Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 41350 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peterson |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cooper Union |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5953-2149 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 141 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Black Art: The Unification of Ethics and Aesthetics
Black Studies as Field Theory: Culture as Infrastructure
What constitutes a 'field' in Black studies? In 1905, W.E.B. DuBois suggested that Black studies look to physics' treatment of discrete/continuous duality to conceptualize double consciousness. Physicists describe fields as sets of adjectives wherein a relation between descriptions is indexed and how that framework moves across a field, the extent to which that relation translates across positions, becomes the 'object' of study. 'Study' analyzes …
The Subject of Black Subjectivity
In multiple essays, CLR James lays out what a theory of subjectivity must account for to resolve issues stemming from reducing subjectivity to a singular identity. Most proposals for a theory of subjectivity do so by making the subject the object of another’s propositions or claims about the world. I argue that this is an identity claim. The converse of this process is also true, that the subject who claims another as the object of their proposit…
Intersubjectivity and identity
This paper makes the case that an operation whose function expresses subjectivity can be formalised outside of identity stipulations. This operation is best characterised by poetic computation: a function that maps modes of expression to their respective contexts of application, i.e. from a domain of selection to one of composition. This move, I feel, eludes the failings endemic to the presuppositions required by and that undergird traditional lo…
Collective Improvisations: Amiri Baraka and the Articulation of Blackness Across Socio-Cultural Movements
In 1966, Leroi Jones, soon to be Amiri Baraka, outline d a program to reorient the philosophical underpinnings of Black study. Modes of inhabiting and thereby constructing the domains in which one participates were revealed as a function of one’s mode of expression. Jones/Baraka proposed that blackness was expressed by the operation of a collective improvisation. How can improvisation, traditionally conceived as an individual activity, be a colle…
Value and Culture
Alain Locke’s theory of value and functional equivalence is placed within more recent formalizations of functional analysis, recursion, and composition toward the study of sociocultural and political formation. With these resources in hand, Locke’s theory is proved to be one undergirding and integral to current studies of diaspora and sociocultural analysis
Articulation: Individuals to Collectives
his work illustrates the inner workings of a model set forth by Stuart Hall that analyzes how social formations emerge, interact, evolve, and dissolve over time. It treats social-cultural and political movements as complex adaptive systems and utilizes information theory to treat these conceptual entities as physical systems. In so doing, Articulation theory shows how relations of subordination and dominance emerge and provides a solution to how …
Black Infinite
This essay presents a theory of subjectivity. Blackness, a concept articulated by the form of life of its subjects, is expressed by a recursive operation whose output produces a discrete infinity. Generating different identities dependent upon context, blackness’ expressions are not random but appropriate, and yet not necessarily caused by nor solely in reaction to the conditions in which it appears. In this way, we prove a continuity of blacknes…
Autophagy
What follows is a proof as to why, at its origin, the articulation of any doctrine of racial supremacy harbors an internal contradiction. The notion of racial supremacy suffers from its own predicament for, by its inconsistency, Whites cannot be “White.” This proof has the added benefit of illustrating that it is precisely because of the unattainability of “White”-ness that there is so much animosity. This essay’s framework explains why this anim…
Combining Odontochronology, Tooth Wear Assessment, and Linear Enamel Hypoplasia (LEH) Recording to Assess Pig Domestication in Neolithic Henan, China
Mandibles ofSus scrofa(wild boar/pig) from ritual pits H160 and H208 of Longshangang, a Late Yangshao Neolithic site in Xichuan County, Henan, were analyzed for evidence of domestication. Three methods of dental analysis were applied: odontochronology, tooth wear assessment, and linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) recording, which provide age at death, season of kill, and season of birth data. We investigate whether: (i) the LEH height frequencies on …
Creativity in Application Discourses
Peterson's Master Critical Reading for the SAT
A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies
