John Mcmahon
Biographic Data
| ID | 3790109 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Mcmahon |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcmahon |
| SIGNATURE | MCMAHON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | SUNY Plattsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5766-8680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1952 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Towards a critical space theory: The instrumental politics of space exploitation
Though a growing number of voices in public discourse are expressing reservations about the new space race and its implications, inherently political questions have remained largely untouched by political theorists: Who is space for and for whose benefit? What are the ideological presumptions and functions of private space exploration? To confront this astro-aporia, we proceed in four parts. First, we develop a typology of two broad positions tha…
Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness
Magicians of the Twenty-first Century: Enchantment, Domination, and the Politics of Work in Silicon Valley
What is the political theorist to make of self-characterizations of Silicon Valley as the beacon of civilization-saving innovation? Through an analysis of "tech bro" masculinity and the closely related discourses of tech icons Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, we argue that undergirding Silicon Valley's technological utopia is an exploitative work ethic revamped for the industry's innovative ethos. On the one hand, Silicon Valley hypothetically offers a…
Sonia Sotomayor’s Legal Phenomenology, Racial Policing, and the Limits of Law
Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent in the Fourth Amendment case Utah v. Strieff (2016) received a great deal of media attention, particularly for its citations to prominent Black political thinkers and its evocations of Black Lives Matter. This article interprets Justice Sotomayor’s dissent as constructing an emergent legal theory that incorporates Black Lives Matter and the experiences of people of color subject to being stopped and searched into the cor…
Differences in gay and heterosexual men's emotional restriction through their femininity: An Irish study
Emotional expression plays a vital role in men’s mental health. However, emotionality is still perceived as a feminine response and its restriction is enmeshed in male identity. Gay men’s supposed relationship to femininity infers they are less emotionally restrictive. This paper offers evidence and theory that counters this. A quantitative study (n = 300) was undertaken on self identified heterosexual and gay adult men contacted through targeted…
Alexa, Alert Me When the Revolution Comes: Gender, Affect, and Labor in the Age of Home-Based Artificial Intelligence
The fantasy of automation is one of liberation from alienating tasks. Today, domestic artificial intelligence (Al) enacts this dream of frictionlessly offloading monotony. This article deploys theories of Marxist feminism, affective labor to interrogate domestic Al’s unprecedented promise of absorbing forms of labor we hardly acknowledged that we did. While these devices make the reproductive labor of the household legible as labor, we interrogat…
The Pedagogy of Feminist Theory
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The “Enigma of Biopolitics: Antiblackness, Modernity, and Roberto Esposito’s Biopolitics
What would it mean to take antiblackness seriously in theories of biopolitics? How would our understanding of biopolitics change if antiblack racialization and slavery were understood as the paradigmatic expression of biopolitical violence? This essay thinks through the significance of black studies scholarship for disentangling biopolitics’ paradoxes and dilemmas. I argue that only by situating antiblackness as constitutive of modernity and of m…
Timely Politics: A Political Theory of Messianic, Evangelical, and Queer Temporalities
This article explores the ways that theories of queer, evangelical, and messianic time critique linear, progressive temporalities. While these critiques produce three politically varied projects, they resonate with one another in several ways. Through close readings of queer, evangelical, and messianic texts, this article: explicates their concepts of time; distills lessons about political temporality from their shared elements; and traces their …
Behavioral economics as neoliberalism: Producing and governing homo economicus
Greek and Roman Folklore: A Handbook
Paralysin Cave: Impotence, Perception, and Text in the "Satyrica" of Petronius
This volume explores the literary representation of male sexual dysfunction and discusses the natural and supernatural elements of an ancient folk medical system based on conceptual associations between male sexuality and specific plants, animals and minerals. The work incorporates material from both literary and scientific sources to draw parallels between ancient and modern paradigms of healing. The literary depiction of attempts to remedy impo…
Paralysin Cave: Impotence, Perception and Text in the Satyrica of Petronius
This volume explores the literary representation of male sexual dysfunction and discusses the natural and supernatural elements of an ancient folk medical system based on conceptual associations between male sexuality and specific plants, animals and minerals. The work incorporates material from both literary and scientific sources to draw parallels between ancient and modern paradigms of healing. The literary depiction of attempts to remedy impo…
The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession
Appraisal of school principals in an Australian department of education
The aims of this study were, first, to consider from a theoretical perspective performance appraisal as a concept and as practised in 1991 in the Hunter Region of the NSW Department of School Education. Second, perceptions of the functioning of performance appraisal held by school principals in the Hunter Region were sought by questionnaire. Opinions of the principals on several dimensions of the appraisal process were measured, and appropriate s…
Programs and Policy of the Volunteers of America With Respect to the Treatment of Alcoholics
Behavioral economics as neoliberalism: Producing and governing homo economicus
Alexa, Alert Me When the Revolution Comes: Gender, Affect, and Labor in the Age of Home-Based Artificial Intelligence
The fantasy of automation is one of liberation from alienating tasks. Today, domestic artificial intelligence (Al) enacts this dream of frictionlessly offloading monotony. This article deploys theories of Marxist feminism, affective labor to interrogate domestic Al’s unprecedented promise of absorbing forms of labor we hardly acknowledged that we did. While these devices make the reproductive labor of the household legible as labor, we interrogat…
The “Enigma of Biopolitics: Antiblackness, Modernity, and Roberto Esposito’s Biopolitics
What would it mean to take antiblackness seriously in theories of biopolitics? How would our understanding of biopolitics change if antiblack racialization and slavery were understood as the paradigmatic expression of biopolitical violence? This essay thinks through the significance of black studies scholarship for disentangling biopolitics’ paradoxes and dilemmas. I argue that only by situating antiblackness as constitutive of modernity and of m…
