Kevin S Amidon
Biographic Data
| ID | 250135 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin S Amidon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin S |
| FAMILY NAME | Amidon |
| SIGNATURE | AMIDON K S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iowa State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3941-4414 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The flaneur in the Borsig locomotive works
Walter Benjamin's radio addresses for young people remain a comparatively neglected part of his work. New scholarship and translations have begun to address this, however. This article argues that the radio addresses, and particularly the address on the Borsig locomotive and machine works, deserve a prominent place within the critical and intellectual trajectory of Benjamin's career. A close reading of “Borsig” demonstrates how the addresses mode…
Queer Ontogeny and the Circuits of Sexuality; or, On the Queerness of Theory
Queer theory has a problem. This problem does not belong uniquely to queer theory, for it is common to and has consequences for all theory— social, psychological, literary, natural scientific, or otherwise—that seeks categories for the explanation of human phenomena. Queer theory, however, encounters and embodies this problem in uniquely significant ways. Queer theory seems, in fact, to have developed largely out of the friction generated by this…
Critical Theory and the Limits of Academic Economics
This essay assesses the central arguments of Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. We note Piketty's limited engagement with and active distancing from the writings of Marx. Piketty's location within the disciplinary boundaries of academic economics seems to have profoundly shaped his surprisingly apolitical analysis. Engagement with the political dimensions of capital is further constrained to increase the book's influence upon policy. …
Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century an introduction
On Subjectivity and the Risk Pool; or, Zizek's Lacuna
This economic system cannot do without the ultima ratio of the complete destruction of those existences which are irretrievably associated with the hopelessly unadapted. Joseph Schumpeter, The Theory of Economic Development1
On Rereading Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies
Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies has generated broad interest in the literature of several academic disciplines. His analysis of the symbolic and gender dynamics of the leaders of the German Freikorps (German paramilitary mercenary units of the period 1918-1923) has been widely generalized into a theory of modern masculinity. Two issues inadequately explored in Theweleit's work nonetheless must be read through more recent empirical and theoretica…
The Visible Hand and the New American Biology
In the early twentieth century, American railroad companies faced new challenges. The railroad network had developed fully, broad political opposition was gaining teeth in new, enforceable federal legislation, and financial markets-first established to support railroad expansion- had begun to move beyond railroads. Railroad companies answered with a wide range of new managerial and scientific practices. Recent scholarship that goes beyond the tra…
The Visible Hand and the New American Biology
In the early twentieth century, American railroad companies faced new challenges. The railroad network had developed fully, broad political opposition was gaining teeth in new, enforceable federal legislation, and financial markets--first established to support railroad expansion--had begun to move beyond railroads. Railroad companies answered with a wide range of new managerial and scientific practices. Recent scholarship that goes beyond the tr…
"Diesmal fehlt die Biologie!" Max Horkheimer, Richard Thurnwald, and the Biological Prehistory of German Sozialforschung
In his early writings Max Horkheimer explored the issues surrounding biological explanation in Kantian and neo-Kantian philosophy. After he became director of the Institut für Sozialforschung in 1930, he continued to explore the relationships between biology, materialism, philosophy, and social theory. This interest was reflected both in his editorial policy for the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung and in his own scholarly development that led to …
Carrie Chapman Catt and the Evolutionary Politics of Sex and Race, 1885-1940
Carrie Chapman Catt's engagement of race remains controversial. This article argues that there are two elements to Catt's career-long use of evolutionary arguments to map questions of sex and race. For Catt, evolutionary change instantiated (macroevolutionary) progress, but this progress depended on sex and race as linked categories of (microevolutionary) differentiation. In her arguments, the sexes always participate together in the same traject…
German Opera. From the Beginnings to Wagner
On Subjectivity and the Risk Pool; or, Zizek's Lacuna
This economic system cannot do without the ultima ratio of the complete destruction of those existences which are irretrievably associated with the hopelessly unadapted. Joseph Schumpeter, The Theory of Economic Development1
On Rereading Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies
Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies has generated broad interest in the literature of several academic disciplines. His analysis of the symbolic and gender dynamics of the leaders of the German Freikorps (German paramilitary mercenary units of the period 1918-1923) has been widely generalized into a theory of modern masculinity. Two issues inadequately explored in Theweleit's work nonetheless must be read through more recent empirical and theoretica…
"Diesmal fehlt die Biologie!" Max Horkheimer, Richard Thurnwald, and the Biological Prehistory of German Sozialforschung
In his early writings Max Horkheimer explored the issues surrounding biological explanation in Kantian and neo-Kantian philosophy. After he became director of the Institut für Sozialforschung in 1930, he continued to explore the relationships between biology, materialism, philosophy, and social theory. This interest was reflected both in his editorial policy for the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung and in his own scholarly development that led to …
German Opera. From the Beginnings to Wagner
Carrie Chapman Catt and the Evolutionary Politics of Sex and Race, 1885-1940
Carrie Chapman Catt's engagement of race remains controversial. This article argues that there are two elements to Catt's career-long use of evolutionary arguments to map questions of sex and race. For Catt, evolutionary change instantiated (macroevolutionary) progress, but this progress depended on sex and race as linked categories of (microevolutionary) differentiation. In her arguments, the sexes always participate together in the same traject…
The Visible Hand and the New American Biology
In the early twentieth century, American railroad companies faced new challenges. The railroad network had developed fully, broad political opposition was gaining teeth in new, enforceable federal legislation, and financial markets-first established to support railroad expansion- had begun to move beyond railroads. Railroad companies answered with a wide range of new managerial and scientific practices. Recent scholarship that goes beyond the tra…
The Visible Hand and the New American Biology
In the early twentieth century, American railroad companies faced new challenges. The railroad network had developed fully, broad political opposition was gaining teeth in new, enforceable federal legislation, and financial markets--first established to support railroad expansion--had begun to move beyond railroads. Railroad companies answered with a wide range of new managerial and scientific practices. Recent scholarship that goes beyond the tr…
"Diesmal fehlt die Biologie!" Max Horkheimer, Richard Thurnwald, and the Biological Prehistory of German Sozialforschung
In his early writings Max Horkheimer explored the issues surrounding biological explanation in Kantian and neo-Kantian philosophy. After he became director of the Institut für Sozialforschung in 1930, he continued to explore the relationships between biology, materialism, philosophy, and social theory. This interest was reflected both in his editorial policy for the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung and in his own scholarly development that led to …
On Rereading Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies
Klaus Theweleit's Male Fantasies has generated broad interest in the literature of several academic disciplines. His analysis of the symbolic and gender dynamics of the leaders of the German Freikorps (German paramilitary mercenary units of the period 1918-1923) has been widely generalized into a theory of modern masculinity. Two issues inadequately explored in Theweleit's work nonetheless must be read through more recent empirical and theoretica…
On Subjectivity and the Risk Pool; or, Zizek's Lacuna
This economic system cannot do without the ultima ratio of the complete destruction of those existences which are irretrievably associated with the hopelessly unadapted. Joseph Schumpeter, The Theory of Economic Development1
Germany in the Loud Twentieth Century an introduction
Critical Theory and the Limits of Academic Economics
This essay assesses the central arguments of Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century. We note Piketty's limited engagement with and active distancing from the writings of Marx. Piketty's location within the disciplinary boundaries of academic economics seems to have profoundly shaped his surprisingly apolitical analysis. Engagement with the political dimensions of capital is further constrained to increase the book's influence upon policy. …
The flaneur in the Borsig locomotive works
Walter Benjamin's radio addresses for young people remain a comparatively neglected part of his work. New scholarship and translations have begun to address this, however. This article argues that the radio addresses, and particularly the address on the Borsig locomotive and machine works, deserve a prominent place within the critical and intellectual trajectory of Benjamin's career. A close reading of “Borsig” demonstrates how the addresses mode…
Queer Ontogeny and the Circuits of Sexuality; or, On the Queerness of Theory
Queer theory has a problem. This problem does not belong uniquely to queer theory, for it is common to and has consequences for all theory— social, psychological, literary, natural scientific, or otherwise—that seeks categories for the explanation of human phenomena. Queer theory, however, encounters and embodies this problem in uniquely significant ways. Queer theory seems, in fact, to have developed largely out of the friction generated by this…
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