Steven Best
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628997 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Best |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Best |
| SIGNATURE | BEST S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at El Paso |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8542-3138 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Brain SPECT as an Imaging Biomarker for Evaluating Effects of Novel Treatments in Psychiatry–A Case Series
The difficulties of evaluating patients with complex neuropsychiatric conditions and prescribing appropriate treatments are well known. Imaging complements clinical assessments and allows a clinician to narrow the differential diagnosis by facilitating accurate and efficient evaluation. This is particularly relevant to neuropsychiatric conditions that are often diagnosed using a trial-and error process of exclusion. Single Photon Emission Compute…
Culture Turn
The culture turn is a dynamic process that since the nineteenth century has unfolded in the worlds of theory, art, and politics. The reference to a “culture turn” captures a widespread movement – played out differently in various disciplines, nations, and traditions – that emphasizes the importance of art and culture for education, moral growth, and social criticism and change. By the 1980s this development had led to an explosion in forms of cul…
The Paralysis of Pacifism
Globally, the vegan and animal advocacy movements are in crisis, one so profound that it has evaded critical attention. As global social and ecological problems deepen, and the animal holocaust claims billions more victims each year, the vegan and animal advocacy movements grow correspondingly weaker, not stronger in response. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated…
The Politics of Total Liberation
This book argues that there is an ongoing planetary crisis, in both the social and natural worlds, that is of urgent importance. This demands a new politics, a politics of total liberation, one that g
Weighing and Protecting Life
Genetic science, animal exploitation, and the challenge for democracy
Terrorists or Freedom Fighters
Contemporary Youth and the Postmodern Adventure
Contemporary youth are major players in the postmodern ad-venture because it is they who will enter the future and fur-ther shape the world to come.1 The offspring of the baby boomers born in the 1940s, their identities are indelibly marked as “post”—postboomer, post-60s, posthistorical, postmodern. Yet they live in a present marred by extreme uncertainty, fac-ing a future that is murky and unpredictable. For youth to-day, change is the name of t…
The Postmodern Adventure
Introduction: Between the Modern and the Postmodern. Thomas Pynchon and the Advent of Postmodernity. Moden/Postmodern Wars: Vietnam, Iraq and Beyond. Postmodern Turns in Science: Toward a Reconstruction. Technological Revolutions and Human Evolution. The Restructuring of Capital. Epilogue Challenges for the Third Millennium
The Apocalyptic Vision of Philip K. Dick
Interrogating the importance of the writings of Philip K. Dick for critical cultural studies and social theory, the authors provide contextual and political readings of his work. Although H. G. Wells carried through a crucial science fiction breakthrough, Philip K. Dick emerges in the reading as the poet laureate of the postmodern adventure in his bleak and frightening portrayals of the future of global capitalism, interplanetary space travel and…
Afloat in Cloud Cuckoo Land
Kevin Kelly’s Complexity Theory
Regarded as a contemporary prophet of the new technology and economy, Kevin Kelly argues that the realms of nature and human construction are becoming one. Human-made things are becoming more lifelike, and life is becoming more engineered. In this future world, control is dispersed in highly pluralistic, open, and decentralized systems. Natural, technological, economic, and social elements of the system coevolve toward a superior, neobiological c…
Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle
Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle Steven Best and Douglas Kellner "But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence,... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest deg…
Murray Bookchin's Theory of Social Ecology
Murray Bookchin `s theory of social ecology is perhaps the most comprehensive and powerful ecological philosophy yet developed. It involves a complex, detailed, interdisciplinary framework that has been developed during the course of Bookchin's career and demands keen learning from the reader The payoff is well worth it, however for Bookchin provides important tools for thinking about the relation between society and nature and how the human anta…
Postmodern Politics and the Battle for the Future
The postmodern turn which has so marked social and cultural theory also involves conflicts between modern and postmodern politics. In this study, we articulate the differences between modern and postmodern politics and argue against one-sided positions which dogmatically reject one tradition or the other in favor of partisanship for either the modern or the postmodern. Arguing for a politics of alliance and solidarity, we claim that this project …
