Allen Shelton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3685783 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allen Shelton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allen |
| FAMILY NAME | Shelton |
| SIGNATURE | SHELTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Auburn University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1942 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dark waters, dark waters
I wrote a book. A blogger rewrote it in nine paragraphs using my own sentences, images, and my name. It was so seamlessly constructed I assumed I had written it until years later when attempting to use the rewrite as a summary of my book, I found no such paragraph existed in my work. He had rearranged sentences and parts of sentences into new paragraphs that produced an alternative me, a double that might have had an entirely different academic c…
Storytelling Sociology
The Stars Beneath Alabama1
Planchette, My Love
In the mid-19th century Marx recognized the growing occult significance of the commodity in everyday life extending from the dancing table in the kitchen to the enormous edifice of capital surrounded by a cloud of charged, interlocked commodities. But what Marx could not fully grasp is how deeply implicated this new addition to the human ecosystem would become when commodity fetishization matured as a process. The person-hood of things and the th…
The Mark on the Spade
Freud suggested in his essay 'The Mystical Writing Pad' the beginning of the geological ethnography in which the person might be split into coexisting archeological layers. But Freud short shrifted the method and his choices for excavation. What would happen if a garden were psychoanalyzed? The grub and praying mantis, the piece of blue glass in the humus, the encroaching Bermuda grass, the sharpness of the spade, the lingering traces of the prev…
The Man at the End of the Machine
Foucault's Madonna
New Ethnographies
A theater for eating, looking, and thinking
(1990). A theater for eating, looking, and thinking: The restaurant as symbolic space. Sociological Spectrum: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 507-526
Down to the Sea in Maine
A theater for eating, looking, and thinking
(1990). A theater for eating, looking, and thinking: The restaurant as symbolic space. Sociological Spectrum: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 507-526
Foucault's Madonna
The Man at the End of the Machine
Down to the Sea in Maine
A theater for eating, looking, and thinking
(1990). A theater for eating, looking, and thinking: The restaurant as symbolic space. Sociological Spectrum: Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 507-526
New Ethnographies
The Man at the End of the Machine
Foucault's Madonna
The Mark on the Spade
Freud suggested in his essay 'The Mystical Writing Pad' the beginning of the geological ethnography in which the person might be split into coexisting archeological layers. But Freud short shrifted the method and his choices for excavation. What would happen if a garden were psychoanalyzed? The grub and praying mantis, the piece of blue glass in the humus, the encroaching Bermuda grass, the sharpness of the spade, the lingering traces of the prev…
The Stars Beneath Alabama1
Planchette, My Love
In the mid-19th century Marx recognized the growing occult significance of the commodity in everyday life extending from the dancing table in the kitchen to the enormous edifice of capital surrounded by a cloud of charged, interlocked commodities. But what Marx could not fully grasp is how deeply implicated this new addition to the human ecosystem would become when commodity fetishization matured as a process. The person-hood of things and the th…
Storytelling Sociology
Dark waters, dark waters
I wrote a book. A blogger rewrote it in nine paragraphs using my own sentences, images, and my name. It was so seamlessly constructed I assumed I had written it until years later when attempting to use the rewrite as a summary of my book, I found no such paragraph existed in my work. He had rearranged sentences and parts of sentences into new paragraphs that produced an alternative me, a double that might have had an entirely different academic c…
Sociology (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Citation (3 works) · Library science (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art history (2 works)