T Luke
Biographic Data
| ID | 4589522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Luke |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Luke |
| SIGNATURE | LUKE T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Re-Reading the Unabomber Manifesto
To the extent that the now infamous manifesto, “Industrial Society and Its Future,” covers cultural, economic and political issues Telos has addressed for over a quarter century, the odd story of Ted Kaczynski and the particularities of his strategic bombing campaign against “the system” warrants reexamination. Unabombs killed three and wounded twenty-three others in a string of sixteen bombings from 1978 to 1995. Many of the victims, however, we…
Searching for Alternatives: Postmodern Populism and Ecology
Recent shifts in the world economy are undercutting today's existing macroenvironments still populated by suburban consumers, which raises prospects for new populists to rethink the institutions of American federalism and corporate capitalism. As corporate downsizing and government cutbacks renege on the social contracts hammered out over the past century as industrial democracy, the new entrepreneurial economy of independent subcontracting, temp…
Regarding Nature, Anti-Industrialism and Deep Ecology: A Response to McLaughlin
In my review of three books dealing with recent environmental criticism, I argue a fairly noncontroversial point, i.e., people write books so that their political positions will be granted greater acceptance or accorded additional authority in order to improve public life, end some crisis, or advance a moral good. The adoption of environmental rhetorics to pursue power-generating or power-seeking outcomes is now in vogue, and various figures, suc…
Toward a North American Critical Theory
There are many stories about Telos; some hidden, some open, many finished, many incomplete. Nonetheless, one or two of them can be recounted here. At a time when everyone blames 1960s radicals for the excesses of the liberal welfare state since the New Deal and the Great Society, it is important to reconsider the critical role of Telos within the Left since 1968. From the very beginning Telos has been an enterprise of some 1960s radicals with dee…
The Politics of Arcological Utopia: Soleri on Ecology, Architecture and Society
Atop a low mesa above the Aqua Fria river in central Arizona, a unique laboratory devoted to testing a new ecological model has been slowly developing for twenty-five years. A project of Paolo Soleri's Cosanti Foundation, Arcosanti is a working prototype for a new kind of city — one being designed, built, and inhabited as a three-dimensional, highly concentrated megastructure. To house a city of 5,000 to 6,000 people, Arcosanti will occupy only f…
Green Hustlers: A Critique of Eco-Opportunism
Andrew McLaughlin Regarding Nature: Industrialism and Deep Ecology (Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1993), 280 pp
The Leisure of the Theory Class: Political Correctness or Professional Correctness
As in The Last Intellectuals, in Dogmatic Wisdom Russell Jacoby provides a powerful critique of the deteriorating state of American intellectual life. Although he is usually on the mark, he still falls into the same trap as the neoconservatives he criticizes in paying far too much attention to “elite colleges” or the “best universities.” For the most part, he follows Bloom, Sykes, Kimball and D'Souza in their choice of the best private schools an…
Neo-Populism: Fabricating the Future by Rehabbing the Past
In The Past in Ruins, David Gross reexamines standard accounts of the demise of tradition and the rise of modernity. Drawing on classical sociological theory and modem European history, he retraces the history of traditional society with its organic stability insured and guided by authoritative traditions, being swept aside by capitalist society with its standards enforced by the nation-state, consumer capitalism and the mass media: “... in 1650 …
The Empire Strikes Out: A Roundtable on Populist Politics
This roundtable is predicated on the notion that the state has struck out in its game-plan to regulate social life while safeguarding an active political life. New Deal liberalism and the resulting supremacy of individual rights over the common good, together with related phenomena such as a considerable social mobility and the homogenizing effects of mass culture, have undermined the social and cultural bases of traditional communities. The stra…
Community and Ecology
The populist critique of the New Class and its liberal agenda usually takes one of two lines of attack. The first, like MacIntyre's, “holds that liberal political theory accurately represents liberal social practice.” For populists to criticize liberal society, it is sufficient to take liberal theory on its own terms and accept the vision of subjectivity advocated by Locke, Smith or Bentham as true. That is, contemporary society is an aggregation…
Postcommunism in the USSR: The McGulag Archipelago
