Brendan Mcquade
Biographic Data
| ID | 304188 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brendan Mcquade |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brendan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcquade |
| SIGNATURE | MCQUADE B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
W. Bello. Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right W.I. Robinson. The Global Police State C.B. Tansel (ed.). States of Discipline: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction…
The global financial crisis that began in 2007 transformed the world in complex and uneven ways that are still subject of much debate. The economic shocks had far reaching political repercussions. First, immediate measures to halt run away economic collapse. Increased government spending and even emergency nationalization of key firms notwithstanding, the goal of the measures was to reflate the system, not reform it. The crash might be the defini…
The secret of BlueLeaks: Security, Police, and the Continuum of Pacification
This paper reveals the secrets of BlueLeaks, a massive archive of documents hacked from police agencies, and intelligence centers in the United States. A September 2019 Intelligence Assessment by the Virginia Fusion Center cites counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen to evaluate the ‘insurgency tactics and strategies’ of environmentalists. What is remarkable about the document is not the domestic application of counterinsurgency but how it reve…
World Histories of Big Data Policing: The Imperial Epistemology of the Police-Wars of U.S. Hegemony
Textbook presentations of U.S. policing name the present as new stage of professionalization: the homeland security era, where the application of “big data” promises “smarter” policing. Within this framework of gradual progress, liberal police scholarship has become the official criticism of big data policing to organize a project of liberal reform. Of course, this scholarship is being in written in the context of both militant social movements w…
Movement Parties against Austerity
Windows into the Soul or the Clouded Glass of Surveillance Studies
Police and the Post-9/11 Surveillance Surge: “Technological Dramas” in “the Bureaucratic Field”
In the last decade, the United States has invested considerable resources into an expanded intelligence apparatus that extends from the hyper-secretive federal intelligence community down to the more mundane world of municipal police. This paper investigates the effects of the post-9/11 surveillance surge on state and local policing. It presents original research on interagency intelligence centers New York and New Jersey and deploys Pfaffenberge…
The Puzzle of Intelligence Expertise: Spaces of Intelligence Analysis and the Production of "Political" Knowledge
Notes on the Method of World-System Biography
C. Wright Mills boiled the social sciences down to one sentence: “They are attempts to help us understand biography and history, and the connections between the two in a variety of social structures.” This special issue considers biography as an fruitful entry point into macro-historical sociology. With lineages from Marx and Weber to Wallerstein and Bourdieu, the sociology of the individual can produce a clearer path between the muddy opposition…
The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it aren’t immediately clear”: A World-System Biography of George Orwell
George Orwell is one the best known and highly regarded writers of the twentieth century. In his adjective form—Orwellian—he has become a “Sartrean ‘singular universal,’ an individual whose “singular” experiences express the “universal” character of a historical moment. Orwell is a literary representation of the unease felt in the disenchanted, alienated, anomic world of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This towering cultural legacy obsc…
Cognitive Capitalism and Contemporary Politics: A World Historical Perspective
The recent upsurge of class struggle seemingly confirms the cognitive capitalism hypothesis and, particularly, the political predictions of Hardt and Negri. Using world-systems analysis as a heuristic device to facilitate comparison of Egypt's Arab Spring Revolt and Occupy Wall Street reveals complexities that belie these conclusions. The “cognitariat” and “multitude” are not uncomplicated revolutionary actors but fragmented and politically ambig…
The Vietnam Syndrome’ and the end of the post-‘Sixties’ era: Tropes and hegemony in history and policy
Militarising – and marginalising? – African Studies USA
The militarisation of US–African relations has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Left largely unexplored, however, is the question of how this process has involved US-based scholars. This essay examines this process with particular attention to the rapid expansion of military and intelligence research on and in Africa, and, in particular, military and intelligence funding of US Africanists' research including at the major African …
The Nineteenth Century Information Revolution and the Accomplishment of Rule: Information Infrastructures, Intelligence States, Colonial Discourses, and Racial Knowledge
Militarising – and marginalising? – African Studies USA
The militarisation of US–African relations has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Left largely unexplored, however, is the question of how this process has involved US-based scholars. This essay examines this process with particular attention to the rapid expansion of military and intelligence research on and in Africa, and, in particular, military and intelligence funding of US Africanists' research including at the major African …
The Puzzle of Intelligence Expertise: Spaces of Intelligence Analysis and the Production of "Political" Knowledge
World Histories of Big Data Policing: The Imperial Epistemology of the Police-Wars of U.S. Hegemony
Textbook presentations of U.S. policing name the present as new stage of professionalization: the homeland security era, where the application of “big data” promises “smarter” policing. Within this framework of gradual progress, liberal police scholarship has become the official criticism of big data policing to organize a project of liberal reform. Of course, this scholarship is being in written in the context of both militant social movements w…
Notes on the Method of World-System Biography
