Oliver Davis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3584639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oliver Davis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oliver |
| FAMILY NAME | Davis |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIS O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wadham College, Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hatred of Sex
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on and Beyond Autonomy
Anthropotechnical Practising in the Foam-World
I begin by acknowledging the profusion of Peter Sloterdijk’s published work, the suggestion by Bruno Latour that it may be on the side of design, and Sloterdijk’s pugnacious aversion to professorial critique. I focus on what I consider to be the crucial and vexed relationship between the general immunology of the Spheres trilogy [1998–2004] and the general ascetology of You Must Change Your Life [2009]. I present an analytical reconstruction of S…
Mettray
This solid history of the Mettray boys’ reformatory, from its opening in 1840 to its closure in 1937, undertakes quite an extensive exploration of the rich archive of this significant institution, now housed in the Archives départementales d’Indre-et-Loire in Tours. Toth recognizes that Mettray was ‘a complex institutional hybrid’, in several senses: a private institution which worked closely alongside the state, a colonie agricole but one in whi…
Neoliberal Capitalism's Bureaucracies of 'governance
The account of bureaucracy under neoliberal capitalism which I present in this article under the innocuous heading it prefers to use to describe itself ('governance') draws together recent critical work by David Graeber, Wendy Brown, William Davies and Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval, which it repositions in relation to Jacques Rancière's conception of the 'police order'. The key claims of the new critique of bureaucracy thus delineated are: (i…
The Caerau and Ely Rediscovering Heritage Project
Iron Age Hillfort Defences and the Tactics Of Sling Warfare, By Peter Robertson
"Iron Age Hillfort Defences and the Tactics Of Sling Warfare, By Peter Robertson." Archaeological Journal, 175(2), pp. 397–398
Iron Age Burial in Wales
Until the latter part of the twentieth century, Iron Age burial in Britain was thought to be largely archaeologically invisible. However, over the last 40 years the recovery of large assemblages of human remains, often from pits and ditches rather than beneath monumental structures, has changed our understanding of Iron Age funerary practices. The problem, though, is that the majority of this material derives from core areas of study, particularl…
Material legacies
Early Neolithic Enclosures in Wales
Causewayed enclosures have recently been at the forefront of debate within British and European Neolithic studies. In the British Isles as a whole, the vast majority of these monuments are located in southern England, but a few sites are now beginning to be discovered beyond this core region. The search in Wales had seen limited success, but in the 1990s a number of cropmark discoveries suggested the presence of such enclosures west of the River …
Filling the Gaps
Over the last 20 years interpretive approaches within Iron Age studies in Britain have moved from the national to the regional. This was an important development which challenged the notion that a unified, British, Iron Age ever existed. However, whilst this approach has allowed regional histories to be told in their own right, there has been far too much focus on ‘key’ areas such as Wessex and Yorkshire. Our knowledge of the ‘gaps’ in-between th…
Resiling From “Resilience”
This is a sketch for a critique of “resilience” and “resiliency” as keywords of neoliberal newspeak (officialese, langue de bois) under the innocuous banner of which all manner of business is now being transacted. I register the rapid extension of resilience discourse, note the socioeconomic context of its rise to prominence, and identify its implicit political assumptions and its social and subjective effects and side effects
Mettray revisited in Jean Genet’s Le Langage de la muraille
Genet was responding, with his own characteristically light-fingered form of autodidactic historical scholarship, to Michel Foucault's appropriation of Mettray in Surveiller et punir (1975). In my return to the archives of this model institution, I argue that Mettray was an exemplary exercise in liberal statecraft's mixture of coaxing and coercion; and that Demetz was an unrivalled master of 'the language of the wall'. This was a distinctly moder…
From football stadium to Iron Age hillfort. Creating a taxonomy of Wessex hillfort communities
The variability of Wessex hillfort form, use and development has long been noted, but not satisfactorily explained. This paper seeks to explain this variability and suggests that each hillfort may have had its own distinctive history of use, dependent upon the nature of the hillfort community - the people who visited, inhabited and used the hillfort. This paper starts by using grid-group analysis to define identities that can be found among moder…
Re-interpreting the Danebury Assemblage
Cunliffe's excavations at Danebury have revealed an Iron Age settlement in extraordinary detail. Its inhabitants have come to represent, in the popular literature at least, the idealised hillfort community of warriors, craftsmen, farmers, and their families in a hierarchically ordered settlement system. This model has been vigorously challenged, although largely from a theoretical perspective, and there has been little contextual re-analysis of t…
Jacques Rancière and Contemporary Art
