Tom Roach

Biographic Data

ID3750528
NAMETom Roach
GIVEN NAMESTom
FAMILY NAMERoach
SIGNATUREROACH T
AFFILIATIONSTrent University
ORCID0000-0001-5574-2720
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1973
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX0

  • Virtual Presents, Future Strangers

    Open AccessTom RoachARTICLEPostmodern Culture2023

    This essay argues that Bersani's attempts to articulate a non-Cartesian form of knowledge production spur him to speculate anew about epistemology and ontology. Specifically, Bersani's late theory and practice of recategorization, a recursive engagement with thinkers and concepts that reveals thought's virtual potential, affords him the opportunity to conceive of a cognitive temporal unity and an immanentist conception of being. After exploring B…

  • Fascination

    Tom RoachARTICLEdifferences2023References: 3

    Bersanian fascination is not merely a fleeting affective state. It is, rather, a mode of inquiry and a form of being. If Bersani is initially fascinated with the antisocial nature of sexual desire, he later becomes enthralled with a notion of fascinated witnessing that reveals an ontological enmeshment. This essay homes in on a passage in Homos that presages an important pivot in Bersani's intellectual trajectory: a pivot from a dialectical conce…

  • Screen Love

    Tom RoachBOOKScreen Love2021

  • Screen Love

    Tom Roach, Thomas R RoachBOOKScreen Love2021

    In work, play, education, and even healthcare, we are using social media during COVID-19 to approximate “normal life” before the pandemic. In Screen Love, Tom Roach urges us to do the opposite. Rather than highlight the ways that social media might help reproduce the pre-pandemic status quo, Roach explores how Grindr and other dating/hookup apps can help us envision a radically new normal: specifically, antinormative conceptions of selfhood and c…

  • The Best of All Possible Bersanis

    Open AccessTom RoachARTICLEPostmodern Culture2018

    The Best of All Possible BersanisA review of Mikko Tuhkanen, The Essentialist Villain: On Leo Bersani Tom Roach (bio) Tuhkanen, Mikko. The Essentialist Villain: On Leo Bersani. State U of New York P, 2018. Early in Candide, or Optimism, Voltaire's classic send-up of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's metaphysics (or perversions thereof), the windbag philosopher Doctor Pangloss explains the "sufficient reason" for his syphilitic condition. Responding to …

  • Ridding Oneself of Mad Masters

    Tom RoachARTICLEGLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay…2016

    Book Review| April 01 2016 Ridding Oneself of Mad Masters Thoughts and Things. Bersani, Leo. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. xv + 120 pp. Tom Roach Tom Roach Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2016) 22 (2): 318–320. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-3428918 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Tom Roach; Ridding Oneself of Mad Masters. GLQ 1 April…

  • Becoming Fungible

    Tom RoachARTICLEQui Parle2015

  • Friendship as a Way of Life

    Tom RoachBOOKFriendship As a Way of Life2012

  • Assessing the Intelligence of Aged Persons

    Open AccessLORNA GENDREAU, L P Gendreau et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports1973

    Ammons and Ammons Quick Test (QT) was found to be applicable for intelligence testing with the aged. Normative data were presented for a sample who averaged 80.7 yr. Correlations among the three single forms and between the forms and the complete test were high (.80 to .93 for corrected IQs, .82 to .96 for uncorrected IQs). Performance on the test was not affected by socioeconomic status, institutionalization factors or anxiety level. The test's …