William Bogard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3692921 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Bogard |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Bogard |
| SIGNATURE | BOGARD W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Whitman College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, Second Edition
Urry's Mobilities
John Urry's book on mobilities weaves together many threads of his long running project to rethink society from the perspective of movement and its supports, rather than through static analytical categories.The book begins by asserting that everything today seems to be on the move.If people are not necessarily traveling more, they are going farther and faster, along physical as well as electronic paths.The speed and scope of modern travel has qua…
Empire of the living dead
The corpse is no longer a dominant organizing figure of power and knowledge in postmodern network society. Limited by its own corporeality and tied to modern notions of the individual, its utility in controlling life has been superseded by technologies that control birth. This essay draws a line from Foucault's analysis of the dead body as an object of biopower to Baudrillard's and Deleuze's vision of control societies, in which the body disappea…
Welcome to the Society of Control: The Simulation of Surveillance Revisited
Smoothing Machines and the Constitution of Society
I ask the reader to imagine society as a production of‘smoothing machines’. Smoothing machines mark the surfaces of bodies, and in the social sense, they are markings of the body that indicate status, generally in terms of purity or perfection. The socius, Deleuze and Guattari write, is a coding machine, and codes smooth social relations of power. Elias Canetti, in his work on crowds, discovers an internal connection between smoothness, social po…
Simmel in Cyberspace: Strangeness and Distance in Postmodern Communications
Sense and Segmentarity: Some Markers of a Deleuzian-Guattarian Sociology
Although the focus of their work was rarely explicitly sociological, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari developed concepts that have important and often profound implications for social theory and practice. Two of these, sense and segmentarity, provide us with entirely new ways to view sociological problems of meaning and structure. Deleuze conceives sense independently of both agency and signification. That is, sense is neither the manifestation …
The simulation of surveillance: Hypercontrol in Telematic Societies
The Bhopal Tragedy: Language, Logic, and Politics in the Production of a Hazard
Postmodernism One Last Time: A Comment on Seidman et al
The recent symposium in Sociological Theory (9:2, pp. 131-90) on postmodernism and the end (re: resurrection) of theory strikes me as typical of American sociology's belated reception of works that had their origins in other contexts and were motivated by entirely different problems. Invariably, it seems, those works are reframed in terms of their utility (or lack thereof) for theory or practice, a parasitic process that aims at their commensurab…
Discipline and deterrence: Rethinking Foucault on the question of power in contemporary society
This article considers how Michel Foucault's analysis of disciplinary power might be reformulated and extended to account for significant transformations in the mechanisms of social control in contemporary, postmodern societies. Despite several interesting efforts to apply Foucault's conception of discipline to social control issues in the sociological and criminological literature, such efforts have for the most part misinterpreted his position.…
The Bhopal Tragedy: Language, Logic, and Politics in the Production of a Hazard
This book offers a critical theory of hazards, which the Bhopal tragedy would serve to highlight. It provides a general model of how hazards existed in Bhopal come to be defined and symbolically manipulated—through the institutionalized use of expert knowledge and political persuasion
Closing down the Social: Baudrillard's Challenge to Contemporary Sociology
Until a few years ago, the work of the French social philosopher Jean Baudrillard was relatively unknown to social scientists in the United States outside a small circle of persons interested in contemporary European cultural criticism. Among American sociologists in particular-apart from those whose first inclination was to view anything emerging from the current intellectual climate in France with some suspicion-the mention of his name was unli…
Bringing Social Theory to Hazards Research: Conditions and Consequences of the Mitigation of Environmental Hazards
This article relates some examples of current research on the mitigation of environmental hazards to recent sociological work in the theory of action. My intentions are to isolate common themes in an otherwise heterogeneous literature, to encourage debate on mitigation issues, and to enhance the legitimacy of this research program by bringing it to the center of contemporary theoretical concerns in the discipline. Much of the current debate in th…
Sociology in the Absence of the Social: The significance of baudrillard for contemporary thought
Towards an Artistic Sociology
The simulation of surveillance: Hypercontrol in Telematic Societies
Sense and Segmentarity: Some Markers of a Deleuzian-Guattarian Sociology
Although the focus of their work was rarely explicitly sociological, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari developed concepts that have important and often profound implications for social theory and practice. Two of these, sense and segmentarity, provide us with entirely new ways to view sociological problems of meaning and structure. Deleuze conceives sense independently of both agency and signification. That is, sense is neither the manifestation …
Closing down the Social: Baudrillard's Challenge to Contemporary Sociology
Until a few years ago, the work of the French social philosopher Jean Baudrillard was relatively unknown to social scientists in the United States outside a small circle of persons interested in contemporary European cultural criticism. Among American sociologists in particular-apart from those whose first inclination was to view anything emerging from the current intellectual climate in France with some suspicion-the mention of his name was unli…
Discipline and deterrence: Rethinking Foucault on the question of power in contemporary society
This article considers how Michel Foucault's analysis of disciplinary power might be reformulated and extended to account for significant transformations in the mechanisms of social control in contemporary, postmodern societies. Despite several interesting efforts to apply Foucault's conception of discipline to social control issues in the sociological and criminological literature, such efforts have for the most part misinterpreted his position.…
