Tom Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3625552 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3818-2087 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
An Infrastructural Pathway to Degrowth
We argue for consideration of deliberative democratic pathways to governing infrastructure systems to enable a planned reduction in economic activity. Given the dominant perspective is “infrastructure facilitates growth”, we first consider contemporary criticisms of growth. We critique the large-scale, complex infrastructures implied, and the forms of democratic governance envisaged. Such infrastructures drive forms of economic activity that advo…
Mini-Publics as an innovation in spatial governance
Mini-publics—deliberative fora made up of randomly selected, representative groups of citizens—have attracted considerable interest as a means of resolving perceived weaknesses in existing forms of governance. In this paper, we consider the use of a mini-public or citizens’ assembly to constitute an ad hoc governance space based on the Travel to Work Area of Cambridge in the United Kingdom rather than working within the existing local government …
Tools for addressing transport inequality
Reframing the governance of automotive automation
How should policymakers engage with the possibilities of self-driving cars? Considering the major investment in systems involving self-driving cars and their speedy development, their social complexity has received inadequate attention. The anticipation necessary for good governance can be informed only in part by experiments such as testing self-driving cars on open roads, and there is a need to broaden the set of issues that are considered rele…
Arche-Cinema and the Politics of Extinction
This essay places Bernard Stiegler's conception of arche-cinema in contact with the era of climate change and the impasse that it presents to the American Left today. It views Stiegler's thought as a post-anthropocene writing project yet asks whether the “proletarianization of the senses” it battles has not been irreversibly accomplished in last man culture and the disaffected society of hyperindustrial ecocide. Stiegler's foremost tool for engag…
Vortices
The project of critical climate change refuses the exclusive disjunction offered by the Anthropocene. We contest the notion that there is an "anthropos" disclosed by way of its recognition of the destructiveness of the species, while also sustaining a critical conception of what has inscribed itself as humanity. Neither posthuman nor neohumanist, we define the project of critical climate change as the task of opening new critical climates and hor…
Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols
Following on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the eco-critical and environmental humanities’ newest and most fashionable of concepts, the Anthropocene. The question that has escaped focus, as “tipping points” are acknowledged as passed, is how language, mnemo-technologies, and the epistemology of tropes appear to guide the accelerating ecocide, and how that implies a mutation within read…
Escape Velocity
The ban today on “population talk” (Diana Coole) by the liberal western traditions as unethical has the inverse effect in a post-‘tipping point’ world defined by future population culls of peripheries. It turns out that this ban not only advances the outcome the liberal tradition would most avoid but blinds it from seeing what is now underway before its eyes—a ‘species split’ engineered by the hyper-elite with one eye to the coming climate catast…
Polemos
The term “anthropocene,” emerging around the time of Derrida's death, implies a shift in reference that his late production does not address or anticipate—and thus, if it is to be taken seriously as a ghost term, it poses today a question of a selective translation effect as regards “deconstruction.” This essay finds in Derrida's “last” interview and the “war with myself” that it avows a cipher and entry point for this broader question. Given off…
The Geomorphic Fold
This essay does not ask what Derrida's use for ‘environmentalism’ might be but rather how the geomorphic logics released by a dawning era of climate change diagnose what is called ‘deconstruction’ today
Introduction
Climate Change in the Aesthetic State (a Memory (Dis)Order)
J.”, or
This essay examines Hillis Miller's recent critical use of terms from physics (black holes) and mathematics (the zero) as a theoretical strategy that recasts our understanding of his performative aims. It proposes an other Miller to the familiar explicator and pedagogic disseminator of literary deconstruction he is often taken for, putting his work in contact not only with Benjaminian practices but coming horizons in global esthetic politics
Antonio Vieira
Politics of the Pre-figural
(2002). Politics of the Pre-figural: Sula, Blackness, and the Precession of Trope. Parallax: Vol. 8, Random Figures, pp. 5-16
Essays in Postmodern Culture
In an attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice in postmodern studies, the essays that make up this volume illuminate some of the issues central to this provocative analytic approach. These works apply theory to practical subjects and, in the process, articulate new theoretical positions. Topics include the relations between food and the symbolic, AIDS and individuality, Marxist politics in the context of postmodernism, the consequenc…
"Along the Watchtower" -- Cultural Studies and the Ghost of Theory
MLN - Volume 112, Number 3, April 1997 (German Issue)
The Ideology of Dialogue
