Philip Armstrong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Armstrong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Armstrong |
| SIGNATURE | ARMSTRONG P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2295-3075 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Exporting Our Shame
Buccal Exscriptions: Ann Hamilton’s face to face Photographs
In his ‘Five Notes for a Phenomenology of the Photographic Image’, Hubert Damisch states that ‘photography is nothing other than a process of recording, a technique of inscribing, in an emulsion of
Toward a Politics of A-filiation
In the conclusion to Exiles in the City, and drawing from the writings of Hannah Arendt, Edward Said, and Giorgio Agamben, William Spanos refers to an “agonic friendship” that is not “‘friendship’ as such”—that is, friendship premised on “filiation or affiliation”—but the affirmation of an “agonic” friendship characterized by “a-filiation.” The essay addresses the conditions or presuppositions—at once ontological, philosophical, and political—in …
Gloss (à partir de quelques photos d’Ann Hamilton)
À travers une lecture attentive de la série Face to Face d’Ann Hamilton – des photographies prises en exposant une pellicule photosensible posée dans la bouche de l’artiste – et suivant la réflexion de Jean-Luc Nancy sur la bouche dans Ego sum , ce texte traite de la relation entre « la matière photographique » et la question de l’ ekphrasis . En prêtant attention aux manières dont la photographie vient au jour à travers les conditions de son éno…
The Pleasure in Drawing
Arthur MacGregor, Animal Encounters. Human and Animal Interaction in Britain from the Norman Conquest to World War One

Samuel Butler's Sheep
By 1840, it was clear that the industries that had first brought Europeans to New Zealand, particularly sealing and shore whaling, were faltering. In their place settlers were turning to a new primary export, wool: the commodity upon which Britain's industrial revolution and economic hegemony were based at the time. As James Belich writes, the 'powered mills and factory-production techniques' of Britain were 'clothing and blanketing a good part o…
The Gaze Of Animals
Sociology has, until recently, denied any possibility that human interaction with non-human animals could ever be considered social which has led to a as if nature did not matter. In order to fully contribute to the emancipation of animals, sociologists must first address the very epistemic foundations of the discipline. This means re-addressing social theory on the broadest of levels. One way of investigating the 'social' world which may offer s…
Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political
From Appearance to Exposure
Moving between references to appearance, co-appearance and exposure in the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy, this article turns on the ways in which Nancy rethinks a number of key phenomenological concepts and so touches on the limits of the phenomenological tradition. Foregrounding Nancy’s frequent appeal to questions of evidence, and situating the term in light of Husserl’s writings as well as those writing in his wake, the article offers a reading o…
Moa Citings
The archaeological consensus is that all species of Moa ( Dinornithiformes) have been extinct for three or four centuries. Yet these giant birds still enjoy a vigorous and prolific afterlife in New Zealand’s literature, art, historiography and popular culture. Arguing that narratives about moa function as myths, in the sense given that term by Roland Barthes, this essay analyses their deployment in the construction of theories about human settlem…
Knowing Animals
Bestiary: An Introduction
Researchers in animal studies examine the cultural, philosophical, economic and social means by which humans and animals interact. The very idea of the human is closely tied up with ideas about animals. This is the introductory chapter of the book, which is a kind of mixed human-animal habitat into which diverse species have been introduced, to intermingle and interbreed, appropriately or not. The essays collected here track the cultural organism…
Knowing Animals
In recent decades the humanities and social sciences have undergone an 'animal turn', an efflorescence of interdisciplinary scholarship which is fresh and challenging because its practitioners consider humans as animals amongst other animals, while refusing to do so from an exclusively or necessarily biological point of view. Knowing Animals showcases original explorations of the 'animal turn' by new and eminent scholars in philosophy, literary c…
Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis
Moby-Dick and Compassion
Because the notions of "anthropomorphism" and "sentimentality" often are used pejoratively to dismiss research in human-animal studies, there is much to be gained from ongoing and detailed analysis of the changing "structures of feeling" that shape representations and treatments of nonhuman animals. Literary criticism contributes to this project when it pays due attention to differences in historical and cultural contexts. As an example of this a…
Rodchenko's Monochromes and the Perfection of Painting
Ad Rem
The Postcolonial Animal