Simmel in Cyberspace: Strangeness and Distance in Postmodern Communications
Bringing Social Theory to Hazards Research: Conditions and Consequences of the Mitigation of Environmental Hazards
This article relates some examples of current research on the mitigation of environmental hazards to recent sociological work in the theory of action. My intentions are to isolate common themes in an otherwise heterogeneous literature, to encourage debate on mitigation issues, and to enhance the legitimacy of this research program by bringing it to the center of contemporary theoretical concerns in the discipline. Much of the current debate in th…
Urry's Mobilities
John Urry's book on mobilities weaves together many threads of his long running project to rethink society from the perspective of movement and its supports, rather than through static analytical categories.The book begins by asserting that everything today seems to be on the move.If people are not necessarily traveling more, they are going farther and faster, along physical as well as electronic paths.The speed and scope of modern travel has qua…
Postmodernism One Last Time: A Comment on Seidman et al
The recent symposium in Sociological Theory (9:2, pp. 131-90) on postmodernism and the end (re: resurrection) of theory strikes me as typical of American sociology's belated reception of works that had their origins in other contexts and were motivated by entirely different problems. Invariably, it seems, those works are reframed in terms of their utility (or lack thereof) for theory or practice, a parasitic process that aims at their commensurab…
Towards an Artistic Sociology
Sociology in the Absence of the Social: The significance of baudrillard for contemporary thought
Bringing Social Theory to Hazards Research: Conditions and Consequences of the Mitigation of Environmental Hazards
This article relates some examples of current research on the mitigation of environmental hazards to recent sociological work in the theory of action. My intentions are to isolate common themes in an otherwise heterogeneous literature, to encourage debate on mitigation issues, and to enhance the legitimacy of this research program by bringing it to the center of contemporary theoretical concerns in the discipline. Much of the current debate in th…
The Bhopal Tragedy: Language, Logic, and Politics in the Production of a Hazard
This book offers a critical theory of hazards, which the Bhopal tragedy would serve to highlight. It provides a general model of how hazards existed in Bhopal come to be defined and symbolically manipulated—through the institutionalized use of expert knowledge and political persuasion
Closing down the Social: Baudrillard's Challenge to Contemporary Sociology
Until a few years ago, the work of the French social philosopher Jean Baudrillard was relatively unknown to social scientists in the United States outside a small circle of persons interested in contemporary European cultural criticism. Among American sociologists in particular-apart from those whose first inclination was to view anything emerging from the current intellectual climate in France with some suspicion-the mention of his name was unli…
Discipline and deterrence: Rethinking Foucault on the question of power in contemporary society
This article considers how Michel Foucault's analysis of disciplinary power might be reformulated and extended to account for significant transformations in the mechanisms of social control in contemporary, postmodern societies. Despite several interesting efforts to apply Foucault's conception of discipline to social control issues in the sociological and criminological literature, such efforts have for the most part misinterpreted his position.…
Postmodernism One Last Time: A Comment on Seidman et al
The recent symposium in Sociological Theory (9:2, pp. 131-90) on postmodernism and the end (re: resurrection) of theory strikes me as typical of American sociology's belated reception of works that had their origins in other contexts and were motivated by entirely different problems. Invariably, it seems, those works are reframed in terms of their utility (or lack thereof) for theory or practice, a parasitic process that aims at their commensurab…
The Bhopal Tragedy: Language, Logic, and Politics in the Production of a Hazard
The simulation of surveillance: Hypercontrol in Telematic Societies
Sense and Segmentarity: Some Markers of a Deleuzian-Guattarian Sociology
Although the focus of their work was rarely explicitly sociological, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari developed concepts that have important and often profound implications for social theory and practice. Two of these, sense and segmentarity, provide us with entirely new ways to view sociological problems of meaning and structure. Deleuze conceives sense independently of both agency and signification. That is, sense is neither the manifestation …
Simmel in Cyberspace: Strangeness and Distance in Postmodern Communications
Smoothing Machines and the Constitution of Society
I ask the reader to imagine society as a production of‘smoothing machines’. Smoothing machines mark the surfaces of bodies, and in the social sense, they are markings of the body that indicate status, generally in terms of purity or perfection. The socius, Deleuze and Guattari write, is a coding machine, and codes smooth social relations of power. Elias Canetti, in his work on crowds, discovers an internal connection between smoothness, social po…
Welcome to the Society of Control: The Simulation of Surveillance Revisited
Empire of the living dead
The corpse is no longer a dominant organizing figure of power and knowledge in postmodern network society. Limited by its own corporeality and tied to modern notions of the individual, its utility in controlling life has been superseded by technologies that control birth. This essay draws a line from Foucault's analysis of the dead body as an object of biopower to Baudrillard's and Deleuze's vision of control societies, in which the body disappea…
Urry's Mobilities
John Urry's book on mobilities weaves together many threads of his long running project to rethink society from the perspective of movement and its supports, rather than through static analytical categories.The book begins by asserting that everything today seems to be on the move.If people are not necessarily traveling more, they are going farther and faster, along physical as well as electronic paths.The speed and scope of modern travel has qua…
Critical Digital Studies: A Reader, Second Edition
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