Michael J Griffin
Biographic Data
| ID | 2750686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Griffin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Griffin |
| SIGNATURE | GRIFFIN M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ricoh (Japan) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0743-9502 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 126 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
A New Irish Eighteenth Century
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein at 200
E mily J ones . Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830–1914: An Intellectual History
The broadcaster Robert Peston set Irish Twitter aflame in early May 2018 with his declaration to radically anti-EU Conservative Jacob Rees-Mogg, in a conversation on British channel ITV about the tribulations of the Brexit negotiations and the seemingly insoluble problem of the British border in Ireland, that the Irish had been “undermining” British governments for over a hundred years. Rees-Mogg conceded the complexity of the Irish question for …
Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus
The three ancient philosophical introductions translated in this volume flesh out our picture of what it would have been like to sit in a first-year Philosophy course in ancient Alexandria. Ammonius (AD 445-517/26) set up a new teaching programme in Alexandria with up to six introductions to the philosophy curriculum, which made it far more accessible, and encouraged its spread from Greek to other cultures. This volume's three introductory texts …
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Science Fiction at 200
Surveillance, Technology, and American Conceptions of Freedom
This paper traces the role of ideology in shaping the beliefs and situated knowledge used by information technology and security managers to make sense of and justify systems of surveillance they oversee. In particular, the analysis explores the role of the contested meanings of the ideology of 'freedom' as an important resource in this process of meaning construction, providing a ground-level account of the process of interpellation, described b…
Stoic Critique: Athenodorus and Cornutus
This chapter focuses on criticisms of the Categories by the Stoic Athenodorus, who, it suggests, presupposed that the Categories belonged to the rhetorical or grammatical subdivision of logical investigation. Athenodorus’ complaint may have helped to inspire Boethus of Sidon’s influential formula: the Categories concerns neither words as such (with Athenodorus) nor beings as such (with Lucius), but rather words qua significant of beings. The chap…
Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity
Written by a group of leading scholars, this unique collection of essays investigates the views of both pagan and Christian philosophers on causation and the creation of the cosmos. Structured in two parts, the volume first looks at divine agency and how late antique thinkers, including the Stoics, Plotinus, Porphyry, Simplicius, Philoponus and Gregory of Nyssa, tackled questions such as: is the cosmos eternal? Did it come from nothing or from so…
Aristotle’s Categories in the Early Roman Empire
This volume studies the origin and evolution of philosophical interest in Aristotle's Categories. After centuries of neglect, the Categories became the focus of philosophical discussion in the first century BCE, and was subsequently adopted as the basic introductory textbook for philosophy in the Aristotelian and Platonic traditions. In this study, Michael Griffin builds on earlier work to reconstruct the fragments of the earliest commentaries on…
Knee Deep in the Weeds-Getting Your Hands Dirty in a Technology Organization
For many months our organization had us performing "technical grunt work." Upon reflection, getting deep into our company's technological system put us in the unique position of understanding, at a much finer level of detail, the entire assemblage of people, objects, systems, and organizations that make up the world that this technology is becoming a part of. Our paper recounts how we eventually recognized our engagement in technological grunt wo…
The Life, Music, and Thought of Woody Guthrie: A Critical Appraisal
Though its title does not announce this book as an anthology of utopian scholarship as such, its editor's profile in the field is well established. An accomplished scholar of the thought and reception of the work of H. G. Wells, Partington reveals at the outset that the idea for the volume emerged from a presentation given to the 2005 Utopian Studies Society conference in New Lanark. Motivated by the capacious interdisciplinarity of the conferenc…
On Empathy, and Not Feeling It
Recently Tracy was asked whether a plan to have everyone in the office go about their day with an "impairment" would be a good way to "practice empathy" and learn more about assistive technology usage. Her response was that while wearing prosthetics demonstrates the shock of becoming impaired, it is questionable what it reveals about living a full life with an impairment. "Empathy" is getting around, especially in the worlds of design thinking, s…
Which ‘Athenodorus’ Commented on Aristotle's Categories
