Adam Frank
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625475 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Frank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Frank |
| SIGNATURE | FRANK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4948-7820 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1912 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Planetary and its uses
This paper aims to explore an astrobiological genealogy of the concept of the Planetary vividly discussed in contemporary environmental humanities and social sciences, and to offer a framework for an articulation of political-economic models based on this concept. Following Bentley Allan, we propose to treat the Planetary as an example of scientific cosmology , thus emphasizing how astrobiology supports a much broader philosophical worldview that…
Identifying disproportionate impacts in Arkansas
Introduction
Gertrude Stein's radio audience
This essay interprets Gertrude Stein’s 1934 interview on NBC radio and its surrounding historical archive to unfold a powerful phantasy about radio audience as it simultaneously connects Stein to a new mass audience and frees her from it. In this phantasy, radio audience becomes the state of listening itself which takes place in the protected space of the studio while broadcasting becomes analogous to writing. The essay then turns to Theodor Ador…
The Effects of Housing Costs on Nursing Home Diversion
This article examines the effect of the housing market on nursing home diversion and/or transition. Prior evaluations of federally funded diversion/transition efforts indicate that lack of housing may be a significant impediment to diversion policy efforts. We test this charge by examining the transition rates in all 351 municipalities in Massachusetts, using a data set of over 15,000 individuals seeking to remain or transition home between 2010 …
A Silvan Tomkins Handbook
The brilliant and complex theories of psychologist Silvan Tomkins (1911â1991) have inspired the turn to affect in the humanities, social sciences, and elsewhere. Nevertheless, these theories are not well understood. *A Silvan Tomkins Handbook* makes his theories portable across a range of interdisciplinary contexts and accessible to a wide variety of contemporary scholars and students of affect. *A Silvan Tomkins Handbook* provides readers wit…
American Terror
These two books represent different paths through the thickets of our contemporary post-Foucauldian critical landscape. They both reject historicist varieties of symptomatic reading even while they remain committed to questions of context (Hurh) or period (“epoch,” in Seltzer), and they both incline toward reflexive, formalist, strongly conceptual approaches to American literature. But the manner in which these books articulate form and history a…
Earth as a Hybrid Planet
Maisie’s Spasms
This essay offers a reading of Henry James’s midcareer novel What Maisie Knew (1897) as a study in group psychology. Maisie, James’s child heroine, is at the center of an expanding and transforming family group that includes various governesses as well as her divorced parents’ multiple new partners. I set James’s novel beside Bion’s Experiences in Groups and Other Papers (1961) and its Kleinian approach to the continuities and discontinuities bet…
Songs of Travel, Stories of Place
Book Review| July 01 2016 Songs of Travel, Stories of Place: Poetics of Absence in an Eastern Indonesian Society Songs of Travel, Stories of Place: Poetics of Absence in an Eastern Indonesian Society. By Timo Kaartinen. FF Communications No. 299. (Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2010. Pp. Adam Frank Adam Frank University of Central Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2016) 129 (51…
Sustainability and the astrobiological perspective
Loose Coordinations
Argument This essay offers a reading of Gertrude Stein's lecture “Plays” (1934) alongside the work of several thinkers on emotion, William James, Silvan Tomkins, and Wilfred Bion. The problem of what Stein calls “emotional syncopation” at the theater is understood in the context of James’ theory of emotion. The essay proceeds to unfold Stein's emphasis on varieties of excitement by way of Silvan Tomkins’ writing. It then turns to Wilfred Bion's t…
ILike-Minded
Special Section
This article translates aspects of Freud's analysis of uncanny experiences and feelings using Silvan Tomkins' writing on the taboos on looking and phantom limb phenomenon. Centering on a poem by Emily Dickinson that has often been read in terms of the return of the repressed, the article argues that Dickinson's poem may be better understood using the idea of the sudden return or quickening of old, forgotten and overwritten visceral or kinesthetic…
Gods, Guns, and Globalization
Is it accurate to equate "fundamentalism" with antimodernism? What explains the growing importance of religious activists in world politics? Guns, Gods, and Globalization explores the multifaceted phenomenon of religious resurgence, ranging from the Christian right in the U.S. to ethnonationalist movements across North Africa and Asia. The authors' focus on the complex relationship between religious revivalism and globalization results in a nuanc…
Emily Dickinson's Open Folios
Shame in the Cybernetic Fold
Functionalism, Dialectics and Synthetics
Personal and Bibliographical
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Shame in the Cybernetic Fold
ILike-Minded
A Silvan Tomkins Handbook