This is neither the place nor the time to say that the love affair between the contemporary art world and philosopher Jacques Rancière is over, even if signs of a certain decrystallization are beginning to appear. The philosopher seems coy, wary: “I get letters all the time from people who are organising biennales which, they say, have been conceived according to my principles, this being the reason I must come. Since I cannot go everywhere I am …
Jacques Rancière et l'art contemporain
une dcristallisation certaine
The Radical Pedagogies of François Bon and Jacques Rancière
This article interrogates contemporary writer François Bon's conception of the creative writing workshop in the light of work by political philosopher Jacques Rancière on intellectual emancipation. Bon's radical programme, based on over twenty years' experience as one of France's leading practitioners of the writing workshop, in Tous les mots sont adultes: méthode pour l'atelier d'écriture (revised edition, 2005), is examined alongside the critiq…
Genet
Jean Genet
By David Houston Jones. (Glasgow Introductory Guides to French Literature, 50). University of Glasgow French And German Publications, 2004. 92 pp. Pb £4.50. This guide is an excellent introduction to a challenging work. Chapter One places the Journal in its historical context and offers a succinct discussion of the difficulties which Sartre's Saint Genet has caused, both to Genet and his readers. The assessment of Sartre's book, although less gru…
The Author at Work in Genetic Criticism
Neoliberal Capitalism's Bureaucracies of 'governance
The account of bureaucracy under neoliberal capitalism which I present in this article under the innocuous heading it prefers to use to describe itself ('governance') draws together recent critical work by David Graeber, Wendy Brown, William Davies and Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval, which it repositions in relation to Jacques Rancière's conception of the 'police order'. The key claims of the new critique of bureaucracy thus delineated are: (i…
Re-interpreting the Danebury Assemblage
Cunliffe's excavations at Danebury have revealed an Iron Age settlement in extraordinary detail. Its inhabitants have come to represent, in the popular literature at least, the idealised hillfort community of warriors, craftsmen, farmers, and their families in a hierarchically ordered settlement system. This model has been vigorously challenged, although largely from a theoretical perspective, and there has been little contextual re-analysis of t…
Anthropotechnical Practising in the Foam-World
I begin by acknowledging the profusion of Peter Sloterdijk’s published work, the suggestion by Bruno Latour that it may be on the side of design, and Sloterdijk’s pugnacious aversion to professorial critique. I focus on what I consider to be the crucial and vexed relationship between the general immunology of the Spheres trilogy [1998–2004] and the general ascetology of You Must Change Your Life [2009]. I present an analytical reconstruction of S…
Iron Age Burial in Wales
Until the latter part of the twentieth century, Iron Age burial in Britain was thought to be largely archaeologically invisible. However, over the last 40 years the recovery of large assemblages of human remains, often from pits and ditches rather than beneath monumental structures, has changed our understanding of Iron Age funerary practices. The problem, though, is that the majority of this material derives from core areas of study, particularl…
From football stadium to Iron Age hillfort. Creating a taxonomy of Wessex hillfort communities
The variability of Wessex hillfort form, use and development has long been noted, but not satisfactorily explained. This paper seeks to explain this variability and suggests that each hillfort may have had its own distinctive history of use, dependent upon the nature of the hillfort community - the people who visited, inhabited and used the hillfort. This paper starts by using grid-group analysis to define identities that can be found among moder…
The Radical Pedagogies of François Bon and Jacques Rancière
This article interrogates contemporary writer François Bon's conception of the creative writing workshop in the light of work by political philosopher Jacques Rancière on intellectual emancipation. Bon's radical programme, based on over twenty years' experience as one of France's leading practitioners of the writing workshop, in Tous les mots sont adultes: méthode pour l'atelier d'écriture (revised edition, 2005), is examined alongside the critiq…
The Author at Work in Genetic Criticism
Jean Genet
By David Houston Jones. (Glasgow Introductory Guides to French Literature, 50). University of Glasgow French And German Publications, 2004. 92 pp. Pb £4.50. This guide is an excellent introduction to a challenging work. Chapter One places the Journal in its historical context and offers a succinct discussion of the difficulties which Sartre's Saint Genet has caused, both to Genet and his readers. The assessment of Sartre's book, although less gru…
Genet
The Radical Pedagogies of François Bon and Jacques Rancière
This article interrogates contemporary writer François Bon's conception of the creative writing workshop in the light of work by political philosopher Jacques Rancière on intellectual emancipation. Bon's radical programme, based on over twenty years' experience as one of France's leading practitioners of the writing workshop, in Tous les mots sont adultes: méthode pour l'atelier d'écriture (revised edition, 2005), is examined alongside the critiq…
Re-interpreting the Danebury Assemblage