C. Wright Mills boiled the social sciences down to one sentence: “They are attempts to help us understand biography and history, and the connections between the two in a variety of social structures.” This special issue considers biography as an fruitful entry point into macro-historical sociology. With lineages from Marx and Weber to Wallerstein and Bourdieu, the sociology of the individual can produce a clearer path between the muddy opposition…
The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it aren’t immediately clear”: A World-System Biography of George Orwell
George Orwell is one the best known and highly regarded writers of the twentieth century. In his adjective form—Orwellian—he has become a “Sartrean ‘singular universal,’ an individual whose “singular” experiences express the “universal” character of a historical moment. Orwell is a literary representation of the unease felt in the disenchanted, alienated, anomic world of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This towering cultural legacy obsc…
Cognitive Capitalism and Contemporary Politics: A World Historical Perspective
The recent upsurge of class struggle seemingly confirms the cognitive capitalism hypothesis and, particularly, the political predictions of Hardt and Negri. Using world-systems analysis as a heuristic device to facilitate comparison of Egypt's Arab Spring Revolt and Occupy Wall Street reveals complexities that belie these conclusions. The “cognitariat” and “multitude” are not uncomplicated revolutionary actors but fragmented and politically ambig…
The Nineteenth Century Information Revolution and the Accomplishment of Rule: Information Infrastructures, Intelligence States, Colonial Discourses, and Racial Knowledge
The Vietnam Syndrome’ and the end of the post-‘Sixties’ era: Tropes and hegemony in history and policy
Militarising – and marginalising? – African Studies USA
The militarisation of US–African relations has attracted considerable attention in recent years. Left largely unexplored, however, is the question of how this process has involved US-based scholars. This essay examines this process with particular attention to the rapid expansion of military and intelligence research on and in Africa, and, in particular, military and intelligence funding of US Africanists' research including at the major African …
Notes on the Method of World-System Biography
C. Wright Mills boiled the social sciences down to one sentence: “They are attempts to help us understand biography and history, and the connections between the two in a variety of social structures.” This special issue considers biography as an fruitful entry point into macro-historical sociology. With lineages from Marx and Weber to Wallerstein and Bourdieu, the sociology of the individual can produce a clearer path between the muddy opposition…
The road from Mandalay to Wigan is a long one and the reasons for taking it aren’t immediately clear”: A World-System Biography of George Orwell
George Orwell is one the best known and highly regarded writers of the twentieth century. In his adjective form—Orwellian—he has become a “Sartrean ‘singular universal,’ an individual whose “singular” experiences express the “universal” character of a historical moment. Orwell is a literary representation of the unease felt in the disenchanted, alienated, anomic world of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This towering cultural legacy obsc…
Cognitive Capitalism and Contemporary Politics: A World Historical Perspective
The recent upsurge of class struggle seemingly confirms the cognitive capitalism hypothesis and, particularly, the political predictions of Hardt and Negri. Using world-systems analysis as a heuristic device to facilitate comparison of Egypt's Arab Spring Revolt and Occupy Wall Street reveals complexities that belie these conclusions. The “cognitariat” and “multitude” are not uncomplicated revolutionary actors but fragmented and politically ambig…
Police and the Post-9/11 Surveillance Surge: “Technological Dramas” in “the Bureaucratic Field”
In the last decade, the United States has invested considerable resources into an expanded intelligence apparatus that extends from the hyper-secretive federal intelligence community down to the more mundane world of municipal police. This paper investigates the effects of the post-9/11 surveillance surge on state and local policing. It presents original research on interagency intelligence centers New York and New Jersey and deploys Pfaffenberge…
The Puzzle of Intelligence Expertise: Spaces of Intelligence Analysis and the Production of "Political" Knowledge
Movement Parties against Austerity
Windows into the Soul or the Clouded Glass of Surveillance Studies
World Histories of Big Data Policing: The Imperial Epistemology of the Police-Wars of U.S. Hegemony
Textbook presentations of U.S. policing name the present as new stage of professionalization: the homeland security era, where the application of “big data” promises “smarter” policing. Within this framework of gradual progress, liberal police scholarship has become the official criticism of big data policing to organize a project of liberal reform. Of course, this scholarship is being in written in the context of both militant social movements w…
W. Bello. Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right W.I. Robinson. The Global Police State C.B. Tansel (ed.). States of Discipline: Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction…
The global financial crisis that began in 2007 transformed the world in complex and uneven ways that are still subject of much debate. The economic shocks had far reaching political repercussions. First, immediate measures to halt run away economic collapse. Increased government spending and even emergency nationalization of key firms notwithstanding, the goal of the measures was to reflate the system, not reform it. The crash might be the defini…
The secret of BlueLeaks: Security, Police, and the Continuum of Pacification
This paper reveals the secrets of BlueLeaks, a massive archive of documents hacked from police agencies, and intelligence centers in the United States. A September 2019 Intelligence Assessment by the Virginia Fusion Center cites counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen to evaluate the ‘insurgency tactics and strategies’ of environmentalists. What is remarkable about the document is not the domestic application of counterinsurgency but how it reve…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Political economy (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Hegemony (4 works)