The principate of Augustus coincided with a surge of interest in the short Aristotelian treatise which we now entitle Categories , contributing to its later installation at the outset of the philosophical curriculum and its traditional function as an introduction to logic. Thanks in part to remarks made by Plutarch ( Sulla 26.1–2) and Porphyry ( Vita Plotini 24.7), the origin of this interest has often been traced to Andronicus of Rhodes: his cat…
Techno|theory deathmatch: An agonistic experiment in Theory and Practice
Theories about humans and their relationships with technology are part of a lifeworld shared by many corporate ethnographers, although individuals' practices for engaging with theory can vary considerably due to factors such as disciplinary training and workplace norms. Within the EPIC community the perception of a constrained relationship between theory and corporate ethnographic praxis has emerged as a matter of concern. This paper recounts our…
What Has Aristotelian Dialectic to Offer a Neoplatonist? A Possible Sample of Iamblichus at Simplicius on the Categories 12,10-13,12
Simplicius in Cat. 12,10-13,12 presents an interesting justification for the study of Aristotle’s Categories, based in Neoplatonic psychology and metaphysics. I suggest that this passage could be regarded as a testimonium to Iamblichus’ reasons for endorsing Porphyry’s selection of the Categories as an introductory text of Platonic philosophy. These Iamblichean arguments, richly grounded in Neoplatonic metaphysics and psychology, may have exercis…
What Does Aristotle Categorize? Semantics and the Early Peripatetic Reading of the Categories
One of the more provocative mysteries of later ancient philosophy is how Porphyry came to situate the Categories of Aristotle at the outset of the nascent Neoplatonic curriculum.1 After all, the Categories tends to strike modern readers as a temperamentally counter-Platonic work, in which Aristotle grants ontological priority to perceptible subjects over intelligible genera and species,2 and we are led to wonder how a Platonist would be motivated…
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
Book Review| July 01 2011 The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature Claeys, Gregory, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 316 pp. £18.99, isbn: 9780521886659. Michael Griffin Michael Griffin University of Limerick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2011) 22 (2): 373–377. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.22.2.0373 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon…
Media images of war
Photographic images of war have been used to accentuate and lend authority to war reporting since the early 20th century, with depictions in 1930s picture magazines of the Spanish Civil War prompting unprecedented expectations for frontline visual coverage. By the 1960s, Vietnam War coverage came to be associated with personal, independent and uncensored reporting and image making, seen as a journalistic ideal by some, and an obstacle to successf…
Ethnography, Storytelling, and the Cartography of Knowledge in a Global Organization: How a minor change in research design influenced the way our team sees, and is seen by our company
Our team unites qualitative researchers, designers, and prototyping engineers to investigate workplace technologies using a four-step process: ethnography, analysis, intervention, measurement. Projects develop in relation to the needs of internal corporate units identified as project stakeholders. An experiment with a more ethnography-centered research approach, conducted without a specific internal sponsor, led us to develop findings we believed…
Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice
Visual competence and media literacy: Can one exist without the other
In the last 20 years the notion that images overpower words, and the belief that a decreasing lexical literacy among the young has been offset by an increasing visual literacy, has been repeated often enough to become accepted wisdom. Yet the precise nature of visual literacy among the young and the relationship between visual competencies and the notion of media literacy have not been fully explored or adequately specified. Concepts of visual li…
Affiliated to the Future? Culture, the Celt, and Matthew Arnold's Utopianism
Research Article| January 01 2007 Affiliated to the Future? Culture, the Celt, and Matthew Arnold's Utopianism Michael J. Griffin Michael J. Griffin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (3): 325–344. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719880 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael J. Griffin; Affiliated to the Future? Culture, the Celt, and Matthew Arnold's Utopianism…
Digital media: Transformations in human communication - by Paul Messaris & Lee Humphreys
Utopian Music and the Problem of Luxury
Research Article| July 01 2005 Utopian Music and the Problem of Luxury Michael Griffin Michael Griffin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (2): 247–266. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718736 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Griffin; Utopian Music and the Problem of Luxury. Utopian Studies 1 July 2005; 16 (2): 247–266. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20718736 …
Sun and Wind
