Paul Elliott Johnson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3876980 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Elliott Johnson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul Elliott |
| FAMILY NAME | Johnson |
| SIGNATURE | JOHNSON P E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2989-5939 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The painter of right
In the last decade, conservative artist Jon McNaughton has gained notoriety. This essay reads McNaughton to make better sense of conservatism's relationship with liberal democratic visual culture. McNaughton's paintings register as kitschy dissent from the democratic elements of US visual culture. Analyzing his work not only makes sense of the work that form does in making conservative audiences keen for his art, but also outlines how a conservat…
Ideology’s Absent Shadow
We have been asked to engage in a conversation about the current role of ideology—as critique, as rhetoric, as a framework within which academics operate. Our approach will not seek to write the history of rhetorical critique from an ideological perspective, nor work from extant literature as one might in a traditional research essay. Still, we reference ideas emanating from that literature; instead of the normal “source citation in text,” we wil…
Fear of a Black City
This essay reads the 2018 remake of the vigilante film Death Wish (directed by Eli Roth). Situating the film within the ideological context of postracialism and the proximate context of the Movement for Black Lives, #MeToo, anti-gun activism, and the Trump presidency, I suggest that the film figures Chicago as a racial threat to white, feminized, suburban life. Mostly dispensing with conventional racial markers, Roth’s film paints Chicago as a sp…
The Art of Masculine Victimhood
This article analyzes the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump, arguing that the rhetorical form of his appeals constitutes demagoguery defined by a reliance on victimized, White, toxic masculinity. Extending work on demagoguery, which has emphasized its characteristic lionization of certainty and demands for mastery, I suggest that Trump’s capacity to conclude his audience as at risk and vulnerable figures a condition inherent to democrati…
Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism
George Hawley has written a book that is a timely exploration of the past and present of American conservatism, mapping various schools of thought within the American right. Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism focuses particularly on conservative voices in the wilderness, those that do not appear to be in the driver’s seat of the political conversation. Since the 2016 presidential election, of course, it seems Hawley has unintentionally w…
Creating Conservatism
Walter White(ness) lashes out
This essay situates the television show Breaking Bad (BB) and its critical reception in the context of American politics following the economic and political events of 2008. Reading the show as an allegory, I demonstrate that it offered a pathway for viewers to maintain investments and commitments to a toxic, white masculinity threatened by 2008’s economic and political dislocations. Taking the show up for its capacity to allegorize the human exp…
Investigations of Some Magnetic and Mineralogical Properties of the Laschamp and Olby Flows, France
Rock-magnetic, paleomagnetic and petrologic properties of samples from the Laschamp and Olby basalt formations in France were studied to aid in determining the validity of the Laschamp geomagnetic field reversal reported by Bonhommet and Babkine. The Laschamp flow contains ilmenomagnetite, with partial alteration of the magnetite to hematite. Ilmenomagnetite in the Olby flow has largely recrystallized at high temperatures to a composite mozaic in…
The Art of Masculine Victimhood
This article analyzes the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump, arguing that the rhetorical form of his appeals constitutes demagoguery defined by a reliance on victimized, White, toxic masculinity. Extending work on demagoguery, which has emphasized its characteristic lionization of certainty and demands for mastery, I suggest that Trump’s capacity to conclude his audience as at risk and vulnerable figures a condition inherent to democrati…
Walter White(ness) lashes out
This essay situates the television show Breaking Bad (BB) and its critical reception in the context of American politics following the economic and political events of 2008. Reading the show as an allegory, I demonstrate that it offered a pathway for viewers to maintain investments and commitments to a toxic, white masculinity threatened by 2008’s economic and political dislocations. Taking the show up for its capacity to allegorize the human exp…
Ideology’s Absent Shadow
We have been asked to engage in a conversation about the current role of ideology—as critique, as rhetoric, as a framework within which academics operate. Our approach will not seek to write the history of rhetorical critique from an ideological perspective, nor work from extant literature as one might in a traditional research essay. Still, we reference ideas emanating from that literature; instead of the normal “source citation in text,” we wil…
Fear of a Black City
This essay reads the 2018 remake of the vigilante film Death Wish (directed by Eli Roth). Situating the film within the ideological context of postracialism and the proximate context of the Movement for Black Lives, #MeToo, anti-gun activism, and the Trump presidency, I suggest that the film figures Chicago as a racial threat to white, feminized, suburban life. Mostly dispensing with conventional racial markers, Roth’s film paints Chicago as a sp…
Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism
George Hawley has written a book that is a timely exploration of the past and present of American conservatism, mapping various schools of thought within the American right. Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism focuses particularly on conservative voices in the wilderness, those that do not appear to be in the driver’s seat of the political conversation. Since the 2016 presidential election, of course, it seems Hawley has unintentionally w…
Investigations of Some Magnetic and Mineralogical Properties of the Laschamp and Olby Flows, France
Rock-magnetic, paleomagnetic and petrologic properties of samples from the Laschamp and Olby basalt formations in France were studied to aid in determining the validity of the Laschamp geomagnetic field reversal reported by Bonhommet and Babkine. The Laschamp flow contains ilmenomagnetite, with partial alteration of the magnetite to hematite. Ilmenomagnetite in the Olby flow has largely recrystallized at high temperatures to a composite mozaic in…
Creating Conservatism
Walter White(ness) lashes out
This essay situates the television show Breaking Bad (BB) and its critical reception in the context of American politics following the economic and political events of 2008. Reading the show as an allegory, I demonstrate that it offered a pathway for viewers to maintain investments and commitments to a toxic, white masculinity threatened by 2008’s economic and political dislocations. Taking the show up for its capacity to allegorize the human exp…
The Art of Masculine Victimhood
This article analyzes the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump, arguing that the rhetorical form of his appeals constitutes demagoguery defined by a reliance on victimized, White, toxic masculinity. Extending work on demagoguery, which has emphasized its characteristic lionization of certainty and demands for mastery, I suggest that Trump’s capacity to conclude his audience as at risk and vulnerable figures a condition inherent to democrati…
Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism
George Hawley has written a book that is a timely exploration of the past and present of American conservatism, mapping various schools of thought within the American right. Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism focuses particularly on conservative voices in the wilderness, those that do not appear to be in the driver’s seat of the political conversation. Since the 2016 presidential election, of course, it seems Hawley has unintentionally w…
Ideology’s Absent Shadow
We have been asked to engage in a conversation about the current role of ideology—as critique, as rhetoric, as a framework within which academics operate. Our approach will not seek to write the history of rhetorical critique from an ideological perspective, nor work from extant literature as one might in a traditional research essay. Still, we reference ideas emanating from that literature; instead of the normal “source citation in text,” we wil…
Fear of a Black City
This essay reads the 2018 remake of the vigilante film Death Wish (directed by Eli Roth). Situating the film within the ideological context of postracialism and the proximate context of the Movement for Black Lives, #MeToo, anti-gun activism, and the Trump presidency, I suggest that the film figures Chicago as a racial threat to white, feminized, suburban life. Mostly dispensing with conventional racial markers, Roth’s film paints Chicago as a sp…
The painter of right
In the last decade, conservative artist Jon McNaughton has gained notoriety. This essay reads McNaughton to make better sense of conservatism's relationship with liberal democratic visual culture. McNaughton's paintings register as kitschy dissent from the democratic elements of US visual culture. Analyzing his work not only makes sense of the work that form does in making conservative audiences keen for his art, but also outlines how a conservat…
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