Patrick Sheehan
Biographic Data
| ID | 305072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick Sheehan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick |
| FAMILY NAME | Sheehan |
| SIGNATURE | SHEEHAN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5799-5879 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Implementation of the Correspondence Test as an S-Curve
Given that the overuse of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) and the dichotomization of evidence contributed to the replication crisis, it is desirable to be able to assess replication res
To the Moon: Hype and Start-Up Work
When every day on the job is do-or-die, employees are left gasping for air. If they catch a breath, they are revived with the potent oxygen that fuels start-ups: hype. Go inside Silicon Valley's Brainshare, where the young men who pile in are not far-out believers but children of the upper middle classes with outsized expectations for work
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging with creatures of various kinds alters our understanding of what it means to write and read, and why this is important for thinking about a series of cultural, ethical, political, and scientific d…
War and Literary Studies
Unionizing High Tech: Opportunities and Obstacles
The WERN report documents the rise of worker-led collective action in the tech industry. We distinguish two types of activism emerging from tech professionals-demands for greater corporate social responsibility and demands for improved employment rights-and consider the opportunities each affords the larger labor movement. In the second section, we consider how the venture-capital funding model that structures the tech industry presents unique ch…
Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry
The high-tech industry is the world's most powerful and profitable industry, and it is almost entirely dominated by white, Asian American, and Asian men. This article reviews research on social inequality in the high-tech industry, focusing on gender and race/ethnicity. It begins with a discussion of alternative ways of defining the sector and an overview of its history and employment demographics. Next is an analysis of gendered and racialized p…
The Paradox of Self-Help Expertise: How Unemployed Workers Become Professional Career Coaches
A wide range of self-styled experts have emerged in recent years to sell professional self-improvement advice in fields as diverse as employment, health, and finances. Despite lacking traditional markers of expertise, these minor experts are gaining credibility and clientele, often at the expense of official experts in their field. Why do people turn to these experts? How do they build credibility? This article analyzes the paradoxical case of ca…
Don DeLillo's cinematic imaginary: From A(mericana) to Z(ero K)
In his fictional works and in interviews, Don DeLillo has always been open and forthcoming about what the cinema has meant to him, as a writer. This article plots the development of a ‘cinematic imaginary’ in DeLillo’s works, by focusing on his ability to devise various kinds of uncanny, para-cinematic artefacts. Three novels in particular – Americana, Running Dog and Underworld – are based around elusive, enigmatic films-in-the-making, in which …
Introduction: The Irresolute Language of Images
It has become at once a cliche, a truism, and a shibboleth to say that we live in an image-saturated culture. Although ‘analogue’ forms of image capture and distribution still persist, via posters
Unemployment Experts: Governing the Job Search in the New Economy
In recent years, sociologists have examined unemployment and job searching as important arenas in which workers are socialized to accept the terms of an increasingly precarious economy. While noting the importance of expert knowledge in manufacturing the consent of workers, research has largely overlooked the experts themselves that produce such knowledge. Who are these experts and what kinds of advice do they give? Drawing on interviews and ethn…
Coetzee & co: Failure, Lies and Autobiography
The most recent critical studies of J. M. Coetzee's oeuvre have paid little attention to the writer's autobiographical fictions, either downplaying their importance or ignoring them altogether. In this essay I make a case for the their formal and thematic significance. Focusing principally, though not exclusively, on the Scenes from Provincial Life (2011), I demonstrate how this trilogy of works is written against the generic impositions of life-…
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Modernism and Its Merchandise: The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920-1930
Determined vandalism: Politics, limits, and literary remains
Modernism and the Aesthetics of Violence
A history of smoke: W.G. Sebald and the memory of fire
In the expansive corpus of critical writing that has accrued around the works of W. G. Sebald, two factors are almost universally agreed upon. The first concerns the heterogeneous nature of his four ‘novels’, insofar as they combine elements of biography, memoir, travelogue, archival research, collage, photographic essay and fiction. The second near-unanimous claim is that the Holocaust is the ‘absent determinant’ that impels all his writing, and…
Introduction: Timeliness and untimeliness
Against the Image: Herzog and the Troubling Politics of the Screen Animal
