Mark Howard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Howard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Howard |
| SIGNATURE | HOWARD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8107-0945 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Political necessity in an age of hypergrowth: Venture capital and the Silicon Valley Consensus
In this article, I examine how venture capital-driven hypergrowth is progressively reshaping political authority via an emergent Silicon Valley Consensus (SVC). Drawing on the political theory of Carl Schmitt, I argue that VC-backed firms are able to operate in a zone of exception that suspends or bypasses conventional regulatory boundaries, thus constraining the state’s competence to govern. By foregrounding disruptive innovation as a strategic …
Understanding healthcare utilisation for aboriginal people in New South Wales prisons with histories of self-harm and suicidal behaviour: A retrospective cohort study
Self-reporting self-harm/suicide at reception, on its own, is an unreliable predictor of future risk. Better identification of people with SHSB histories could support delivery of safer care for Aboriginal people. Establishing a therapeutic environment and offering comprehensive, culturally sensitive healthcare can help lower the risk of self-harm and suicide among people in prison
Attitudes towards prisoners among correctional officers: A longitudinal study exploring influences on job satisfaction and job stress
Contrarian optionality and negative mimesis: Venture capital and the institutional logic of Silicon Valley
A rapid review of the evidence on models of service delivery for correctional centre-based mothers and children’s units: Does our approach need to change
BACKGROUND: Incarcerated mothers are a marginalised group who experience substantial health and social disadvantage and routinely face disruption of family relationships, including loss of custody of their children. To support the parenting role, mothers and children's units (M&Cs) operate in 97 jurisdictions internationally with approximately 19 000 children reported to be residing with their mothers in custody-based settings. AIM: This rapid re…
The Virtues of Interpretable Medical AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have demonstrated impressive performance across a variety of clinical tasks. However, notoriously, sometimes these systems are “black boxes.” The initial response in the literature was a demand for “explainable AI.” However, recently, several authors have suggested that making AI more explainable or “interpretable” is likely to be at the cost of the accuracy of these systems and that prioritizing interpretabil…
A market for diagnostic devices for extreme point‐of‐care testing: Are we Assured of an ethical outcome
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is leading a global effort to deliver improved diagnostic testing to people living in low‐resource settings. A reliance on the healthcare technologies marketplace and industry, shapes many aspects of the WHO project, and in this situation normative guidance comes by way of the ASSURED criteria — Affordable, Sensitive, Specific, User‐friendly, Rapid and robust, Equipment‐free, and Delivered. While generally impr…
Alternative archives: Researching politics with chunks of reality
The challenges and opportunities of accessing empirical material present a puzzle insofar as they index simultaneously the politics of research archives and the positionality of researchers. Today, amid increasing authoritarianism, disinformation, and the obstacles created by the securitisation and privatisation of data, access to reliable information is frequently blocked or complicated by the interests of political management, corporate monopol…
The rapacious ambivalence of VC investment: Venture capital, value capture, and the valorization of crisis
This article explores venture capital (VC) as a means and process of accumulating future social necessity. It explores the mechanisms of growth that make VC-backed firms distinct. I argue that a distinctive feature of surplus value capture through VC is valorization via socially necessary contracted space-time, a corrective to Marx's theorization of socially necessary labor time, which appears incomplete in the context of VC. First, extending Mar…
The profile of people entering the ‘Equips’ offender treatment programs in New South Wales’
New South Wales has the largest population of incarcerated people in Australia, with increasing levels of community supervision. Corrective Services NSW offers eligible people the EQUIPS suite of offender treatment programs, which follow the Risk-Need-Responsivity model of offender rehabilitation. Referrals to the programs are also targeted to meet the specific reoffending needs of individuals, including EQUIPS Foundation, Aggression, Addiction a…
Health and correctional staff acceptability of depot buprenorphine in NSW prisons
The introduction of depot buprenorphine into correctional settings was considered to have the potential to increase safety for patients, improve staff / patient relations and advance patient health outcomes via expanded treatment coverage and efficiencies gained through enhanced health service delivery. Support was almost universal from both correctional and health staff participating in this study. These findings build on emerging research regar…
The Virtues of Interpretable Medical Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have demonstrated impressive performance across a variety of clinical tasks. However, notoriously, sometimes these systems are “black boxes.” The initial response in the literature was a demand for “explainable AI.” However, recently, several authors have suggested that making AI more explainable or “interpretable” is likely to be at the cost of the accuracy of these systems and that prioritizing interpretabil…
Industry Technicians Embedded in Clinical Teams: Impacts on Medical Knowledge
