Jeffrey T Nealon
Biographic Data
| ID | 355392 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey T Nealon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey T |
| FAMILY NAME | Nealon |
| SIGNATURE | NEALON J T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Biopolitics, Marxism and Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
lt;p>This essay seeks to supplement Thomas Piketty's work in "Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by exploring connections between Piketty and Antonio Negri's post-Marxist work. Piketty tries to excise consideration of so called "human capital” from his analysis, whereas Negri puts such human, creative or what he calls "biopolitical” considerations front and center in his analysis of contemporary capitalism, opening up fresh points of interventi…
Fates of the Performative
Foucault Beyond Foucault
This book retraces power's intensification in Foucault in ways that both allow us to reread Foucault's own conceptual itinerary and, more importantly, to think about how we might respond to the mutations of power that that have taken place since his death in 1984
Jokes and the Performative in Austin and Derrida; or, The Truth is a Joke
Stuart Hall and the "Detour Through Theory" Revisited
Following Stuart Hall's provocation to understand theory as the "process of theorizing, of the development and refinement of new concepts and explanations which, alone, is the sign of a living body of thought, capable still of engaging and grasping something of the truth about new historical realities," this essay looks at Hall's understanding of theory as a "detour" in the 1980s and 1990s and wonders whether new historical realities might force …
Still Life, With Tequila
Thinking back on Derrida’s work, on what I’ve found most admirable and useful within his texts (and given the couple-dozen times I had direct interaction with him, what I took away from his personality), it’s not mourning that I want to recall a decade after that ‘each time unique, the end of the world’ that was Derrida’s death. It’s not the Derrida of lack and loss, prayers and tears, but the Derrida of a certain kind of malicious performative j…
RealFeel
Rethinking the Frankfurt School
The Economics of Academic Freedom, or Plato's P & T Committee
Within contemporary debates about the present and future of the university, academic freedom often functions in a Neoplatonic manner-which is to say, it functions as that eternal and unfettered form that guides the mundane material practices of academic life (most obviously, tenure and its lifetime job security). Without the Platonic cover of academic freedom, the exorbitant job guarantees of tenure would, it seems, have precious little reason to…
The Swerve Around P
The Associate Vice Provost in the Gray Flannel Suit
This article argues that if leftists want to take the university back from corporate forces, perhaps we should take our inspiration not from cultural conservatives but from economic ones, who'd teach us to “take over” higher education by severely trimming and streamlining the administrative ranks of middle management, and disgorging that excess cash back into the “core business” of education and research. Keywords: Corporate UniversityAdministrat…
Take Me Out to the Slot Machines
Research Article| April 01 2006 Take Me Out to the Slot Machines: Reflections on Gambling and Contemporary American Culture Jeffrey T. Nealon Jeffrey T. Nealon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (2): 465–474. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-105-2-465 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn E…
Passages
You first. One always goes before the other. Now how, exactly, am I gonna go first now?... Sorry, you got me my friend, it was "you" who went first. Oh my friend, there are no obits. At least none that do not begin with the other. Yes, Yes, the difficulty of beginning, about which JD will have taught us so much. How does one begin to mourn, to remember, to confront the other's passing? Begin? Not to mention find the middle, the passage. For to be…
Pain-in-the-ass Democracy
Pain-in-the-ass Democracy Jeffrey T. Nealon Review of: John McGowan, Democracy’s Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2002. Are we so confident in our current formulations that we would not value the person who comes along to challenge them? More likely than not, that person is a pain in the ass. (McGowan 224) In Democracy’s Children, John McGowan goes out of his way to be a pain in the ass—as long as…
Empire of the Intensities
(2002). Empire of the Intensities: A Random Walk Down Las Vegas Boulevard. Parallax: Vol. 8, Random Figures, pp. 78-91
Alterity Politics
Alterior Motives
Junk' and the Other
Junk" and the Other: Burroughs and Levinas on Drugs Jeffrey T. Nealon The metaphysical desire . . . desires beyond everything that can simply complete it. It is like goodness - the Desired does not fulfill it, but deepens it . . . . [Desire] nourishes itself, one might say, with its hunger. -Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity Junk yields a basic formula of "evil" virus: The Algebra of Need. The face of "evil" is always the face of total need…
Theory That Matters
Postmodern Culture - Volume 5, Number 1, September 1994
Thinking the Postmodern
Exteriority and Appropriation
In the past decade, Michel Foucault's thought has been gaining increasing currency in literature departments in the United States. If one were to plot schematically the rise and fall of theories in literature departments, one could easily tie the rise of Foucault's genealogical discourse to the fall of another contemporary French discourse, Jacques Derrida's deconstruction; in fact, Foucault's thought first comes on the American literary critical…
Jokes and the Performative in Austin and Derrida; or, The Truth is a Joke
Empire of the Intensities