Moving beyond a narrow definition of economics, this pioneering book advances our knowledge of global political economy and how we might critically respond to it.V. Spike Peterson clearly shows how two key features of the global economy increasingly determine everyday lives worldwide. The first is explosive growth in financial markets that shape business decision-making and public policy-making, and the second is dramatic growth in informal and f…
Plural processes, patterned connections
Plural globalizations refer to large-scale processes occurring today at an accelerated pace (due to information and communication technologies) and with extremely uneven effects (due to continuing and new inequalities). Conventional analytical and disciplinary frameworks can neither make adequate sense of, nor effectively politicize, these developments. The quantitatively large scales and qualitatively novel changes require new orientations. This…
A critical rewriting of global political economy: Integrating reproductive, productive, and virtual economies
1. Context and Objectives 2. Theory Matters 3. The Productive Economy 4. The Reproductive Economy 5. The Virtual Economy 6. The Power of Value Bibliography
Rewriting (Global) Political Economy as Reproductive, Productive, and Virtual (Foucauldian) Economies
Feminists have an enormous stake in, and important contributions to make to, critical analyses of globalization. At present, analyses are impeded by disciplinary and epistemological divides that preclude integrative scholarship,by complex identities that foil essentialist starting points,and by processes of deterritorialization and dematerialization that confound political and economic theories. The alternative analytical framing introduced here …
Altered States: Explaining Domestic Institutional Change
Existing explanations of domestic structural change focus on the role crises play in precipitating radical or episodic change. They largely ignore the sources and consequences of incremental change, even though this type of change also can have significant effects for policy processes and outcomes. We outline a framework for studying institutional transformation that accounts for both forms of change. The argument is a three part one. First, inte…
Feminisms and International Relations
Whose crisis? Early and post-modern masculinism
In chapter 1 of this volume, Stephen Gill characterises current transformations as ‘a reordering and redefinition of the basic components of social reality ... involving] changes in consciousness and processes of objectification’. Having noted the sense of uncertainty attending these mutations, he suggests that ‘the contemporary configuration of world order is in structural crisis’. I endorse Gill's sense of the profundity (depth, extent, scope, …
The Radical Future of Realism: Feminist Subversions of IR Theory
Zillah Eisenstein, to whom we owe some credit for the title of this piece, argues in The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism that the patriarchal roots of liberalism and the state inhibit the claims and goals of liberal feminism, which depends upon these constructs even as it seeks to critique them. She goes on to make the case, however, that precisely because of this contradiction, liberal feminism has a 'potentially' subversive quality,1 or radi…
Altered States: Explaining Domestic Institutional Change
Existing explanations of domestic structural change focus on the role crises play in precipitating radical or episodic change. They largely ignore the sources and consequences of incremental change, even though this type of change also can have significant effects for policy processes and outcomes. We outline a framework for studying institutional transformation that accounts for both forms of change. The argument is a three part one. First, inte…
A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies
Moving beyond a narrow definition of economics, this pioneering book advances our knowledge of global political economy and how we might critically respond to it.V. Spike Peterson clearly shows how two key features of the global economy increasingly determine everyday lives worldwide. The first is explosive growth in financial markets that shape business decision-making and public policy-making, and the second is dramatic growth in informal and f…
The Radical Future of Realism: Feminist Subversions of IR Theory
Zillah Eisenstein, to whom we owe some credit for the title of this piece, argues in The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism that the patriarchal roots of liberalism and the state inhibit the claims and goals of liberal feminism, which depends upon these constructs even as it seeks to critique them. She goes on to make the case, however, that precisely because of this contradiction, liberal feminism has a 'potentially' subversive quality,1 or radi…
Rewriting (Global) Political Economy as Reproductive, Productive, and Virtual (Foucauldian) Economies
Feminists have an enormous stake in, and important contributions to make to, critical analyses of globalization. At present, analyses are impeded by disciplinary and epistemological divides that preclude integrative scholarship,by complex identities that foil essentialist starting points,and by processes of deterritorialization and dematerialization that confound political and economic theories. The alternative analytical framing introduced here …