Book Review| April 01 2005 Sun and Wind Sun and WindO'Grady, Standish James Michael Griffin Michael Griffin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (1): 118–121. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718718 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Griffin; Sun and Wind. Utopian Studies 1 April 2005; 16 (1): 118–121. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20718718 Download citation fil…
Picturing America’s ‘War on Terrorism’ in Afghanistan and Iraq: Photographic motifs as news frames
Following research on depictions of the Persian Gulf War of 1991, this article discusses the nature of US news-magazine photo coverage of the ‘War on Terrorism’ in Afghanistan and the military invasion of Iraq. The analysis suggests that news-magazine photographs primarily serve established narrative themes within official discourse: that published photographs most often offer prompts for prevailing government versions of events and rarely contri…
Media images of war
Photographic images of war have been used to accentuate and lend authority to war reporting since the early 20th century, with depictions in 1930s picture magazines of the Spanish Civil War prompting unprecedented expectations for frontline visual coverage. By the 1960s, Vietnam War coverage came to be associated with personal, independent and uncensored reporting and image making, seen as a journalistic ideal by some, and an obstacle to successf…
Picturing culture in political spots: 1992 Campaigns in Israel and the United States
This article attempts to expand the conventional notion of political "image making" from the control and projection of a candidate's personal attributes and appearance to the specifically visual representation of the cultural milieu or "cultural vision" that the campaign creates. It draws from several trends in political communication research—the evolving interest in the symbolic nature of politics, the increasing attention to the "mediated real…
Ethnography, Storytelling, and the Cartography of Knowledge in a Global Organization: How a minor change in research design influenced the way our team sees, and is seen by our company
Our team unites qualitative researchers, designers, and prototyping engineers to investigate workplace technologies using a four-step process: ethnography, analysis, intervention, measurement. Projects develop in relation to the needs of internal corporate units identified as project stakeholders. An experiment with a more ethnography-centered research approach, conducted without a specific internal sponsor, led us to develop findings we believed…
Motion sickness in public road transport: The relative importance of motion, vision and individual differences
The relative importance of vehicle motion, a view of the road ahead and passenger characteristics in the causation of motion sickness in road transport has been investigated using survey data from 3256 coach passengers and measurements of coach motion. Overall, 28% of passengers said they felt unwell during coach travel. Prior experience of sickness, travel regularity and age were the factors most highly correlated with illness. Increased vehicle…
Gender Advertising in the US and India: Exporting Cultural Stereotypes
Knee Deep in the Weeds-Getting Your Hands Dirty in a Technology Organization
For many months our organization had us performing "technical grunt work." Upon reflection, getting deep into our company's technological system put us in the unique position of understanding, at a much finer level of detail, the entire assemblage of people, objects, systems, and organizations that make up the world that this technology is becoming a part of. Our paper recounts how we eventually recognized our engagement in technological grunt wo…
On Empathy, and Not Feeling It
Recently Tracy was asked whether a plan to have everyone in the office go about their day with an "impairment" would be a good way to "practice empathy" and learn more about assistive technology usage. Her response was that while wearing prosthetics demonstrates the shock of becoming impaired, it is questionable what it reveals about living a full life with an impairment. "Empathy" is getting around, especially in the worlds of design thinking, s…
Techno|theory deathmatch: An agonistic experiment in Theory and Practice
Theories about humans and their relationships with technology are part of a lifeworld shared by many corporate ethnographers, although individuals' practices for engaging with theory can vary considerably due to factors such as disciplinary training and workplace norms. Within the EPIC community the perception of a constrained relationship between theory and corporate ethnographic praxis has emerged as a matter of concern. This paper recounts our…
Affiliated to the Future? Culture, the Celt, and Matthew Arnold's Utopianism
Research Article| January 01 2007 Affiliated to the Future? Culture, the Celt, and Matthew Arnold's Utopianism Michael J. Griffin Michael J. Griffin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (3): 325–344. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719880 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael J. Griffin; Affiliated to the Future? Culture, the Celt, and Matthew Arnold's Utopianism…
Camera as Witness, Image as Sign: The Study of Visual Communication in Communication Research