Recent unanticipated events in the USSR necessitate rethinking Marx's materialist conception of history. This, however, does not mean forgetting him altogether. His metanarrative may be dead, but it is still moving. Paradoxically, it seems to reverse its time-sequence in practice. That is, in stage-skipping into the future through Stalin's “socialist” transition the USSR ironically ends up flipping backwards into the past. The key question facing…
Xmas Ideology: Unwrapping the New Deal and the Cold War Under the Christmas Tree
Scores of films either about Christmas or with Christmas themes have spun out of Hollywood's fascination with the holiday season. Yet, after their initial re-lease, most of them fall into obscurity, rarely to be seen again. A handful of them, however, have acquired virtual cult status. With the spread of television and videocassette recorders, movies such as Holiday Inn (1942), It's a Wonderful life (1947), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), and Whit…
"The Other "Global Warming: The Impact of Perestroika on the US
The conventional wisdom in Washington is that the Cold War is “over,” and the US has definitely “won.” Among other things, what this means is that the global project of containment that has anchored American politics since 1947 is now obsolete. Gorbachev's willingness to restructure Moscow's relations with Western Europe, the US, and Eastern Europe has already transformed the diplomatic landscape. The following discussion assumes that perestroika…
The Dreams of Deep Ecology
“Deep ecology” principles are more than a new philosophy of nature. Deep ecologists have provided the basic inspiration for numerous bioregional, national and even transnational political action groups. Local “place defense” organizations across America, Western Europe and Japan, like oppositions to new hydroelectric dams, powerlines, airports, highways, timbering programs, dredging and draining schemes or power plants, draw from deep ecological …
The Political Economy of Colonization: Reel Rehab
The political economy of Reaganism has destabilized the competitive sector of American business extensively over the past decade. Beset by a fluctuating dollar, mature domestic markets, and more innovative foreign competitors, corporate capital increasingly has turned “paper entrepreneurialism” during the 1980s into the nation's newest growth industry. Rather than creating new goods and services, more and more firms are spending millions to take …
Roundtable on Intellectuals and the Academy
Tim Luke, Paul Piccone, Fred Siegel and Michael Taves
Televisual Democracy and the Politics of Charisma
The 1980s are still an era of transition in American politics. The republic continues to have one foot in the old party-based forms of electioneering as it steps with die other into a new mode. As a new cadre of professional political consultants sets about “wiring elections,” die old ideals of a responsible two-party system are crumbling. At the level of local municipal, county and special district elections as well as state legislature and even…
Accumulation Crisis
Reading James O'apos;Connor's Accumulation Crisis is very confusing. At certain junctures, it reads like the “sequel” to The Fiscal Crisis of the State, elaborating the expanding of his 1973 critique of modem macroeconomic management as a spoils system of special interests. At odier turns, it comes across as a “prequel” to the earlier work, oudining a tortuous logic for the underproduction and accumulation crises that set off the “fiscal crises” …
On the Nature of Soviet Society
The review symposium on Soviet-type societies in Telos 60 sought to address a broad range of important questions raised by Zaslavsky s The Neo-Stalinist State and The Dictatorship Over Needs, by Feher, Heller and Markus. In response to this, Zaslavsky has taken exception to my brief characterization of Soviet political economy in his article, “Soviet Society and the World Systems Analysis.” I had argued that Zaslavsky could improve his case by di…
Informationalism and Ecology
The disruption of the ecological balance sustaining human life has become one of the major products of advanced industrial society. Nature has been despoiled at the expense of all life for the benefit of a handful of recent generations who have been "fortunate" enough to enjoy the role of consumers in the 20th century. This consumerist model thrives upon the wasteful production of private goods by destroying the collective resources of the natura…
From Fundamentalism to Televangelism
The rebirth of Christian fundamentalism in the U.S. since 1945 must be acknowledged as a key shift in the post-World War II American political scene. Every president from Truman to Reagan, in one way or another, has recognized the power of Christian symbolism and values as a legitimating animus for the Pax Americana underwritten across the globe by American technology, military force, and culture. While Christian religiosity figured prominently i…
Anti-Work
In “Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control,” John Zerzan argues that America's over-exploited working classes once again are verging on total revolt. Although many points in his arguments are difficult to firmly pin down, Zerzan apparently holds that the recent increases in a whole range of work avoidance activities are the preliminary signs of a general crisis looming just over the horizon as the Reagan revolution slowly unfolds its program for …
