Michael Dartnell
Biographic Data
| ID | 334484 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Dartnell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Dartnell |
| SIGNATURE | DARTNELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, Second Edition
The Body and Controlling the Means of Violence: The Impact of the October 1983 Beirut Suicide Attacks on France's Action directe
This research on suicide terrorism and arms control focuses on use of the human body as a weapon and the intersection of the body with technology. Through the case of the French terrorist group Action directe (Direct Action) the article analyzes the impact of suicide terrorism on conventional terrorists, the possibility that conventional terrorists become more violent when another group with similar or identical goals turns to suicide terrorism, …
Communicative practice and transgressive global politics: The D’ua of Sheikh Muhammed Al Mohaisany (originally published in July 2005)
Walter Benjamin noted the transformative impact of information technology when he said that "photography greatly extends the sphere of commodity exchange... by flooding the market with countless images of figures, landscapes, and events which had previously been available either not at all or only as pictures for individual customers." Echoing his assessment, multimedia activism has emerged as a practice through which multiple–user communication …
Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict
Communicative practice and transgressive global politics: The D’ua of Sheikh Muhammed Al Mohaisany
Walter Benjamin noted the transformative impact of information technology when he said that "photography greatly extends the sphere of commodity exchange... by flooding the market with countless images of figures, landscapes, and events which had previously been available either not at all or only as pictures for individual customers." Echoing his assessment, multimedia activism has emerged as a practice through which multiple–user communication …
Post-territorial insurgency: The online activism of the revolutionary association of women of Afghanistan (Rawa)
In this article, the RAWA Website is analyzed as an example of the transformation of global security in a context in which globalization, fragmentation, and the rise of new technologies for global communication embody new forms of political behaviour. In particular, the article outlines how a marginalized group in a remote country has used the Web to wage a worldwide struggle for hearts and minds. The author contends that such conditions for new …
Weapons of Mass Instruction: Web Activism and the Transformation of Global Security
While the World Wide Web and information technology (IT) have a transformative impact on global security, neither they nor the expectations they arouse are unique to our time. IT creates enormous opportunities for non-state actors and enhances the global profile of previously marginalised issues and movements. IT is a highly visible embodiment of the complexity of contemporary global politics and is present in many settings: facilitating the over…
The electronic Starry Plough: The Enationalism of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (IRSM)
This paper takes the case of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (IRSM) as the point of departure to discuss how insurgent political movement use Web communications. From mirror sites in Ireland and North America, IRSM supporters regularly use Web technology to relay the group message to a global audience at http://www.irsm.org/irsm.html. The resulting direct media contact gives the IRSM unprecedented access to global civil society. By referr…
The Ingenuity Gap: How Can We Solve the Problems of the Future
Insurgency online: Elements for a theory of anti‐government Internet communications
The article takes the cases of Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) as the pont of departure to discuss how a insurgent political movement uses the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW). During the 1996–97 Japanese Embassy hostage incident in Lima, Peru, MRTA supporters in Japan, Europe and North America used online technology to relay the group's message to a global public. The resulting direct media access provided the MRTA with an unpr…
A legal inter-network for terrorism: Issues of globalization, fragmentation and legitimacy
(1999). A legal inter‐network for terrorism: Issues of globalization, fragmentation and legitimacy. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 11, The Future of Terrorism, pp. 197-208
Alias ‘GBGPGS’: Action directe internationale's transition from revolutionary terrorism to euro‐terrorism
This article discusses terrorism as a ritual act or series of acts that expresses a message. The case of GBGPGS illustrates how complex such messages are by referring them to their French and global contexts. The group's violent struggle against political rules has a ‘sacrificial’ dimension and was justified as a response to ‘crisis’. Through attempting to re‐interpret French extreme‐left traditions, the GBGPGS campaign foreshadowed Euro‐terroris…
Action Directe: Ultra Left Terrorism in France 1979-1987
In defining Action Directe's mixture of millenarianism, workerism and nihilism, this study explains why the group turned to a strategy of murderous strikes and how a revolutionary political faction emerged in a stable western society
France'saction directe: Terrorists in search of a revolution
This article focuses on the ideology of the French terrorist group Action directe. Active from 1979 until 1987, AD went through several phases of ideological change. It was originally influenced by both anarchism and Maoism. In the early 1980s, the group substantially revised its ideology. The result was a variant of the Euro‐terrorism which burst forth in a number of countries during the 1980s. After this point, AD drew the inspiration for its a…
The Ingenuity Gap: How Can We Solve the Problems of the Future
Weapons of Mass Instruction: Web Activism and the Transformation of Global Security
While the World Wide Web and information technology (IT) have a transformative impact on global security, neither they nor the expectations they arouse are unique to our time. IT creates enormous opportunities for non-state actors and enhances the global profile of previously marginalised issues and movements. IT is a highly visible embodiment of the complexity of contemporary global politics and is present in many settings: facilitating the over…
Insurgency online: Elements for a theory of anti‐government Internet communications