Cunliffe's excavations at Danebury have revealed an Iron Age settlement in extraordinary detail. Its inhabitants have come to represent, in the popular literature at least, the idealised hillfort community of warriors, craftsmen, farmers, and their families in a hierarchically ordered settlement system. This model has been vigorously challenged, although largely from a theoretical perspective, and there has been little contextual re-analysis of t…
Jacques Rancière and Contemporary Art
This is neither the place nor the time to say that the love affair between the contemporary art world and philosopher Jacques Rancière is over, even if signs of a certain decrystallization are beginning to appear. The philosopher seems coy, wary: “I get letters all the time from people who are organising biennales which, they say, have been conceived according to my principles, this being the reason I must come. Since I cannot go everywhere I am …
Jacques Rancière et l'art contemporain
une dcristallisation certaine
From football stadium to Iron Age hillfort. Creating a taxonomy of Wessex hillfort communities
The variability of Wessex hillfort form, use and development has long been noted, but not satisfactorily explained. This paper seeks to explain this variability and suggests that each hillfort may have had its own distinctive history of use, dependent upon the nature of the hillfort community - the people who visited, inhabited and used the hillfort. This paper starts by using grid-group analysis to define identities that can be found among moder…
Resiling From “Resilience”
This is a sketch for a critique of “resilience” and “resiliency” as keywords of neoliberal newspeak (officialese, langue de bois) under the innocuous banner of which all manner of business is now being transacted. I register the rapid extension of resilience discourse, note the socioeconomic context of its rise to prominence, and identify its implicit political assumptions and its social and subjective effects and side effects
Mettray revisited in Jean Genet’s Le Langage de la muraille
Genet was responding, with his own characteristically light-fingered form of autodidactic historical scholarship, to Michel Foucault's appropriation of Mettray in Surveiller et punir (1975). In my return to the archives of this model institution, I argue that Mettray was an exemplary exercise in liberal statecraft's mixture of coaxing and coercion; and that Demetz was an unrivalled master of 'the language of the wall'. This was a distinctly moder…
Material legacies
Early Neolithic Enclosures in Wales
Causewayed enclosures have recently been at the forefront of debate within British and European Neolithic studies. In the British Isles as a whole, the vast majority of these monuments are located in southern England, but a few sites are now beginning to be discovered beyond this core region. The search in Wales had seen limited success, but in the 1990s a number of cropmark discoveries suggested the presence of such enclosures west of the River …
Filling the Gaps
Over the last 20 years interpretive approaches within Iron Age studies in Britain have moved from the national to the regional. This was an important development which challenged the notion that a unified, British, Iron Age ever existed. However, whilst this approach has allowed regional histories to be told in their own right, there has been far too much focus on ‘key’ areas such as Wessex and Yorkshire. Our knowledge of the ‘gaps’ in-between th…
Iron Age Hillfort Defences and the Tactics Of Sling Warfare, By Peter Robertson
"Iron Age Hillfort Defences and the Tactics Of Sling Warfare, By Peter Robertson." Archaeological Journal, 175(2), pp. 397–398
Iron Age Burial in Wales
Until the latter part of the twentieth century, Iron Age burial in Britain was thought to be largely archaeologically invisible. However, over the last 40 years the recovery of large assemblages of human remains, often from pits and ditches rather than beneath monumental structures, has changed our understanding of Iron Age funerary practices. The problem, though, is that the majority of this material derives from core areas of study, particularl…
The Caerau and Ely Rediscovering Heritage Project
Mettray
This solid history of the Mettray boys’ reformatory, from its opening in 1840 to its closure in 1937, undertakes quite an extensive exploration of the rich archive of this significant institution, now housed in the Archives départementales d’Indre-et-Loire in Tours. Toth recognizes that Mettray was ‘a complex institutional hybrid’, in several senses: a private institution which worked closely alongside the state, a colonie agricole but one in whi…
Neoliberal Capitalism's Bureaucracies of 'governance
The account of bureaucracy under neoliberal capitalism which I present in this article under the innocuous heading it prefers to use to describe itself ('governance') draws together recent critical work by David Graeber, Wendy Brown, William Davies and Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval, which it repositions in relation to Jacques Rancière's conception of the 'police order'. The key claims of the new critique of bureaucracy thus delineated are: (i…
Anthropotechnical Practising in the Foam-World
I begin by acknowledging the profusion of Peter Sloterdijk’s published work, the suggestion by Bruno Latour that it may be on the side of design, and Sloterdijk’s pugnacious aversion to professorial critique. I focus on what I consider to be the crucial and vexed relationship between the general immunology of the Spheres trilogy [1998–2004] and the general ascetology of You Must Change Your Life [2009]. I present an analytical reconstruction of S…
Hatred of Sex
New Interdisciplinary Perspectives on and Beyond Autonomy
History (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · History (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Literature (4 works)