It is very hard to believe that Bakhtin spilt so much ink just to inform us that we should listen attentively to one another, treat each other as whole persons, be prepared to be corrected and interrupted, realise that life is an endless unfinished process, that too much dogma makes you narrow-minded, that nobody has a monopoly of the truth and that life is so much richer than any of our little ideas about it. He was not, after all, George Eliot …
Anti-Mimesis
Introduction: the legs of sense Part I. Dialogue and Inscription: 1. Othello, Bakhtin and the death(s) of dialogue 2. P.s.: Plato's scene of reading in the Protagoras Part II. Parables of Exteriority - Materality in 'Classic' American Texts: 3. Too legit to quit: the dubious genealogies of pragmatism 4. Poe's Foot d'Or: ruinous rhyme and Nietzschean recurrence (sound) 5. Only the dead know Brooklyn ferry (voice) 6. The letters of the law: 'Bartle…
The Lay Liturgy of Affront in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Journal Article The Lay Liturgy of Affront in Sixteenth-Century Italy Get access Thomas V. Cohen Thomas V. Cohen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 25, Issue 4, Summer 1992, Pages 857–877, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/25.4.857 Published: 01 July 1992
Tools for addressing transport inequality
Vortices
The project of critical climate change refuses the exclusive disjunction offered by the Anthropocene. We contest the notion that there is an "anthropos" disclosed by way of its recognition of the destructiveness of the species, while also sustaining a critical conception of what has inscribed itself as humanity. Neither posthuman nor neohumanist, we define the project of critical climate change as the task of opening new critical climates and hor…
Polemos
The term “anthropocene,” emerging around the time of Derrida's death, implies a shift in reference that his late production does not address or anticipate—and thus, if it is to be taken seriously as a ghost term, it poses today a question of a selective translation effect as regards “deconstruction.” This essay finds in Derrida's “last” interview and the “war with myself” that it avows a cipher and entry point for this broader question. Given off…
The Geomorphic Fold
This essay does not ask what Derrida's use for ‘environmentalism’ might be but rather how the geomorphic logics released by a dawning era of climate change diagnose what is called ‘deconstruction’ today
The Lay Liturgy of Affront in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Journal Article The Lay Liturgy of Affront in Sixteenth-Century Italy Get access Thomas V. Cohen Thomas V. Cohen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 25, Issue 4, Summer 1992, Pages 857–877, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/25.4.857 Published: 01 July 1992
Mini-Publics as an innovation in spatial governance
Mini-publics—deliberative fora made up of randomly selected, representative groups of citizens—have attracted considerable interest as a means of resolving perceived weaknesses in existing forms of governance. In this paper, we consider the use of a mini-public or citizens’ assembly to constitute an ad hoc governance space based on the Travel to Work Area of Cambridge in the United Kingdom rather than working within the existing local government …
Arche-Cinema and the Politics of Extinction
This essay places Bernard Stiegler's conception of arche-cinema in contact with the era of climate change and the impasse that it presents to the American Left today. It views Stiegler's thought as a post-anthropocene writing project yet asks whether the “proletarianization of the senses” it battles has not been irreversibly accomplished in last man culture and the disaffected society of hyperindustrial ecocide. Stiegler's foremost tool for engag…
Escape Velocity
The ban today on “population talk” (Diana Coole) by the liberal western traditions as unethical has the inverse effect in a post-‘tipping point’ world defined by future population culls of peripheries. It turns out that this ban not only advances the outcome the liberal tradition would most avoid but blinds it from seeing what is now underway before its eyes—a ‘species split’ engineered by the hyper-elite with one eye to the coming climate catast…
"Along the Watchtower" -- Cultural Studies and the Ghost of Theory
MLN - Volume 112, Number 3, April 1997 (German Issue)
The Ideology of Dialogue
It is very hard to believe that Bakhtin spilt so much ink just to inform us that we should listen attentively to one another, treat each other as whole persons, be prepared to be corrected and interrupted, realise that life is an endless unfinished process, that too much dogma makes you narrow-minded, that nobody has a monopoly of the truth and that life is so much richer than any of our little ideas about it. He was not, after all, George Eliot …
The Lay Liturgy of Affront in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Journal Article The Lay Liturgy of Affront in Sixteenth-Century Italy Get access Thomas V. Cohen Thomas V. Cohen Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 25, Issue 4, Summer 1992, Pages 857–877, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/25.4.857 Published: 01 July 1992
Anti-Mimesis
Introduction: the legs of sense Part I. Dialogue and Inscription: 1. Othello, Bakhtin and the death(s) of dialogue 2. P.s.: Plato's scene of reading in the Protagoras Part II. Parables of Exteriority - Materality in 'Classic' American Texts: 3. Too legit to quit: the dubious genealogies of pragmatism 4. Poe's Foot d'Or: ruinous rhyme and Nietzschean recurrence (sound) 5. Only the dead know Brooklyn ferry (voice) 6. The letters of the law: 'Bartle…
The Ideology of Dialogue