The brilliant and complex theories of psychologist Silvan Tomkins (1911â1991) have inspired the turn to affect in the humanities, social sciences, and elsewhere. Nevertheless, these theories are not well understood. *A Silvan Tomkins Handbook* makes his theories portable across a range of interdisciplinary contexts and accessible to a wide variety of contemporary scholars and students of affect. *A Silvan Tomkins Handbook* provides readers wit…
Earth as a Hybrid Planet
Sustainability and the astrobiological perspective
Personal and Bibliographical
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Functionalism, Dialectics and Synthetics
Shame in the Cybernetic Fold
Emily Dickinson's Open Folios
Gods, Guns, and Globalization
Is it accurate to equate "fundamentalism" with antimodernism? What explains the growing importance of religious activists in world politics? Guns, Gods, and Globalization explores the multifaceted phenomenon of religious resurgence, ranging from the Christian right in the U.S. to ethnonationalist movements across North Africa and Asia. The authors' focus on the complex relationship between religious revivalism and globalization results in a nuanc…
Special Section
This article translates aspects of Freud's analysis of uncanny experiences and feelings using Silvan Tomkins' writing on the taboos on looking and phantom limb phenomenon. Centering on a poem by Emily Dickinson that has often been read in terms of the return of the repressed, the article argues that Dickinson's poem may be better understood using the idea of the sudden return or quickening of old, forgotten and overwritten visceral or kinesthetic…
Loose Coordinations
Argument This essay offers a reading of Gertrude Stein's lecture “Plays” (1934) alongside the work of several thinkers on emotion, William James, Silvan Tomkins, and Wilfred Bion. The problem of what Stein calls “emotional syncopation” at the theater is understood in the context of James’ theory of emotion. The essay proceeds to unfold Stein's emphasis on varieties of excitement by way of Silvan Tomkins’ writing. It then turns to Wilfred Bion's t…
ILike-Minded
Sustainability and the astrobiological perspective
Maisie’s Spasms
This essay offers a reading of Henry James’s midcareer novel What Maisie Knew (1897) as a study in group psychology. Maisie, James’s child heroine, is at the center of an expanding and transforming family group that includes various governesses as well as her divorced parents’ multiple new partners. I set James’s novel beside Bion’s Experiences in Groups and Other Papers (1961) and its Kleinian approach to the continuities and discontinuities bet…
Songs of Travel, Stories of Place
Book Review| July 01 2016 Songs of Travel, Stories of Place: Poetics of Absence in an Eastern Indonesian Society Songs of Travel, Stories of Place: Poetics of Absence in an Eastern Indonesian Society. By Timo Kaartinen. FF Communications No. 299. (Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2010. Pp. Adam Frank Adam Frank University of Central Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Folklore (2016) 129 (51…
Earth as a Hybrid Planet
American Terror
These two books represent different paths through the thickets of our contemporary post-Foucauldian critical landscape. They both reject historicist varieties of symptomatic reading even while they remain committed to questions of context (Hurh) or period (“epoch,” in Seltzer), and they both incline toward reflexive, formalist, strongly conceptual approaches to American literature. But the manner in which these books articulate form and history a…
The Effects of Housing Costs on Nursing Home Diversion
This article examines the effect of the housing market on nursing home diversion and/or transition. Prior evaluations of federally funded diversion/transition efforts indicate that lack of housing may be a significant impediment to diversion policy efforts. We test this charge by examining the transition rates in all 351 municipalities in Massachusetts, using a data set of over 15,000 individuals seeking to remain or transition home between 2010 …
A Silvan Tomkins Handbook
The brilliant and complex theories of psychologist Silvan Tomkins (1911â1991) have inspired the turn to affect in the humanities, social sciences, and elsewhere. Nevertheless, these theories are not well understood. *A Silvan Tomkins Handbook* makes his theories portable across a range of interdisciplinary contexts and accessible to a wide variety of contemporary scholars and students of affect. *A Silvan Tomkins Handbook* provides readers wit…
Introduction
Gertrude Stein's radio audience
This essay interprets Gertrude Stein’s 1934 interview on NBC radio and its surrounding historical archive to unfold a powerful phantasy about radio audience as it simultaneously connects Stein to a new mass audience and frees her from it. In this phantasy, radio audience becomes the state of listening itself which takes place in the protected space of the studio while broadcasting becomes analogous to writing. The essay then turns to Theodor Ador…
Identifying disproportionate impacts in Arkansas
The Planetary and its uses
This paper aims to explore an astrobiological genealogy of the concept of the Planetary vividly discussed in contemporary environmental humanities and social sciences, and to offer a framework for an articulation of political-economic models based on this concept. Following Bentley Allan, we propose to treat the Planetary as an example of scientific cosmology , thus emphasizing how astrobiology supports a much broader philosophical worldview that…
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