David Pike
Biographic Data
| ID | 225815 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Pike |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Pike |
| SIGNATURE | PIKE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | American University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7679-6963 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The impact of generative AI on academic integrity of authentic assessments within a higher education context
Generative AI (hereinafter GenAI) technology, such as ChatGPT, is already influencing the higher education sector. In this work, we focused on the impact of GenAI on the academic integrity of assessments within higher education institutions, as GenAI can be used to circumvent assessment approaches within the sector, compromising their quality. The purpose of our research was threefold: first, to determine the extent to which the use of GenAI can …
Corruption plots in an age of authoritarian populism
When, in 2014, we first started thinking about what eventually became Corruption Plots, India had just seen the rise of a major anti-corruption movement that had brought a rightwing Hindu nationalist government to power. The India Against Corruption (IAC) movement, as it was known, had successfully mobilised a mix of urban middle-class voters, public interest lawyers, and corporate heads against what was understood as the massive political graft …
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City
This book illuminates how corruption is fundamental to global storytelling about how states and elites abuse entrusted power in late capitalism. The millennial city of the global South is a charged setting for allegations of corruption, with skyscrapers, land grabs, and slum evictions invoking outrage at deepening economic polarization. Drawing on ethnography in Bengaluru and Mumbai and a cross-section of literary and cinematic stories from citie…
Corruption Plots: Stories, Ethics, and Publics of the Late Capitalist City
Corruption Plots illuminates how corruption is fundamental to a global storytelling practice about how states and elites abuse entrusted power in late capitalism. The millennial city of the global South is a charged setting for allegations of corruption, with skyscrapers, land grabs, and slum evictions invoking outrage at deepening economic polarization. Drawing on ethnography in Bengaluru and Mumbai and a cross-section of literary and cinematic …
Cities, Railways, Modernities: London, Paris, and the Nineteenth Century by Carlos López Galviz
Reviewed by: Cities, Railways, Modernities: London, Paris, and the Nineteenth Century by Carlos López Galviz David Pike (bio) Cities, Railways, Modernities: London, Paris, and the Nineteenth Century By Carlos López Galviz. New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. xvi + 310. Cities, Railways, Modernities: London, Paris, and the Nineteenth Century By Carlos López Galviz. New York: Routledge, 2019. Pp. xvi + 310. In 1846, City Solicitor Charles Pearson submit…
Haunted Mountains, Supershelters, and the Afterlives of Cold War Infrastructure
A dominant architectural form in the global North since the end of the Second World War, the deep-level supershelters, command centers, and hidden fortifications built within mountains mobilize an ambivalent imaginary called here the ‘bunker fantasy’. This cluster of images is simultaneously technologized and sacred. During the Cold War, imagined mountain bunkers in nuclear war fiction are shown to be haunted by what they exclude. After the Cold …
China Miéville's Fantastic Slums and the Urban Abcanny
With few exceptions, China Miéville's oeuvre is built out of urban imaginaries. Miéville's cities are dynamic and dialectically conceived spaces; their key element, where most of the action takes place and most of the energy is invested, is the slum in all its variations, generating and providing the primary setting for the weird horror at the heart of Miéville's imagination, for the attenuated but omnipresent utopianism both obscured and enabled…
Cold War Reduction: The Principle of the Swiss Bunker Fantasy
The bunkerization of Europe is a Cold War story that has continued to resonate into the 21st century through foreign policy, the built environment, and cultural traces both material and imaginary. This essay explores the physical, ideological, and cultural bunkerization of Switzerland, one of the most heavily fortified countries in the world, through its military and civil defense history, the spatial manifestations of that history, and the cultu…
Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway . by Sunny Stalter-Pace (review)
Reviewed by: Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway. by Sunny Stalter-Pace David Pike (bio) Underground Movements: Modern Culture on the New York City Subway. by Sunny Stalter-Pace. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2013. Pp. 240. 24.95. This is an uneven, scattered, and ultimately disappointing study of a compelling topic. Stalter-Pace’s study of “stories told about the New York subway in the first half of th…
Are We There Yet? Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism
It is a commonplace that the habits and expectations that mark much of our relationship to digital media originated in the new commodity culture, infrastructure, and networks of the 19th century. B
Headlong into futurity
‘So, with a kind of madness upon me, I flung myself into futurity.’ These are the words with which H. G. Wells’s Time Traveller powers his machine into high gear, as a result of which he will soon find himself more than 800,000 years removed into ‘futurity,’ a sufficient distance from which to speculate on the long-term effects of the profound changes occurring back in England in 1895. With this abrupt gesture, Wells also pretty much invented spe…
Fun in Victorian London Today
This essay is devoted to the pair of terms that brackets my subtitle, terms that seem to me both counterintuitive and highly relevant to current academic and non-academic thinking about Victorian London, but especially to the relationship between the two. In particular, I am concerned with the conundrum of ‘fun’ as it relates to the darker elements of the nineteenth-century city in the fluctuating time of the present we refer to somewhat loosely …
Thoughts on the Telectroscope
Response to Paul St George
Reading Paul's response, I find myself struck again by the difficulty in finding positive terms for describing the deviation from functionality. It is not as if 'useless', 'impractical', 'fanciful', or 'playful' sound any less pejorative when speaking of technology and yet all of them have been used to characterize steampunk's relationship to Victorian technology as well as Paul's Telectroscope (at least from the American side -'quaint' and 'fanc…
Afterimages of the Victorian City
As emblematic spaces of social and cultural contamination, the Victorian street and underworld have had remarkable afterlives in twentieth-century reinterpretations of Victorian cityscapes. This article explores what persists in our vision of the nineteenth-century city well over a century after it was, so to speak, first seen, and how what persists impacts on our attempts to reconstruct that act of seeing. In the lived spaces around us there is …
Wall and Tunnel: The Spatial Metaphorics of Cold War Berlin
Like all of the great modernist cities of Europe, Berlin had a venerable and highly developed underground infrastructure: sewers, service tunnels, subways. But unlike the Paris sewers, the London Tube, or the Roman catacombs, the German capital was not identified in any mythic or symbolic way with this infrastructure. Rather than based in a physical feature of its subterranean space, the reigning image of subterranean Berlin was metaphorical: the…
The Greatest Wonder of the World”: Brunel's Tunnel and the Meanings of Underground London
T HE EAST END OF LONDON was not a common destination for the upper- or middle-class sightseer in the early nineteenth century. The requisite steamer ride down the Thames from London Bridge for the excursion out of the city to Greenwich would show, along the way, in the words of one tourist, “The Custom House and the Tower, the only prominent objects rising out of the dreary range of shabbiness which stretches along close to the water's edge” (Haw…
The Walt Disney World Underground
This article has grown out of a larger project on representations of subterranean space in the modern city. It explores the meanings of the “utilidors,” the underground infrastructure of the Magic Kingdom, within the broader experience of the space of Walt Disney World. It relates this experience to a particular mode of representing the modern city as divided between its respectable, aboveground spaces and its hidden, underground spaces. The auth…
Kaliko-Welt: The Grosstadte of Lang's Metropolis and Brecht's Dreigroschenoper
Siegfried Kracauer, "Kult der Zerstreuung: Über Berlins Lichtspielhäuser" (Frankfurter Zeitung 4 March 1926)
Passage through Hell. Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds
