M Hynes
Biographic Data
| ID | 49575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Hynes |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hynes |
| SIGNATURE | HYNES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian National University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3087-5540 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 145 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Aesthetic Machines and the Production of Subjectivity: A postanthropocentric sociology of the aesthetic
This paper examines the entanglement of aesthetic and economic factors in contemporary capitalism. Sociological engagement with this problem has focused on commodifying processes, within a framework that is poorly suited to the deterritorialized character of capitalism. What we need to understand today is the aesthetic character of the production of subjectivity; for this, a differential and postanthropocentric ontology is needed. I argue that ec…
Interdisciplinarity, art and immaterial labour in the creative economy: Maurizio Lazzarato and the production of value in ArtScience practice
Sociological deployments of Radical Italian theory have offered insight into the changing role of art in light of the generalised valorisation of creativity in post-Fordist societies. Less has been said about the increasingly useful character of art, as exemplified by artistic engagement with interdisciplinary forms of problem solving. This article focuses on the field of practice commonly known as ArtScience. I argue that Lazzarato's theory gain…
Cosmic Subjectivity: Guattari and the Production of Subjective Cartographies
As social scientists become increasingly aware of the limits of dominant models of subjectivity to address contemporary social, cultural, and environmental problems, Felix Guattari’s emphasis on the machinic and processual dimensions of subjective production offers crucial insights. This paper explores the potential of Guattari’s evocation of the “cosmos” for the reconceptualisation of subjectivity. Among the various concepts of exteriority that …
Witnessing Anti-White 'Racism: White Victimhood and 'Reverse Racism' in Australia
In a national survey of witnessing racism, ten per cent of respondents reported an event where they perceived a white Australian had been the target of racism. We discuss the social and political context in which claims of anti-white ‘racism’ have come to the fore. The paper introduces three analytical entry points from which to approach the problem of anti-white ‘racism’: an individual analysis, an analysis of power and its effects, and a histor…
Encountering the animal: Temple Grandin, slaughterhouses and the possibilities of a differential ontology
In its consideration of the so-called animal question, sociology faces a new opportunity to productively examine some of its fundamental disciplinary assumptions. This article argues that the problem of the violence of our relationship to animals draws attention to the question of how the animal is encountered at the level of ontology. Through the work of Temple Grandin, a highly influential figure in slaughterhouse design, the authors examine th…
Public sociology for an emergent people: The affective gift in Marina Abramović'sThe Artist is Present
In the face of increasing calls for sociology to demonstrate its public relevance, it is necessary to question cherished understandings of what so-called Public Sociology should look like. This paper advances an understanding of sociology that is ontologically oriented toward a world of rapidly emerging and often unfamiliar social realities, with an eye to producing new ways of understanding the discipline's authority vis a vis ‘the public.’ In e…
Black-faced, red faces: The Potentials of Humour for Anti-Racist Action
Among incidences of everyday racism, offensive jokes are writ large as a way of establishing and maintaining social norms and policing the boundaries of the social body. Yet humour's possible deployment toward anti-racist ends constitutes an under-researched problem. This paper examines an incident of supposedly humorous blackface performance on an Australian family variety television show. The incident was notable as an occasion where humour was…
Habits, style and how to wear them lightly
Contributing to cultural geography's emerging interest in the work of Felix Ravaisson, this article explores the relationship between the impersonal force of habit and the personalised production of subjectivity. More precisely, our concern is with the relationship between habit and the stylisation of self that can be witnessed in the production of the intellectual subject. Paying particular attention to the relationship he traces between habit, …
Reconceptualizing resistance: Sociology and the Affective Dimension of Resistance
This paper re-examines the sociological study of resistance in light of growing interest in the concept of affect. Recent claims that we are witness to an 'affective turn' and calls for a 'new sociological empiricism' sensitive to affect indicate an emerging paradigm shift in sociology. Yet, mainstream sociological study of resistance tends to have been largely unaffected by this shift. To this end, this paper presents a case for the significance…
The Ethico-Aesthetics of Life: Guattari and the Problem of Bioethics
