Jessica Whyte
Biographic Data
| ID | 283538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Whyte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Whyte |
| SIGNATURE | WHYTE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9883-3518 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sanctioning Settlers and Settlers’ Sanctions: Financial Warfare and Economic Peace in Occupied Palestine
A “Tragic Humanitarian Crisis: Israel’s Weaponization of Starvation and the Question of Intent
At dawn on 29 February 2024, Israeli forces opened fire at starving Palestinians as they tried to reach humanitarian aid trucks at Al Nabulsi roundabout outside Gaza City. At least 118 people were
Freedom: The History and the Future of a Disputed Idea
Around 1882, the photographer Albert Fernique photographed a group of Parisian workers gathered around trestles and benches inside a workshop. The floor is strewn with piles of wood and the ceiling beams tower above the workmen. Even so, the space is dwarfed by a massive, sculpted shoulder, draped in Roman robes, which dominates the background of the photograph; two workers watching the scene from a beam just below the roof appear to be perched o…
How and Why to Do Just War Theory
World-Making Through Market Morality: A Conversation About Human Rights, Neoliberalism and Political Struggle
In her 2019 book The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte investigates ‘the historical and conceptual relations between human rights and neoliberalism’. 1
Calculation and Conflict
Today, it is often forgotten that the socialist calculation debate of the 1920s and 1930s was not only about whether market societies were more economically efficient than planned ones; more crucially, Ludwig von Mises and his disciple Friedrich Hayek depicted economic planning as a threat to the moral and political order of "Western civilization." A planned economy, these early neoliberals argued, would override the "democracy of consumers" thro…
Calculated Indifference: The Politics of Collateral Damage
Today, the management of so-called “collateral damage” is a burgeoning field that involves militaries, NGOs, and international lawyers in the attempt to “humanize” warfare by reducing its impact on
Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism
The Invisible Hand of Friedrich Hayek: Submission and Spontaneous Order
Friedrich Hayek’s account of “spontaneous order” has generated increasing interest in recent decades. His argument for the superiority of the market in distributing knowledge without the need for central oversight has appealed to progressive democratic theorists, who are wary of the hubris of state planning and attracted to possibilities for self-organization, and to Foucaultians, who have long counseled political theory to cut off the King’s hea…
Karl Marx
In the concluding volume of his Homo Sacer project, The Use of Bodies , Giorgio Agamben briefly turns to Marx to distinguish his own account of what he terms ‘inoperativity’ from a Marxist account of production. Accepting Marx’s account of the decisive relationship between production, social relationships and culture, he nonetheless suggests that Marx neglected the forms of inoperativity that exist within every mode of production, opening it to a…
Hayek’s Submissive Subjects: Response to Son
Friedrich Hayek repeatedly stressed the centrality of submission to his own account of spontaneous order. In what he depicted as the rationalist refusal to submit to anything beyond human comprehension, he saw a threat to the “spontaneous order” of a market society. Kyong-Min Son’s criticism of my account of the neoliberal subject provides me with an opportunity to further specify my understanding of the submissive disposition of the Hayekian sub…
Legitimacy and the shadows of universalism: A response to Meine’s ‘Debating legitimacy transnationally’
This is a reply to:Meine, Anna. 2016. “Debating legitimacy transnationally.” Global Discourse 6 (3): 330–346. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2016.1175084
The republic of the living: Biopolitics and the critique of civil society
(Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy
Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben
The Agamben Dictionary
Introduction: The Lexicographer and the Sovereign, Alex Murray and Jessica Whyte Entries A-Z Bibliography Further Reading Notes on Contributors
A New Use of the Self: Giorgio Agamben on the Coming Community
A New Use of the Self':Giorgio Agamben on the Coming Community Jessica Whyte (bio) Heaven and Hell, however, hang together. Adorno and Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment. Amongst the voluminous speculations on the 'world to come' that have accompanied messianic prophecies, one stands out, not for the extravagance of its predictions, but for the very banality of its account of redemption. In The Coming Community, Giorgio Agamben recounts the f…
No Credible Photographic Interest: Photography restrictions and surveillance in a time of terror
This article examines the consequences for the res publica of the simultaneous increase in state surveillance and the restriction of the right to take photographs in public ushered in by the War on Terror. We draw on Ariella Azoulay's theorization of what she terms the civil contract of photography, or the possibility for non-state civic interaction allowed by the invention of the camera. While Michel Foucault's studies of the role of constant su…
