Brian Mccormack
Biographic Data
| ID | 4013510 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brian Mccormack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brian |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccormack |
| SIGNATURE | MCCORMACK B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4506-5241 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Life as Performance
In this article I draw on Jakob von Uexküll and a number of thinkers who engage, extend or otherwise resonate with his work to argue for a theory of meaning as dynamic process. Uexküll enables a view of meaning as something an embodied subject does rather than something possessed or accessed. The ongoing life of an organism – relations to self, to environment, to past experience and to anticipated future events – forms an experiential context wit…
Narrative, Meaning, and Multispecies Ethical Ontologies
In this essay, I draw out and develop some key points of connection and overlap between Val Plumwood's dialogical ethical ontology and Jakob von Uexküll's Umwelt theory. Plumwood makes a convincing case for extending a form of narrative subjectivity beyond the human. Uexküll's theoretical biology has been employed in efforts to build on Plumwood's work (by van Dooren and Rose for example), yet such an ethical strategy raises difficult questions o…
The Poverty of Globalization
Globalization and Its Enemies. By Daniel Cohen. Translated by Jessica B. Baker Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 192 pp., $27.95 (ISBN: 0-262-03350-X). In Globalization and Its Enemies , Daniel Cohen challenges his readers to consider globalization not only for its real and perceived harmful effects, but also—and perhaps more importantly—for its promise of prosperity, which the enemies of globalization either oppose on cultural grounds or do not re…
Uncovering the Source of International Order
Ordering International Politics by Janice Bially Mattern is a superbly crafted piece of scholarship. Its greatest asset is Bially Mattern's ability to speak across a variety of theoretical approaches in ways that are methodologically and philosophically important. In Ordering International Politics, she manages to merge realism and constructivism in a postconstructivist “identity turn” that places identity and language at the center of both under…
Postcolonialism in an Age of Globalization
The point of theory, it seems, is to attempt to stop time, perhaps as if it was a dependent variable, and assemble the disparate elements of understanding into statements, or even a statement--or even a single word--that theorists would hope would capture the movement of the moment. Today, at this moment of global movement, we are assembled to reflect on our currency with and for one another. Many of us have attempted to stake a claim to having a…
A historical case for the globalisation of international law
Fifty Years of Indonesian Development
In Indonesia much uncertainty remains in the wake of the dramatic changes that unfolded in the latter half of the l990's. By the end of the 20th century, the Indonesian economy was in ruins. The concept of democracy remained contested. The transportation and communication system that once at least minimally linked the diverse and at times disparate areas and peoples of the Indonesian archipelago into an Andersonian imagined national community col…
Three Clowns of Ethnography
Analysis of Potential Energy Surfaces of Multimachine Power Systems Using Computer Graphics
This paper reports on undergraduate student involvement in a research project at Iowa State University. The undergraduate project used computer graphics as a tool to investigate the shape of the potential energy surfaces for a multimachine power system. The over-all research project is concerned with the application of the Transient Energy Function (TEF) method in direct transient stability analysis of power systems. The computer graphics used in…
Narrative, Meaning, and Multispecies Ethical Ontologies
In this essay, I draw out and develop some key points of connection and overlap between Val Plumwood's dialogical ethical ontology and Jakob von Uexküll's Umwelt theory. Plumwood makes a convincing case for extending a form of narrative subjectivity beyond the human. Uexküll's theoretical biology has been employed in efforts to build on Plumwood's work (by van Dooren and Rose for example), yet such an ethical strategy raises difficult questions o…
Postcolonialism in an Age of Globalization
The point of theory, it seems, is to attempt to stop time, perhaps as if it was a dependent variable, and assemble the disparate elements of understanding into statements, or even a statement--or even a single word--that theorists would hope would capture the movement of the moment. Today, at this moment of global movement, we are assembled to reflect on our currency with and for one another. Many of us have attempted to stake a claim to having a…
Fifty Years of Indonesian Development
In Indonesia much uncertainty remains in the wake of the dramatic changes that unfolded in the latter half of the l990's. By the end of the 20th century, the Indonesian economy was in ruins. The concept of democracy remained contested. The transportation and communication system that once at least minimally linked the diverse and at times disparate areas and peoples of the Indonesian archipelago into an Andersonian imagined national community col…
Analysis of Potential Energy Surfaces of Multimachine Power Systems Using Computer Graphics
This paper reports on undergraduate student involvement in a research project at Iowa State University. The undergraduate project used computer graphics as a tool to investigate the shape of the potential energy surfaces for a multimachine power system. The over-all research project is concerned with the application of the Transient Energy Function (TEF) method in direct transient stability analysis of power systems. The computer graphics used in…
A historical case for the globalisation of international law
Fifty Years of Indonesian Development
In Indonesia much uncertainty remains in the wake of the dramatic changes that unfolded in the latter half of the l990's. By the end of the 20th century, the Indonesian economy was in ruins. The concept of democracy remained contested. The transportation and communication system that once at least minimally linked the diverse and at times disparate areas and peoples of the Indonesian archipelago into an Andersonian imagined national community col…
Three Clowns of Ethnography
Postcolonialism in an Age of Globalization
The point of theory, it seems, is to attempt to stop time, perhaps as if it was a dependent variable, and assemble the disparate elements of understanding into statements, or even a statement--or even a single word--that theorists would hope would capture the movement of the moment. Today, at this moment of global movement, we are assembled to reflect on our currency with and for one another. Many of us have attempted to stake a claim to having a…
Uncovering the Source of International Order
Ordering International Politics by Janice Bially Mattern is a superbly crafted piece of scholarship. Its greatest asset is Bially Mattern's ability to speak across a variety of theoretical approaches in ways that are methodologically and philosophically important. In Ordering International Politics, she manages to merge realism and constructivism in a postconstructivist “identity turn” that places identity and language at the center of both under…
The Poverty of Globalization
Globalization and Its Enemies. By Daniel Cohen. Translated by Jessica B. Baker Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 192 pp., $27.95 (ISBN: 0-262-03350-X). In Globalization and Its Enemies , Daniel Cohen challenges his readers to consider globalization not only for its real and perceived harmful effects, but also—and perhaps more importantly—for its promise of prosperity, which the enemies of globalization either oppose on cultural grounds or do not re…
Narrative, Meaning, and Multispecies Ethical Ontologies
In this essay, I draw out and develop some key points of connection and overlap between Val Plumwood's dialogical ethical ontology and Jakob von Uexküll's Umwelt theory. Plumwood makes a convincing case for extending a form of narrative subjectivity beyond the human. Uexküll's theoretical biology has been employed in efforts to build on Plumwood's work (by van Dooren and Rose for example), yet such an ethical strategy raises difficult questions o…
Life as Performance
In this article I draw on Jakob von Uexküll and a number of thinkers who engage, extend or otherwise resonate with his work to argue for a theory of meaning as dynamic process. Uexküll enables a view of meaning as something an embodied subject does rather than something possessed or accessed. The ongoing life of an organism – relations to self, to environment, to past experience and to anticipated future events – forms an experiential context wit…
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Globalization (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Development economics (2 works)