Creativity in Application Discourses
Plural processes, patterned connections
Plural globalizations refer to large-scale processes occurring today at an accelerated pace (due to information and communication technologies) and with extremely uneven effects (due to continuing and new inequalities). Conventional analytical and disciplinary frameworks can neither make adequate sense of, nor effectively politicize, these developments. The quantitatively large scales and qualitatively novel changes require new orientations. This…
Feminisms and International Relations
Black Studies as Field Theory: Culture as Infrastructure
What constitutes a 'field' in Black studies? In 1905, W.E.B. DuBois suggested that Black studies look to physics' treatment of discrete/continuous duality to conceptualize double consciousness. Physicists describe fields as sets of adjectives wherein a relation between descriptions is indexed and how that framework moves across a field, the extent to which that relation translates across positions, becomes the 'object' of study. 'Study' analyzes …
Intersubjectivity and identity
This paper makes the case that an operation whose function expresses subjectivity can be formalised outside of identity stipulations. This operation is best characterised by poetic computation: a function that maps modes of expression to their respective contexts of application, i.e. from a domain of selection to one of composition. This move, I feel, eludes the failings endemic to the presuppositions required by and that undergird traditional lo…
Combining Odontochronology, Tooth Wear Assessment, and Linear Enamel Hypoplasia (LEH) Recording to Assess Pig Domestication in Neolithic Henan, China
Mandibles ofSus scrofa(wild boar/pig) from ritual pits H160 and H208 of Longshangang, a Late Yangshao Neolithic site in Xichuan County, Henan, were analyzed for evidence of domestication. Three methods of dental analysis were applied: odontochronology, tooth wear assessment, and linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) recording, which provide age at death, season of kill, and season of birth data. We investigate whether: (i) the LEH height frequencies on …
The Radical Future of Realism: Feminist Subversions of IR Theory
Zillah Eisenstein, to whom we owe some credit for the title of this piece, argues in The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism that the patriarchal roots of liberalism and the state inhibit the claims and goals of liberal feminism, which depends upon these constructs even as it seeks to critique them. She goes on to make the case, however, that precisely because of this contradiction, liberal feminism has a 'potentially' subversive quality,1 or radi…
Whose crisis? Early and post-modern masculinism
In chapter 1 of this volume, Stephen Gill characterises current transformations as ‘a reordering and redefinition of the basic components of social reality ... involving] changes in consciousness and processes of objectification’. Having noted the sense of uncertainty attending these mutations, he suggests that ‘the contemporary configuration of world order is in structural crisis’. I endorse Gill's sense of the profundity (depth, extent, scope, …
Feminisms and International Relations
Altered States: Explaining Domestic Institutional Change
Existing explanations of domestic structural change focus on the role crises play in precipitating radical or episodic change. They largely ignore the sources and consequences of incremental change, even though this type of change also can have significant effects for policy processes and outcomes. We outline a framework for studying institutional transformation that accounts for both forms of change. The argument is a three part one. First, inte…
Rewriting (Global) Political Economy as Reproductive, Productive, and Virtual (Foucauldian) Economies
Feminists have an enormous stake in, and important contributions to make to, critical analyses of globalization. At present, analyses are impeded by disciplinary and epistemological divides that preclude integrative scholarship,by complex identities that foil essentialist starting points,and by processes of deterritorialization and dematerialization that confound political and economic theories. The alternative analytical framing introduced here …
A critical rewriting of global political economy: Integrating reproductive, productive, and virtual economies
1. Context and Objectives 2. Theory Matters 3. The Productive Economy 4. The Reproductive Economy 5. The Virtual Economy 6. The Power of Value Bibliography
A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: Integrating Reproductive, Productive and Virtual Economies
Moving beyond a narrow definition of economics, this pioneering book advances our knowledge of global political economy and how we might critically respond to it.V. Spike Peterson clearly shows how two key features of the global economy increasingly determine everyday lives worldwide. The first is explosive growth in financial markets that shape business decision-making and public policy-making, and the second is dramatic growth in informal and f…
