Sean Steele
Biographic Data
| ID | 451872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sean Steele |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sean |
| FAMILY NAME | Steele |
| SIGNATURE | STEELE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2982-2027 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
At the Threshold of the Underworld: Deep Time, Music, and Ecstatic Truth
The article engages with filmmaker Werner Herzog’s theory of ecstatic truth to explore how music can open a pathway into a reckoning with deep time. Coined by John McPhee, deep time refers to vast geological scales of time. The discussion is focused on Lawrence English and Lea Bertucci’s 2023 experimental ambient album Chthonic. Herzog’s theory of ecstatic truth refers to moments that transcend logic and reason, entering a realm of imagination. “…
Eric Bain-Selbo, The End(s) of Religion: A History of How the Study of Religion Makes Religion Irrelevant
Eric Bain-Selbo, The End(s) of Religion: A History of How the Study of Religion Makes Religion Irrelevant. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 288 pp., $39.16, ISBN 978-1-35028776-1 (pbk)
Introduction: Privacy and Pandemics
This set of articles in this special issue illustrate a number of ways that the realities of a global pandemic may challenge different perspectives on privacy protection and the appropriate relationship with other rights and responsibilities. They arose from a virtual roundtable, held on 15 June 2020 at Melbourne Law School, under the aegis of the Privacy and Pandemics Information Network. The network was formed as a rapid response to the overwhe…
Speculating on the liberal arts: Exploring possible futures for humanities education
The article draws on concepts from speculative design to explore an alternative educational group existing outside the boundaries of an accredited university. Inspired by the imaginative approach of speculative design, I propose a small-scale reading and discussion group as a pathway to explore possible futures open to aspects of humanities education. The concept aims to reposition elements of the humanities from within the degree-granting Canadi…
Tattoos, Privacy and Tōru Hashimoto: A Contemporary Attempt to use the Legal System to Protect Individual Rights in Japan
This article analyses attempts by City of Osaka public servants to use the Japanese legal system to thwart the policies of controversial mayor, Tōru Hashimoto (2011 to 2015). The cases demonstrate a clash between conservative and progressive views about the line between state and public realms which is at the heart of debates about privacy. The cases’ other key theme, tattoos, and their historically ambiguous position in Japanese society, further…
Privacy and Emergency Payments in a Pandemic: How to Think about Privacy and a Central Bank Digital Currency
The economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted many governments to provide emergency payments to citizens. These one-off and recurring payments revealed the shortcomings of existing financial infrastructures even as electronic payments replaced cash for everyday expenses. Delays in getting government payments to citizens in many countries focused attention on the potential benefits of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). This article …
Lay Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice: Prosecution Review Commissions, the Lay-Judge System, and Penal Institution Visiting Committees
This article highlights reliance on lay participation as a mechanism for solving perceived problems in Japanese criminal justice by examining three reforms aimed at increasing lay participation in Japanese criminal justice: the mandatory prosecution power given to Prosecution Review Commissions, the saiban’in seido (lay-judge system), and Penal Institution Visiting Committees. The article argues that lay participation plays an important role in l…
Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation
"Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation." Rock Music Studies, 6(1), pp. 74–75
Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek. Of God and Man . Translated by Katarzyna Bartoszynska and Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek. On the World and Ourselves . Translated by Lydia Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek. Of God and Man. Translated by Katarzyna Bartoszynska. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014, pp. ix + 126, ISBN: 9780745695693 (pbk).Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek. On the World and Ourselves. Translated by Lydia Bauman. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015, pp. ix + 199, ISBN: 9780745687124 (pbk).
