Chad Lavin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4389901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Chad Lavin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Chad |
| FAMILY NAME | Lavin |
| SIGNATURE | LAVIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tulane University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1264-9424 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reality Bites
Escaping the Spatial Imaginary, or, Politics as an Occupation
This article examines the persistence of spatial metaphors in modern political thought, from the “public sphere” that has defined liberal and republican thinking for the past few centuries to the high-profile “occupations”that have animated political action of the past few years. The article argues that these metaphors reflect a “spatial imaginary” that corresponds to an ideal of politics as the forcible control of space, and then explores the po…
Tipping Point Discourse in Dangerous Times
The concept of the tipping point has reshaped how crisis is perceived and understood in public discourse. We study this trend in selected instances, including the 2005 Iraqi elections, the 2005 flooding in Louisiana, and the climate-change crisis, before situating Malcolm Gladwell's theory of the tipping point in historical context. We discuss how Gladwell interprets key dimensions of the epidemiological approach in an overly selective manner in …
The Ideology of the Epidemic
In recent years, epidemiology has made a leap from specialized literature to popular discourse. Thanks in part to Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling treatment of “social epidemics,” The Tipping Point, nearly every facet of social and political life—from fashion trends and crime waves to global warming and obesity rates—has been described as an epidemic. This paper explores the rise of an “epidemiological imaginary” in which the language of epidemiolo…
The Year of Eating Politically
Eating and the Imagination of Politics
Fear, Radical Democracy, and Ontological Methadone
Given recent social and political transformations as well as our cultural landscape's dominance by narratives of threat and victimization, it is understandable that fear has occupied an ever-expanding role in our lives. Although these instabilities and insecurities have inspired a resurgence of various explanatory and mollifying fundamentalisms, radical democrats suggest that the conditions of this “postmetaphysical” age might instead facilitate …
Who Responds to Global Poverty
The Buoyancy of Failure
New Orleans and the Mississippi River are often described as a battleground in the war between man and nature. The authors argue that crisis displacement strategies disincline reflection on how this characterization contributes to catastrophic events. The authors outline three sites of crisis displacement: the Army Corps of Engineers, media coverage, and the philosophy of war of the United States government
Postliberal Agency in Marx's Brumaire
In this essay, I read Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte as an attempt to articulate a theory of agency despite a lack of adequate concepts. Exhibiting a discomfort with the dueling possibilities of a liberal voluntarism and a structuralist determinism, Marx upsets this supposed dichotomy with an exaggerated use of metonymy. He thus demonstrates the reductive nature of the process of identifying coherent and autonomous subjects, an…
Mediating Crisis
Tipping Point Discourse in Dangerous Times
The concept of the tipping point has reshaped how crisis is perceived and understood in public discourse. We study this trend in selected instances, including the 2005 Iraqi elections, the 2005 flooding in Louisiana, and the climate-change crisis, before situating Malcolm Gladwell's theory of the tipping point in historical context. We discuss how Gladwell interprets key dimensions of the epidemiological approach in an overly selective manner in …
The Ideology of the Epidemic
In recent years, epidemiology has made a leap from specialized literature to popular discourse. Thanks in part to Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling treatment of “social epidemics,” The Tipping Point, nearly every facet of social and political life—from fashion trends and crime waves to global warming and obesity rates—has been described as an epidemic. This paper explores the rise of an “epidemiological imaginary” in which the language of epidemiolo…
Postliberal Agency in Marx's Brumaire
In this essay, I read Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte as an attempt to articulate a theory of agency despite a lack of adequate concepts. Exhibiting a discomfort with the dueling possibilities of a liberal voluntarism and a structuralist determinism, Marx upsets this supposed dichotomy with an exaggerated use of metonymy. He thus demonstrates the reductive nature of the process of identifying coherent and autonomous subjects, an…
Fear, Radical Democracy, and Ontological Methadone
Given recent social and political transformations as well as our cultural landscape's dominance by narratives of threat and victimization, it is understandable that fear has occupied an ever-expanding role in our lives. Although these instabilities and insecurities have inspired a resurgence of various explanatory and mollifying fundamentalisms, radical democrats suggest that the conditions of this “postmetaphysical” age might instead facilitate …
The Buoyancy of Failure
New Orleans and the Mississippi River are often described as a battleground in the war between man and nature. The authors argue that crisis displacement strategies disincline reflection on how this characterization contributes to catastrophic events. The authors outline three sites of crisis displacement: the Army Corps of Engineers, media coverage, and the philosophy of war of the United States government
Mediating Crisis
Who Responds to Global Poverty
The Buoyancy of Failure
New Orleans and the Mississippi River are often described as a battleground in the war between man and nature. The authors argue that crisis displacement strategies disincline reflection on how this characterization contributes to catastrophic events. The authors outline three sites of crisis displacement: the Army Corps of Engineers, media coverage, and the philosophy of war of the United States government
Postliberal Agency in Marx's Brumaire
In this essay, I read Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte as an attempt to articulate a theory of agency despite a lack of adequate concepts. Exhibiting a discomfort with the dueling possibilities of a liberal voluntarism and a structuralist determinism, Marx upsets this supposed dichotomy with an exaggerated use of metonymy. He thus demonstrates the reductive nature of the process of identifying coherent and autonomous subjects, an…
Fear, Radical Democracy, and Ontological Methadone
Given recent social and political transformations as well as our cultural landscape's dominance by narratives of threat and victimization, it is understandable that fear has occupied an ever-expanding role in our lives. Although these instabilities and insecurities have inspired a resurgence of various explanatory and mollifying fundamentalisms, radical democrats suggest that the conditions of this “postmetaphysical” age might instead facilitate …
The Year of Eating Politically
Eating and the Imagination of Politics
The Ideology of the Epidemic
In recent years, epidemiology has made a leap from specialized literature to popular discourse. Thanks in part to Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling treatment of “social epidemics,” The Tipping Point, nearly every facet of social and political life—from fashion trends and crime waves to global warming and obesity rates—has been described as an epidemic. This paper explores the rise of an “epidemiological imaginary” in which the language of epidemiolo…
Tipping Point Discourse in Dangerous Times
The concept of the tipping point has reshaped how crisis is perceived and understood in public discourse. We study this trend in selected instances, including the 2005 Iraqi elections, the 2005 flooding in Louisiana, and the climate-change crisis, before situating Malcolm Gladwell's theory of the tipping point in historical context. We discuss how Gladwell interprets key dimensions of the epidemiological approach in an overly selective manner in …
Escaping the Spatial Imaginary, or, Politics as an Occupation
This article examines the persistence of spatial metaphors in modern political thought, from the “public sphere” that has defined liberal and republican thinking for the past few centuries to the high-profile “occupations”that have animated political action of the past few years. The article argues that these metaphors reflect a “spatial imaginary” that corresponds to an ideal of politics as the forcible control of space, and then explores the po…
Reality Bites
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