It is very hard to believe that Bakhtin spilt so much ink just to inform us that we should listen attentively to one another, treat each other as whole persons, be prepared to be corrected and interrupted, realise that life is an endless unfinished process, that too much dogma makes you narrow-minded, that nobody has a monopoly of the truth and that life is so much richer than any of our little ideas about it. He was not, after all, George Eliot …
Essays in Postmodern Culture
In an attempt to bridge the gap between theory and practice in postmodern studies, the essays that make up this volume illuminate some of the issues central to this provocative analytic approach. These works apply theory to practical subjects and, in the process, articulate new theoretical positions. Topics include the relations between food and the symbolic, AIDS and individuality, Marxist politics in the context of postmodernism, the consequenc…
"Along the Watchtower" -- Cultural Studies and the Ghost of Theory
MLN - Volume 112, Number 3, April 1997 (German Issue)
Politics of the Pre-figural
(2002). Politics of the Pre-figural: Sula, Blackness, and the Precession of Trope. Parallax: Vol. 8, Random Figures, pp. 5-16
Antonio Vieira
Climate Change in the Aesthetic State (a Memory (Dis)Order)
J.”, or
This essay examines Hillis Miller's recent critical use of terms from physics (black holes) and mathematics (the zero) as a theoretical strategy that recasts our understanding of his performative aims. It proposes an other Miller to the familiar explicator and pedagogic disseminator of literary deconstruction he is often taken for, putting his work in contact not only with Benjaminian practices but coming horizons in global esthetic politics
Introduction
The Geomorphic Fold
This essay does not ask what Derrida's use for ‘environmentalism’ might be but rather how the geomorphic logics released by a dawning era of climate change diagnose what is called ‘deconstruction’ today
Polemos
The term “anthropocene,” emerging around the time of Derrida's death, implies a shift in reference that his late production does not address or anticipate—and thus, if it is to be taken seriously as a ghost term, it poses today a question of a selective translation effect as regards “deconstruction.” This essay finds in Derrida's “last” interview and the “war with myself” that it avows a cipher and entry point for this broader question. Given off…
Twilight of the Anthropocene Idols
Following on from Theory and the Disappearing Future, Cohen, Colebrook and Miller turn their attention to the eco-critical and environmental humanities’ newest and most fashionable of concepts, the Anthropocene. The question that has escaped focus, as “tipping points” are acknowledged as passed, is how language, mnemo-technologies, and the epistemology of tropes appear to guide the accelerating ecocide, and how that implies a mutation within read…
Escape Velocity
The ban today on “population talk” (Diana Coole) by the liberal western traditions as unethical has the inverse effect in a post-‘tipping point’ world defined by future population culls of peripheries. It turns out that this ban not only advances the outcome the liberal tradition would most avoid but blinds it from seeing what is now underway before its eyes—a ‘species split’ engineered by the hyper-elite with one eye to the coming climate catast…
Arche-Cinema and the Politics of Extinction
This essay places Bernard Stiegler's conception of arche-cinema in contact with the era of climate change and the impasse that it presents to the American Left today. It views Stiegler's thought as a post-anthropocene writing project yet asks whether the “proletarianization of the senses” it battles has not been irreversibly accomplished in last man culture and the disaffected society of hyperindustrial ecocide. Stiegler's foremost tool for engag…
Vortices
The project of critical climate change refuses the exclusive disjunction offered by the Anthropocene. We contest the notion that there is an "anthropos" disclosed by way of its recognition of the destructiveness of the species, while also sustaining a critical conception of what has inscribed itself as humanity. Neither posthuman nor neohumanist, we define the project of critical climate change as the task of opening new critical climates and hor…
Reframing the governance of automotive automation
How should policymakers engage with the possibilities of self-driving cars? Considering the major investment in systems involving self-driving cars and their speedy development, their social complexity has received inadequate attention. The anticipation necessary for good governance can be informed only in part by experiments such as testing self-driving cars on open roads, and there is a need to broaden the set of issues that are considered rele…
Tools for addressing transport inequality
Mini-Publics as an innovation in spatial governance
Mini-publics—deliberative fora made up of randomly selected, representative groups of citizens—have attracted considerable interest as a means of resolving perceived weaknesses in existing forms of governance. In this paper, we consider the use of a mini-public or citizens’ assembly to constitute an ad hoc governance space based on the Travel to Work Area of Cambridge in the United Kingdom rather than working within the existing local government …
An Infrastructural Pathway to Degrowth
We argue for consideration of deliberative democratic pathways to governing infrastructure systems to enable a planned reduction in economic activity. Given the dominant perspective is “infrastructure facilitates growth”, we first consider contemporary criticisms of growth. We critique the large-scale, complex infrastructures implied, and the forms of democratic governance envisaged. Such infrastructures drive forms of economic activity that advo…
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