Stephen Pfohl
Biographic Data
| ID | 276935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Pfohl |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Pfohl |
| SIGNATURE | PFOHL S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7671-020X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Hokies' Lament: American Social Psychosis and the Virginia Tech Killings
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—The New Normal
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—1 Year Later
In March 2020 I published the 'emergency editorial' in Postdigital Science and Education and invited the community to 'explore all imaginable aspects of this large social experiment that the Covid-19 pandemic has lain down in front of us' (Jandri 2020a: 237). Articles immediately started pouring in; within weeks, the journal's contributions had been recognized by institutions such as the World Health Organization, the US National Library of Medic…
Simple, Dark, and Deep: Photographic Theorizations of As-Yet Schools
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19
This article presents a collection of short testimonies and workspace photographs received between 18 March and 5 May in response to my Call for Testimonies reproduced in the next section. The testimonies are lined up in order of when they were received. Each section starts with the place and time of writing, followed by a brief author biography, their testimony, and one workspace photograph. In numbers, the collection consists of 81 textual test…
O delírio cibernético de Norbert Wiener
Esse texto trata da condição do mundo cada vez mais mediado por uma espécie de ciber-hifenização delirante da realidade que parece ter começado a partir do pensamento de Norbert Wiener
O social e o tecnológico: Questões Da Ultramodernidade
Entrevista sobre Pós-modernidade
A Hacker Manifesto
Public Sociologies: A Symposium from Boston College
This symposium brings together the theory and practice of public sociology. The introduction sets out the meanings of public sociology, emphasizing its plurality and its relation to multiple publics. From there, it frames public sociology in relation to policy, professional, and critical sociologies. This constellation of the division of sociological labor varies over time and between countries. We argue for a normative model of antagonistic inte…
Culture, Power, and History: An Introduction
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
In a provocative analysis written during the unfolding drama of 1992, Baudrillard draws on his concepts of simulation and the hyperreal to argue that the Gulf War did not take place but was a carefully scripted media event a virtual war.Patton s introduction argues that Baudrillard, more than any other critic of the Gulf War, correctly identified the stakes involved in the gestation of the New World Order
Moral Impulses and the Ethics of Postmodernity: An Ambivalent Response to Zymunt Bauman
Twilight of the Parasites: Ultramodern Capital and the New World Order
This text explores the economic, sex/gender, and racialized passage of CAPITAL from its modern to its ultramodern phase. Here the parasitism qf CAPTTAList power shifts to a New World Order of social domination based, not simply upon the exploitation of human labor, but upon the technological invasion of human bodies by cybernetic feedback mechanisms, high/speed image-processing, and self-liquifying social control. Rooted in “military metaphysics”…
Questions of Access and Excess a Translator’s Preface
This text is an ethnographic text, if somewhat surreally. It invites you, its readers, not so much to agree with the evidence and the analysis set forth by me, its author, as to enter actively into the process of re-searching your own Historical and biographically given positions within what might be described provisionally as the postmodern scene of contemporary North America.2 For it is indeed within the Historical materiality of this powerful …
Death at the Parasite Cafe
Death at the Parasite Cafe, a blend of semi-fiction and theory, retraces its author's theoretical descent into a fascinating, if horrific, social geography of electronic information, heterosexist desi
Re-forming the SSSP: Questions of “praxis”
Welcome to the Parasite Cafe: Postmodernity as a Social Problem
This is an ethnoGRAPHic text, if somewhat surreally—a story of the dense and high velocity technostructuring of the society in which I find myself knotted in a complex of ritual network relations to others. Technological relations. Telecommunicative relations. Relations of modelling and simulation and control. This is a story of a postmodern society in The USA Today; a sociological story of the inFORMational powers of an ultra-modern form of stra…
Theoretical Methods in Criminology
Introduction and Preliminaries Estimation and Prediction Some Tests of Hypotheses Testing for Efficient Capital Markets
