Neil Balan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908580 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neil Balan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neil |
| FAMILY NAME | Balan |
| SIGNATURE | BALAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3920-5244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Secrecy and Opacity as Information Imaginary and Datafied Futures Otherwise
Pandemic Time and Wartime, All Out of Joint
Over four sections, the paper approaches the biomedical and biopolitical production of COVID-19 by linking the discourse of the pandemic and the discourse of war. The first section considers the drift and imposition of martial language, discourses and analogies in relation to framing and conceptualizing the pandemic. The second section describes the military territorialization and martial genealogy of K’jipuktuk (Halifax) to think through the pan…
Government-in-a-Box, or Understanding Pandemic Measures as Biopolitics
Neil Balan shares this essay in response to the 2020 COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic. Twenty years of a global war on terror that has degraded into a fuzzy collection of ongoing contingency operations (OCO) has generated one clear outcome: esoteric terms and discourses to imagine, refine, and enact myriad forms of violence. Under the sign of cleansing the planet of bellicose relations and enmity over this twenty-year arc, liberal states have oper…
Art and Fear
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Bodies
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Bodies
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Bodies
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Art and Fear
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Pandemic Time and Wartime, All Out of Joint
Over four sections, the paper approaches the biomedical and biopolitical production of COVID-19 by linking the discourse of the pandemic and the discourse of war. The first section considers the drift and imposition of martial language, discourses and analogies in relation to framing and conceptualizing the pandemic. The second section describes the military territorialization and martial genealogy of K’jipuktuk (Halifax) to think through the pan…
Government-in-a-Box, or Understanding Pandemic Measures as Biopolitics
Neil Balan shares this essay in response to the 2020 COVID-19 / coronavirus pandemic. Twenty years of a global war on terror that has degraded into a fuzzy collection of ongoing contingency operations (OCO) has generated one clear outcome: esoteric terms and discourses to imagine, refine, and enact myriad forms of violence. Under the sign of cleansing the planet of bellicose relations and enmity over this twenty-year arc, liberal states have oper…
Secrecy and Opacity as Information Imaginary and Datafied Futures Otherwise
Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Global Security and Public Health (2 works) · Health and Conflict Studies (2 works) · Pandemic (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Biopower (1 work) · Business (1 work)