Advances in implantable medical devices have increased the role for industry‐employed allied professionals (IEAPs) in providing training and support during surgical procedures and follow‐up care. The effect of these changes on the organization of medical knowledge and the sharing of information remains largely unexplored. Recent work in social epistemology and the conceptualizing of implantable medical device companies as part of a knowledge‐base…
Rancière, political theory and activist community appraisal
Researchers must continually discriminate between competing sources of evidence, knowledge and theoretical justification, selecting who we believe to be credible informants and what we perceive as reliable testimony. In the keeping of records, particularly in the act of appraisal, we utilise methods of evaluation that reflect the social processes, institutional procedures, and interpersonal influences common to our disciplinary milieu. Viewing ac…
Wearables, the Marketplace and Efficiency in Healthcare: How Will I Know That You’re Thinking of Me
The Necropolice Economy: Mapping Biopolitical Priorities and Human Expendability in the Time of Covid-19
Necropolitics centers on the dark side of biopolitics, but if we are to take seriously Jacques Ranciere’s reassignment of ‘politics’ and ‘police,’ then what is revealed by necropolitical analysis is not simply the capacity to ‘make and let die’, but also the policing of a contingent order sustained by necropolitics. I describe this process as the necropolice-economy, and in this paper demonstrate its contours with reference to the COVID-19 pandem…
Direct and Indirect Mental Health Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic Parallel Prior Pandemics
Direct and Indirect Mental Health Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Parallel Prior Pandemics Mark É. CzeislerAB, Mark E. HowardPhD, MBBS, and Shantha M. W. RajaratnamPhD Affiliation Mark É. Czeisler, Mark E. Howard, and Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam are with the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health and School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, and the Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Austin Health, both in Melbourne, Victoria,…
Make way for the wealthy? Autonomous vehicles, markets in mobility, and social justice
The development of a ‘mobility as a service’ model for accessing urban transport via autonomous vehicles may be expected to have far-reaching implications for the economics of road transport. In particular, it would offer a new opportunity to price access to the roads in accordance with the principles of the free market. Once people are paying for mobility on the roads on a ‘per trip’ basis, it will be possible to offer different levels of access…
Naval robots and rescue
The development of unmanned systems (UMS) for naval combat poses a profound challenge to existing conventions regarding the treatment of the shipwrecked and wounded in war at sea. Article 18 of the 1949 Geneva Convention II states that warring parties are required to take “all possible measures” to search for and collect seamen left in the water after each engagement. The authors of the present paper analyze the ethical basis of this convention a…
A bibliography of Australian whaling in the nineteenth century
The bibliography deals with Australian pelagic and bay whaling in the nineteenth century. It starts with some general works on the subject, followed by entries on whaling in each of the states. It ends with a section on Australian whalers in New Zealand and another on scrimshaw. Most entries relate to books, chapters in books, and journal articles. Also listed are some unpublished items – including university theses and archaeological reports – a…
Thomas Sturge and his fleet of South Sea whalers
The literature on British South Sea whaling tends to focus on the vessels involved, with relatively little written about the ship-owners in the trade. Thomas Sturge the younger (1787–1866) was a Quaker ship-owner in London who had at least 22 vessels, most of which were involved in South Sea whaling. He took a close interest in how they operated and ensured that they were in good repair and well provisioned for their long and arduous voyages. He …
Melville and the Lucy Ann Mutiny: Thelucyann Mutiny
Informed Faces
Local food, food miles and carbon emissions: A comparison of farm shop and mass distribution approaches
Quality Versus Quantity: E-Mail-Centric Task Management and Its Relation With Overload
It is widely acknowledged that many professionals suffer from “e-mail overload.” This articlepresents findings fromin-depth fieldwork that examined thisphenome-non, uncovering six key challenges of task management in e-mail. Analysis of quali-tativeandquantitativedata suggests that it is not simply thequantitybut also thecol
Local food, food miles and carbon emissions: A comparison of farm shop and mass distribution approaches
The rapacious ambivalence of VC investment: Venture capital, value capture, and the valorization of crisis
This article explores venture capital (VC) as a means and process of accumulating future social necessity. It explores the mechanisms of growth that make VC-backed firms distinct. I argue that a distinctive feature of surplus value capture through VC is valorization via socially necessary contracted space-time, a corrective to Marx's theorization of socially necessary labor time, which appears incomplete in the context of VC. First, extending Mar…
Alternative archives: Researching politics with chunks of reality
The challenges and opportunities of accessing empirical material present a puzzle insofar as they index simultaneously the politics of research archives and the positionality of researchers. Today, amid increasing authoritarianism, disinformation, and the obstacles created by the securitisation and privatisation of data, access to reliable information is frequently blocked or complicated by the interests of political management, corporate monopol…
