Simon Glezo
Biographic Data
| ID | 4376027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simon Glezo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simon |
| FAMILY NAME | Glezo |
| SIGNATURE | GLEZO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8952-3622 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The cultivation of the ear
Bergson contra Bergson
Interest in the work of Bergson has seen a revival in political theory over the past two decades. Initially, this interest focused primarily on Bergson’s earlier writings. However, recently there has been increased attention to Bergson’s controversial last book – The Two Sources of Morality and Religion. This has had the benefit of bringing attention to a book frequently maligned as uneven and disappointing. At the same time, mostly absent from t…
No one has yet learned how fast a body can go
As new technologies accelerate the pace of the world, the human body is exposed to hitherto unexperienced velocities. Will the body acquire new powers and opportunities in consequence, or will we find it torn apart by this new speed? This article considers three possible types of encounter—destructive, diminishing, and augmenting—between speed, technology, and the body. It then turns to the work of Spinoza to explain the interrelation between the…
Virtuous networks
Brown’s Paradox
This article is an engagement with the effects of speed in global politics through the lens of what it terms “Brown’s Paradox,” Wendy Brown’s insight that, in a radically accelerating world we “feel a greater political impotence than humans may have felt before, even as we occupy a global order more saturated by human power than ever before.” It begins by discussing the two dominant responses to Brown’s Paradox: the first, the neoliberal embrace …
The Politics of Speed
Everyone agrees that the world is accelerating. With advances in communication, transportation and information processing technologies, it is clear that the pace of events in global politics is speeding up at an alarming rate. The implications of this new speed however, continue to be a significant source of debate. Will acceleration lead to a more interconnected, productive, peaceful, and humane world; or a nightmarish descent into ecological de…
The ticking bomb
The ticking bomb
The Politics of Speed
Everyone agrees that the world is accelerating. With advances in communication, transportation and information processing technologies, it is clear that the pace of events in global politics is speeding up at an alarming rate. The implications of this new speed however, continue to be a significant source of debate. Will acceleration lead to a more interconnected, productive, peaceful, and humane world; or a nightmarish descent into ecological de…
Bergson contra Bergson
Interest in the work of Bergson has seen a revival in political theory over the past two decades. Initially, this interest focused primarily on Bergson’s earlier writings. However, recently there has been increased attention to Bergson’s controversial last book – The Two Sources of Morality and Religion. This has had the benefit of bringing attention to a book frequently maligned as uneven and disappointing. At the same time, mostly absent from t…
Brown’s Paradox
This article is an engagement with the effects of speed in global politics through the lens of what it terms “Brown’s Paradox,” Wendy Brown’s insight that, in a radically accelerating world we “feel a greater political impotence than humans may have felt before, even as we occupy a global order more saturated by human power than ever before.” It begins by discussing the two dominant responses to Brown’s Paradox: the first, the neoliberal embrace …
The ticking bomb
The Politics of Speed
Everyone agrees that the world is accelerating. With advances in communication, transportation and information processing technologies, it is clear that the pace of events in global politics is speeding up at an alarming rate. The implications of this new speed however, continue to be a significant source of debate. Will acceleration lead to a more interconnected, productive, peaceful, and humane world; or a nightmarish descent into ecological de…
Brown’s Paradox
This article is an engagement with the effects of speed in global politics through the lens of what it terms “Brown’s Paradox,” Wendy Brown’s insight that, in a radically accelerating world we “feel a greater political impotence than humans may have felt before, even as we occupy a global order more saturated by human power than ever before.” It begins by discussing the two dominant responses to Brown’s Paradox: the first, the neoliberal embrace …
Virtuous networks
No one has yet learned how fast a body can go
As new technologies accelerate the pace of the world, the human body is exposed to hitherto unexperienced velocities. Will the body acquire new powers and opportunities in consequence, or will we find it torn apart by this new speed? This article considers three possible types of encounter—destructive, diminishing, and augmenting—between speed, technology, and the body. It then turns to the work of Spinoza to explain the interrelation between the…
Bergson contra Bergson
Interest in the work of Bergson has seen a revival in political theory over the past two decades. Initially, this interest focused primarily on Bergson’s earlier writings. However, recently there has been increased attention to Bergson’s controversial last book – The Two Sources of Morality and Religion. This has had the benefit of bringing attention to a book frequently maligned as uneven and disappointing. At the same time, mostly absent from t…
The cultivation of the ear
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