Particular Rights and Absolute Wrongs: Giorgio Agamben on Life and Politics
I Would Prefer Not To’: Giorgio Agamben, Bartleby and the Potentiality of the Law
Criminalising 'Camera Fiends: Photography Restrictions in the Age of Digital Reproduction
In late 2006, Rex Dupain had his camera confiscated and was questioned by police while trying to re-create his father Max Dupain's iconic photographs of Bondi Beach. Dupain's experience, selected from a raft of similar ones, points to contemporary anxieties generated by the proliferation of photographic technologies in the age of digital reproduction (and distribution.) The contemporary combination of ubiquitous photographic technologies most not…
Law, Crisis, Revolution
Crisis, it seems, is the order of things. Today, reading a newspaper involves ingesting a steady stream of crises. Most prominently, the 'Global Financial Crisis' has occupied the media sphere for the past two years, since the collapse of the US subprime market 'called into question', in Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's words, 'the prevailing neo-liberal economic orthodoxy of the past 30 years.' Despite the crucial role of Rudd's own Australian Labor …
Contesting realities
In 2004, an unnamed Bush adviser accused a senior Wall Street Journal reporter of belonging to the 'reality based community'-a community that believed solutions stem from the judicious study of reality. 'We're history's actors, ' he told the journalist, 'and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.' Overwhelmingly, the response of those on the left, and of US progressives to this comment was to smugly deride the irrationalism and t…
The Invisible Hand of Friedrich Hayek: Submission and Spontaneous Order
Friedrich Hayek’s account of “spontaneous order” has generated increasing interest in recent decades. His argument for the superiority of the market in distributing knowledge without the need for central oversight has appealed to progressive democratic theorists, who are wary of the hubris of state planning and attracted to possibilities for self-organization, and to Foucaultians, who have long counseled political theory to cut off the King’s hea…
I Would Prefer Not To’: Giorgio Agamben, Bartleby and the Potentiality of the Law
A “Tragic Humanitarian Crisis: Israel’s Weaponization of Starvation and the Question of Intent
At dawn on 29 February 2024, Israeli forces opened fire at starving Palestinians as they tried to reach humanitarian aid trucks at Al Nabulsi roundabout outside Gaza City. At least 118 people were
The republic of the living: Biopolitics and the critique of civil society
Particular Rights and Absolute Wrongs: Giorgio Agamben on Life and Politics
How and Why to Do Just War Theory
Criminalising 'Camera Fiends: Photography Restrictions in the Age of Digital Reproduction
In late 2006, Rex Dupain had his camera confiscated and was questioned by police while trying to re-create his father Max Dupain's iconic photographs of Bondi Beach. Dupain's experience, selected from a raft of similar ones, points to contemporary anxieties generated by the proliferation of photographic technologies in the age of digital reproduction (and distribution.) The contemporary combination of ubiquitous photographic technologies most not…
Calculation and Conflict
Today, it is often forgotten that the socialist calculation debate of the 1920s and 1930s was not only about whether market societies were more economically efficient than planned ones; more crucially, Ludwig von Mises and his disciple Friedrich Hayek depicted economic planning as a threat to the moral and political order of "Western civilization." A planned economy, these early neoliberals argued, would override the "democracy of consumers" thro…
Calculated Indifference: The Politics of Collateral Damage
Today, the management of so-called “collateral damage” is a burgeoning field that involves militaries, NGOs, and international lawyers in the attempt to “humanize” warfare by reducing its impact on
Particular Rights and Absolute Wrongs: Giorgio Agamben on Life and Politics
I Would Prefer Not To’: Giorgio Agamben, Bartleby and the Potentiality of the Law
Criminalising 'Camera Fiends: Photography Restrictions in the Age of Digital Reproduction
In late 2006, Rex Dupain had his camera confiscated and was questioned by police while trying to re-create his father Max Dupain's iconic photographs of Bondi Beach. Dupain's experience, selected from a raft of similar ones, points to contemporary anxieties generated by the proliferation of photographic technologies in the age of digital reproduction (and distribution.) The contemporary combination of ubiquitous photographic technologies most not…
Law, Crisis, Revolution
Crisis, it seems, is the order of things. Today, reading a newspaper involves ingesting a steady stream of crises. Most prominently, the 'Global Financial Crisis' has occupied the media sphere for the past two years, since the collapse of the US subprime market 'called into question', in Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's words, 'the prevailing neo-liberal economic orthodoxy of the past 30 years.' Despite the crucial role of Rudd's own Australian Labor …
Contesting realities
In 2004, an unnamed Bush adviser accused a senior Wall Street Journal reporter of belonging to the 'reality based community'-a community that believed solutions stem from the judicious study of reality. 'We're history's actors, ' he told the journalist, 'and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.' Overwhelmingly, the response of those on the left, and of US progressives to this comment was to smugly deride the irrationalism and t…
