Daniel White
Biographic Data
| ID | 3639422 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel White |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | White |
| SIGNATURE | WHITE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2866-6587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Feeling out the future in Japan
Permissible Purchasing, Obligatory Abstention
Recent developments in consumer ethics have given rise to a new breed of animal protectionist: the new omnivore. These new wave animal protectionists claim that strict veganism is impermissible for the very reason that typically motivates strict veganism; that is, animal protectionism. To the strict vegan, such a position will seem highly implausible, for many who adopt strict vegan practices do so because of deeply held animal‐regarding convicti…
Utilising paired measurements of phosphatidylethanol to monitor early success in alcohol abstinence
Engineering Robots with Heart in Japan
Japanese narratives of artificial intelligence (AI) and robots have long been characterized as the cultural antithesis to their anglophone counterparts. According to this model, whereas in the West intelligent machines signify a threat to humanity, in Japan machines are partners to humans. Such shorthand cultural distinctions circulating in anglophone imaginaries can feed back into robotics design practices in Japan. This phenomenon is especially…
The Japanese Pursuit of Human–Robot Companionship
Building on global advances in artificial emotional intelligence, Japanese companies have increasingly invested in developing social robots with capacities to express and evoke emotion. In some cases, they can even read the emotional expressions of human users. These efforts parallel a broader trend in state support for developing technological solutions to socioeconomic problems, such as social isolation and a deficit in care workers. The rise o…
Modelling emotion, perfecting heart
As part of a surge in technologies with so-called 'artificial emotional intelligence', robotics engineers and Buddhist monks in Japan have developed an android bodhisattva to deliver teachings at a popular Zen temple. Like many recent robots in Japan, the android is designed to impact visitors' feelings. For this reason, it can be called a 'technology of affect'. In order to communicate how new affective technologies are facilitating intimacy in …
Artificial emotional intelligence beyond East and West
Artificial emotional intelligence refers to technologies that perform, recognise, or record affective states. More than merely a technological function, however, it is also a social process whereby cultural assumptions about what emotions are and how they are made are translated into composites of code, software, and mechanical platforms. This essay illustrates how aspects of cultural difference are both incorporated and elided in projects that e…
“A Magic Beyond All We Do Here”
This article analyses the use of music and sound at four distinct attractions related to the Harry Potter franchise. As extensions of a transmedial world derived in large part from the film series as well as the novels, each of these tour sites uses music and sound in distinct ways, drawing on or extending the musical worlds of the films, or creating worlds of their own. A close analysis of these musical worlds gives us a deeper understanding of …
Toward an Affective Sense of Life
This essay analyzes the organization of Buddhist memorial services for robot pets in Japan against the backdrop of emerging markets for robots equipped with artificial emotional intelligence. It demonstrates how an evocative "sense of life" (seimeikan) becomes both a target of design for robotics engineers and an affective capacity of robot users who care for and through companion robots. Documenting how users cultivate a sense of amusement towar…
One Does Not Simply Walk into Mordor
The opening sequences of narrative films are perhaps the most important moments for establishing a coherent film-world and drawing a viewer into a space and time often quite different from their own, and yet these moments remain largely untheorised within film studies and film music theory in particular. This article analyses the uses of music and sound in the opening sequences of Peter Jackson’s Middle-earth trilogies: The Lord of the Rings (200…
Hepatitis B Evaluation and Linkage to Care for Newly Arrived Refugees
Commentary on “Feeling (with) Japan”
Critique comes in different styles, each doing different things. One form, not uncommon to contemporary cultural anthropology, is characterized more narrowly by what we might call criticism: a good
Japan's Emerging Emotional Tech
Grandeur of the Everyday
Affect
This Retrospectives collection offers a look at what the concept of affect has contributed to anthropology in the recent past and where it might take us in the near future.Although the practice of retrospection suggests its own affective character of being a bit pensive and passive, a bit slow and solemn, I hope to dial up the intensity some.Why?Because lately I get the sense that affect is escaping our theoretical grasp.Sure, this was one of the…