This chapter summarizes the state of the study of visual communication in communication research. The author outlines major themes and theories characterizing the study of visual communication and concludes by isolating key issues and current trends in the field
The millstone of popular culture: Competing with the commercial mass production of cultural imagery
Visual sociologists and anthropologists attempting to create representations of social communities and cultural groups inevitably do so within a context of competing cultural images manufactured by the popular mass media. Thus, in order for sociologists and anthropologists to use visual media effectively and make an instructive contribution to our knowledge of culture and society they must operate with the fullest possible awareness of popular cu…
Gender Advertising in the US and India: Exporting Cultural Stereotypes
Picturing the Gulf War: Constructing an Image of War in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report
Despite numerous commentaries on Gulf War reporting, there has been little systematic analysis of the visual depiction of the war. This study reports the findings of a visual content analysis of 1,104 war-related pictures appearing in Time, Newsweek, and U.S. News & World Report during “Desert Storm.” The analysis indicates that a narrowly limited range of images, with a special emphasis on cataloguing military weaponry and technology, dominated …
Picturing culture in political spots: 1992 Campaigns in Israel and the United States
This article attempts to expand the conventional notion of political "image making" from the control and projection of a candidate's personal attributes and appearance to the specifically visual representation of the cultural milieu or "cultural vision" that the campaign creates. It draws from several trends in political communication research—the evolving interest in the symbolic nature of politics, the increasing attention to the "mediated real…
Landmarks: 1948-1998
Motion sickness in public road transport: The relative importance of motion, vision and individual differences
The relative importance of vehicle motion, a view of the road ahead and passenger characteristics in the causation of motion sickness in road transport has been investigated using survey data from 3256 coach passengers and measurements of coach motion. Overall, 28% of passengers said they felt unwell during coach travel. Prior experience of sickness, travel regularity and age were the factors most highly correlated with illness. Increased vehicle…
The new slavery
The slave won't go away, even in a world where consumer choice is paramount. Index looks at the undying contribution that slavery still makes to our lives and maps some new metaphors for the old shackles
Camera as Witness, Image as Sign: The Study of Visual Communication in Communication Research
This chapter summarizes the state of the study of visual communication in communication research. The author outlines major themes and theories characterizing the study of visual communication and concludes by isolating key issues and current trends in the field
Apollo’s hawk at Artistophanes, Birds 516
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Picturing America’s ‘War on Terrorism’ in Afghanistan and Iraq: Photographic motifs as news frames
Following research on depictions of the Persian Gulf War of 1991, this article discusses the nature of US news-magazine photo coverage of the ‘War on Terrorism’ in Afghanistan and the military invasion of Iraq. The analysis suggests that news-magazine photographs primarily serve established narrative themes within official discourse: that published photographs most often offer prompts for prevailing government versions of events and rarely contri…
Utopian Music and the Problem of Luxury
Research Article| July 01 2005 Utopian Music and the Problem of Luxury Michael Griffin Michael Griffin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (2): 247–266. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718736 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Griffin; Utopian Music and the Problem of Luxury. Utopian Studies 1 July 2005; 16 (2): 247–266. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20718736 …
Sun and Wind
Book Review| April 01 2005 Sun and Wind Sun and WindO'Grady, Standish James Michael Griffin Michael Griffin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2005) 16 (1): 118–121. https://doi.org/10.2307/20718718 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Griffin; Sun and Wind. Utopian Studies 1 April 2005; 16 (1): 118–121. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/20718718 Download citation fil…
Digital media: Transformations in human communication - by Paul Messaris & Lee Humphreys
Affiliated to the Future? Culture, the Celt, and Matthew Arnold's Utopianism
Research Article| January 01 2007 Affiliated to the Future? Culture, the Celt, and Matthew Arnold's Utopianism Michael J. Griffin Michael J. Griffin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2007) 18 (3): 325–344. https://doi.org/10.2307/20719880 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael J. Griffin; Affiliated to the Future? Culture, the Celt, and Matthew Arnold's Utopianism…
Exploring the Utopian Impulse: Essays on Utopian Thought and Practice