Radical Ecology and the Crisis of Political Economy
Left programs today are in crisis because capitalism, on whose productive capacity leftists have anchored their hopes since the late 19th century, has itself entered into a series of structural crises that seem to have no obvious solutions. Indeed, the Left is presently in crisis since, like the system it opposes, it refuses to acknowledge the ecological constraints limiting further developments of advanced industrial societies. Instead, as stagf…
Culture and Politics in the Age of Artificial Negativity
The thesis of “artificial negativity,” as it has been tenatively outlined so far, asserts that the transition to full monopoly capitalism—that began seriously in the United States during the Great Depression—is now complete. After being briefly tested by the Progressives as they coped with the final crises of entrepreneurial capitalism after the 1890s, the one-dimensional logic of the transition emerged full-blown only with the advent of the New …
Debrizzi's Undimensionality
It is not surprising that Marxists find “artificial negativity” a bitter pill to swallow. It deals with Marxism in exactly the same way that Marxism has dealt with every other competing doctrine—with one important difference. In dialectically relativizing previous forms of thought as historically specific expressions of various forms of being, it carefully avoids the totalitarian cancer nesting within the Marxist dialectic by substituting it with…
The Dreams of Deep Ecology
“Deep ecology” principles are more than a new philosophy of nature. Deep ecologists have provided the basic inspiration for numerous bioregional, national and even transnational political action groups. Local “place defense” organizations across America, Western Europe and Japan, like oppositions to new hydroelectric dams, powerlines, airports, highways, timbering programs, dredging and draining schemes or power plants, draw from deep ecological …
Informationalism and Ecology
The disruption of the ecological balance sustaining human life has become one of the major products of advanced industrial society. Nature has been despoiled at the expense of all life for the benefit of a handful of recent generations who have been "fortunate" enough to enjoy the role of consumers in the 20th century. This consumerist model thrives upon the wasteful production of private goods by destroying the collective resources of the natura…
Searching for Alternatives: Postmodern Populism and Ecology
Recent shifts in the world economy are undercutting today's existing macroenvironments still populated by suburban consumers, which raises prospects for new populists to rethink the institutions of American federalism and corporate capitalism. As corporate downsizing and government cutbacks renege on the social contracts hammered out over the past century as industrial democracy, the new entrepreneurial economy of independent subcontracting, temp…
Xmas Ideology: Unwrapping the New Deal and the Cold War Under the Christmas Tree
Scores of films either about Christmas or with Christmas themes have spun out of Hollywood's fascination with the holiday season. Yet, after their initial re-lease, most of them fall into obscurity, rarely to be seen again. A handful of them, however, have acquired virtual cult status. With the spread of television and videocassette recorders, movies such as Holiday Inn (1942), It's a Wonderful life (1947), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), and Whit…
"The Other "Global Warming: The Impact of Perestroika on the US
The conventional wisdom in Washington is that the Cold War is “over,” and the US has definitely “won.” Among other things, what this means is that the global project of containment that has anchored American politics since 1947 is now obsolete. Gorbachev's willingness to restructure Moscow's relations with Western Europe, the US, and Eastern Europe has already transformed the diplomatic landscape. The following discussion assumes that perestroika…
Televisual Democracy and the Politics of Charisma
The 1980s are still an era of transition in American politics. The republic continues to have one foot in the old party-based forms of electioneering as it steps with die other into a new mode. As a new cadre of professional political consultants sets about “wiring elections,” die old ideals of a responsible two-party system are crumbling. At the level of local municipal, county and special district elections as well as state legislature and even…
The Economics and Politics of Socialism: Collected Essays
Wlodzimierz Brus, The Economics and Politics of Socialism: Collected Essays. Foreword by Maurice Dobb. London and Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1973. ges
Selections from Political Writings (1910-1920), with additional texts by Bordiga and Tasca
Antonio Gramsci, Selections from Political Writings (1910-1920), with additional texts by Bordiga and Tasca. Edited by Quintin Hoare. Translated by John Mathews. London: Lawrence & Wishart, 1977
Antonio Gramsci and the Revolution That Failed