Look Up in the Sky
The Real Life Superhero (RLSH) subculture is a growing global community of individuals who adopt the superhero motif and are motivated by prosocial goals. Although the community has been the focus of documentaries, news articles and numerous internet forums, little academic research has been conducted on the composition of this subculture. Through the use of an online survey, socio-demographic information about this community was collected. This …
The Gift of Philosophy
That man most distinguished in character and learning, Plato, thought that republics would be prosperous, finally, if learned and wise men began to lead them, or if those who lead put all their eff
Of Darwin, Jesus, and the Tragedy of the Commons
Now I a fourfold vision see,And a fourfold vision is given to me;‘Tis fourfold in my supreme delightAnd threefold in soft Beulah’s nightAnd twofold Always, May God us keepFrom Single vision & Newto
From Little London to Little Bengal
Pragmatism vs. Postmodernism
Paranoia, Public Spheres and Time in Tokyo
dialogue, earthquake, Fukushima, energy, environment
Foucault at Work
The Mind's New Architecture
Gould, Nietzsche, Marx
Nietzsche, Aesthetics, and Modernity
Rampley's Nietzsche, Aesthetics, and Modernity offers a valuable understanding of Nietzsche's Will to Power as the Will to Form and of the Overman as an artist inspired by the sublime who has overcome the reactive mentality of cultural pessimism by means of "active nihilism." Rampley argues that Nietzsche is a post metaphysical dialectician, building an aesthetic practice based on the productive play of transfigurative immanence that makes and af…
Affect
This Retrospectives collection offers a look at what the concept of affect has contributed to anthropology in the recent past and where it might take us in the near future.Although the practice of retrospection suggests its own affective character of being a bit pensive and passive, a bit slow and solemn, I hope to dial up the intensity some.Why?Because lately I get the sense that affect is escaping our theoretical grasp.Sure, this was one of the…
Toward an Affective Sense of Life
This essay analyzes the organization of Buddhist memorial services for robot pets in Japan against the backdrop of emerging markets for robots equipped with artificial emotional intelligence. It demonstrates how an evocative "sense of life" (seimeikan) becomes both a target of design for robotics engineers and an affective capacity of robot users who care for and through companion robots. Documenting how users cultivate a sense of amusement towar…
Japan's Emerging Emotional Tech
The Problem of Power
Power has been so extensively analysed and so variously defined that a raw student (or even a seasoned practitioner) who looks at a dozen or so definitions of power might well wonder about the nature of the enterprise. The situation seems to be that there is some agreement on what power is — the word might otherwise be expected to have fallen into disuse — and some very sharp disagreement. But one is at something of a loss to know, firstly where …
Effect of Testosterone Administration on Sexual Behavior and Mood in Men with Erectile Dysfunction
Backup for ministers
This paper deals with the backup required by government ministers. It deals with Australia but the argument has wider implications. It sets out what backup the public service can and cannot provide, and argues that the limitations are due to its limited perspective. Ministerial requirements which are beyond the public service, and which may be met by politically appointed staffers working in ministers' private offices are examined. A major underl…
Luteinizing hormone and testosterone during nocturnal sleep
Power and Intention
The paper argues that while the state of mind of an agent exercising power is relevant in analyzing the concept of power, much of the discussion about whether an intention must be complied with for there to be an exercise of power misconceives the issue at stake because it overrates the extent to which human behavior is ratiocinative. The argument is developed in the course of a discussion of several hypothetical examples. One conclusion is that …
Modelling emotion, perfecting heart
As part of a surge in technologies with so-called 'artificial emotional intelligence', robotics engineers and Buddhist monks in Japan have developed an android bodhisattva to deliver teachings at a popular Zen temple. Like many recent robots in Japan, the android is designed to impact visitors' feelings. For this reason, it can be called a 'technology of affect'. In order to communicate how new affective technologies are facilitating intimacy in …
Foucault at Work
Hormones and nocturnal penile tumescence in healthy aging men
Power and Liberty
Power and Intention
The paper argues that while the state of mind of an agent exercising power is relevant in analyzing the concept of power, much of the discussion about whether an intention must be complied with for there to be an exercise of power misconceives the issue at stake because it overrates the extent to which human behavior is ratiocinative. The argument is developed in the course of a discussion of several hypothetical examples. One conclusion is that …
