Jim Hicks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3831411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jim Hicks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jim |
| FAMILY NAME | Hicks |
| SIGNATURE | HICKS J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Instigation I Aspire To’: Erri De Luca and Contrarian Education
This essay begins with a summary of the trial of Erri De Luca by the Italian state for the alleged crime of instigation, focusing in particular on the discussion during that trial of the definition of the word ‘sabotage’. It then elaborates on the theme of education in De Luca’s self-defense against the Italian state’s charges and connects the Italian writer’s ideas on this subject to the ongoing neoliberal attack in the US against liberal arts e…
The Sole True Power’: A Few Questions for Erri De Luca
De Luca's A Dissenting Word (2015) – his essay-length self-defense against charges brought by the Italian state in response to his statements made in support of the No TAV movement in Italy's Val di Susa – was in part the inspiration for the present collection of essays. The interview that follows focuses on the definition and application of De Luca's concept of ‘contrarian speech’ in light of subsequent events, particularly the rise of a militan…
Narrowing the Range of Permissible Lies: Recent Battles in the International Image Tribunal
Narrowing the Range of Permissible Lies: Recent Battles in the International Image Tribunal Jim Hicks Abstract The essay investigates the representational constraints and presuppositions that generate images of war and influence their reception, or lack of reception, by the U.S. public. Such journalism still largely follows representational practices put into place during the eighteenth century, a structure of representation that has outlived its…
"What's It Like There?": Desultory Notes on the Representation of Sarajevo
“What’s It Like There?”: Desultory Notes on the Representation of Sarajevo Jim Hicks Abstract In the prologue to his influential, now perhaps infamous, Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan asks, and answers, the following question: "What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities?" A similar inquiry seems implicit in my own titular question and probably lurks behind the readerly glance of almost anyone who chooses to write, …
Forward Into The Past
Forward Into The Past Jim Hicks Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993. Illich, Ivan. In the Vineyard of the Text. A Commentary to Hugh’s Didascalicon. Chicago: U. of Chicago, 1993. In his 1985 recension of the debate on postmodernism, Gianni Vattimo suggests that the arguments of each then major figure (Lyotard, Habermas, Rorty) are determined (and undermined) by an illegimate appeal to “th…
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Forward Into The Past
Forward Into The Past Jim Hicks Latour, Bruno. We Have Never Been Modern. Trans. Catherine Porter. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1993. Illich, Ivan. In the Vineyard of the Text. A Commentary to Hugh’s Didascalicon. Chicago: U. of Chicago, 1993. In his 1985 recension of the debate on postmodernism, Gianni Vattimo suggests that the arguments of each then major figure (Lyotard, Habermas, Rorty) are determined (and undermined) by an illegimate appeal to “th…
"What's It Like There?": Desultory Notes on the Representation of Sarajevo
“What’s It Like There?”: Desultory Notes on the Representation of Sarajevo Jim Hicks Abstract In the prologue to his influential, now perhaps infamous, Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan asks, and answers, the following question: "What does the earth look like in the places where people commit atrocities?" A similar inquiry seems implicit in my own titular question and probably lurks behind the readerly glance of almost anyone who chooses to write, …
Narrowing the Range of Permissible Lies: Recent Battles in the International Image Tribunal
Narrowing the Range of Permissible Lies: Recent Battles in the International Image Tribunal Jim Hicks Abstract The essay investigates the representational constraints and presuppositions that generate images of war and influence their reception, or lack of reception, by the U.S. public. Such journalism still largely follows representational practices put into place during the eighteenth century, a structure of representation that has outlived its…
The Instigation I Aspire To’: Erri De Luca and Contrarian Education
This essay begins with a summary of the trial of Erri De Luca by the Italian state for the alleged crime of instigation, focusing in particular on the discussion during that trial of the definition of the word ‘sabotage’. It then elaborates on the theme of education in De Luca’s self-defense against the Italian state’s charges and connects the Italian writer’s ideas on this subject to the ongoing neoliberal attack in the US against liberal arts e…
The Sole True Power’: A Few Questions for Erri De Luca
De Luca's A Dissenting Word (2015) – his essay-length self-defense against charges brought by the Italian state in response to his statements made in support of the No TAV movement in Italy's Val di Susa – was in part the inspiration for the present collection of essays. The interview that follows focuses on the definition and application of De Luca's concept of ‘contrarian speech’ in light of subsequent events, particularly the rise of a militan…
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