Michael O'Connor
Biographic Data
| ID | 4564628 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael O'Connor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Connor |
| SIGNATURE | CONNOR M O |
| AFFILIATIONS | Corpus Christi College Merton Street Oxford Oxford United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-5559-800X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Mechanics of Critique
Immanent critique is often presented as a distinctive approach to political and social philosophy. But Rachel Fraser argues that immanent critique cannot satisfy three plausible criteria that characterise it as a distinctive approach: it cannot be normatively significant, social, and make no appeal to external standards. This paper develops a model of immanent critique that answers her challenge. I first argue that the normative significance of i…
Dialogical practices for imagined lines: Listening, Interference, and (non) Straight
Imagined lines are proposed here as a phenomenon found in concepts, mental imagery, and metaphors. This essay has three parts to highlight the multimodality of imagined lines: a video, an audio track, and a written component. The writing introduces practices, frames the artistic works, and describes and considers the breadth of what an imagined line could be. The audio and video works give context to the writing and communicate in their medium th…
The materiality of lines: The kinaesthetics of bodily movement uniting dance and prehistoric cave art
We take two seemingly disparate practices as the foci for this work—dance and prehistoric cave art—in order to illuminate commonalities in embodied practices that reveal new theoretical insights. Whereas, dance clearly uses temporal traces of the body to shape space and create meaning, cave drawings have also begun to be explained and interpreted through kinesthetic and embodied metaphorical techniques. A key element that these fields have in com…
The Liturgical Use of the Organ in the Sixteenth Century: The Judgments of Cajetan and the Dominican Order
This paper explores the liturgical use of the organ in the sixteenth century according to the judgments of Tommaso de Vio, Cajetan (1469-1534) and the Dominicans. In particular, it asks the question: In worship, is solo organ music capable of conveying a specific meaning or a particular text (as seemed to be expected in alternatim practice)? The Dominican sources show an increasingly skeptical attitude, with a consequent tendency to limit the org…
New Zealand Maori Stories and Symbols: Family Value Lessons for Western Counsellors
Guinea and the Ivory Coast- Contrasts in Economic Development
Guinea and the Ivory Coast are neighbouring, former French colonies in West Africa. Both gained their independence about the same time - Guinea in 1958 and the Ivory Coast in 1960. The contrast in the subsequent economic performance of these two countries with closely corresponding resource endowments is remarkable. The Ivory Coast's gross domestic product has grown at an annual rate of about 8 per cent in real terms. The Guinean economy has stag…
Guinea and the Ivory Coast- Contrasts in Economic Development
Guinea and the Ivory Coast are neighbouring, former French colonies in West Africa. Both gained their independence about the same time - Guinea in 1958 and the Ivory Coast in 1960. The contrast in the subsequent economic performance of these two countries with closely corresponding resource endowments is remarkable. The Ivory Coast's gross domestic product has grown at an annual rate of about 8 per cent in real terms. The Guinean economy has stag…
Guinea and the Ivory Coast- Contrasts in Economic Development
Guinea and the Ivory Coast are neighbouring, former French colonies in West Africa. Both gained their independence about the same time - Guinea in 1958 and the Ivory Coast in 1960. The contrast in the subsequent economic performance of these two countries with closely corresponding resource endowments is remarkable. The Ivory Coast's gross domestic product has grown at an annual rate of about 8 per cent in real terms. The Guinean economy has stag…
New Zealand Maori Stories and Symbols: Family Value Lessons for Western Counsellors
The Liturgical Use of the Organ in the Sixteenth Century: The Judgments of Cajetan and the Dominican Order
This paper explores the liturgical use of the organ in the sixteenth century according to the judgments of Tommaso de Vio, Cajetan (1469-1534) and the Dominicans. In particular, it asks the question: In worship, is solo organ music capable of conveying a specific meaning or a particular text (as seemed to be expected in alternatim practice)? The Dominican sources show an increasingly skeptical attitude, with a consequent tendency to limit the org…
The materiality of lines: The kinaesthetics of bodily movement uniting dance and prehistoric cave art
We take two seemingly disparate practices as the foci for this work—dance and prehistoric cave art—in order to illuminate commonalities in embodied practices that reveal new theoretical insights. Whereas, dance clearly uses temporal traces of the body to shape space and create meaning, cave drawings have also begun to be explained and interpreted through kinesthetic and embodied metaphorical techniques. A key element that these fields have in com…
Dialogical practices for imagined lines: Listening, Interference, and (non) Straight
Imagined lines are proposed here as a phenomenon found in concepts, mental imagery, and metaphors. This essay has three parts to highlight the multimodality of imagined lines: a video, an audio track, and a written component. The writing introduces practices, frames the artistic works, and describes and considers the breadth of what an imagined line could be. The audio and video works give context to the writing and communicate in their medium th…
The Mechanics of Critique
Immanent critique is often presented as a distinctive approach to political and social philosophy. But Rachel Fraser argues that immanent critique cannot satisfy three plausible criteria that characterise it as a distinctive approach: it cannot be normatively significant, social, and make no appeal to external standards. This paper develops a model of immanent critique that answers her challenge. I first argue that the normative significance of i…
Aesthetics (3 works) · Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Psychology (2 works)