John A Weaver
Biographic Data
| ID | 2332007 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Weaver |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Weaver |
| SIGNATURE | WEAVER J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgia Southern University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8989-5941 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“My Reading Life”
In this article, I outline the academic life of reading, what it demands, and what it has become for too many—an evasion of thinking. I discuss the crisis that the evasion of reading has caused and how the contemporary university has promoted this crisis. I rely on established critics of reading and academic work (J. Hillis Miller and Isabella Stengers) to think myself out of this crisis and to maintain high standards for living an intellectual l…
A tribute to Annette Gough’s scholarly career: A road map to a sustainable career and planet
Serres’ science
In this article I explore Serres’ idea of science and how it impacted his overall work. This approach to understanding Serres’ idea of science is much like working with Nietzsche. I look at the areas Serres viewed as the dangers of science including what he referred to as a tsunami of data and the primary focus on methods. I end with Serres third way of inventive science
Serres and the university
Michel Serres was a successful scholar who made a living within the university on two continents. However, he also viewed the university with great trepidation and tried to warn young scholars against falling victim to the university culture that encouraged a scholar to become a critic and not do original work. In place of the current university system, Serres offers an alternative vision that I refer to as the Diogenes University
Michel Serres: A pedagogical life
In the now well-known series of interviews with Bruno Latour, Michel Serres noted that his philosophy of not partaking in critique and seeking only invention has come “at a very high price—that of
Dados Dirigindo a Vida Fora De Sequência: Derivas Entre Estudos Da Ciência E Da Tecnologia E Pesquisa Em Educação
Este artigo explora derivas entre os estudos da ciência e da tecnologia e a pesquisa em educação, e é pautado pela obra de Steven (2013), na qual o autor traça um passeio etnográfico e histórico sobre laboratórios de bioinformática. O artigo foi concebido a partir de uma conversa entre autores que, oriundos de distintos países, foram instados a comentar ilações epistemológicas e ontológicas das transformações tecnológicas das ciências da vida par…
Rethinking Social Inquiry in the Wake of Science Studies: Transdisciplinary Pursuits in Times of Climate Change, Information Flows, and Fading Democracies
Our aim for this special issue of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies is to engage with current influential texts in Science Studies, addressing the urgent need to rethink the role of the sciences in transdisciplinary possibilities for social inquiry. In this introductory essay, we underscore the political stakes of this kind of work, and we focus on a few key themes that run across the collected articles, situated as they are within what sci…
Life Out of Sequence: Data-Driving Life and Science Studies
This article focuses on Hallam Stevens' work Life out of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics and stresses the important process of data generation and how this process has now become an issue, in some fields, beyond human control. We suggest the best way to approach the proliferation of data is to adopt an onto-epistemic position. We further explore the rise of an algorithmic society and the problem 'gaps' created in date generation…
Science, Democracy, and Curriculum Studies
Science, Democracy, and Curriculum Studies
(Post)Colonial Science
Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture
Through a portal and finding remnants: An incomplete report
Through a portal and finding remnants: An incomplete report." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(14), pp. 1578–1579
Against methodocentrism in educational research
This essay defines and critiques ‘methodocentrism’, the belief that predetermined research methods are the determining factor in the validity and importance of educational research. By examining research in science studies and posthumanism, the authors explain how this methodocentrism disenables research from taking account of problems and non-human actants that are presumed to be of no importance or value in existing social science research meth…
Madness and Marginality: The lives of Kenya’s White insane by Will Jackson (review)
Reviewed by: Madness and Marginality: The lives of Kenya’s White insane by Will Jackson John Weaver Madness and Marginality: The lives of Kenya’s White insane By Will Jackson. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Will Jackson’s guiding ambition in writing Madness and Marginality was to find and investigate the subjective experiences of the marginalized White men and women of empire. He intended to contribute to the small number of publi…
Educating the Posthuman: Biosciences, Fiction, and Curriculum Studies
Popular Culture Primer
The Popular Culture Primer is an introductory text that traces the history of popular culture and cultural studies. Besides covering the traditional subjects such as the influence of the Frankfurt School and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, this book will cover the cultural studies of science and technology and other subjects that are generally ignored in introductory texts, such as science fiction, fan cultures, and childhood studie…
We've had no punctures whatsoever’: Dunlop, commerce and cycling in fin de siècle Australia
Zum Wohl des Kindes? Padologie, padagogische Psychologie und experimentelle Padagogik in Europa und den USA, 1890-1940
Against methodocentrism in educational research
This essay defines and critiques ‘methodocentrism’, the belief that predetermined research methods are the determining factor in the validity and importance of educational research. By examining research in science studies and posthumanism, the authors explain how this methodocentrism disenables research from taking account of problems and non-human actants that are presumed to be of no importance or value in existing social science research meth…
Rethinking Social Inquiry in the Wake of Science Studies: Transdisciplinary Pursuits in Times of Climate Change, Information Flows, and Fading Democracies
