Mark Allison
Biographic Data
| ID | 4044292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark Allison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark |
| FAMILY NAME | Allison |
| SIGNATURE | ALLISON M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio Wesleyan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2060-4816 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Attenuated Politics of Popular Luddism
Mark Allison reviews Brian Merchant's timely Blood in the Machine (Little, Brown, and Co., 2023), finding in it a compelling historical account of the original Luddite movement with important parallels to our own age of Big Tech. However, Allison asks, are the lessons drawn from Blood in the Machine even possible within the confines of capitalism
Carlyle’s “Phallus-worship”
In this hitherto unpublished manuscript essay (c. 1848), Thomas Carlyle uses ancient Dionysian ritual as a symbol for a complex of contemporaneous social tendencies that he deplores. Foremost among these tendencies is the displacement of piety and duty by the exaltation of sensualism and romantic love, which Carlyle associates with revolutionary France, George Sand and her epigones, and circulating-library fiction more generally. “Phallus-worship…
Politics
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Robert Owen's Experiment at New Lanark
In a striking formulation, Ophélie Siméon describes her study as “an intellectual biography through a sense of place” (9). The subject of the intellectual biography is Robert Owen (1771–1858), the enlightened manufacturer turned universal reformer—and the father of British socialism. The place is the New Lanark Mills, the idyllic Clydeside factory village Owen superintended from 1800 to 1825. Owen's spectacular entrepreneurial and humanitarian su…
Building a Bridge to Nowhere
Is a utopian text best understood as a blueprint for building a better society or as a catalyst for educating the desire of its readers? Since Miguel Abensour's interpretation of News from Nowhere, scholars have favored the latter view. This article contends, however, that the “catalytic” approach to utopian texts created an antinomy within utopian studies. When William Morris composed Nowhere, he was confronting a practical manifestation of the …
Karl Marx
The Making of British Socialism and Karl Marx
Germany and Austria, 1814-2000
Building a Bridge to Nowhere
Is a utopian text best understood as a blueprint for building a better society or as a catalyst for educating the desire of its readers? Since Miguel Abensour's interpretation of News from Nowhere, scholars have favored the latter view. This article contends, however, that the “catalytic” approach to utopian texts created an antinomy within utopian studies. When William Morris composed Nowhere, he was confronting a practical manifestation of the …
Karl Marx
Germany and Austria, 1814-2000
The Making of British Socialism and Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Politics
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Robert Owen's Experiment at New Lanark
In a striking formulation, Ophélie Siméon describes her study as “an intellectual biography through a sense of place” (9). The subject of the intellectual biography is Robert Owen (1771–1858), the enlightened manufacturer turned universal reformer—and the father of British socialism. The place is the New Lanark Mills, the idyllic Clydeside factory village Owen superintended from 1800 to 1825. Owen's spectacular entrepreneurial and humanitarian su…
Building a Bridge to Nowhere
Is a utopian text best understood as a blueprint for building a better society or as a catalyst for educating the desire of its readers? Since Miguel Abensour's interpretation of News from Nowhere, scholars have favored the latter view. This article contends, however, that the “catalytic” approach to utopian texts created an antinomy within utopian studies. When William Morris composed Nowhere, he was confronting a practical manifestation of the …
Carlyle’s “Phallus-worship”
In this hitherto unpublished manuscript essay (c. 1848), Thomas Carlyle uses ancient Dionysian ritual as a symbol for a complex of contemporaneous social tendencies that he deplores. Foremost among these tendencies is the displacement of piety and duty by the exaltation of sensualism and romantic love, which Carlyle associates with revolutionary France, George Sand and her epigones, and circulating-library fiction more generally. “Phallus-worship…
The Attenuated Politics of Popular Luddism
Mark Allison reviews Brian Merchant's timely Blood in the Machine (Little, Brown, and Co., 2023), finding in it a compelling historical account of the original Luddite movement with important parallels to our own age of Big Tech. However, Allison asks, are the lessons drawn from Blood in the Machine even possible within the confines of capitalism
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