Tim Corballis
Biographic Data
| ID | 384538 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Corballis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Corballis |
| SIGNATURE | CORBALLIS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Victoria University of Wellington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2051-7694 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spaceship and Earth
In the second half of the twentieth century scientists working at the University of Hawai‘i and NASA discovered that it is possible to maintain simple, miniature ecosystems within sealed glass enclosures, sometimes for decades. These small materially closed ecosystems, sometimes known (and sold) as “ecospheres,” had implications for the understanding of ecosystem balance, fully isolating ecosystems for the first time as objects of laboratory expe…
Utility, Futility, Counter-utility
Review of Neil Vallelly, Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness. Futility as both dominant structure of feeling and fulcrum for political action in the twilight of neoliberalism
Utopia of abstraction: Digital organizations and the promise of sovereignty
Digital organizations form part of the new wave of blockchain technologies, following Bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies. "Utopia of Abstraction" offers an analysis of the utopian promise of digital organizations through a reading of one such project, Colony. We provide a critique of the ideology of Colony's white paper, supplemented by readings of pages from its website, as a member of a genre of texts that promote their products through seemi…
Utopia of abstraction: Digital organizations and the promise of sovereignty
Digital organizations form part of the new wave of blockchain technologies, following Bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies. "Utopia of Abstraction" offers an analysis of the utopian promise of digital organizations through a reading of one such project, Colony. We provide a critique of the ideology of Colony's white paper, supplemented by readings of pages from its website, as a member of a genre of texts that promote their products through seemi…
Utility, Futility, Counter-utility
Review of Neil Vallelly, Futilitarianism: Neoliberalism and the Production of Uselessness. Futility as both dominant structure of feeling and fulcrum for political action in the twilight of neoliberalism
Utopia of abstraction: Digital organizations and the promise of sovereignty
Digital organizations form part of the new wave of blockchain technologies, following Bitcoin and related cryptocurrencies. "Utopia of Abstraction" offers an analysis of the utopian promise of digital organizations through a reading of one such project, Colony. We provide a critique of the ideology of Colony's white paper, supplemented by readings of pages from its website, as a member of a genre of texts that promote their products through seemi…
Spaceship and Earth
In the second half of the twentieth century scientists working at the University of Hawai‘i and NASA discovered that it is possible to maintain simple, miniature ecosystems within sealed glass enclosures, sometimes for decades. These small materially closed ecosystems, sometimes known (and sold) as “ecospheres,” had implications for the understanding of ecosystem balance, fully isolating ecosystems for the first time as objects of laboratory expe…
Economics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Utopia (2 works) · Anthropocene (1 works) · Blockchain Technology Applications and Security (1 works) · Closure (psychology) (1 works)