Pike, David L.Passage Through Hell. Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds. Ithaca: Cornell UP 1997. 292 pp. $ 37.50 hardcover. The descensus ad inferos-the descent into hell-is unquestionably of more suggestive and intriguing motifs in Western literature. It is also that has received extensive treatment in past. Confronted with burgeoning literature on topic (primary sources as well as criticism), Pike has opted for a novel approach. Rather th…
Bernard Silvestris’ descent into the classics: TheCommentum super sex libros Aeneidos
The Politics of Culture in Soviet-Occupied Germany: 1945-1949
Preface Part I. Doctrinal Adjustments and Cultural Corollaries (1945-1946): 1. Sovietization or democracy? 2. organization and bureaucracy 3. Seizing the initiative 4. Theory and practice 5. The origins of socialist realism Part II. Two Camps (1947): 6. Ideological offensives 7. SED and intelligentsia 8. Censorship and controversy Part III. Ideological Reversion and Cultural Conformity (1948): 9. Nationalist deviations 10. Cultural coordination 1…
The Politics of Culture in Soviet-Occupied Germany, 1945-1949
The Opening of the Second World War
Cultural Politics in Soviet-Occupied Germany 1945-46
Cold War Reduction: The Principle of the Swiss Bunker Fantasy
The bunkerization of Europe is a Cold War story that has continued to resonate into the 21st century through foreign policy, the built environment, and cultural traces both material and imaginary. This essay explores the physical, ideological, and cultural bunkerization of Switzerland, one of the most heavily fortified countries in the world, through its military and civil defense history, the spatial manifestations of that history, and the cultu…
Haunted Mountains, Supershelters, and the Afterlives of Cold War Infrastructure
A dominant architectural form in the global North since the end of the Second World War, the deep-level supershelters, command centers, and hidden fortifications built within mountains mobilize an ambivalent imaginary called here the ‘bunker fantasy’. This cluster of images is simultaneously technologized and sacred. During the Cold War, imagined mountain bunkers in nuclear war fiction are shown to be haunted by what they exclude. After the Cold …
Are We There Yet? Virtual Travel and Victorian Realism
It is a commonplace that the habits and expectations that mark much of our relationship to digital media originated in the new commodity culture, infrastructure, and networks of the 19th century. B
Response to Paul St George
Reading Paul's response, I find myself struck again by the difficulty in finding positive terms for describing the deviation from functionality. It is not as if 'useless', 'impractical', 'fanciful', or 'playful' sound any less pejorative when speaking of technology and yet all of them have been used to characterize steampunk's relationship to Victorian technology as well as Paul's Telectroscope (at least from the American side -'quaint' and 'fanc…
Wall and Tunnel: The Spatial Metaphorics of Cold War Berlin
Like all of the great modernist cities of Europe, Berlin had a venerable and highly developed underground infrastructure: sewers, service tunnels, subways. But unlike the Paris sewers, the London Tube, or the Roman catacombs, the German capital was not identified in any mythic or symbolic way with this infrastructure. Rather than based in a physical feature of its subterranean space, the reigning image of subterranean Berlin was metaphorical: the…
The Walt Disney World Underground
This article has grown out of a larger project on representations of subterranean space in the modern city. It explores the meanings of the “utilidors,” the underground infrastructure of the Magic Kingdom, within the broader experience of the space of Walt Disney World. It relates this experience to a particular mode of representing the modern city as divided between its respectable, aboveground spaces and its hidden, underground spaces. The auth…
Georg Lukács on Stalinism and Democracy: Before and After Prague, 1968
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume Three, 1851-1890, A-C
Solzhenitsyn: Politics and Form
The German Ezhovshchina. Stalin’s Purge of Germans 1933-1941
Article The German Ezhovshchina. Stalin’s Purge of Germans 1933-1941 was published on January 1, 1980 in the journal Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (volume 5, issue Jahresband)
German Writers in Soviet Exile, 1933-1945
The Ghost of Stalin past: Harry Thurk as Gap-Stopper
Marxism-Leninism and Literary History in the German Democratic Republic. From Proletarian Revolutionary Literature to Socialist Realism 1917–1945