Concerned as it is with the politics of historical and contemporary relations between “Western” and other cultures since 1492 or thereabouts, postcolonial studies has shown little interest in the fate of the nonhuman animal. In identifying the costs borne by non-European “others” in the pursuit of Western cultures’ sense of privileged entitlement, post-colonialists have concentrated upon “other” humans, cultures, and territories but seldom upon a…
Dis/Coveries: Allen Curnow's Later Poems
The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience
Journal Article The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience. The Theory of Economic Breakdown. Capitalism since 1945. Get access The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience. Edited by Marglin (Stephen) and Schor (Juliet). (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp. xiv+256. £27.50 hardback. ISBN 0 198286775.)The Theory of Economic Breakdown. By Cornwall (John) . (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Ba…
In Defence of Value a Reply to Ian Steedman
Readers of the Bulletin will be aware of considerable past debate within the CSE on the definition and status of certain value categories. In Marx after Sraffa Ian Steedman argues, in part on the basis of points made in that discussion – in which he took a leading part – that all value categories constitute an obstacle to a scientific analysis of capitalism. This review article attempts a reply to his critique of value
The Postcolonial Animal
Concerned as it is with the politics of historical and contemporary relations between “Western” and other cultures since 1492 or thereabouts, postcolonial studies has shown little interest in the fate of the nonhuman animal. In identifying the costs borne by non-European “others” in the pursuit of Western cultures’ sense of privileged entitlement, post-colonialists have concentrated upon “other” humans, cultures, and territories but seldom upon a…
The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience
Journal Article The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience. The Theory of Economic Breakdown. Capitalism since 1945. Get access The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience. Edited by Marglin (Stephen) and Schor (Juliet). (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp. xiv+256. £27.50 hardback. ISBN 0 198286775.)The Theory of Economic Breakdown. By Cornwall (John) . (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Ba…
Knowing Animals
In recent decades the humanities and social sciences have undergone an 'animal turn', an efflorescence of interdisciplinary scholarship which is fresh and challenging because its practitioners consider humans as animals amongst other animals, while refusing to do so from an exclusively or necessarily biological point of view. Knowing Animals showcases original explorations of the 'animal turn' by new and eminent scholars in philosophy, literary c…
Moby-Dick and Compassion
Because the notions of "anthropomorphism" and "sentimentality" often are used pejoratively to dismiss research in human-animal studies, there is much to be gained from ongoing and detailed analysis of the changing "structures of feeling" that shape representations and treatments of nonhuman animals. Literary criticism contributes to this project when it pays due attention to differences in historical and cultural contexts. As an example of this a…
In Defence of Value a Reply to Ian Steedman
Readers of the Bulletin will be aware of considerable past debate within the CSE on the definition and status of certain value categories. In Marx after Sraffa Ian Steedman argues, in part on the basis of points made in that discussion – in which he took a leading part – that all value categories constitute an obstacle to a scientific analysis of capitalism. This review article attempts a reply to his critique of value
Dis/Coveries: Allen Curnow's Later Poems
In Defence of Value a Reply to Ian Steedman
Readers of the Bulletin will be aware of considerable past debate within the CSE on the definition and status of certain value categories. In Marx after Sraffa Ian Steedman argues, in part on the basis of points made in that discussion – in which he took a leading part – that all value categories constitute an obstacle to a scientific analysis of capitalism. This review article attempts a reply to his critique of value
The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience
Journal Article The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience. The Theory of Economic Breakdown. Capitalism since 1945. Get access The Golden Age of Capitalism: Reinterpreting the Postwar Experience. Edited by Marglin (Stephen) and Schor (Juliet). (Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1990. Pp. xiv+256. £27.50 hardback. ISBN 0 198286775.)The Theory of Economic Breakdown. By Cornwall (John) . (Oxford and Cambridge, Mass.: Ba…
Dis/Coveries: Allen Curnow's Later Poems
The Postcolonial Animal
