BOB HODGE
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5160874 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | BOB HODGE |
| NOMBRES | BOB |
| APELLIDO | HODGE |
| FIRMA | HODGE B |
| AFILIACIONES | Western Sydney University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Motivated signs and multimodal analysis in Gunther Kress’s semiotics
This article addresses the issue of motivated signs in semiotic theory and practice. It examines two influential versions of the term, Saussure’s and Kress’s, focussing on and triggered by Kress’s influence. It claims Kress’s importance lies not so much in theory as such, as in his analytic practice, multimodal analysis, as underpinned by this theory. Accordingly, it deploys a version of this practice on Kress as he is ‘doing theory’. It uses his…
La anticorrupción como corrupción
A partir de la perspectiva de la semiótica social y de los estudios del discurso, se examina el papel de las contradicciones en los complejos ideológicos. El estudio de caso es el acto encabezado, en julio de 2016, por el entonces presidente de México, Enrique Peña Nieto, quien, luego de una crítica popular sin precedentes en torno a la corrupción, promulgó el Sistema Nacional Anticorrupción y, simultáneamente, pidió perdón por su actuación. Adem…
Control
“Control” is a modality of power mediated by language. “Control” as a linear form of power emerged in the fourteenth century. It now expresses an ideology or fantasy of linear efficacy, whereas “power” after Michel Foucault is recognized as inherently complex and non‐linear. Power and control are mainly emphasized in social theories on the left, influenced by Marxism and Foucault, which critique power as complex and all‐pervasive in social life. …
Language and Control
Semiotics of corruption
This article analyses a complex text and event to examine the role of ramifying contradictions in strategic social semiotics analysis. The focus was a paradoxical intervention into corruption by then-Mexican President Peña, who responded to an unprecedented wave of popular criticisms of corruption by simultaneously launching an Anticorruption System and apologizing for his own corruption. We asked: how did this contradiction work, in this conjunc…
Cultural making’
There is an increasing adoption of large-scale, multisectoral collaborations which draw upon diverse expertise and innovative processes to tackle complex issues. How social change emerges through such transdisciplinary research alliances is the focus of our paper. Yet, broader participation and openness to uncertainty exacerbates issues of multidimensional power and complexity which continually shape and reshape practices. In this article, we int…
Myths of Oz
Multilingual language policy and mother tongue education in Timor-Leste
Apuntes sobre la relación entre la cultura virtual y la cultura mexicana en la Internet
Un efecto crucial de la globalización es una forma de intercambio cultural tan radicalmente nueva que demanda una redefinición de lo que concebimos como multiculturalismo y junto con ello de la naturaleza de la cultura misma. No sólo basta con analizar a las culturas nacionales y a sus identidades manteniendo la idea de una cultura fija, homogénea, que se encuentra bajo la supuesta amenaza de fuerzas globales. Es necesario buscar nuevas definicio…
The Hydra Paradox
This article explores issues of disasters and their management, against a backdrop of multiple crises that are seen as defining the current condition of globalisation, driven by an ongoing dialectic between forces from 'above' and 'below'. The article draws on forms of chaos theory, treating disasters and their management as a key site in which to examine intersections of crisis and chaos in global processes, colliding with destructive natural ev…
Nonlinear causality in Castells's network society
In this article I consider Castells's network society trilogy as a key site for examining claims that globalization today is driven by a new paradigm, in which networks and digital technologies play a decisive role in producing revolutionary new forms of economics, politics, culture and society. To theorize this change I draw on a rich, explicit account of non-linear causal processes found in far-from-equilibrium cybernetics, foregrounding the al…
Representing climate change in museum space and places
Museums and science centers hold a unique position in the media and political landscape as trusted information sources and are emerging as key players in climate change debates. The modes of engagement with audiences, visitors, and publics allow museums to provide sensorial and affective experiences though the agency of objects and immersive environments, which facilitate an active role on the part of audiences in cocreating narratives around cli…
Politics of Chinese Language and Culture
Museums and attacks from cyberspace