(2002). Empire of the Intensities: A Random Walk Down Las Vegas Boulevard. Parallax: Vol. 8, Random Figures, pp. 78-91
Thinking the Postmodern
Exteriority and Appropriation
In the past decade, Michel Foucault's thought has been gaining increasing currency in literature departments in the United States. If one were to plot schematically the rise and fall of theories in literature departments, one could easily tie the rise of Foucault's genealogical discourse to the fall of another contemporary French discourse, Jacques Derrida's deconstruction; in fact, Foucault's thought first comes on the American literary critical…
Thinking the Postmodern
Theory That Matters
Postmodern Culture - Volume 5, Number 1, September 1994
Junk' and the Other
Junk" and the Other: Burroughs and Levinas on Drugs Jeffrey T. Nealon The metaphysical desire . . . desires beyond everything that can simply complete it. It is like goodness - the Desired does not fulfill it, but deepens it . . . . [Desire] nourishes itself, one might say, with its hunger. -Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity Junk yields a basic formula of "evil" virus: The Algebra of Need. The face of "evil" is always the face of total need…
Alterior Motives
Alterity Politics
Empire of the Intensities
(2002). Empire of the Intensities: A Random Walk Down Las Vegas Boulevard. Parallax: Vol. 8, Random Figures, pp. 78-91
Pain-in-the-ass Democracy
Pain-in-the-ass Democracy Jeffrey T. Nealon Review of: John McGowan, Democracy’s Children: Intellectuals and the Rise of Cultural Politics. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP, 2002. Are we so confident in our current formulations that we would not value the person who comes along to challenge them? More likely than not, that person is a pain in the ass. (McGowan 224) In Democracy’s Children, John McGowan goes out of his way to be a pain in the ass—as long as…
Passages
You first. One always goes before the other. Now how, exactly, am I gonna go first now?... Sorry, you got me my friend, it was "you" who went first. Oh my friend, there are no obits. At least none that do not begin with the other. Yes, Yes, the difficulty of beginning, about which JD will have taught us so much. How does one begin to mourn, to remember, to confront the other's passing? Begin? Not to mention find the middle, the passage. For to be…
The Associate Vice Provost in the Gray Flannel Suit
This article argues that if leftists want to take the university back from corporate forces, perhaps we should take our inspiration not from cultural conservatives but from economic ones, who'd teach us to “take over” higher education by severely trimming and streamlining the administrative ranks of middle management, and disgorging that excess cash back into the “core business” of education and research. Keywords: Corporate UniversityAdministrat…
Take Me Out to the Slot Machines
Research Article| April 01 2006 Take Me Out to the Slot Machines: Reflections on Gambling and Contemporary American Culture Jeffrey T. Nealon Jeffrey T. Nealon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google South Atlantic Quarterly (2006) 105 (2): 465–474. https://doi.org/10.1215/00382876-105-2-465 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn E…
The Swerve Around P
The Economics of Academic Freedom, or Plato's P & T Committee
Within contemporary debates about the present and future of the university, academic freedom often functions in a Neoplatonic manner-which is to say, it functions as that eternal and unfettered form that guides the mundane material practices of academic life (most obviously, tenure and its lifetime job security). Without the Platonic cover of academic freedom, the exorbitant job guarantees of tenure would, it seems, have precious little reason to…
Rethinking the Frankfurt School
RealFeel
Still Life, With Tequila
Thinking back on Derrida’s work, on what I’ve found most admirable and useful within his texts (and given the couple-dozen times I had direct interaction with him, what I took away from his personality), it’s not mourning that I want to recall a decade after that ‘each time unique, the end of the world’ that was Derrida’s death. It’s not the Derrida of lack and loss, prayers and tears, but the Derrida of a certain kind of malicious performative j…
Stuart Hall and the "Detour Through Theory" Revisited
Following Stuart Hall's provocation to understand theory as the "process of theorizing, of the development and refinement of new concepts and explanations which, alone, is the sign of a living body of thought, capable still of engaging and grasping something of the truth about new historical realities," this essay looks at Hall's understanding of theory as a "detour" in the 1980s and 1990s and wonders whether new historical realities might force …
Jokes and the Performative in Austin and Derrida; or, The Truth is a Joke
Foucault Beyond Foucault
This book retraces power's intensification in Foucault in ways that both allow us to reread Foucault's own conceptual itinerary and, more importantly, to think about how we might respond to the mutations of power that that have taken place since his death in 1984
Biopolitics, Marxism and Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century
lt;p>This essay seeks to supplement Thomas Piketty's work in "Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by exploring connections between Piketty and Antonio Negri's post-Marxist work. Piketty tries to excise consideration of so called "human capital” from his analysis, whereas Negri puts such human, creative or what he calls "biopolitical” considerations front and center in his analysis of contemporary capitalism, opening up fresh points of interventi…
Fates of the Performative
Philosophy (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Art (10 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Aesthetics (8 works) · Literature (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Politics (6 works)