Recovery from Schizophrenia: Psychiatry and Political Economy
Criminological Displacements: A Sociological Deconstruction
This text re-presents a deconstructive sociological reading of Michel Foucault's several investigations of the genealogy of the human sciences. We take the sociological history of criminology as an exemplar of the relation between the form and content of Western social science theorizing and the historically material pleasures associated with the production of a certain knowledge of “Other”ness within the intellectual marketplace of modern Wester…
Toward a Sociological Deconstruction of Social Problems
Journal Article Toward a Sociological Deconstruction of Social Problems Get access Stephen Pfohl Stephen Pfohl Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 32, Issue 3, 1 February 1985, Pages 228–232, https://doi.org/10.2307/800681 Published: 01 August 2014
Public Sociologies: A Symposium from Boston College
This symposium brings together the theory and practice of public sociology. The introduction sets out the meanings of public sociology, emphasizing its plurality and its relation to multiple publics. From there, it frames public sociology in relation to policy, professional, and critical sociologies. This constellation of the division of sociological labor varies over time and between countries. We argue for a normative model of antagonistic inte…
Toward a Sociological Deconstruction of Social Problems
Journal Article Toward a Sociological Deconstruction of Social Problems Get access Stephen Pfohl Stephen Pfohl Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 32, Issue 3, 1 February 1985, Pages 228–232, https://doi.org/10.2307/800681 Published: 01 August 2014
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19
This article presents a collection of short testimonies and workspace photographs received between 18 March and 5 May in response to my Call for Testimonies reproduced in the next section. The testimonies are lined up in order of when they were received. Each section starts with the place and time of writing, followed by a brief author biography, their testimony, and one workspace photograph. In numbers, the collection consists of 81 textual test…
Welcome to the Parasite Cafe: Postmodernity as a Social Problem
This is an ethnoGRAPHic text, if somewhat surreally—a story of the dense and high velocity technostructuring of the society in which I find myself knotted in a complex of ritual network relations to others. Technological relations. Telecommunicative relations. Relations of modelling and simulation and control. This is a story of a postmodern society in The USA Today; a sociological story of the inFORMational powers of an ultra-modern form of stra…
Twilight of the Parasites: Ultramodern Capital and the New World Order
This text explores the economic, sex/gender, and racialized passage of CAPITAL from its modern to its ultramodern phase. Here the parasitism qf CAPTTAList power shifts to a New World Order of social domination based, not simply upon the exploitation of human labor, but upon the technological invasion of human bodies by cybernetic feedback mechanisms, high/speed image-processing, and self-liquifying social control. Rooted in “military metaphysics”…
Re-forming the SSSP: Questions of “praxis”
Criminological Displacements: A Sociological Deconstruction
This text re-presents a deconstructive sociological reading of Michel Foucault's several investigations of the genealogy of the human sciences. We take the sociological history of criminology as an exemplar of the relation between the form and content of Western social science theorizing and the historically material pleasures associated with the production of a certain knowledge of “Other”ness within the intellectual marketplace of modern Wester…
Culture, Power, and History: An Introduction
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
In a provocative analysis written during the unfolding drama of 1992, Baudrillard draws on his concepts of simulation and the hyperreal to argue that the Gulf War did not take place but was a carefully scripted media event a virtual war.Patton s introduction argues that Baudrillard, more than any other critic of the Gulf War, correctly identified the stakes involved in the gestation of the New World Order
Toward a Sociological Deconstruction of Social Problems
Journal Article Toward a Sociological Deconstruction of Social Problems Get access Stephen Pfohl Stephen Pfohl Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 32, Issue 3, 1 February 1985, Pages 228–232, https://doi.org/10.2307/800681 Published: 01 August 2014
Criminological Displacements: A Sociological Deconstruction
This text re-presents a deconstructive sociological reading of Michel Foucault's several investigations of the genealogy of the human sciences. We take the sociological history of criminology as an exemplar of the relation between the form and content of Western social science theorizing and the historically material pleasures associated with the production of a certain knowledge of “Other”ness within the intellectual marketplace of modern Wester…
