power, just as it may be, inversely, that only if we understand the theoretical implications of bare life will we be able to solve the enigma of ontology. Brought to the limit of pure Being…
In Force Without Significance
The Politics of Caesura
Crisis, Modernity, Authority
Jurist Carl Schmitt's work Political Theology is used as a focal point for analysis of contemporary crisis politics
Understanding the Emergence of Markets
Andrew Keating *Andrew Keating is a lecturer in marketing at the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. Damien McLoughlin is a senior lecturer in marketing at the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. & Damien McLoughlin
Understanding the Emergence of Markets
Andrew Keating *Andrew Keating is a lecturer in marketing at the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. Damien McLoughlin is a senior lecturer in marketing at the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. & Damien McLoughlin
In Force Without Significance
Post-Marxism and the Politics of Human Rights
The Politics of Caesura
On Political and Economic Theology
Giorgio Agamben's The Kingdom and the Glory opens by intervening in a debate between the jurist Carl Schmitt and the theologian Erik Peterson. Peterson's "Monotheism as a Political Problem" undermined Schmitt's thesis that the modern concept of sovereignty derives from Christian theology by arguing that divine monarchy is a Judaic and Greek idea that was liquidated by the doctrine of the Trinity. Agamben, by contrast, argues that the Trinity pres…
Rethinking Agamben
The Fiction of Sovereignty and the Real State of Exception
Agamben is perhaps best known for his analysis of the “logic of sovereignty” drawn from Carl Schmitt. This article examines the critique of sovereignty that Agamben develops through his reading of Walter Benjamin’s messianism. For Agamben, Schmitt’s analysis of sovereignty claims that the state of exception is a juridical condition, in that the law survives its suspension in the form of the “force-of-law.” Drawing on Benjamin, Agamben argues that…
Understanding the Emergence of Markets
Andrew Keating *Andrew Keating is a lecturer in marketing at the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. Damien McLoughlin is a senior lecturer in marketing at the Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business. & Damien McLoughlin
In Force Without Significance
The Politics of Caesura
Crisis, Modernity, Authority
Jurist Carl Schmitt's work Political Theology is used as a focal point for analysis of contemporary crisis politics
The Sacred and the Unspeakable
The Sacred and the Unspeakable:Giorgio Agamben's Ontological Politics Daniel McLoughlin (bio) "it may be that only if we are able to decipher the political meaning of pure Being will we be able to master the bare life that expresses our subjection to political power, just as it may be, inversely, that only if we understand the theoretical implications of bare life will we be able to solve the enigma of ontology. Brought to the limit of pure Being…
Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben on Security, Government and the Crisis of Law
In State of Exception, Giorgio Agamben argues that contemporary security politics is an extension of a crisis into which the liberal constitutional state entered after World War I, when the state of exception ‘became the rule’. Agamben has been criticised for focusing too narrowly on the problem of sovereignty and for failing to explain the causes of the crisis he identifies, yet he also describes this process as one in which the state of excepti…
The Fiction of Sovereignty and the Real State of Exception
Agamben is perhaps best known for his analysis of the “logic of sovereignty” drawn from Carl Schmitt. This article examines the critique of sovereignty that Agamben develops through his reading of Walter Benjamin’s messianism. For Agamben, Schmitt’s analysis of sovereignty claims that the state of exception is a juridical condition, in that the law survives its suspension in the form of the “force-of-law.” Drawing on Benjamin, Agamben argues that…
From Voice to Infancygiorgio Agamben on the Existence of Language
The main concern of Agamben's work, prior to the Homo Sacer project, is how to understand the existence of or potentiality for language. Contemporary philosophy casts language as the unsayable presupposition of discourse. Agamben criticises this as an incomplete nihilism that remains within the horizon of metaphysics, and attempts to think the experience of language without an unsayable ground. I examine Agamben's critique of the role of the inef…
Rethinking Agamben
On Political and Economic Theology
Giorgio Agamben's The Kingdom and the Glory opens by intervening in a debate between the jurist Carl Schmitt and the theologian Erik Peterson. Peterson's "Monotheism as a Political Problem" undermined Schmitt's thesis that the modern concept of sovereignty derives from Christian theology by arguing that divine monarchy is a Judaic and Greek idea that was liquidated by the doctrine of the Trinity. Agamben, by contrast, argues that the Trinity pres…
Agamben and Radical Politics
12 essays on Giorgio Agamben's thinking about economy and government, revolt and revolutionGiorgio Agamben's analysis of sovereignty was profoundly influential for critical theory as it grappled with issues of security and state violence in the wake of 11 September 2001. But what does his work have to say in an age characterised by financial crisis and political revolts? The 12 essays in this volume provide new perspectives on economy and politic…
Post-Marxism and the Politics of Human Rights
The biopolitics of the Buribunks
This essay reads ‘The Buribunks’ as a biopolitical parody of the Hegelian dialectic. Schmitt tells us that the essence of the Buribunk is the fact that they keep a diary. For the Buribunks, this is a means of realising reason in History and through it, they become the instruments of World-Spirit. Yet the ‘noble realm’ that emerges when the Buribunks overcome the Master-Slave relationship looks more like the world of biopolitical management that w…
Interview with Vicki Kirby
In this interview, Vicki Kirby discusses her research into the relationship between nature and culture, focusing in particular on her recent edited collection, What If Culture Was Nature All Along? The volume appears in the 'New Materialisms' series, and so the interview begins by situating the collection with respect to the recent materialist turn in social theory. Kirby discusses the influence of deconstruction on her thought, and the way that …
Effective communication during organizational change
Purpose There is a growing consensus about the role of communication in facilitating employees' acceptance of and support for organizational change initiatives. However, little is known about why communication breakdowns occur during change or how change recipients' cultural values can influence the effectiveness of communication in this context. The study addresses this gap. Design/methodology/approach The authors develop a theoretical framework…
The Origins of Neoliberal Authoritarianism
This essay intervenes in contemporary debates around neoliberalism and its relationship to both authoritarianism and social democracy. It does so by reconstructing the debate on Thatcherism that took place between Stuart Hall and Bob Jessop in the 1980s. Both authors provide materialist analyses of Thatcherism that point to important continuities, at the level of both political economy and authoritarian political technique, between her hegemonic …
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