Martin Clark, Antonio Gramsci and the Revolution That Failed. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1977
Culture and Politics in the Age of Artificial Negativity
The thesis of “artificial negativity,” as it has been tenatively outlined so far, asserts that the transition to full monopoly capitalism—that began seriously in the United States during the Great Depression—is now complete. After being briefly tested by the Progressives as they coped with the final crises of entrepreneurial capitalism after the 1890s, the one-dimensional logic of the transition emerged full-blown only with the advent of the New …
Debrizzi's Undimensionality
It is not surprising that Marxists find “artificial negativity” a bitter pill to swallow. It deals with Marxism in exactly the same way that Marxism has dealt with every other competing doctrine—with one important difference. In dialectically relativizing previous forms of thought as historically specific expressions of various forms of being, it carefully avoids the totalitarian cancer nesting within the Marxist dialectic by substituting it with…
Radical Ecology and the Crisis of Political Economy
Left programs today are in crisis because capitalism, on whose productive capacity leftists have anchored their hopes since the late 19th century, has itself entered into a series of structural crises that seem to have no obvious solutions. Indeed, the Left is presently in crisis since, like the system it opposes, it refuses to acknowledge the ecological constraints limiting further developments of advanced industrial societies. Instead, as stagf…
Anti-Work
In “Anti-Work and the Struggle for Control,” John Zerzan argues that America's over-exploited working classes once again are verging on total revolt. Although many points in his arguments are difficult to firmly pin down, Zerzan apparently holds that the recent increases in a whole range of work avoidance activities are the preliminary signs of a general crisis looming just over the horizon as the Reagan revolution slowly unfolds its program for …
Informationalism and Ecology
The disruption of the ecological balance sustaining human life has become one of the major products of advanced industrial society. Nature has been despoiled at the expense of all life for the benefit of a handful of recent generations who have been "fortunate" enough to enjoy the role of consumers in the 20th century. This consumerist model thrives upon the wasteful production of private goods by destroying the collective resources of the natura…
From Fundamentalism to Televangelism
The rebirth of Christian fundamentalism in the U.S. since 1945 must be acknowledged as a key shift in the post-World War II American political scene. Every president from Truman to Reagan, in one way or another, has recognized the power of Christian symbolism and values as a legitimating animus for the Pax Americana underwritten across the globe by American technology, military force, and culture. While Christian religiosity figured prominently i…
On the Nature of Soviet Society
The review symposium on Soviet-type societies in Telos 60 sought to address a broad range of important questions raised by Zaslavsky s The Neo-Stalinist State and The Dictatorship Over Needs, by Feher, Heller and Markus. In response to this, Zaslavsky has taken exception to my brief characterization of Soviet political economy in his article, “Soviet Society and the World Systems Analysis.” I had argued that Zaslavsky could improve his case by di…
Televisual Democracy and the Politics of Charisma
The 1980s are still an era of transition in American politics. The republic continues to have one foot in the old party-based forms of electioneering as it steps with die other into a new mode. As a new cadre of professional political consultants sets about “wiring elections,” die old ideals of a responsible two-party system are crumbling. At the level of local municipal, county and special district elections as well as state legislature and even…
Accumulation Crisis
Reading James O'apos;Connor's Accumulation Crisis is very confusing. At certain junctures, it reads like the “sequel” to The Fiscal Crisis of the State, elaborating the expanding of his 1973 critique of modem macroeconomic management as a spoils system of special interests. At odier turns, it comes across as a “prequel” to the earlier work, oudining a tortuous logic for the underproduction and accumulation crises that set off the “fiscal crises” …
Roundtable on Intellectuals and the Academy
Tim Luke, Paul Piccone, Fred Siegel and Michael Taves
The Dreams of Deep Ecology
“Deep ecology” principles are more than a new philosophy of nature. Deep ecologists have provided the basic inspiration for numerous bioregional, national and even transnational political action groups. Local “place defense” organizations across America, Western Europe and Japan, like oppositions to new hydroelectric dams, powerlines, airports, highways, timbering programs, dredging and draining schemes or power plants, draw from deep ecological …
The Political Economy of Colonization: Reel Rehab