Theoretical Methods in Criminology
Introduction and Preliminaries Estimation and Prediction Some Tests of Hypotheses Testing for Efficient Capital Markets
Recovery from Schizophrenia: Psychiatry and Political Economy
Re-forming the SSSP: Questions of “praxis”
Welcome to the Parasite Cafe: Postmodernity as a Social Problem
This is an ethnoGRAPHic text, if somewhat surreally—a story of the dense and high velocity technostructuring of the society in which I find myself knotted in a complex of ritual network relations to others. Technological relations. Telecommunicative relations. Relations of modelling and simulation and control. This is a story of a postmodern society in The USA Today; a sociological story of the inFORMational powers of an ultra-modern form of stra…
Questions of Access and Excess a Translator’s Preface
This text is an ethnographic text, if somewhat surreally. It invites you, its readers, not so much to agree with the evidence and the analysis set forth by me, its author, as to enter actively into the process of re-searching your own Historical and biographically given positions within what might be described provisionally as the postmodern scene of contemporary North America.2 For it is indeed within the Historical materiality of this powerful …
Death at the Parasite Cafe
Death at the Parasite Cafe, a blend of semi-fiction and theory, retraces its author's theoretical descent into a fascinating, if horrific, social geography of electronic information, heterosexist desi
Twilight of the Parasites: Ultramodern Capital and the New World Order
This text explores the economic, sex/gender, and racialized passage of CAPITAL from its modern to its ultramodern phase. Here the parasitism qf CAPTTAList power shifts to a New World Order of social domination based, not simply upon the exploitation of human labor, but upon the technological invasion of human bodies by cybernetic feedback mechanisms, high/speed image-processing, and self-liquifying social control. Rooted in “military metaphysics”…
Moral Impulses and the Ethics of Postmodernity: An Ambivalent Response to Zymunt Bauman
The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
In a provocative analysis written during the unfolding drama of 1992, Baudrillard draws on his concepts of simulation and the hyperreal to argue that the Gulf War did not take place but was a carefully scripted media event a virtual war.Patton s introduction argues that Baudrillard, more than any other critic of the Gulf War, correctly identified the stakes involved in the gestation of the New World Order
Public Sociologies: A Symposium from Boston College
This symposium brings together the theory and practice of public sociology. The introduction sets out the meanings of public sociology, emphasizing its plurality and its relation to multiple publics. From there, it frames public sociology in relation to policy, professional, and critical sociologies. This constellation of the division of sociological labor varies over time and between countries. We argue for a normative model of antagonistic inte…
Culture, Power, and History: An Introduction
A Hacker Manifesto
O delírio cibernético de Norbert Wiener
Esse texto trata da condição do mundo cada vez mais mediado por uma espécie de ciber-hifenização delirante da realidade que parece ter começado a partir do pensamento de Norbert Wiener
O social e o tecnológico: Questões Da Ultramodernidade
Entrevista sobre Pós-modernidade
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19
This article presents a collection of short testimonies and workspace photographs received between 18 March and 5 May in response to my Call for Testimonies reproduced in the next section. The testimonies are lined up in order of when they were received. Each section starts with the place and time of writing, followed by a brief author biography, their testimony, and one workspace photograph. In numbers, the collection consists of 81 textual test…
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—1 Year Later
In March 2020 I published the 'emergency editorial' in Postdigital Science and Education and invited the community to 'explore all imaginable aspects of this large social experiment that the Covid-19 pandemic has lain down in front of us' (Jandri 2020a: 237). Articles immediately started pouring in; within weeks, the journal's contributions had been recognized by institutions such as the World Health Organization, the US National Library of Medic…
Simple, Dark, and Deep: Photographic Theorizations of As-Yet Schools
Teaching in the Age of Covid-19—The New Normal
A Hokies' Lament: American Social Psychosis and the Virginia Tech Killings
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