Tobin Siebers
Biographic Data
| ID | 355843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tobin Siebers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tobin |
| FAMILY NAME | Siebers |
| SIGNATURE | SIEBERS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8357-8139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Adolescents’ Digital Nightlife: The Comparative Effects of Day- and Nighttime Smartphone Use on Sleep Quality
The smartphone occupies a substantial part of adolescents’ daily life, from the moment they wake up to, for some, well beyond their bedtime. The current study compared the impact of adolescents’ daytime, pre-bedtime, and post-bedtime smartphone use on their sleep quality. In addition, it explored the differential effects of lean-back and lean-forward smartphone apps. We collected data from 155 adolescents across 21 days using smartphone tracking …
Your lies don't leave me cold: Assessing direct, indirect and physiological measures of lie detection
People tend to be bad at detecting lies: When explicitly asked to infer whether others tell a lie or the truth, people often do not perform better than chance. However, increasing evidence suggests that implicit lie detection measures and potentially physiological measures may mirror observers' telling apart lies from truths after all. Implicit and physiological responses are argued to respond to lies as a threatening stimulus associated with a t…
It is time to ensure research access to platform data
Explaining variation in adolescents’ social media-related distraction: The role of social connectivity and disconnectivity factors
Social media are often believed to distract adolescents’ attention. While existing research has shown that some adolescents experience more social media-related distraction than others, the explanations for these differences remain largely unknown. Based on Self-Determination Theory, this preregistered study investigated two social connectivity factors (fear of missing out [FoMO] and friendship accessibility expectations) and two disconnectivity …
The effects of fragmented and sticky smartphone use on distraction and task delay
The smartphone has become an integral part of adolescents’ daily life. Despite the countless affordances of smartphones, concerns have been raised about their enormous potential to cause failures in self-regulation, such as distraction and task delay. The current study investigated whether two smartphone usage patterns, fragmented and sticky smartphone use, are associated with distraction and task delay. For three weeks, we logged the smartphone …
Habitual social media and smartphone use are linked to task delay for some, but not all, adolescents
There is a popular concern that adolescents’ social media use, especially via smartphones, leads to the delay of intended, potentially more important tasks. Automatic social media use and frequent phone checking may especially contribute to task delay. Prior research has investigated this hypothesis through between-person associations. We advance the literature by additionally examining within-person and person-specific associations of automatic …
Social Media and Distraction: An Experience Sampling Study among Adolescents
A widespread concern in society is that adolescents experience an increased inability to concentrate and sustain attention because they are continuously distracted by social media. The current experience sampling method (ESM) study examined whether adolescents who use more social media than their peers experience more distraction (between-person association), whether social media use (SMU) and distraction co-fluctuate within adolescents (momentar…
The Ethics of Criticism
Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and the attitudes fostered by the approaches. Building on analyses of the moral legacies of Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud, Siebers identifies the variou…
Ethics of Criticism
The Ethics of Sexual Difference
Ethics of Criticism
Culture - Theory - Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies
neoliberalism seem to leave by the
Disability Aesthetics
"Disability Aesthetics is the first attempt to theorize the representation of disability in modern art and visual culture. It claims that the modern in art is perceived as disability, and that disability is evolving into an aesthetic value in itself. It argues that the essential arguments at the heart of the American culture wars in the late twentieth century involved the rejection of disability both by targeting certain artworks as "sick" and by…
Disability Theory
"Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability and law, disability as masquerade, disability and sexuality, disability and democracy---they're all here, in beautifully crafted and intellectually sta…
Disability Studies and the Future of Identity Politics
Nobody wants to be in the minority. People angle not to be left alone in a dispute, and those who risk to be seek the protection of those like them to lend greater weight to their social power. We all seem to share a basic intuition about what it means to be human and to face a community of others created by our exclusion. But the fear of being in the minority exerts pressure beyond the influence of social conformity. It carries tremendous weight…
Disability as Masquerade
Disability as Masquerade Tobin Siebers (bio) I. My subject will be recognized as passing although I plan to give it a few unexpected twists and turns. For I have been keeping secrets and telling lies. In December 1999, I had an altercation at the San Francisco airport with a gatekeeper for Northwest Airlines, who demanded that I use a wheelchair if I wanted to claim the early-boarding option. He did not want to accept that I was disabled unless m…
What Can Disability Studies Learn from the Culture Wars
M y concern in this essay is threefold. First, I will be arguing that disability is a significant register in the many and various disputes that have come to be known as the wars. The culture wars are not only about what culture will mean in the future but also about who deserves to be included in our culture, and the determining factor in these decisions often depends on being able to display a body and mind. Statements that label cultural attit…
Disability in Theory: From Social Constructionism to the New Realism of the Body
Tobin Siebers; Disability in Theory: From Social Constructionism to the New Realism of the Body, American Literary History, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 December 2001
The subject and other subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity
The Subject and Other Subjects offers a theory about the differences among ethical, aesthetic, and political conceptions of identity. While ethics, aesthetics, and politics are frequently confused in both theory and practice, Tobin Siebers argues, they need to be understood as different ways of seeing the world. He examines the concept of identity used by various theoretical schools and pinpoints the central stakes in recent arguments about art a…
Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism
Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism
In Cold War Criticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the scepticism, suspicion and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about the divided self, linguistic indeterminacy, the metaphysics of presence, multiculturalism, canon formation, power, cultural literacy and the politics of literature. The major critical movements of the postwar age, Sie…
Religion and the Authority of the Past
Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism
In Cold War Criticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the scepticism, suspicion and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about the divided self, linguistic indeterminacy, the metaphysics of presence, multiculturalism, canon formation, power, cultural literacy and the politics of literature. The major critical movements of the postwar age, Sie…
Cold War criticism and the politics of skepticism
Skepticism and Modern Enmity: Before and after Eliot
Disability as Masquerade
Disability as Masquerade Tobin Siebers (bio) I. My subject will be recognized as passing although I plan to give it a few unexpected twists and turns. For I have been keeping secrets and telling lies. In December 1999, I had an altercation at the San Francisco airport with a gatekeeper for Northwest Airlines, who demanded that I use a wheelchair if I wanted to claim the early-boarding option. He did not want to accept that I was disabled unless m…
What Can Disability Studies Learn from the Culture Wars
M y concern in this essay is threefold. First, I will be arguing that disability is a significant register in the many and various disputes that have come to be known as the wars. The culture wars are not only about what culture will mean in the future but also about who deserves to be included in our culture, and the determining factor in these decisions often depends on being able to display a body and mind. Statements that label cultural attit…
The Mirror of Medusa
Habitual social media and smartphone use are linked to task delay for some, but not all, adolescents
There is a popular concern that adolescents’ social media use, especially via smartphones, leads to the delay of intended, potentially more important tasks. Automatic social media use and frequent phone checking may especially contribute to task delay. Prior research has investigated this hypothesis through between-person associations. We advance the literature by additionally examining within-person and person-specific associations of automatic …
Culture - Theory - Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies
neoliberalism seem to leave by the
The Dead Father's Father
The Evil Eye
The Blindspot in Descartes' La Dioptrique
The Mirror of Medusa
The Mirror of Medusa
Ethics in the Age of Rousseau: From Levi-Strauss to Derrida
Skepticism and Modern Enmity: Before and after Eliot
Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism
In Cold War Criticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the scepticism, suspicion and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about the divided self, linguistic indeterminacy, the metaphysics of presence, multiculturalism, canon formation, power, cultural literacy and the politics of literature. The major critical movements of the postwar age, Sie…
Religion and the Authority of the Past
Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism
In Cold War Criticism, Tobin Siebers claims that modern criticism is a Cold War criticism. Postwar literary theory has absorbed the scepticism, suspicion and paranoia of the Cold War mentality, and it plays them out in debates about the divided self, linguistic indeterminacy, the metaphysics of presence, multiculturalism, canon formation, power, cultural literacy and the politics of literature. The major critical movements of the postwar age, Sie…
Cold War criticism and the politics of skepticism
Cold War Criticism and the Politics of Skepticism
The subject and other subjects: On Ethical, Aesthetic, and Political Identity
The Subject and Other Subjects offers a theory about the differences among ethical, aesthetic, and political conceptions of identity. While ethics, aesthetics, and politics are frequently confused in both theory and practice, Tobin Siebers argues, they need to be understood as different ways of seeing the world. He examines the concept of identity used by various theoretical schools and pinpoints the central stakes in recent arguments about art a…
Disability in Theory: From Social Constructionism to the New Realism of the Body
Tobin Siebers; Disability in Theory: From Social Constructionism to the New Realism of the Body, American Literary History, Volume 13, Issue 4, 1 December 2001
What Can Disability Studies Learn from the Culture Wars
M y concern in this essay is threefold. First, I will be arguing that disability is a significant register in the many and various disputes that have come to be known as the wars. The culture wars are not only about what culture will mean in the future but also about who deserves to be included in our culture, and the determining factor in these decisions often depends on being able to display a body and mind. Statements that label cultural attit…
Disability as Masquerade
Disability as Masquerade Tobin Siebers (bio) I. My subject will be recognized as passing although I plan to give it a few unexpected twists and turns. For I have been keeping secrets and telling lies. In December 1999, I had an altercation at the San Francisco airport with a gatekeeper for Northwest Airlines, who demanded that I use a wheelchair if I wanted to claim the early-boarding option. He did not want to accept that I was disabled unless m…
Disability Studies and the Future of Identity Politics
Nobody wants to be in the minority. People angle not to be left alone in a dispute, and those who risk to be seek the protection of those like them to lend greater weight to their social power. We all seem to share a basic intuition about what it means to be human and to face a community of others created by our exclusion. But the fear of being in the minority exerts pressure beyond the influence of social conformity. It carries tremendous weight…
Disability Theory
"Disability Theory is just the book we've been waiting for. Clear, cogent, compelling analyses of the tension between the 'social model' of disability and the material details of impairment; of identity politics and unstable identities; of capability rights and human interdependence; of disability and law, disability as masquerade, disability and sexuality, disability and democracy---they're all here, in beautifully crafted and intellectually sta…
Disability Aesthetics
"Disability Aesthetics is the first attempt to theorize the representation of disability in modern art and visual culture. It claims that the modern in art is perceived as disability, and that disability is evolving into an aesthetic value in itself. It argues that the essential arguments at the heart of the American culture wars in the late twentieth century involved the rejection of disability both by targeting certain artworks as "sick" and by…
Culture - Theory - Disability: Encounters between Disability Studies and Cultural Studies
neoliberalism seem to leave by the
The Ethics of Criticism
Tobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investigates the moral character of contemporary literary theory, assessing a wide range of theoretical approaches in terms of both the ethical presuppositions underlying the critical claims and the attitudes fostered by the approaches. Building on analyses of the moral legacies of Plato, Kant, Nietzsche, and Freud, Siebers identifies the variou…
Ethics of Criticism
The Ethics of Sexual Difference
Ethics of Criticism
Social Media and Distraction: An Experience Sampling Study among Adolescents
A widespread concern in society is that adolescents experience an increased inability to concentrate and sustain attention because they are continuously distracted by social media. The current experience sampling method (ESM) study examined whether adolescents who use more social media than their peers experience more distraction (between-person association), whether social media use (SMU) and distraction co-fluctuate within adolescents (momentar…
Psychology (12 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Criticism (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Skepticism (6 works)