Against the Image:Herzog and the Troubling Politics of the Screen Animal Paul Sheehan (bio) Late in 1968, while students in the European capitals were still dreaming of revolution, another version of it was being enacted several thousand miles away. The instigator was West German filmmaker Werner Herzog, directing his second full-length feature on the island of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands. Entitled Even Dwarfs Started Small, the film describ…
A Malady Of Dreaming’: Aesthetics and Criminality In The Picture of Dorian Gray
s afterlife could be described as a case of ‘accelerated approbation’: by an overwhelming critical consensus, his work seems more and more contemporary with each passing year. Only three decades a
Postmodernism and philosophy
Postmodernist thinking has typically reacted with suspicion to the notion of origins. As first cause or foundation, an origin - a transcendental ground to which all subsequent phenomena must pay obeisance - resurrects the deity that the “death of God” supposedly vanquished. This resistance to origins is matched by a much messier obsession with “ends.” Postmodernist endings are not so neat as the term suggests, however. They are thorny and recalci…
A Cringing Aussie Left
Among the Barbarians: The Dividing of Australia
Hume, Price, and Testimony
Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry
The high-tech industry is the world's most powerful and profitable industry, and it is almost entirely dominated by white, Asian American, and Asian men. This article reviews research on social inequality in the high-tech industry, focusing on gender and race/ethnicity. It begins with a discussion of alternative ways of defining the sector and an overview of its history and employment demographics. Next is an analysis of gendered and racialized p…
The Paradox of Self-Help Expertise: How Unemployed Workers Become Professional Career Coaches
A wide range of self-styled experts have emerged in recent years to sell professional self-improvement advice in fields as diverse as employment, health, and finances. Despite lacking traditional markers of expertise, these minor experts are gaining credibility and clientele, often at the expense of official experts in their field. Why do people turn to these experts? How do they build credibility? This article analyzes the paradoxical case of ca…
Unemployment Experts: Governing the Job Search in the New Economy
In recent years, sociologists have examined unemployment and job searching as important arenas in which workers are socialized to accept the terms of an increasingly precarious economy. While noting the importance of expert knowledge in manufacturing the consent of workers, research has largely overlooked the experts themselves that produce such knowledge. Who are these experts and what kinds of advice do they give? Drawing on interviews and ethn…
Among the Barbarians: The Dividing of Australia
Coetzee & co: Failure, Lies and Autobiography
The most recent critical studies of J. M. Coetzee's oeuvre have paid little attention to the writer's autobiographical fictions, either downplaying their importance or ignoring them altogether. In this essay I make a case for the their formal and thematic significance. Focusing principally, though not exclusively, on the Scenes from Provincial Life (2011), I demonstrate how this trilogy of works is written against the generic impositions of life-…
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Unionizing High Tech: Opportunities and Obstacles
The WERN report documents the rise of worker-led collective action in the tech industry. We distinguish two types of activism emerging from tech professionals-demands for greater corporate social responsibility and demands for improved employment rights-and consider the opportunities each affords the larger labor movement. In the second section, we consider how the venture-capital funding model that structures the tech industry presents unique ch…
Hume, Price, and Testimony
Among the Barbarians: The Dividing of Australia
A Cringing Aussie Left
Postmodernism and philosophy
Postmodernist thinking has typically reacted with suspicion to the notion of origins. As first cause or foundation, an origin - a transcendental ground to which all subsequent phenomena must pay obeisance - resurrects the deity that the “death of God” supposedly vanquished. This resistance to origins is matched by a much messier obsession with “ends.” Postmodernist endings are not so neat as the term suggests, however. They are thorny and recalci…
A Malady Of Dreaming’: Aesthetics and Criminality In The Picture of Dorian Gray
s afterlife could be described as a case of ‘accelerated approbation’: by an overwhelming critical consensus, his work seems more and more contemporary with each passing year. Only three decades a
Against the Image: Herzog and the Troubling Politics of the Screen Animal
Against the Image:Herzog and the Troubling Politics of the Screen Animal Paul Sheehan (bio) Late in 1968, while students in the European capitals were still dreaming of revolution, another version of it was being enacted several thousand miles away. The instigator was West German filmmaker Werner Herzog, directing his second full-length feature on the island of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands. Entitled Even Dwarfs Started Small, the film describ…
A history of smoke: W.G. Sebald and the memory of fire
