Tom Bunyard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3645616 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tom Bunyard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tom |
| FAMILY NAME | Bunyard |
| SIGNATURE | BUNYARD T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9959-2760 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Tragic landscapes
This essay places the work of the art historian TJ Clark in relation to the social and political philosophy of Gillian Rose. It develops an interpretation of the ideas that inform his art history, and of the ways in which they inform his advocacy of a 'tragic' approach to what he calls 'Left' politics. The latter approach is intended to avoid the dangers that Clark takes to be inherent in the Left's classical focus on shaping the social condition…
Critical Theory Today
Histoire et révolution dans La Société du spectacle de Guy Debord
Cet article propose un compte-rendu des idées générales de Guy Debord sur la temporalité, telles qu’on les trouve dans La Société du spectacle . Il le fait en soulignant les liens entre les préoccupations de Debord concernant la temporalité, le concept de « spectacle », et son engagement pour un changement social révolutionnaire. La première partie de l’article thématise l’importance du temps et de l’histoire dans la théorie du spectacle, et s’op…
Critical Theory Today
Spirit and Social Death
This essay proposes that the interpretations of Hegelian philosophy advanced by Gillian Rose and Robert Pippin may be relevant to the theorisation of genocide. This argument is presented via a discussion of Claudia Card’s contention that genocide can be understood as a form of ‘social death’. According to Card, genocide damages or eradicates what she calls ‘social vitality’: inter-generational social relations that animate, articulate and charact…
Debord, Time and Spectacle
Demagogy and Social Pathology
This essay argues that modern demagogy can be understood as a symptom of a kind of social pathology, combining Wendy Brown's account of neoliberal subjectivity with elements of Robert Pippin's interpretation of Hegel to do so. I begin by focussing on Brown's contention that neoliberal society has bred forms of individual subjectivity that are inherently attuned to right-wing rhetoric. Drawing on Pippin's reading of Hegel, the essay casts these mo…
Debord, Time and Spectacle
In Debord, Time and Spectacle Tom Bunyard provides a detailed philosophical study of the theoretical work of Guy Debord and the Situationist International. Drawing on evidence from Debord's books, films, letters and notes, Bunyard reconstructs the Hegelian and Marxian ideas that support Debord's central concept of 'spectacle'. This affords a reconsideration of Debord's theoretical claims, and a reinterpretation of his broader work that foreground…
Debord, Time and History
This essay reads Guy Debord’s theoretical work through its primary philosophical and theoretical influences, and in doing so draws attention to his concerns with time and history. These concerns are used as a means of clarifying Debord’s theory of ‘spectacle’ and of highlighting its virtues and failings. The essay uses Debord’s remarks on subjectivity and temporality to pursue the theoretical dimensions of his interest in strategy, and thereby ad…
Libertarian Communism
Book-review of Ernesto Screpanti’s Libertarian Communism: Marx, Engels and the Political Economy of Freedom . In this book, Ernesto Screpanti questions the nature and status of freedom within both Marx’s thought and possible forms of communist organisation. By way of an argument which contends that communism should be understood as a theory of freedom, he extracts a deliberately individualistic version of communism from Marx’s work, and proceeds …
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Debord, Time and History
This essay reads Guy Debord’s theoretical work through its primary philosophical and theoretical influences, and in doing so draws attention to his concerns with time and history. These concerns are used as a means of clarifying Debord’s theory of ‘spectacle’ and of highlighting its virtues and failings. The essay uses Debord’s remarks on subjectivity and temporality to pursue the theoretical dimensions of his interest in strategy, and thereby ad…
Libertarian Communism
Book-review of Ernesto Screpanti’s Libertarian Communism: Marx, Engels and the Political Economy of Freedom . In this book, Ernesto Screpanti questions the nature and status of freedom within both Marx’s thought and possible forms of communist organisation. By way of an argument which contends that communism should be understood as a theory of freedom, he extracts a deliberately individualistic version of communism from Marx’s work, and proceeds …
Debord, Time and Spectacle
In Debord, Time and Spectacle Tom Bunyard provides a detailed philosophical study of the theoretical work of Guy Debord and the Situationist International. Drawing on evidence from Debord's books, films, letters and notes, Bunyard reconstructs the Hegelian and Marxian ideas that support Debord's central concept of 'spectacle'. This affords a reconsideration of Debord's theoretical claims, and a reinterpretation of his broader work that foreground…
Debord, Time and Spectacle
Demagogy and Social Pathology
This essay argues that modern demagogy can be understood as a symptom of a kind of social pathology, combining Wendy Brown's account of neoliberal subjectivity with elements of Robert Pippin's interpretation of Hegel to do so. I begin by focussing on Brown's contention that neoliberal society has bred forms of individual subjectivity that are inherently attuned to right-wing rhetoric. Drawing on Pippin's reading of Hegel, the essay casts these mo…
Spirit and Social Death
This essay proposes that the interpretations of Hegelian philosophy advanced by Gillian Rose and Robert Pippin may be relevant to the theorisation of genocide. This argument is presented via a discussion of Claudia Card’s contention that genocide can be understood as a form of ‘social death’. According to Card, genocide damages or eradicates what she calls ‘social vitality’: inter-generational social relations that animate, articulate and charact…
Critical Theory Today
Histoire et révolution dans La Société du spectacle de Guy Debord
Cet article propose un compte-rendu des idées générales de Guy Debord sur la temporalité, telles qu’on les trouve dans La Société du spectacle . Il le fait en soulignant les liens entre les préoccupations de Debord concernant la temporalité, le concept de « spectacle », et son engagement pour un changement social révolutionnaire. La première partie de l’article thématise l’importance du temps et de l’histoire dans la théorie du spectacle, et s’op…
Critical Theory Today
Tragic landscapes
This essay places the work of the art historian TJ Clark in relation to the social and political philosophy of Gillian Rose. It develops an interpretation of the ideas that inform his art history, and of the ways in which they inform his advocacy of a 'tragic' approach to what he calls 'Left' politics. The latter approach is intended to avoid the dangers that Clark takes to be inherent in the Left's classical focus on shaping the social condition…
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (3 works) · Hegelianism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)