Our aim for this special issue of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies is to engage with current influential texts in Science Studies, addressing the urgent need to rethink the role of the sciences in transdisciplinary possibilities for social inquiry. In this introductory essay, we underscore the political stakes of this kind of work, and we focus on a few key themes that run across the collected articles, situated as they are within what sci…
A tribute to Annette Gough’s scholarly career: A road map to a sustainable career and planet
Zum Wohl des Kindes? Padologie, padagogische Psychologie und experimentelle Padagogik in Europa und den USA, 1890-1940
Serres’ science
In this article I explore Serres’ idea of science and how it impacted his overall work. This approach to understanding Serres’ idea of science is much like working with Nietzsche. I look at the areas Serres viewed as the dangers of science including what he referred to as a tsunami of data and the primary focus on methods. I end with Serres third way of inventive science
We've had no punctures whatsoever’: Dunlop, commerce and cycling in fin de siècle Australia
Zum Wohl des Kindes? Padologie, padagogische Psychologie und experimentelle Padagogik in Europa und den USA, 1890-1940
We've had no punctures whatsoever’: Dunlop, commerce and cycling in fin de siècle Australia
Popular Culture Primer
The Popular Culture Primer is an introductory text that traces the history of popular culture and cultural studies. Besides covering the traditional subjects such as the influence of the Frankfurt School and the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, this book will cover the cultural studies of science and technology and other subjects that are generally ignored in introductory texts, such as science fiction, fan cultures, and childhood studie…
Educating the Posthuman: Biosciences, Fiction, and Curriculum Studies
Madness and Marginality: The lives of Kenya’s White insane by Will Jackson (review)
Reviewed by: Madness and Marginality: The lives of Kenya’s White insane by Will Jackson John Weaver Madness and Marginality: The lives of Kenya’s White insane By Will Jackson. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013. Will Jackson’s guiding ambition in writing Madness and Marginality was to find and investigate the subjective experiences of the marginalized White men and women of empire. He intended to contribute to the small number of publi…
Against methodocentrism in educational research
This essay defines and critiques ‘methodocentrism’, the belief that predetermined research methods are the determining factor in the validity and importance of educational research. By examining research in science studies and posthumanism, the authors explain how this methodocentrism disenables research from taking account of problems and non-human actants that are presumed to be of no importance or value in existing social science research meth…
Science, Democracy, and Curriculum Studies
Science, Democracy, and Curriculum Studies
(Post)Colonial Science
Disturbing Pleasures: Learning Popular Culture
Through a portal and finding remnants: An incomplete report
Through a portal and finding remnants: An incomplete report." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(14), pp. 1578–1579
Dados Dirigindo a Vida Fora De Sequência: Derivas Entre Estudos Da Ciência E Da Tecnologia E Pesquisa Em Educação
Este artigo explora derivas entre os estudos da ciência e da tecnologia e a pesquisa em educação, e é pautado pela obra de Steven (2013), na qual o autor traça um passeio etnográfico e histórico sobre laboratórios de bioinformática. O artigo foi concebido a partir de uma conversa entre autores que, oriundos de distintos países, foram instados a comentar ilações epistemológicas e ontológicas das transformações tecnológicas das ciências da vida par…
Rethinking Social Inquiry in the Wake of Science Studies: Transdisciplinary Pursuits in Times of Climate Change, Information Flows, and Fading Democracies
Our aim for this special issue of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies is to engage with current influential texts in Science Studies, addressing the urgent need to rethink the role of the sciences in transdisciplinary possibilities for social inquiry. In this introductory essay, we underscore the political stakes of this kind of work, and we focus on a few key themes that run across the collected articles, situated as they are within what sci…
Life Out of Sequence: Data-Driving Life and Science Studies
This article focuses on Hallam Stevens' work Life out of Sequence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics and stresses the important process of data generation and how this process has now become an issue, in some fields, beyond human control. We suggest the best way to approach the proliferation of data is to adopt an onto-epistemic position. We further explore the rise of an algorithmic society and the problem 'gaps' created in date generation…
Serres’ science
In this article I explore Serres’ idea of science and how it impacted his overall work. This approach to understanding Serres’ idea of science is much like working with Nietzsche. I look at the areas Serres viewed as the dangers of science including what he referred to as a tsunami of data and the primary focus on methods. I end with Serres third way of inventive science
Serres and the university
Michel Serres was a successful scholar who made a living within the university on two continents. However, he also viewed the university with great trepidation and tried to warn young scholars against falling victim to the university culture that encouraged a scholar to become a critic and not do original work. In place of the current university system, Serres offers an alternative vision that I refer to as the Diogenes University
Michel Serres: A pedagogical life
In the now well-known series of interviews with Bruno Latour, Michel Serres noted that his philosophy of not partaking in critique and seeking only invention has come “at a very high price—that of
“My Reading Life”
In this article, I outline the academic life of reading, what it demands, and what it has become for too many—an evasion of thinking. I discuss the crisis that the evasion of reading has caused and how the contemporary university has promoted this crisis. I rely on established critics of reading and academic work (J. Hillis Miller and Isabella Stengers) to think myself out of this crisis and to maintain high standards for living an intellectual l…
A tribute to Annette Gough’s scholarly career: A road map to a sustainable career and planet
Sociology (16 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Art (6 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Environmental ethics (4 works) · History (4 works) · Politics (4 works)