The Necropolice Economy: Mapping Biopolitical Priorities and Human Expendability in the Time of Covid-19
Necropolitics centers on the dark side of biopolitics, but if we are to take seriously Jacques Ranciere’s reassignment of ‘politics’ and ‘police,’ then what is revealed by necropolitical analysis is not simply the capacity to ‘make and let die’, but also the policing of a contingent order sustained by necropolitics. I describe this process as the necropolice-economy, and in this paper demonstrate its contours with reference to the COVID-19 pandem…
Contrarian optionality and negative mimesis: Venture capital and the institutional logic of Silicon Valley
Make way for the wealthy? Autonomous vehicles, markets in mobility, and social justice
The development of a ‘mobility as a service’ model for accessing urban transport via autonomous vehicles may be expected to have far-reaching implications for the economics of road transport. In particular, it would offer a new opportunity to price access to the roads in accordance with the principles of the free market. Once people are paying for mobility on the roads on a ‘per trip’ basis, it will be possible to offer different levels of access…
Informed Faces
Quality Versus Quantity: E-Mail-Centric Task Management and Its Relation With Overload
It is widely acknowledged that many professionals suffer from “e-mail overload.” This articlepresents findings fromin-depth fieldwork that examined thisphenome-non, uncovering six key challenges of task management in e-mail. Analysis of quali-tativeandquantitativedata suggests that it is not simply thequantitybut also thecol
Local food, food miles and carbon emissions: A comparison of farm shop and mass distribution approaches
Melville and the Lucy Ann Mutiny: Thelucyann Mutiny
Informed Faces
A bibliography of Australian whaling in the nineteenth century
The bibliography deals with Australian pelagic and bay whaling in the nineteenth century. It starts with some general works on the subject, followed by entries on whaling in each of the states. It ends with a section on Australian whalers in New Zealand and another on scrimshaw. Most entries relate to books, chapters in books, and journal articles. Also listed are some unpublished items – including university theses and archaeological reports – a…
Thomas Sturge and his fleet of South Sea whalers
The literature on British South Sea whaling tends to focus on the vessels involved, with relatively little written about the ship-owners in the trade. Thomas Sturge the younger (1787–1866) was a Quaker ship-owner in London who had at least 22 vessels, most of which were involved in South Sea whaling. He took a close interest in how they operated and ensured that they were in good repair and well provisioned for their long and arduous voyages. He …
Naval robots and rescue
The development of unmanned systems (UMS) for naval combat poses a profound challenge to existing conventions regarding the treatment of the shipwrecked and wounded in war at sea. Article 18 of the 1949 Geneva Convention II states that warring parties are required to take “all possible measures” to search for and collect seamen left in the water after each engagement. The authors of the present paper analyze the ethical basis of this convention a…
Make way for the wealthy? Autonomous vehicles, markets in mobility, and social justice
The development of a ‘mobility as a service’ model for accessing urban transport via autonomous vehicles may be expected to have far-reaching implications for the economics of road transport. In particular, it would offer a new opportunity to price access to the roads in accordance with the principles of the free market. Once people are paying for mobility on the roads on a ‘per trip’ basis, it will be possible to offer different levels of access…
Rancière, political theory and activist community appraisal
Researchers must continually discriminate between competing sources of evidence, knowledge and theoretical justification, selecting who we believe to be credible informants and what we perceive as reliable testimony. In the keeping of records, particularly in the act of appraisal, we utilise methods of evaluation that reflect the social processes, institutional procedures, and interpersonal influences common to our disciplinary milieu. Viewing ac…
Wearables, the Marketplace and Efficiency in Healthcare: How Will I Know That You’re Thinking of Me
The Necropolice Economy: Mapping Biopolitical Priorities and Human Expendability in the Time of Covid-19
Necropolitics centers on the dark side of biopolitics, but if we are to take seriously Jacques Ranciere’s reassignment of ‘politics’ and ‘police,’ then what is revealed by necropolitical analysis is not simply the capacity to ‘make and let die’, but also the policing of a contingent order sustained by necropolitics. I describe this process as the necropolice-economy, and in this paper demonstrate its contours with reference to the COVID-19 pandem…
Direct and Indirect Mental Health Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic Parallel Prior Pandemics
Direct and Indirect Mental Health Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic Parallel Prior Pandemics Mark É. CzeislerAB, Mark E. HowardPhD, MBBS, and Shantha M. W. RajaratnamPhD Affiliation Mark É. Czeisler, Mark E. Howard, and Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam are with the Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health and School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, and the Institute for Breathing and Sleep, Austin Health, both in Melbourne, Victoria,…
The Virtues of Interpretable Medical Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have demonstrated impressive performance across a variety of clinical tasks. However, notoriously, sometimes these systems are “black boxes.” The initial response in the literature was a demand for “explainable AI.” However, recently, several authors have suggested that making AI more explainable or “interpretable” is likely to be at the cost of the accuracy of these systems and that prioritizing interpretabil…