Plural processes, patterned connections
Plural globalizations refer to large-scale processes occurring today at an accelerated pace (due to information and communication technologies) and with extremely uneven effects (due to continuing and new inequalities). Conventional analytical and disciplinary frameworks can neither make adequate sense of, nor effectively politicize, these developments. The quantitatively large scales and qualitatively novel changes require new orientations. This…
Peterson's Master Critical Reading for the SAT
Creativity in Application Discourses
Combining Odontochronology, Tooth Wear Assessment, and Linear Enamel Hypoplasia (LEH) Recording to Assess Pig Domestication in Neolithic Henan, China
Mandibles ofSus scrofa(wild boar/pig) from ritual pits H160 and H208 of Longshangang, a Late Yangshao Neolithic site in Xichuan County, Henan, were analyzed for evidence of domestication. Three methods of dental analysis were applied: odontochronology, tooth wear assessment, and linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) recording, which provide age at death, season of kill, and season of birth data. We investigate whether: (i) the LEH height frequencies on …
Autophagy
What follows is a proof as to why, at its origin, the articulation of any doctrine of racial supremacy harbors an internal contradiction. The notion of racial supremacy suffers from its own predicament for, by its inconsistency, Whites cannot be “White.” This proof has the added benefit of illustrating that it is precisely because of the unattainability of “White”-ness that there is so much animosity. This essay’s framework explains why this anim…
Black Infinite
This essay presents a theory of subjectivity. Blackness, a concept articulated by the form of life of its subjects, is expressed by a recursive operation whose output produces a discrete infinity. Generating different identities dependent upon context, blackness’ expressions are not random but appropriate, and yet not necessarily caused by nor solely in reaction to the conditions in which it appears. In this way, we prove a continuity of blacknes…
Value and Culture
Alain Locke’s theory of value and functional equivalence is placed within more recent formalizations of functional analysis, recursion, and composition toward the study of sociocultural and political formation. With these resources in hand, Locke’s theory is proved to be one undergirding and integral to current studies of diaspora and sociocultural analysis
Articulation: Individuals to Collectives
his work illustrates the inner workings of a model set forth by Stuart Hall that analyzes how social formations emerge, interact, evolve, and dissolve over time. It treats social-cultural and political movements as complex adaptive systems and utilizes information theory to treat these conceptual entities as physical systems. In so doing, Articulation theory shows how relations of subordination and dominance emerge and provides a solution to how …
Collective Improvisations: Amiri Baraka and the Articulation of Blackness Across Socio-Cultural Movements
In 1966, Leroi Jones, soon to be Amiri Baraka, outline d a program to reorient the philosophical underpinnings of Black study. Modes of inhabiting and thereby constructing the domains in which one participates were revealed as a function of one’s mode of expression. Jones/Baraka proposed that blackness was expressed by the operation of a collective improvisation. How can improvisation, traditionally conceived as an individual activity, be a colle…
The Subject of Black Subjectivity
In multiple essays, CLR James lays out what a theory of subjectivity must account for to resolve issues stemming from reducing subjectivity to a singular identity. Most proposals for a theory of subjectivity do so by making the subject the object of another’s propositions or claims about the world. I argue that this is an identity claim. The converse of this process is also true, that the subject who claims another as the object of their proposit…
Intersubjectivity and identity
This paper makes the case that an operation whose function expresses subjectivity can be formalised outside of identity stipulations. This operation is best characterised by poetic computation: a function that maps modes of expression to their respective contexts of application, i.e. from a domain of selection to one of composition. This move, I feel, eludes the failings endemic to the presuppositions required by and that undergird traditional lo…
Black Art: The Unification of Ethics and Aesthetics
Black Studies as Field Theory: Culture as Infrastructure
What constitutes a 'field' in Black studies? In 1905, W.E.B. DuBois suggested that Black studies look to physics' treatment of discrete/continuous duality to conceptualize double consciousness. Physicists describe fields as sets of adjectives wherein a relation between descriptions is indexed and how that framework moves across a field, the extent to which that relation translates across positions, becomes the 'object' of study. 'Study' analyzes …
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)