In the expansive corpus of critical writing that has accrued around the works of W. G. Sebald, two factors are almost universally agreed upon. The first concerns the heterogeneous nature of his four ‘novels’, insofar as they combine elements of biography, memoir, travelogue, archival research, collage, photographic essay and fiction. The second near-unanimous claim is that the Holocaust is the ‘absent determinant’ that impels all his writing, and…
Introduction: Timeliness and untimeliness
Modernism and the Aesthetics of Violence
Determined vandalism: Politics, limits, and literary remains
Modernism and Its Merchandise: The Spanish Avant-Garde and Material Culture, 1920-1930
Coetzee & co: Failure, Lies and Autobiography
The most recent critical studies of J. M. Coetzee's oeuvre have paid little attention to the writer's autobiographical fictions, either downplaying their importance or ignoring them altogether. In this essay I make a case for the their formal and thematic significance. Focusing principally, though not exclusively, on the Scenes from Provincial Life (2011), I demonstrate how this trilogy of works is written against the generic impositions of life-…
The Future of Literary Thinking
All good writing takes us somewhere uncomfortable. One of the great services given by Textual Practice over the past 30 years has been to create a comfortable place for uncomfortable criticism. Yet right now, it is not writing but the world itself that is proving incommodious. What should criticism be doing in a political culture that has embraced hostility
Don DeLillo's cinematic imaginary: From A(mericana) to Z(ero K)
In his fictional works and in interviews, Don DeLillo has always been open and forthcoming about what the cinema has meant to him, as a writer. This article plots the development of a ‘cinematic imaginary’ in DeLillo’s works, by focusing on his ability to devise various kinds of uncanny, para-cinematic artefacts. Three novels in particular – Americana, Running Dog and Underworld – are based around elusive, enigmatic films-in-the-making, in which …
Introduction: The Irresolute Language of Images
It has become at once a cliche, a truism, and a shibboleth to say that we live in an image-saturated culture. Although ‘analogue’ forms of image capture and distribution still persist, via posters
Unemployment Experts: Governing the Job Search in the New Economy
In recent years, sociologists have examined unemployment and job searching as important arenas in which workers are socialized to accept the terms of an increasingly precarious economy. While noting the importance of expert knowledge in manufacturing the consent of workers, research has largely overlooked the experts themselves that produce such knowledge. Who are these experts and what kinds of advice do they give? Drawing on interviews and ethn…
The Paradox of Self-Help Expertise: How Unemployed Workers Become Professional Career Coaches
A wide range of self-styled experts have emerged in recent years to sell professional self-improvement advice in fields as diverse as employment, health, and finances. Despite lacking traditional markers of expertise, these minor experts are gaining credibility and clientele, often at the expense of official experts in their field. Why do people turn to these experts? How do they build credibility? This article analyzes the paradoxical case of ca…
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Animals surveys the role of animals across literary history and opens conversations on what literature can teach us about more-than-human life. Leading international scholars comprehensively explore how engaging with creatures of various kinds alters our understanding of what it means to write and read, and why this is important for thinking about a series of cultural, ethical, political, and scientific d…
War and Literary Studies
Unionizing High Tech: Opportunities and Obstacles
The WERN report documents the rise of worker-led collective action in the tech industry. We distinguish two types of activism emerging from tech professionals-demands for greater corporate social responsibility and demands for improved employment rights-and consider the opportunities each affords the larger labor movement. In the second section, we consider how the venture-capital funding model that structures the tech industry presents unique ch…
Social Inequality in High Tech: How Gender, Race, and Ethnicity Structure the World's Most Powerful Industry
The high-tech industry is the world's most powerful and profitable industry, and it is almost entirely dominated by white, Asian American, and Asian men. This article reviews research on social inequality in the high-tech industry, focusing on gender and race/ethnicity. It begins with a discussion of alternative ways of defining the sector and an overview of its history and employment demographics. Next is an analysis of gendered and racialized p…
To the Moon: Hype and Start-Up Work
When every day on the job is do-or-die, employees are left gasping for air. If they catch a breath, they are revived with the potent oxygen that fuels start-ups: hype. Go inside Silicon Valley's Brainshare, where the young men who pile in are not far-out believers but children of the upper middle classes with outsized expectations for work
Implementation of the Correspondence Test as an S-Curve
Given that the overuse of Null Hypothesis Significance Testing (NHST) and the dichotomization of evidence contributed to the replication crisis, it is desirable to be able to assess replication res
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