The work of Deleuze and Guattari has inspired social scientists for some decades, yet it is only of late that Guattari's sole-authored work has emerged as a unique force in its own right. This paper explores what Guattari's work has to offer to the analysis of the problematic of 'life' and, more specifically, to the idea of bioethics. While much of the critical discourse on biopower in recent years has worked from the perspective of reflecting on…
The Contemporary and Eccentric Position of ‘The Winnebago Man
Unveiling Seductions beyond Societies of Control: Affect, Security, and Humour in Spaces of Aeromobility
Taking the bare bodies that starred in the recent Air New Zealand in-flight safety demonstration and advertising campaign as its starting point, this paper stages an encounter between bareness and security in order to think about how affective atmospheres might be engineered and manipulated within spaces of aeromobility. From a representational perspective the bare bodies appeal to a particular economy of truth through the unveiling of the corpor…
Appearing True in the social sciences: Reflections on an academic Hoax
In early 2009 Keith Windschuttle, an Australian historian and editor of the conservative journal Quadrant, was caught out having accepted for publication a fraudulent piece of academic research, a hoax which aimed to reveal the hypocrisy of Windschuttle’s public stance on standards of scholarship. Over 10 years after the Sokal affair, the Windschuttle hoax raises in a new way the question of the relationship of social science to the problem of tr…
Surpassing Ecstasy, Infinite Enthusiasm
Yea-Saying Laughter
Cities of race hatred? The spheres of racism and anti-racism in contemporary Australian cities
Cities are indeed places of everyday racism, experienced as ethnocentrism, prejudice and ethnic-based hatred. Drawing on an Australia-wide telephone survey of respondents' experiences of 'everyday' racism in various contexts, conducted in 2006, we examine forms of racist experience, as well as the contexts and responses to those experiences for Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, Australia's main immigrant-receiving cities. Results show that between 1 i…
Laughing with the Yes Men: The Politics of Affirmation
It is symptomatic of a culture addicted to novelty that culture jamming has already been subject to pronouncements of its redundancy as a political strategy. For academic and artist Steve Mann, for
PWM Control of a Magnetic Suspension System
Magnetic levitation of a metallic sphere motivates and inspires students to investigate and understand the fundamental principles of electrical engineering, such as magnetic design, circuit design, and control theory. This paper describes the operation of a pulse width modulation converter in a magnetic suspension system. The pulse width-modulated (PWM) converter illustrates modern principles of power electronics, such as PWM control, current-mod…
Reconceptualizing resistance: Sociology and the Affective Dimension of Resistance
This paper re-examines the sociological study of resistance in light of growing interest in the concept of affect. Recent claims that we are witness to an 'affective turn' and calls for a 'new sociological empiricism' sensitive to affect indicate an emerging paradigm shift in sociology. Yet, mainstream sociological study of resistance tends to have been largely unaffected by this shift. To this end, this paper presents a case for the significance…
Unveiling Seductions beyond Societies of Control: Affect, Security, and Humour in Spaces of Aeromobility
Taking the bare bodies that starred in the recent Air New Zealand in-flight safety demonstration and advertising campaign as its starting point, this paper stages an encounter between bareness and security in order to think about how affective atmospheres might be engineered and manipulated within spaces of aeromobility. From a representational perspective the bare bodies appeal to a particular economy of truth through the unveiling of the corpor…
Black-faced, red faces: The Potentials of Humour for Anti-Racist Action
Among incidences of everyday racism, offensive jokes are writ large as a way of establishing and maintaining social norms and policing the boundaries of the social body. Yet humour's possible deployment toward anti-racist ends constitutes an under-researched problem. This paper examines an incident of supposedly humorous blackface performance on an Australian family variety television show. The incident was notable as an occasion where humour was…
Encountering the animal: Temple Grandin, slaughterhouses and the possibilities of a differential ontology
In its consideration of the so-called animal question, sociology faces a new opportunity to productively examine some of its fundamental disciplinary assumptions. This article argues that the problem of the violence of our relationship to animals draws attention to the question of how the animal is encountered at the level of ontology. Through the work of Temple Grandin, a highly influential figure in slaughterhouse design, the authors examine th…
Laughing with the Yes Men: The Politics of Affirmation
It is symptomatic of a culture addicted to novelty that culture jamming has already been subject to pronouncements of its redundancy as a political strategy. For academic and artist Steve Mann, for