A New Use of the Self: Giorgio Agamben on the Coming Community
A New Use of the Self':Giorgio Agamben on the Coming Community Jessica Whyte (bio) Heaven and Hell, however, hang together. Adorno and Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment. Amongst the voluminous speculations on the 'world to come' that have accompanied messianic prophecies, one stands out, not for the extravagance of its predictions, but for the very banality of its account of redemption. In The Coming Community, Giorgio Agamben recounts the f…
No Credible Photographic Interest: Photography restrictions and surveillance in a time of terror
This article examines the consequences for the res publica of the simultaneous increase in state surveillance and the restriction of the right to take photographs in public ushered in by the War on Terror. We draw on Ariella Azoulay's theorization of what she terms the civil contract of photography, or the possibility for non-state civic interaction allowed by the invention of the camera. While Michel Foucault's studies of the role of constant su…
The Agamben Dictionary
Introduction: The Lexicographer and the Sovereign, Alex Murray and Jessica Whyte Entries A-Z Bibliography Further Reading Notes on Contributors
Catastrophe and Redemption: The Political Thought of Giorgio Agamben
(Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy
Legitimacy and the shadows of universalism: A response to Meine’s ‘Debating legitimacy transnationally’
This is a reply to:Meine, Anna. 2016. “Debating legitimacy transnationally.” Global Discourse 6 (3): 330–346. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23269995.2016.1175084
The republic of the living: Biopolitics and the critique of civil society
Karl Marx
In the concluding volume of his Homo Sacer project, The Use of Bodies , Giorgio Agamben briefly turns to Marx to distinguish his own account of what he terms ‘inoperativity’ from a Marxist account of production. Accepting Marx’s account of the decisive relationship between production, social relationships and culture, he nonetheless suggests that Marx neglected the forms of inoperativity that exist within every mode of production, opening it to a…
Hayek’s Submissive Subjects: Response to Son
Friedrich Hayek repeatedly stressed the centrality of submission to his own account of spontaneous order. In what he depicted as the rationalist refusal to submit to anything beyond human comprehension, he saw a threat to the “spontaneous order” of a market society. Kyong-Min Son’s criticism of my account of the neoliberal subject provides me with an opportunity to further specify my understanding of the submissive disposition of the Hayekian sub…
Calculated Indifference: The Politics of Collateral Damage
Today, the management of so-called “collateral damage” is a burgeoning field that involves militaries, NGOs, and international lawyers in the attempt to “humanize” warfare by reducing its impact on
Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism
The Invisible Hand of Friedrich Hayek: Submission and Spontaneous Order
Friedrich Hayek’s account of “spontaneous order” has generated increasing interest in recent decades. His argument for the superiority of the market in distributing knowledge without the need for central oversight has appealed to progressive democratic theorists, who are wary of the hubris of state planning and attracted to possibilities for self-organization, and to Foucaultians, who have long counseled political theory to cut off the King’s hea…
World-Making Through Market Morality: A Conversation About Human Rights, Neoliberalism and Political Struggle
In her 2019 book The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte investigates ‘the historical and conceptual relations between human rights and neoliberalism’. 1
Calculation and Conflict
Today, it is often forgotten that the socialist calculation debate of the 1920s and 1930s was not only about whether market societies were more economically efficient than planned ones; more crucially, Ludwig von Mises and his disciple Friedrich Hayek depicted economic planning as a threat to the moral and political order of "Western civilization." A planned economy, these early neoliberals argued, would override the "democracy of consumers" thro…
Freedom: The History and the Future of a Disputed Idea
Around 1882, the photographer Albert Fernique photographed a group of Parisian workers gathered around trestles and benches inside a workshop. The floor is strewn with piles of wood and the ceiling beams tower above the workmen. Even so, the space is dwarfed by a massive, sculpted shoulder, draped in Roman robes, which dominates the background of the photograph; two workers watching the scene from a beam just below the roof appear to be perched o…
How and Why to Do Just War Theory
A “Tragic Humanitarian Crisis: Israel’s Weaponization of Starvation and the Question of Intent
At dawn on 29 February 2024, Israeli forces opened fire at starving Palestinians as they tried to reach humanitarian aid trucks at Al Nabulsi roundabout outside Gaza City. At least 118 people were
Sanctioning Settlers and Settlers’ Sanctions: Financial Warfare and Economic Peace in Occupied Palestine
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