Concerned as it is with the politics of historical and contemporary relations between “Western” and other cultures since 1492 or thereabouts, postcolonial studies has shown little interest in the fate of the nonhuman animal. In identifying the costs borne by non-European “others” in the pursuit of Western cultures’ sense of privileged entitlement, post-colonialists have concentrated upon “other” humans, cultures, and territories but seldom upon a…
Moby-Dick and Compassion
Because the notions of "anthropomorphism" and "sentimentality" often are used pejoratively to dismiss research in human-animal studies, there is much to be gained from ongoing and detailed analysis of the changing "structures of feeling" that shape representations and treatments of nonhuman animals. Literary criticism contributes to this project when it pays due attention to differences in historical and cultural contexts. As an example of this a…
Rodchenko's Monochromes and the Perfection of Painting
Ad Rem
Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis
Knowing Animals
Bestiary: An Introduction
Researchers in animal studies examine the cultural, philosophical, economic and social means by which humans and animals interact. The very idea of the human is closely tied up with ideas about animals. This is the introductory chapter of the book, which is a kind of mixed human-animal habitat into which diverse species have been introduced, to intermingle and interbreed, appropriately or not. The essays collected here track the cultural organism…
Knowing Animals
In recent decades the humanities and social sciences have undergone an 'animal turn', an efflorescence of interdisciplinary scholarship which is fresh and challenging because its practitioners consider humans as animals amongst other animals, while refusing to do so from an exclusively or necessarily biological point of view. Knowing Animals showcases original explorations of the 'animal turn' by new and eminent scholars in philosophy, literary c…
Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political
From Appearance to Exposure
Moving between references to appearance, co-appearance and exposure in the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy, this article turns on the ways in which Nancy rethinks a number of key phenomenological concepts and so touches on the limits of the phenomenological tradition. Foregrounding Nancy’s frequent appeal to questions of evidence, and situating the term in light of Husserl’s writings as well as those writing in his wake, the article offers a reading o…
Moa Citings
The archaeological consensus is that all species of Moa ( Dinornithiformes) have been extinct for three or four centuries. Yet these giant birds still enjoy a vigorous and prolific afterlife in New Zealand’s literature, art, historiography and popular culture. Arguing that narratives about moa function as myths, in the sense given that term by Roland Barthes, this essay analyses their deployment in the construction of theories about human settlem…
The Gaze Of Animals
Sociology has, until recently, denied any possibility that human interaction with non-human animals could ever be considered social which has led to a as if nature did not matter. In order to fully contribute to the emancipation of animals, sociologists must first address the very epistemic foundations of the discipline. This means re-addressing social theory on the broadest of levels. One way of investigating the 'social' world which may offer s…
Samuel Butler's Sheep
By 1840, it was clear that the industries that had first brought Europeans to New Zealand, particularly sealing and shore whaling, were faltering. In their place settlers were turning to a new primary export, wool: the commodity upon which Britain's industrial revolution and economic hegemony were based at the time. As James Belich writes, the 'powered mills and factory-production techniques' of Britain were 'clothing and blanketing a good part o…
The Pleasure in Drawing
Arthur MacGregor, Animal Encounters. Human and Animal Interaction in Britain from the Norman Conquest to World War One

Toward a Politics of A-filiation
In the conclusion to Exiles in the City, and drawing from the writings of Hannah Arendt, Edward Said, and Giorgio Agamben, William Spanos refers to an “agonic friendship” that is not “‘friendship’ as such”—that is, friendship premised on “filiation or affiliation”—but the affirmation of an “agonic” friendship characterized by “a-filiation.” The essay addresses the conditions or presuppositions—at once ontological, philosophical, and political—in …
Gloss (à partir de quelques photos d’Ann Hamilton)
À travers une lecture attentive de la série Face to Face d’Ann Hamilton – des photographies prises en exposant une pellicule photosensible posée dans la bouche de l’artiste – et suivant la réflexion de Jean-Luc Nancy sur la bouche dans Ego sum , ce texte traite de la relation entre « la matière photographique » et la question de l’ ekphrasis . En prêtant attention aux manières dont la photographie vient au jour à travers les conditions de son éno…
Buccal Exscriptions: Ann Hamilton’s face to face Photographs
In his ‘Five Notes for a Phenomenology of the Photographic Image’, Hubert Damisch states that ‘photography is nothing other than a process of recording, a technique of inscribing, in an emulsion of
Exporting Our Shame
Art (10 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works)