The Ethico-Aesthetics of Life: Guattari and the Problem of Bioethics
The work of Deleuze and Guattari has inspired social scientists for some decades, yet it is only of late that Guattari's sole-authored work has emerged as a unique force in its own right. This paper explores what Guattari's work has to offer to the analysis of the problematic of 'life' and, more specifically, to the idea of bioethics. While much of the critical discourse on biopower in recent years has worked from the perspective of reflecting on…
Witnessing Anti-White 'Racism: White Victimhood and 'Reverse Racism' in Australia
In a national survey of witnessing racism, ten per cent of respondents reported an event where they perceived a white Australian had been the target of racism. We discuss the social and political context in which claims of anti-white ‘racism’ have come to the fore. The paper introduces three analytical entry points from which to approach the problem of anti-white ‘racism’: an individual analysis, an analysis of power and its effects, and a histor…
Habits, style and how to wear them lightly
Contributing to cultural geography's emerging interest in the work of Felix Ravaisson, this article explores the relationship between the impersonal force of habit and the personalised production of subjectivity. More precisely, our concern is with the relationship between habit and the stylisation of self that can be witnessed in the production of the intellectual subject. Paying particular attention to the relationship he traces between habit, …
Yea-Saying Laughter
Cities of race hatred? The spheres of racism and anti-racism in contemporary Australian cities
Cities are indeed places of everyday racism, experienced as ethnocentrism, prejudice and ethnic-based hatred. Drawing on an Australia-wide telephone survey of respondents' experiences of 'everyday' racism in various contexts, conducted in 2006, we examine forms of racist experience, as well as the contexts and responses to those experiences for Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, Australia's main immigrant-receiving cities. Results show that between 1 i…
The Contemporary and Eccentric Position of ‘The Winnebago Man
Cosmic Subjectivity: Guattari and the Production of Subjective Cartographies
As social scientists become increasingly aware of the limits of dominant models of subjectivity to address contemporary social, cultural, and environmental problems, Felix Guattari’s emphasis on the machinic and processual dimensions of subjective production offers crucial insights. This paper explores the potential of Guattari’s evocation of the “cosmos” for the reconceptualisation of subjectivity. Among the various concepts of exteriority that …
Surpassing Ecstasy, Infinite Enthusiasm
PWM Control of a Magnetic Suspension System
Magnetic levitation of a metallic sphere motivates and inspires students to investigate and understand the fundamental principles of electrical engineering, such as magnetic design, circuit design, and control theory. This paper describes the operation of a pulse width modulation converter in a magnetic suspension system. The pulse width-modulated (PWM) converter illustrates modern principles of power electronics, such as PWM control, current-mod…
Laughing with the Yes Men: The Politics of Affirmation
It is symptomatic of a culture addicted to novelty that culture jamming has already been subject to pronouncements of its redundancy as a political strategy. For academic and artist Steve Mann, for
Cities of race hatred? The spheres of racism and anti-racism in contemporary Australian cities
Cities are indeed places of everyday racism, experienced as ethnocentrism, prejudice and ethnic-based hatred. Drawing on an Australia-wide telephone survey of respondents' experiences of 'everyday' racism in various contexts, conducted in 2006, we examine forms of racist experience, as well as the contexts and responses to those experiences for Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, Australia's main immigrant-receiving cities. Results show that between 1 i…
Yea-Saying Laughter
Appearing True in the social sciences: Reflections on an academic Hoax
In early 2009 Keith Windschuttle, an Australian historian and editor of the conservative journal Quadrant, was caught out having accepted for publication a fraudulent piece of academic research, a hoax which aimed to reveal the hypocrisy of Windschuttle’s public stance on standards of scholarship. Over 10 years after the Sokal affair, the Windschuttle hoax raises in a new way the question of the relationship of social science to the problem of tr…
Surpassing Ecstasy, Infinite Enthusiasm
The Contemporary and Eccentric Position of ‘The Winnebago Man
Unveiling Seductions beyond Societies of Control: Affect, Security, and Humour in Spaces of Aeromobility
Taking the bare bodies that starred in the recent Air New Zealand in-flight safety demonstration and advertising campaign as its starting point, this paper stages an encounter between bareness and security in order to think about how affective atmospheres might be engineered and manipulated within spaces of aeromobility. From a representational perspective the bare bodies appeal to a particular economy of truth through the unveiling of the corpor…
Reconceptualizing resistance: Sociology and the Affective Dimension of Resistance