Prolegomena to the study of democracy
The Problem of Power
Power has been so extensively analysed and so variously defined that a raw student (or even a seasoned practitioner) who looks at a dozen or so definitions of power might well wonder about the nature of the enterprise. The situation seems to be that there is some agreement on what power is — the word might otherwise be expected to have fallen into disuse — and some very sharp disagreement. But one is at something of a loss to know, firstly where …
Cinque Saggi su Dante
Cinque Saggi su Dante
The ‘Figurae’ of Joachim of Fiore
Luteinizing hormone and testosterone during nocturnal sleep
The right decision in politics
Sexual Arousability and the Menstrual Cycle1
Using a balanced experimental design, 30 regularly cycling woman not using oral contraceptives, aged 20 to 30 years, were assessed in a laboratory setting during the follicular, ovulatory, and luteal phases. Sexual arousal was measured by self-report and by photoplethysmographic recordings of vaginal vasocongestion. Plasma estradiol, progesterone, and testosterone were determined by radioimmunoassay. There were marked and consistent individual di…
Hormonal variations during sleep in men with erectile dysfunction and normal controls
Pituitary-Gonadal Function During Sleep in Men with Erectile Impotence and Normal Controls
Studies of pituitary-gonadal function in men with erectile disorders have provided conflicting findings. This study compares blood LH and testosterone during sleep in 17 physically healthy men with erectile impotence and 12 matched normal controls, and relates hormonal variations to stages of sleep and penile tumescence. Subjects, aged 23-36 were studied in a sleep laboratory for 3-6 nights with the last two nights devoted to sequential blood sam…
Plasma prolactin and estradiol during sleep in impotent men and normal controls
Backup for ministers
This paper deals with the backup required by government ministers. It deals with Australia but the argument has wider implications. It sets out what backup the public service can and cannot provide, and argues that the limitations are due to its limited perspective. Ministerial requirements which are beyond the public service, and which may be met by politically appointed staffers working in ministers' private offices are examined. A major underl…
Political communication and democratic government
This paper overviews the Australian System of Political Communication in the light of the communications requirements of modern representative democracy. The broad point of departure is that representative democracy requires political communication in both directions between government and people. In addition to the media, the approach takes account of the following channels for ‘political messages’: direct mail, public opinion polls, elections, …
The relationship between pituitary-gonadal function and sexual behavior in healthy aging men
Few studies have assessed the role of pituitary and gonadal hormones on age-related changes in sexual behavior in healthy men. We conducted a retrospective and prospective evaluation of sexual function and behavior in 77 healthy married men aged 45 to 74 years. The subjects were studied in the sleep laboratory for four nights with the last night devoted to sequential blood sampling every 20 minutes. Significant age-related decreases in sexual des…
Literary Ecology and Postmodernity in Thomas Sanchez's Mile Zero and Thomas Pynchon's Vineland
Postmodern Culture - Volume 2, Number 1, September 1991
Hormones and nocturnal penile tumescence in healthy aging men
Universalism, humanism, and postmodernism
Universalism, humanism, and postmodernism
Effect of Testosterone Administration on Sexual Behavior and Mood in Men with Erectile Dysfunction
The ecological self
(1998). The ecological self: Humanity and nature in Nietzsche and Goethe. The European Legacy: Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 39-61
Gould, Nietzsche, Marx
Nietzsche, Aesthetics, and Modernity
Rampley's Nietzsche, Aesthetics, and Modernity offers a valuable understanding of Nietzsche's Will to Power as the Will to Form and of the Overman as an artist inspired by the sublime who has overcome the reactive mentality of cultural pessimism by means of "active nihilism." Rampley argues that Nietzsche is a post metaphysical dialectician, building an aesthetic practice based on the productive play of transfigurative immanence that makes and af…
Nietzsche and the Communicative Ecology of Terror
The Solitary Following and leading are hateful to me. Obey? No! But lead? No way! Who's not himself a terror frightens no one. And only the terror-maker can lead others. To me it's hateful even to lead myself! I love it, like creatures of wood and sea, For a good little while to lose myself, In lovely madness meditatively sit, From the distance homeward entice myself, Me myself to me myself—seducing.1
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