The Politics Of Hisotorical Vision
It can go one way, and another too.” Brecht
Intimations of Postmodernity
Postmodern Theory
Foucault and the Critique of Modernity
Foucault's critique of modernity and humanism, along with his proclamation of the 'death of man' and development of new perspectives on society, knowledge, discourse, and power, has made him a major source of postmodern thought. Foucault draws upon an anti-Enlightenment tradition that rejects the equation of reason, emancipation, and progress, arguing that an interface between modern forms of power and knowledge has served to create new forms of …
Chaos and entropy
(1991). Chaos and entropy: Metaphors in postmodern science and social theory. Science as Culture: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 188-226
In Modernity's Wake
(Re)watching Television
"The Chicago Experience"--The City as Hyperreal
It's a curious thing. I've lived in and around Chicago all my life and have experienced the diverse aspects of this teeming city, yet it was only recently I had The Chicago Experience, de rigueur for every tourist. At night, with friends, on impulse, strolling past the Sears Tower, a building I have always gawked at but never entered, I decided to venture to its renowned heights to view the luminosity of the urban terrain. I was astonished-not so…
Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle
Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle Steven Best and Douglas Kellner "But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence,... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest deg…
Contemporary Youth and the Postmodern Adventure
Contemporary youth are major players in the postmodern ad-venture because it is they who will enter the future and fur-ther shape the world to come.1 The offspring of the baby boomers born in the 1940s, their identities are indelibly marked as “post”—postboomer, post-60s, posthistorical, postmodern. Yet they live in a present marred by extreme uncertainty, fac-ing a future that is murky and unpredictable. For youth to-day, change is the name of t…
Postmodern Politics and the Battle for the Future
The postmodern turn which has so marked social and cultural theory also involves conflicts between modern and postmodern politics. In this study, we articulate the differences between modern and postmodern politics and argue against one-sided positions which dogmatically reject one tradition or the other in favor of partisanship for either the modern or the postmodern. Arguing for a politics of alliance and solidarity, we claim that this project …
Chaos and entropy
(1991). Chaos and entropy: Metaphors in postmodern science and social theory. Science as Culture: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 188-226
The Apocalyptic Vision of Philip K. Dick
Interrogating the importance of the writings of Philip K. Dick for critical cultural studies and social theory, the authors provide contextual and political readings of his work. Although H. G. Wells carried through a crucial science fiction breakthrough, Philip K. Dick emerges in the reading as the poet laureate of the postmodern adventure in his bleak and frightening portrayals of the future of global capitalism, interplanetary space travel and…
"The Chicago Experience"--The City as Hyperreal
It's a curious thing. I've lived in and around Chicago all my life and have experienced the diverse aspects of this teeming city, yet it was only recently I had The Chicago Experience, de rigueur for every tourist. At night, with friends, on impulse, strolling past the Sears Tower, a building I have always gawked at but never entered, I decided to venture to its renowned heights to view the luminosity of the urban terrain. I was astonished-not so…
(Re)watching Television
"The Chicago Experience"--The City as Hyperreal
It's a curious thing. I've lived in and around Chicago all my life and have experienced the diverse aspects of this teeming city, yet it was only recently I had The Chicago Experience, de rigueur for every tourist. At night, with friends, on impulse, strolling past the Sears Tower, a building I have always gawked at but never entered, I decided to venture to its renowned heights to view the luminosity of the urban terrain. I was astonished-not so…
In Modernity's Wake
Postmodern Theory
Foucault and the Critique of Modernity
Foucault's critique of modernity and humanism, along with his proclamation of the 'death of man' and development of new perspectives on society, knowledge, discourse, and power, has made him a major source of postmodern thought. Foucault draws upon an anti-Enlightenment tradition that rejects the equation of reason, emancipation, and progress, arguing that an interface between modern forms of power and knowledge has served to create new forms of …
Chaos and entropy
(1991). Chaos and entropy: Metaphors in postmodern science and social theory. Science as Culture: Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 188-226
It can go one way, and another too.” Brecht
Intimations of Postmodernity
The Politics Of Hisotorical Vision
Murray Bookchin's Theory of Social Ecology