This paper re-examines the sociological study of resistance in light of growing interest in the concept of affect. Recent claims that we are witness to an 'affective turn' and calls for a 'new sociological empiricism' sensitive to affect indicate an emerging paradigm shift in sociology. Yet, mainstream sociological study of resistance tends to have been largely unaffected by this shift. To this end, this paper presents a case for the significance…
The Ethico-Aesthetics of Life: Guattari and the Problem of Bioethics
The work of Deleuze and Guattari has inspired social scientists for some decades, yet it is only of late that Guattari's sole-authored work has emerged as a unique force in its own right. This paper explores what Guattari's work has to offer to the analysis of the problematic of 'life' and, more specifically, to the idea of bioethics. While much of the critical discourse on biopower in recent years has worked from the perspective of reflecting on…
Habits, style and how to wear them lightly
Contributing to cultural geography's emerging interest in the work of Felix Ravaisson, this article explores the relationship between the impersonal force of habit and the personalised production of subjectivity. More precisely, our concern is with the relationship between habit and the stylisation of self that can be witnessed in the production of the intellectual subject. Paying particular attention to the relationship he traces between habit, …
Public sociology for an emergent people: The affective gift in Marina Abramović'sThe Artist is Present
In the face of increasing calls for sociology to demonstrate its public relevance, it is necessary to question cherished understandings of what so-called Public Sociology should look like. This paper advances an understanding of sociology that is ontologically oriented toward a world of rapidly emerging and often unfamiliar social realities, with an eye to producing new ways of understanding the discipline's authority vis a vis ‘the public.’ In e…
Black-faced, red faces: The Potentials of Humour for Anti-Racist Action
Among incidences of everyday racism, offensive jokes are writ large as a way of establishing and maintaining social norms and policing the boundaries of the social body. Yet humour's possible deployment toward anti-racist ends constitutes an under-researched problem. This paper examines an incident of supposedly humorous blackface performance on an Australian family variety television show. The incident was notable as an occasion where humour was…
Encountering the animal: Temple Grandin, slaughterhouses and the possibilities of a differential ontology
In its consideration of the so-called animal question, sociology faces a new opportunity to productively examine some of its fundamental disciplinary assumptions. This article argues that the problem of the violence of our relationship to animals draws attention to the question of how the animal is encountered at the level of ontology. Through the work of Temple Grandin, a highly influential figure in slaughterhouse design, the authors examine th…
Witnessing Anti-White 'Racism: White Victimhood and 'Reverse Racism' in Australia
In a national survey of witnessing racism, ten per cent of respondents reported an event where they perceived a white Australian had been the target of racism. We discuss the social and political context in which claims of anti-white ‘racism’ have come to the fore. The paper introduces three analytical entry points from which to approach the problem of anti-white ‘racism’: an individual analysis, an analysis of power and its effects, and a histor…
Cosmic Subjectivity: Guattari and the Production of Subjective Cartographies
As social scientists become increasingly aware of the limits of dominant models of subjectivity to address contemporary social, cultural, and environmental problems, Felix Guattari’s emphasis on the machinic and processual dimensions of subjective production offers crucial insights. This paper explores the potential of Guattari’s evocation of the “cosmos” for the reconceptualisation of subjectivity. Among the various concepts of exteriority that …
Interdisciplinarity, art and immaterial labour in the creative economy: Maurizio Lazzarato and the production of value in ArtScience practice
Sociological deployments of Radical Italian theory have offered insight into the changing role of art in light of the generalised valorisation of creativity in post-Fordist societies. Less has been said about the increasingly useful character of art, as exemplified by artistic engagement with interdisciplinary forms of problem solving. This article focuses on the field of practice commonly known as ArtScience. I argue that Lazzarato's theory gain…
Aesthetic Machines and the Production of Subjectivity: A postanthropocentric sociology of the aesthetic
This paper examines the entanglement of aesthetic and economic factors in contemporary capitalism. Sociological engagement with this problem has focused on commodifying processes, within a framework that is poorly suited to the deterritorialized character of capitalism. What we need to understand today is the aesthetic character of the production of subjectivity; for this, a differential and postanthropocentric ontology is needed. I argue that ec…
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