The article takes the cases of Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) as the pont of departure to discuss how a insurgent political movement uses the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW). During the 1996–97 Japanese Embassy hostage incident in Lima, Peru, MRTA supporters in Japan, Europe and North America used online technology to relay the group's message to a global public. The resulting direct media access provided the MRTA with an unpr…
France'saction directe: Terrorists in search of a revolution
This article focuses on the ideology of the French terrorist group Action directe. Active from 1979 until 1987, AD went through several phases of ideological change. It was originally influenced by both anarchism and Maoism. In the early 1980s, the group substantially revised its ideology. The result was a variant of the Euro‐terrorism which burst forth in a number of countries during the 1980s. After this point, AD drew the inspiration for its a…
France'saction directe: Terrorists in search of a revolution
This article focuses on the ideology of the French terrorist group Action directe. Active from 1979 until 1987, AD went through several phases of ideological change. It was originally influenced by both anarchism and Maoism. In the early 1980s, the group substantially revised its ideology. The result was a variant of the Euro‐terrorism which burst forth in a number of countries during the 1980s. After this point, AD drew the inspiration for its a…
Action Directe: Ultra Left Terrorism in France 1979-1987
In defining Action Directe's mixture of millenarianism, workerism and nihilism, this study explains why the group turned to a strategy of murderous strikes and how a revolutionary political faction emerged in a stable western society
Alias ‘GBGPGS’: Action directe internationale's transition from revolutionary terrorism to euro‐terrorism
This article discusses terrorism as a ritual act or series of acts that expresses a message. The case of GBGPGS illustrates how complex such messages are by referring them to their French and global contexts. The group's violent struggle against political rules has a ‘sacrificial’ dimension and was justified as a response to ‘crisis’. Through attempting to re‐interpret French extreme‐left traditions, the GBGPGS campaign foreshadowed Euro‐terroris…
Insurgency online: Elements for a theory of anti‐government Internet communications
The article takes the cases of Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) as the pont of departure to discuss how a insurgent political movement uses the Internet and World Wide Web (WWW). During the 1996–97 Japanese Embassy hostage incident in Lima, Peru, MRTA supporters in Japan, Europe and North America used online technology to relay the group's message to a global public. The resulting direct media access provided the MRTA with an unpr…
A legal inter-network for terrorism: Issues of globalization, fragmentation and legitimacy
(1999). A legal inter‐network for terrorism: Issues of globalization, fragmentation and legitimacy. Terrorism and Political Violence: Vol. 11, The Future of Terrorism, pp. 197-208
The Ingenuity Gap: How Can We Solve the Problems of the Future
The electronic Starry Plough: The Enationalism of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (IRSM)
This paper takes the case of the Irish Republican Socialist Movement (IRSM) as the point of departure to discuss how insurgent political movement use Web communications. From mirror sites in Ireland and North America, IRSM supporters regularly use Web technology to relay the group message to a global audience at http://www.irsm.org/irsm.html. The resulting direct media contact gives the IRSM unprecedented access to global civil society. By referr…
Post-territorial insurgency: The online activism of the revolutionary association of women of Afghanistan (Rawa)
In this article, the RAWA Website is analyzed as an example of the transformation of global security in a context in which globalization, fragmentation, and the rise of new technologies for global communication embody new forms of political behaviour. In particular, the article outlines how a marginalized group in a remote country has used the Web to wage a worldwide struggle for hearts and minds. The author contends that such conditions for new …
Weapons of Mass Instruction: Web Activism and the Transformation of Global Security
While the World Wide Web and information technology (IT) have a transformative impact on global security, neither they nor the expectations they arouse are unique to our time. IT creates enormous opportunities for non-state actors and enhances the global profile of previously marginalised issues and movements. IT is a highly visible embodiment of the complexity of contemporary global politics and is present in many settings: facilitating the over…
Insurgency Online: Web Activism and Global Conflict
Communicative practice and transgressive global politics: The D’ua of Sheikh Muhammed Al Mohaisany
Walter Benjamin noted the transformative impact of information technology when he said that "photography greatly extends the sphere of commodity exchange... by flooding the market with countless images of figures, landscapes, and events which had previously been available either not at all or only as pictures for individual customers." Echoing his assessment, multimedia activism has emerged as a practice through which multiple–user communication …
Communicative practice and transgressive global politics: The D’ua of Sheikh Muhammed Al Mohaisany (originally published in July 2005)
Walter Benjamin noted the transformative impact of information technology when he said that "photography greatly extends the sphere of commodity exchange... by flooding the market with countless images of figures, landscapes, and events which had previously been available either not at all or only as pictures for individual customers." Echoing his assessment, multimedia activism has emerged as a practice through which multiple–user communication …
The Body and Controlling the Means of Violence: The Impact of the October 1983 Beirut Suicide Attacks on France's Action directe
This research on suicide terrorism and arms control focuses on use of the human body as a weapon and the intersection of the body with technology. Through the case of the French terrorist group Action directe (Direct Action) the article analyzes the impact of suicide terrorism on conventional terrorists, the possibility that conventional terrorists become more violent when another group with similar or identical goals turns to suicide terrorism, …
Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, Second Edition
Law (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Politics (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Terrorism (5 works) · History (4 works) · Media studies (4 works)