Industry Technicians Embedded in Clinical Teams: Impacts on Medical Knowledge
Advances in implantable medical devices have increased the role for industry‐employed allied professionals (IEAPs) in providing training and support during surgical procedures and follow‐up care. The effect of these changes on the organization of medical knowledge and the sharing of information remains largely unexplored. Recent work in social epistemology and the conceptualizing of implantable medical device companies as part of a knowledge‐base…
The profile of people entering the ‘Equips’ offender treatment programs in New South Wales’
New South Wales has the largest population of incarcerated people in Australia, with increasing levels of community supervision. Corrective Services NSW offers eligible people the EQUIPS suite of offender treatment programs, which follow the Risk-Need-Responsivity model of offender rehabilitation. Referrals to the programs are also targeted to meet the specific reoffending needs of individuals, including EQUIPS Foundation, Aggression, Addiction a…
Health and correctional staff acceptability of depot buprenorphine in NSW prisons
The introduction of depot buprenorphine into correctional settings was considered to have the potential to increase safety for patients, improve staff / patient relations and advance patient health outcomes via expanded treatment coverage and efficiencies gained through enhanced health service delivery. Support was almost universal from both correctional and health staff participating in this study. These findings build on emerging research regar…
A rapid review of the evidence on models of service delivery for correctional centre-based mothers and children’s units: Does our approach need to change
BACKGROUND: Incarcerated mothers are a marginalised group who experience substantial health and social disadvantage and routinely face disruption of family relationships, including loss of custody of their children. To support the parenting role, mothers and children's units (M&Cs) operate in 97 jurisdictions internationally with approximately 19 000 children reported to be residing with their mothers in custody-based settings. AIM: This rapid re…
The Virtues of Interpretable Medical AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems have demonstrated impressive performance across a variety of clinical tasks. However, notoriously, sometimes these systems are “black boxes.” The initial response in the literature was a demand for “explainable AI.” However, recently, several authors have suggested that making AI more explainable or “interpretable” is likely to be at the cost of the accuracy of these systems and that prioritizing interpretabil…
A market for diagnostic devices for extreme point‐of‐care testing: Are we Assured of an ethical outcome
The World Health Organisation (WHO) is leading a global effort to deliver improved diagnostic testing to people living in low‐resource settings. A reliance on the healthcare technologies marketplace and industry, shapes many aspects of the WHO project, and in this situation normative guidance comes by way of the ASSURED criteria — Affordable, Sensitive, Specific, User‐friendly, Rapid and robust, Equipment‐free, and Delivered. While generally impr…
Alternative archives: Researching politics with chunks of reality
The challenges and opportunities of accessing empirical material present a puzzle insofar as they index simultaneously the politics of research archives and the positionality of researchers. Today, amid increasing authoritarianism, disinformation, and the obstacles created by the securitisation and privatisation of data, access to reliable information is frequently blocked or complicated by the interests of political management, corporate monopol…
The rapacious ambivalence of VC investment: Venture capital, value capture, and the valorization of crisis
This article explores venture capital (VC) as a means and process of accumulating future social necessity. It explores the mechanisms of growth that make VC-backed firms distinct. I argue that a distinctive feature of surplus value capture through VC is valorization via socially necessary contracted space-time, a corrective to Marx's theorization of socially necessary labor time, which appears incomplete in the context of VC. First, extending Mar…
Understanding healthcare utilisation for aboriginal people in New South Wales prisons with histories of self-harm and suicidal behaviour: A retrospective cohort study
Self-reporting self-harm/suicide at reception, on its own, is an unreliable predictor of future risk. Better identification of people with SHSB histories could support delivery of safer care for Aboriginal people. Establishing a therapeutic environment and offering comprehensive, culturally sensitive healthcare can help lower the risk of self-harm and suicide among people in prison
Attitudes towards prisoners among correctional officers: A longitudinal study exploring influences on job satisfaction and job stress
Contrarian optionality and negative mimesis: Venture capital and the institutional logic of Silicon Valley
Political necessity in an age of hypergrowth: Venture capital and the Silicon Valley Consensus
In this article, I examine how venture capital-driven hypergrowth is progressively reshaping political authority via an emergent Silicon Valley Consensus (SVC). Drawing on the political theory of Carl Schmitt, I argue that VC-backed firms are able to operate in a zone of exception that suspends or bypasses conventional regulatory boundaries, thus constraining the state’s competence to govern. By foregrounding disruptive innovation as a strategic …
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