Trends and Developments in Chinese Insolvency Law: The First Decade of the PRC Enterprise Bankruptcy Law
Insolvency law in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has gained increased prominence in the last five years in light of changing economic circumstances and government policies. This Article analyzes trends and developments in Chinese insolvency law since the enactment of the PRC Enterprise Bankruptcy Law in 2007, focusing on the dynamic transformation of insolvency practice, jurisprudence, and the profession over the last five years. It also dr…
Elderly Offenders in Japan and the saiban’in seido (Lay Judge System): Reflections Through a Visit to the Tokyo District Court
Elderly Japanese are increasingly turning to crime. Yet the intersection of old age and criminal justice is mostly an untold story in the extensive English-language literature on Japanese aging, and has only recently begun to be seriously researched in Japan. Elderly Japanese are also increasingly being charged with serious offences such as murder, bringing them within the new saiban’in (lay judge) system. This article highlights the complex soci…
Lay Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice: Prosecution Review Commissions, the Lay-Judge System, and Penal Institution Visiting Committees
This article highlights reliance on lay participation as a mechanism for solving perceived problems in Japanese criminal justice by examining three reforms aimed at increasing lay participation in Japanese criminal justice: the mandatory prosecution power given to Prosecution Review Commissions, the saiban’in seido (lay-judge system), and Penal Institution Visiting Committees. The article argues that lay participation plays an important role in l…
Elderly Offenders in Japan and the saiban’in seido (Lay Judge System): Reflections Through a Visit to the Tokyo District Court
Elderly Japanese are increasingly turning to crime. Yet the intersection of old age and criminal justice is mostly an untold story in the extensive English-language literature on Japanese aging, and has only recently begun to be seriously researched in Japan. Elderly Japanese are also increasingly being charged with serious offences such as murder, bringing them within the new saiban’in (lay judge) system. This article highlights the complex soci…
Elderly Offenders in Japan and the saiban’in seido (Lay Judge System): Reflections Through a Visit to the Tokyo District Court
Elderly Japanese are increasingly turning to crime. Yet the intersection of old age and criminal justice is mostly an untold story in the extensive English-language literature on Japanese aging, and has only recently begun to be seriously researched in Japan. Elderly Japanese are also increasingly being charged with serious offences such as murder, bringing them within the new saiban’in (lay judge) system. This article highlights the complex soci…
Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek. Of God and Man . Translated by Katarzyna Bartoszynska and Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek. On the World and Ourselves . Translated by Lydia Bauman
Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek. Of God and Man. Translated by Katarzyna Bartoszynska. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014, pp. ix + 126, ISBN: 9780745695693 (pbk).Zygmunt Bauman and Stanislaw Obirek. On the World and Ourselves. Translated by Lydia Bauman. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2015, pp. ix + 199, ISBN: 9780745687124 (pbk).
Trends and Developments in Chinese Insolvency Law: The First Decade of the PRC Enterprise Bankruptcy Law
Insolvency law in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has gained increased prominence in the last five years in light of changing economic circumstances and government policies. This Article analyzes trends and developments in Chinese insolvency law since the enactment of the PRC Enterprise Bankruptcy Law in 2007, focusing on the dynamic transformation of insolvency practice, jurisprudence, and the profession over the last five years. It also dr…
Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation
"Listening for the Secret: The Grateful Dead and the Politics of Improvisation." Rock Music Studies, 6(1), pp. 74–75
Lay Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice: Prosecution Review Commissions, the Lay-Judge System, and Penal Institution Visiting Committees
This article highlights reliance on lay participation as a mechanism for solving perceived problems in Japanese criminal justice by examining three reforms aimed at increasing lay participation in Japanese criminal justice: the mandatory prosecution power given to Prosecution Review Commissions, the saiban’in seido (lay-judge system), and Penal Institution Visiting Committees. The article argues that lay participation plays an important role in l…
Introduction: Privacy and Pandemics
This set of articles in this special issue illustrate a number of ways that the realities of a global pandemic may challenge different perspectives on privacy protection and the appropriate relationship with other rights and responsibilities. They arose from a virtual roundtable, held on 15 June 2020 at Melbourne Law School, under the aegis of the Privacy and Pandemics Information Network. The network was formed as a rapid response to the overwhe…
Speculating on the liberal arts: Exploring possible futures for humanities education
The article draws on concepts from speculative design to explore an alternative educational group existing outside the boundaries of an accredited university. Inspired by the imaginative approach of speculative design, I propose a small-scale reading and discussion group as a pathway to explore possible futures open to aspects of humanities education. The concept aims to reposition elements of the humanities from within the degree-granting Canadi…
Tattoos, Privacy and Tōru Hashimoto: A Contemporary Attempt to use the Legal System to Protect Individual Rights in Japan
This article analyses attempts by City of Osaka public servants to use the Japanese legal system to thwart the policies of controversial mayor, Tōru Hashimoto (2011 to 2015). The cases demonstrate a clash between conservative and progressive views about the line between state and public realms which is at the heart of debates about privacy. The cases’ other key theme, tattoos, and their historically ambiguous position in Japanese society, further…
Privacy and Emergency Payments in a Pandemic: How to Think about Privacy and a Central Bank Digital Currency
The economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic prompted many governments to provide emergency payments to citizens. These one-off and recurring payments revealed the shortcomings of existing financial infrastructures even as electronic payments replaced cash for everyday expenses. Delays in getting government payments to citizens in many countries focused attention on the potential benefits of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). This article …
Eric Bain-Selbo, The End(s) of Religion: A History of How the Study of Religion Makes Religion Irrelevant
Eric Bain-Selbo, The End(s) of Religion: A History of How the Study of Religion Makes Religion Irrelevant. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 288 pp., $39.16, ISBN 978-1-35028776-1 (pbk)
At the Threshold of the Underworld: Deep Time, Music, and Ecstatic Truth
The article engages with filmmaker Werner Herzog’s theory of ecstatic truth to explore how music can open a pathway into a reckoning with deep time. Coined by John McPhee, deep time refers to vast geological scales of time. The discussion is focused on Lawrence English and Lea Bertucci’s 2023 experimental ambient album Chthonic. Herzog’s theory of ecstatic truth refers to moments that transcend logic and reason, entering a realm of imagination. “…
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