Visual competence and media literacy: Can one exist without the other
In the last 20 years the notion that images overpower words, and the belief that a decreasing lexical literacy among the young has been offset by an increasing visual literacy, has been repeated often enough to become accepted wisdom. Yet the precise nature of visual literacy among the young and the relationship between visual competencies and the notion of media literacy have not been fully explored or adequately specified. Concepts of visual li…
Media images of war
Photographic images of war have been used to accentuate and lend authority to war reporting since the early 20th century, with depictions in 1930s picture magazines of the Spanish Civil War prompting unprecedented expectations for frontline visual coverage. By the 1960s, Vietnam War coverage came to be associated with personal, independent and uncensored reporting and image making, seen as a journalistic ideal by some, and an obstacle to successf…
Ethnography, Storytelling, and the Cartography of Knowledge in a Global Organization: How a minor change in research design influenced the way our team sees, and is seen by our company
Our team unites qualitative researchers, designers, and prototyping engineers to investigate workplace technologies using a four-step process: ethnography, analysis, intervention, measurement. Projects develop in relation to the needs of internal corporate units identified as project stakeholders. An experiment with a more ethnography-centered research approach, conducted without a specific internal sponsor, led us to develop findings we believed…
The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature
Book Review| July 01 2011 The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature Claeys, Gregory, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 316 pp. £18.99, isbn: 9780521886659. Michael Griffin Michael Griffin University of Limerick Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Utopian Studies (2011) 22 (2): 373–377. https://doi.org/10.5325/utopianstudies.22.2.0373 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon…
What Has Aristotelian Dialectic to Offer a Neoplatonist? A Possible Sample of Iamblichus at Simplicius on the Categories 12,10-13,12
Simplicius in Cat. 12,10-13,12 presents an interesting justification for the study of Aristotle’s Categories, based in Neoplatonic psychology and metaphysics. I suggest that this passage could be regarded as a testimonium to Iamblichus’ reasons for endorsing Porphyry’s selection of the Categories as an introductory text of Platonic philosophy. These Iamblichean arguments, richly grounded in Neoplatonic metaphysics and psychology, may have exercis…
What Does Aristotle Categorize? Semantics and the Early Peripatetic Reading of the Categories
One of the more provocative mysteries of later ancient philosophy is how Porphyry came to situate the Categories of Aristotle at the outset of the nascent Neoplatonic curriculum.1 After all, the Categories tends to strike modern readers as a temperamentally counter-Platonic work, in which Aristotle grants ontological priority to perceptible subjects over intelligible genera and species,2 and we are led to wonder how a Platonist would be motivated…
Which ‘Athenodorus’ Commented on Aristotle's Categories
The principate of Augustus coincided with a surge of interest in the short Aristotelian treatise which we now entitle Categories , contributing to its later installation at the outset of the philosophical curriculum and its traditional function as an introduction to logic. Thanks in part to remarks made by Plutarch ( Sulla 26.1–2) and Porphyry ( Vita Plotini 24.7), the origin of this interest has often been traced to Andronicus of Rhodes: his cat…
Techno|theory deathmatch: An agonistic experiment in Theory and Practice
Theories about humans and their relationships with technology are part of a lifeworld shared by many corporate ethnographers, although individuals' practices for engaging with theory can vary considerably due to factors such as disciplinary training and workplace norms. Within the EPIC community the perception of a constrained relationship between theory and corporate ethnographic praxis has emerged as a matter of concern. This paper recounts our…
The Life, Music, and Thought of Woody Guthrie: A Critical Appraisal
Though its title does not announce this book as an anthology of utopian scholarship as such, its editor's profile in the field is well established. An accomplished scholar of the thought and reception of the work of H. G. Wells, Partington reveals at the outset that the idea for the volume emerged from a presentation given to the 2005 Utopian Studies Society conference in New Lanark. Motivated by the capacious interdisciplinarity of the conferenc…
On Empathy, and Not Feeling It
Recently Tracy was asked whether a plan to have everyone in the office go about their day with an "impairment" would be a good way to "practice empathy" and learn more about assistive technology usage. Her response was that while wearing prosthetics demonstrates the shock of becoming impaired, it is questionable what it reveals about living a full life with an impairment. "Empathy" is getting around, especially in the worlds of design thinking, s…
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