The Pedagogy of Feminist Theory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness
Sonia Sotomayor’s Legal Phenomenology, Racial Policing, and the Limits of Law
Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent in the Fourth Amendment case Utah v. Strieff (2016) received a great deal of media attention, particularly for its citations to prominent Black political thinkers and its evocations of Black Lives Matter. This article interprets Justice Sotomayor’s dissent as constructing an emergent legal theory that incorporates Black Lives Matter and the experiences of people of color subject to being stopped and searched into the cor…
Differences in gay and heterosexual men's emotional restriction through their femininity: An Irish study
Emotional expression plays a vital role in men’s mental health. However, emotionality is still perceived as a feminine response and its restriction is enmeshed in male identity. Gay men’s supposed relationship to femininity infers they are less emotionally restrictive. This paper offers evidence and theory that counters this. A quantitative study (n = 300) was undertaken on self identified heterosexual and gay adult men contacted through targeted…
Programs and Policy of the Volunteers of America With Respect to the Treatment of Alcoholics
Appraisal of school principals in an Australian department of education
The aims of this study were, first, to consider from a theoretical perspective performance appraisal as a concept and as practised in 1991 in the Hunter Region of the NSW Department of School Education. Second, perceptions of the functioning of performance appraisal held by school principals in the Hunter Region were sought by questionnaire. Opinions of the principals on several dimensions of the appraisal process were measured, and appropriate s…
The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession
Paralysin Cave: Impotence, Perception and Text in the Satyrica of Petronius
This volume explores the literary representation of male sexual dysfunction and discusses the natural and supernatural elements of an ancient folk medical system based on conceptual associations between male sexuality and specific plants, animals and minerals. The work incorporates material from both literary and scientific sources to draw parallels between ancient and modern paradigms of healing. The literary depiction of attempts to remedy impo…
Paralysin Cave: Impotence, Perception, and Text in the "Satyrica" of Petronius
This volume explores the literary representation of male sexual dysfunction and discusses the natural and supernatural elements of an ancient folk medical system based on conceptual associations between male sexuality and specific plants, animals and minerals. The work incorporates material from both literary and scientific sources to draw parallels between ancient and modern paradigms of healing. The literary depiction of attempts to remedy impo…
Greek and Roman Folklore: A Handbook
Behavioral economics as neoliberalism: Producing and governing homo economicus
Timely Politics: A Political Theory of Messianic, Evangelical, and Queer Temporalities
This article explores the ways that theories of queer, evangelical, and messianic time critique linear, progressive temporalities. While these critiques produce three politically varied projects, they resonate with one another in several ways. Through close readings of queer, evangelical, and messianic texts, this article: explicates their concepts of time; distills lessons about political temporality from their shared elements; and traces their …
The Pedagogy of Feminist Theory
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The “Enigma of Biopolitics: Antiblackness, Modernity, and Roberto Esposito’s Biopolitics
What would it mean to take antiblackness seriously in theories of biopolitics? How would our understanding of biopolitics change if antiblack racialization and slavery were understood as the paradigmatic expression of biopolitical violence? This essay thinks through the significance of black studies scholarship for disentangling biopolitics’ paradoxes and dilemmas. I argue that only by situating antiblackness as constitutive of modernity and of m…
Alexa, Alert Me When the Revolution Comes: Gender, Affect, and Labor in the Age of Home-Based Artificial Intelligence
The fantasy of automation is one of liberation from alienating tasks. Today, domestic artificial intelligence (Al) enacts this dream of frictionlessly offloading monotony. This article deploys theories of Marxist feminism, affective labor to interrogate domestic Al’s unprecedented promise of absorbing forms of labor we hardly acknowledged that we did. While these devices make the reproductive labor of the household legible as labor, we interrogat…
Differences in gay and heterosexual men's emotional restriction through their femininity: An Irish study
Emotional expression plays a vital role in men’s mental health. However, emotionality is still perceived as a feminine response and its restriction is enmeshed in male identity. Gay men’s supposed relationship to femininity infers they are less emotionally restrictive. This paper offers evidence and theory that counters this. A quantitative study (n = 300) was undertaken on self identified heterosexual and gay adult men contacted through targeted…
Magicians of the Twenty-first Century: Enchantment, Domination, and the Politics of Work in Silicon Valley
What is the political theorist to make of self-characterizations of Silicon Valley as the beacon of civilization-saving innovation? Through an analysis of "tech bro" masculinity and the closely related discourses of tech icons Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, we argue that undergirding Silicon Valley's technological utopia is an exploitative work ethic revamped for the industry's innovative ethos. On the one hand, Silicon Valley hypothetically offers a…
Sonia Sotomayor’s Legal Phenomenology, Racial Policing, and the Limits of Law
Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent in the Fourth Amendment case Utah v. Strieff (2016) received a great deal of media attention, particularly for its citations to prominent Black political thinkers and its evocations of Black Lives Matter. This article interprets Justice Sotomayor’s dissent as constructing an emergent legal theory that incorporates Black Lives Matter and the experiences of people of color subject to being stopped and searched into the cor…
Towards a critical space theory: The instrumental politics of space exploitation
Though a growing number of voices in public discourse are expressing reservations about the new space race and its implications, inherently political questions have remained largely untouched by political theorists: Who is space for and for whose benefit? What are the ideological presumptions and functions of private space exploration? To confront this astro-aporia, we proceed in four parts. First, we develop a typology of two broad positions tha…
Securing white democracy: Guns and the politics of whiteness
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