Murray Bookchin `s theory of social ecology is perhaps the most comprehensive and powerful ecological philosophy yet developed. It involves a complex, detailed, interdisciplinary framework that has been developed during the course of Bookchin's career and demands keen learning from the reader The payoff is well worth it, however for Bookchin provides important tools for thinking about the relation between society and nature and how the human anta…
Postmodern Politics and the Battle for the Future
The postmodern turn which has so marked social and cultural theory also involves conflicts between modern and postmodern politics. In this study, we articulate the differences between modern and postmodern politics and argue against one-sided positions which dogmatically reject one tradition or the other in favor of partisanship for either the modern or the postmodern. Arguing for a politics of alliance and solidarity, we claim that this project …
Kevin Kelly’s Complexity Theory
Regarded as a contemporary prophet of the new technology and economy, Kevin Kelly argues that the realms of nature and human construction are becoming one. Human-made things are becoming more lifelike, and life is becoming more engineered. In this future world, control is dispersed in highly pluralistic, open, and decentralized systems. Natural, technological, economic, and social elements of the system coevolve toward a superior, neobiological c…
Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle
Debord, Cybersituations, and the Interactive Spectacle Steven Best and Douglas Kellner "But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, fancy to reality, the appearance to the essence,... illusion only is sacred, truth profane. Nay, sacredness is held to be enhanced in proportion as truth decreases and illusion increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest deg…
Afloat in Cloud Cuckoo Land
Contemporary Youth and the Postmodern Adventure
Contemporary youth are major players in the postmodern ad-venture because it is they who will enter the future and fur-ther shape the world to come.1 The offspring of the baby boomers born in the 1940s, their identities are indelibly marked as “post”—postboomer, post-60s, posthistorical, postmodern. Yet they live in a present marred by extreme uncertainty, fac-ing a future that is murky and unpredictable. For youth to-day, change is the name of t…
The Postmodern Adventure
Introduction: Between the Modern and the Postmodern. Thomas Pynchon and the Advent of Postmodernity. Moden/Postmodern Wars: Vietnam, Iraq and Beyond. Postmodern Turns in Science: Toward a Reconstruction. Technological Revolutions and Human Evolution. The Restructuring of Capital. Epilogue Challenges for the Third Millennium
The Apocalyptic Vision of Philip K. Dick
Interrogating the importance of the writings of Philip K. Dick for critical cultural studies and social theory, the authors provide contextual and political readings of his work. Although H. G. Wells carried through a crucial science fiction breakthrough, Philip K. Dick emerges in the reading as the poet laureate of the postmodern adventure in his bleak and frightening portrayals of the future of global capitalism, interplanetary space travel and…
Terrorists or Freedom Fighters
Weighing and Protecting Life
Genetic science, animal exploitation, and the challenge for democracy
The Paralysis of Pacifism
Globally, the vegan and animal advocacy movements are in crisis, one so profound that it has evaded critical attention. As global social and ecological problems deepen, and the animal holocaust claims billions more victims each year, the vegan and animal advocacy movements grow correspondingly weaker, not stronger in response. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated…
The Politics of Total Liberation
This book argues that there is an ongoing planetary crisis, in both the social and natural worlds, that is of urgent importance. This demands a new politics, a politics of total liberation, one that g
Culture Turn
The culture turn is a dynamic process that since the nineteenth century has unfolded in the worlds of theory, art, and politics. The reference to a “culture turn” captures a widespread movement – played out differently in various disciplines, nations, and traditions – that emphasizes the importance of art and culture for education, moral growth, and social criticism and change. By the 1980s this development had led to an explosion in forms of cul…
Brain SPECT as an Imaging Biomarker for Evaluating Effects of Novel Treatments in Psychiatry–A Case Series
The difficulties of evaluating patients with complex neuropsychiatric conditions and prescribing appropriate treatments are well known. Imaging complements clinical assessments and allows a clinician to narrow the differential diagnosis by facilitating accurate and efficient evaluation. This is particularly relevant to neuropsychiatric conditions that are often diagnosed using a trial-and error process of exclusion. Single Photon Emission Compute…
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Law (12 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Postmodernism (8 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works)