The political economy of Reaganism has destabilized the competitive sector of American business extensively over the past decade. Beset by a fluctuating dollar, mature domestic markets, and more innovative foreign competitors, corporate capital increasingly has turned “paper entrepreneurialism” during the 1980s into the nation's newest growth industry. Rather than creating new goods and services, more and more firms are spending millions to take …
Xmas Ideology: Unwrapping the New Deal and the Cold War Under the Christmas Tree
Scores of films either about Christmas or with Christmas themes have spun out of Hollywood's fascination with the holiday season. Yet, after their initial re-lease, most of them fall into obscurity, rarely to be seen again. A handful of them, however, have acquired virtual cult status. With the spread of television and videocassette recorders, movies such as Holiday Inn (1942), It's a Wonderful life (1947), Miracle on 34th Street (1947), and Whit…
"The Other "Global Warming: The Impact of Perestroika on the US
The conventional wisdom in Washington is that the Cold War is “over,” and the US has definitely “won.” Among other things, what this means is that the global project of containment that has anchored American politics since 1947 is now obsolete. Gorbachev's willingness to restructure Moscow's relations with Western Europe, the US, and Eastern Europe has already transformed the diplomatic landscape. The following discussion assumes that perestroika…
Postcommunism in the USSR: The McGulag Archipelago
Recent unanticipated events in the USSR necessitate rethinking Marx's materialist conception of history. This, however, does not mean forgetting him altogether. His metanarrative may be dead, but it is still moving. Paradoxically, it seems to reverse its time-sequence in practice. That is, in stage-skipping into the future through Stalin's “socialist” transition the USSR ironically ends up flipping backwards into the past. The key question facing…
The Empire Strikes Out: A Roundtable on Populist Politics
This roundtable is predicated on the notion that the state has struck out in its game-plan to regulate social life while safeguarding an active political life. New Deal liberalism and the resulting supremacy of individual rights over the common good, together with related phenomena such as a considerable social mobility and the homogenizing effects of mass culture, have undermined the social and cultural bases of traditional communities. The stra…
Community and Ecology
The populist critique of the New Class and its liberal agenda usually takes one of two lines of attack. The first, like MacIntyre's, “holds that liberal political theory accurately represents liberal social practice.” For populists to criticize liberal society, it is sufficient to take liberal theory on its own terms and accept the vision of subjectivity advocated by Locke, Smith or Bentham as true. That is, contemporary society is an aggregation…
Neo-Populism: Fabricating the Future by Rehabbing the Past
In The Past in Ruins, David Gross reexamines standard accounts of the demise of tradition and the rise of modernity. Drawing on classical sociological theory and modem European history, he retraces the history of traditional society with its organic stability insured and guided by authoritative traditions, being swept aside by capitalist society with its standards enforced by the nation-state, consumer capitalism and the mass media: “... in 1650 …
Green Hustlers: A Critique of Eco-Opportunism
Andrew McLaughlin Regarding Nature: Industrialism and Deep Ecology (Albany, NY: State University of New York, 1993), 280 pp
The Leisure of the Theory Class: Political Correctness or Professional Correctness
As in The Last Intellectuals, in Dogmatic Wisdom Russell Jacoby provides a powerful critique of the deteriorating state of American intellectual life. Although he is usually on the mark, he still falls into the same trap as the neoconservatives he criticizes in paying far too much attention to “elite colleges” or the “best universities.” For the most part, he follows Bloom, Sykes, Kimball and D'Souza in their choice of the best private schools an…
Regarding Nature, Anti-Industrialism and Deep Ecology: A Response to McLaughlin
In my review of three books dealing with recent environmental criticism, I argue a fairly noncontroversial point, i.e., people write books so that their political positions will be granted greater acceptance or accorded additional authority in order to improve public life, end some crisis, or advance a moral good. The adoption of environmental rhetorics to pursue power-generating or power-seeking outcomes is now in vogue, and various figures, suc…
Toward a North American Critical Theory
There are many stories about Telos; some hidden, some open, many finished, many incomplete. Nonetheless, one or two of them can be recounted here. At a time when everyone blames 1960s radicals for the excesses of the liberal welfare state since the New Deal and the Great Society, it is important to reconsider the critical role of Telos within the Left since 1968. From the very beginning Telos has been an enterprise of some 1960s radicals with dee…
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