John O’carroll
Biographic Data
| ID | 3467645 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John O’carroll |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | O’carroll |
| SIGNATURE | O’CARROLL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles Sturt University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Henri Laborit: Cybernetics, biology and the social
This essay explores the work of Henri Laborit, the French cyberneticist renowned for his injection of cybernetic theory into urban cultural analysis. Laborit went beyond a claim of isomorphism to contend a radical continuity of levels of communication between the multicellular system of the body and the internal operations of the city and of human society. In this respect, his version of cybernetics restores a biological framework which bypasses …
Symmetrical Modernities
A review of Jane Bennett's The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings and Ethics (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001
Totaram’s Ghost
Revolution, rupture, rhetoric
This article traces certain rhetorics of knowledge-change as well as a few models of such change. In particular, it focuses on models that emphasize novelty and sudden transformation. To this end, the works of Thomas Kuhn, and the debates surrounding his celebrated modeling of the paradigm, are explored. Having established – at least in an illustrative fashion – the role of novelty in Kuhn’s philosophy of science, we then look more briefly at the…
The Art of the Hoax
In Memoriam: Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
Philosophy and Anthropology Late in 1998, replying to a question from Catherine Paoletti, the philosopher, Jacques Derrida was asked to reflect on aspects of his own early life. He remarked on his own decision to write in the first place that it was for him A form of resistance, of retreat. In this journal I kept (as a youth), there were things that were at once autobiographical and personal, but also, already sketches of little works on Rousseau…
Culture lag and democratic deficit in Ireland: Or, 'Dat's outside de terms of d'agreement
The main characteristics of the institutional context of policy making in Ireland are examined and their more latent consequences for community development delineated. The emphasis on partnership at all levels, on nation and, ironically, on community, is shown to contribute more to the legitimation of the state than to the cause of community development. This has created difficulties in responding adequately to new policy issues such as redistrib…
The cultural studies intellectual: Predicaments and possibilities
(1998). The cultural studies intellectual: Predicaments and possibilities. Continuum: Vol. 12, Philosophy and cultural studies, pp. 173-186
Bishops, knights — and Pawns? Traditional thought and the Irish abortion referendum debate of 1983
The traditionalist stance in the abortion referendum debate of 1983 is seen to reflect the nature of traditional belief systems generally. A tendency to treat current beliefs as absolute and alternative beliefs as anathema is shown to underlie many of the traditionalists’ contribution to the debate. The result was that the referendum was treated as a rite of renewal directed to the maintenance of cultural supremacy. The recourse to conventionalis…
Strokes, cute hoors and sneaking regarders: The influence of local culture on Irish political style
Viewing community as an orally‐constructed portrait of shared experience, this paper explores the notion of community in Ireland as a set of locally‐shared attitudes to place, territory, property, time and language. It considers the contrast between society and community and argues that local culture in Ireland portrays community as good and society as bad. The ways in which communal attitudes condition both political competition and attempts to …
Culture lag and democratic deficit in Ireland: Or, 'Dat's outside de terms of d'agreement
The main characteristics of the institutional context of policy making in Ireland are examined and their more latent consequences for community development delineated. The emphasis on partnership at all levels, on nation and, ironically, on community, is shown to contribute more to the legitimation of the state than to the cause of community development. This has created difficulties in responding adequately to new policy issues such as redistrib…
Strokes, cute hoors and sneaking regarders: The influence of local culture on Irish political style
Viewing community as an orally‐constructed portrait of shared experience, this paper explores the notion of community in Ireland as a set of locally‐shared attitudes to place, territory, property, time and language. It considers the contrast between society and community and argues that local culture in Ireland portrays community as good and society as bad. The ways in which communal attitudes condition both political competition and attempts to …
The Art of the Hoax
Bishops, knights — and Pawns? Traditional thought and the Irish abortion referendum debate of 1983
The traditionalist stance in the abortion referendum debate of 1983 is seen to reflect the nature of traditional belief systems generally. A tendency to treat current beliefs as absolute and alternative beliefs as anathema is shown to underlie many of the traditionalists’ contribution to the debate. The result was that the referendum was treated as a rite of renewal directed to the maintenance of cultural supremacy. The recourse to conventionalis…
Revolution, rupture, rhetoric
This article traces certain rhetorics of knowledge-change as well as a few models of such change. In particular, it focuses on models that emphasize novelty and sudden transformation. To this end, the works of Thomas Kuhn, and the debates surrounding his celebrated modeling of the paradigm, are explored. Having established – at least in an illustrative fashion – the role of novelty in Kuhn’s philosophy of science, we then look more briefly at the…
The cultural studies intellectual: Predicaments and possibilities
(1998). The cultural studies intellectual: Predicaments and possibilities. Continuum: Vol. 12, Philosophy and cultural studies, pp. 173-186
Strokes, cute hoors and sneaking regarders: The influence of local culture on Irish political style
Viewing community as an orally‐constructed portrait of shared experience, this paper explores the notion of community in Ireland as a set of locally‐shared attitudes to place, territory, property, time and language. It considers the contrast between society and community and argues that local culture in Ireland portrays community as good and society as bad. The ways in which communal attitudes condition both political competition and attempts to …
Bishops, knights — and Pawns? Traditional thought and the Irish abortion referendum debate of 1983
The traditionalist stance in the abortion referendum debate of 1983 is seen to reflect the nature of traditional belief systems generally. A tendency to treat current beliefs as absolute and alternative beliefs as anathema is shown to underlie many of the traditionalists’ contribution to the debate. The result was that the referendum was treated as a rite of renewal directed to the maintenance of cultural supremacy. The recourse to conventionalis…
The cultural studies intellectual: Predicaments and possibilities
(1998). The cultural studies intellectual: Predicaments and possibilities. Continuum: Vol. 12, Philosophy and cultural studies, pp. 173-186
Culture lag and democratic deficit in Ireland: Or, 'Dat's outside de terms of d'agreement
The main characteristics of the institutional context of policy making in Ireland are examined and their more latent consequences for community development delineated. The emphasis on partnership at all levels, on nation and, ironically, on community, is shown to contribute more to the legitimation of the state than to the cause of community development. This has created difficulties in responding adequately to new policy issues such as redistrib…
In Memoriam: Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)
Philosophy and Anthropology Late in 1998, replying to a question from Catherine Paoletti, the philosopher, Jacques Derrida was asked to reflect on aspects of his own early life. He remarked on his own decision to write in the first place that it was for him A form of resistance, of retreat. In this journal I kept (as a youth), there were things that were at once autobiographical and personal, but also, already sketches of little works on Rousseau…
The Art of the Hoax
Totaram’s Ghost
Revolution, rupture, rhetoric
This article traces certain rhetorics of knowledge-change as well as a few models of such change. In particular, it focuses on models that emphasize novelty and sudden transformation. To this end, the works of Thomas Kuhn, and the debates surrounding his celebrated modeling of the paradigm, are explored. Having established – at least in an illustrative fashion – the role of novelty in Kuhn’s philosophy of science, we then look more briefly at the…
Symmetrical Modernities
A review of Jane Bennett's The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings and Ethics (Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2001
Henri Laborit: Cybernetics, biology and the social
This essay explores the work of Henri Laborit, the French cyberneticist renowned for his injection of cybernetic theory into urban cultural analysis. Laborit went beyond a claim of isomorphism to contend a radical continuity of levels of communication between the multicellular system of the body and the internal operations of the city and of human society. In this respect, his version of cybernetics restores a biological framework which bypasses …
Sociology (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Irish and British Studies (3 works)