Article Marxism-Leninism and Literary History in the German Democratic Republic. From Proletarian Revolutionary Literature to Socialist Realism 1917–1945 was published on January 1, 1982 in the journal Internationales Archiv für Sozialgeschichte der deutschen Literatur (volume 7, issue Jahresband)
German Writers in Soviet Exile, 1933-1945
Lukacs & Brecht
Lukacs and Brecht
The Owl of Minerva: Reappraisals of Georg Lukacs, East and West
Georg Lukács on Stalinism and Democracy: Before and After Prague, 1968
New York 1937. Reden und Dokumente der Schriftstellerkongresse
Cultural Politics in Soviet-Occupied Germany 1945-46
The Opening of the Second World War
The Politics of Culture in Soviet-Occupied Germany: 1945-1949
Preface Part I. Doctrinal Adjustments and Cultural Corollaries (1945-1946): 1. Sovietization or democracy? 2. organization and bureaucracy 3. Seizing the initiative 4. Theory and practice 5. The origins of socialist realism Part II. Two Camps (1947): 6. Ideological offensives 7. SED and intelligentsia 8. Censorship and controversy Part III. Ideological Reversion and Cultural Conformity (1948): 9. Nationalist deviations 10. Cultural coordination 1…
The Politics of Culture in Soviet-Occupied Germany, 1945-1949
Bernard Silvestris’ descent into the classics: TheCommentum super sex libros Aeneidos
Passage through Hell. Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds
Pike, David L.Passage Through Hell. Modernist Descents, Medieval Underworlds. Ithaca: Cornell UP 1997. 292 pp. $ 37.50 hardcover. The descensus ad inferos-the descent into hell-is unquestionably of more suggestive and intriguing motifs in Western literature. It is also that has received extensive treatment in past. Confronted with burgeoning literature on topic (primary sources as well as criticism), Pike has opted for a novel approach. Rather th…
The Walt Disney World Underground
This article has grown out of a larger project on representations of subterranean space in the modern city. It explores the meanings of the “utilidors,” the underground infrastructure of the Magic Kingdom, within the broader experience of the space of Walt Disney World. It relates this experience to a particular mode of representing the modern city as divided between its respectable, aboveground spaces and its hidden, underground spaces. The auth…
Kaliko-Welt: The Grosstadte of Lang's Metropolis and Brecht's Dreigroschenoper
Siegfried Kracauer, "Kult der Zerstreuung: Über Berlins Lichtspielhäuser" (Frankfurter Zeitung 4 March 1926)
The Greatest Wonder of the World”: Brunel's Tunnel and the Meanings of Underground London
T HE EAST END OF LONDON was not a common destination for the upper- or middle-class sightseer in the early nineteenth century. The requisite steamer ride down the Thames from London Bridge for the excursion out of the city to Greenwich would show, along the way, in the words of one tourist, “The Custom House and the Tower, the only prominent objects rising out of the dreary range of shabbiness which stretches along close to the water's edge” (Haw…
Afterimages of the Victorian City
As emblematic spaces of social and cultural contamination, the Victorian street and underworld have had remarkable afterlives in twentieth-century reinterpretations of Victorian cityscapes. This article explores what persists in our vision of the nineteenth-century city well over a century after it was, so to speak, first seen, and how what persists impacts on our attempts to reconstruct that act of seeing. In the lived spaces around us there is …
Wall and Tunnel: The Spatial Metaphorics of Cold War Berlin
Like all of the great modernist cities of Europe, Berlin had a venerable and highly developed underground infrastructure: sewers, service tunnels, subways. But unlike the Paris sewers, the London Tube, or the Roman catacombs, the German capital was not identified in any mythic or symbolic way with this infrastructure. Rather than based in a physical feature of its subterranean space, the reigning image of subterranean Berlin was metaphorical: the…
Thoughts on the Telectroscope
Response to Paul St George
Reading Paul's response, I find myself struck again by the difficulty in finding positive terms for describing the deviation from functionality. It is not as if 'useless', 'impractical', 'fanciful', or 'playful' sound any less pejorative when speaking of technology and yet all of them have been used to characterize steampunk's relationship to Victorian technology as well as Paul's Telectroscope (at least from the American side -'quaint' and 'fanc…
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