This article examines a single virtual incident, a hostile review by climate change sceptic journalist Andrew Bolt of an Australian Museum exhibition on climate change, to explore its implications for contemporary museums curating controversial topics. It takes both topic and attack as aspects of new conditions which science and museums alike must cope with, which include new concepts of science and society, and new communication technologies. It…
Complexity theory and engaged research
This article reports on a study of Sydney's rail system to argue that engaged research requires a problem-oriented complexity framework. This needs a richer method drawing on ideas from more scientific and mathematical forms of complexity/chaos theory to complement cultural studies understandings of complexity. The paper develops the idea of critical incidents as a bridge between science, cultural studies and business, and uses it to analyse smal…
Critical Incident Analysis and the Semiosphere
In January 2007, media outlets across Australia reported the local court decision Police v Rose. Mr Rose pleaded guilty and the presiding magistrate recorded no conviction. This event sparked a 'butterfly effect' that culminated in legislative amendments changing the make-up of the body responsible for oversight of judges in New South Wales. Key players failed to observe the doctrine of the separation of powers; while others called for its observ…
Oedipus and the CEO
This article situates the theme of the new, in its many guises, within the framework of shifting concepts and uses of change. It adapts ideas from Freud, Foucault and Marx to establish the intractable complexity of ideas of change and to explore its symptomatology in different texts and contexts in management. The article finds good reasons for such apparently opposite qualities as silence in theory and excess in talk about change. In doing so, i…
Crossing Paradigms
This article develops the term meta‐autoethnography to describe self‐transformative narratives of border‐crossings between paradigms and cultures. It focuses on one formative experience, a field trip by a Brazilian‐Australian sociologist on a Brazilian urban sustainability project, planned within a positivistic framework, which went badly wrong. But the ‘failure’ revealed the complicity of the positivistic paradigm with local issues of ideology a…
Mexico Inc.? Discourse Analysis and the Triumph of Managerialism
Multinational corporations have become players on the global stage, alongside nations. This article addresses one aspect of this development, the way leaders of nations now use discourses and ways of thinking formerly characteristic of business in major policy documents. The paper distinguishes different senses of ‘discourse’ to identify what is managerial discourse, using textbooks as data. It then looks at a specific instance, the Mexican Gover…
Ute Culture and What's Left of Theory
This paper aims to contribute to a collective exploration by the Cultural Studies community into the nature and status of its project. It takes as its point of departure two recent titles of the Au
Biology, semiotics, complexity
This paper uses some recent ideas in biology as starting point to explore analogous concepts and tendencies in semiotics and biology, leading to reflections on interdisciplinarity itself within the framework of theories of chaos and complexity. It sees affinities between the biological concept of species and the semiotic category of discipline. It finds many suggestive parallels with semiotics from the recently emerging synthesis of evolution and…
What Was Postcolonialism
This essay examines the "pastness" of postcolonial theory by locating it in the project of an "uncompleted" modernity. It argues that as a theoretical problematic "postcolonialism" seems to have lost two of its crucial "memories": the memory of lexicon (especially the etymology of the word "colony") and the memory of a revitalised understanding of the links between imperialism, labour and modernity. Invoking a reworking of a Marxist analytic that…
How the Medium is the Message in the Unconscious of `America Online
This article explores McLuhan's famous slogan `the medium is the message' as a point of departure for examining current views of the nature of the new electronic media understood as a revolutionary form, associated with a new (`post-modern') stage of society. It argues that this slogan packs into itself more layers of meaning than he was able to articulate in a complex and nuanced theory of the media. It suggests that McLuhan's work constructs a …
Culture/Communication/Theory in Australia
(2003). CULTURE/COMMUNICATION/THEORY IN AUSTRALIA. Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association: Vol. 100, No. 1, pp. 88-98
Feral Archaeology and the Atlantis Problem
This article uses a case study of a TV programme, Atlantis Uncovered, an archaeological programme debunking popular ideas of Atlantis and the ancient past, as an instance of a discursive paradox, or discursive pathology, in which defenders of traditional canons of scholarship (science and rationality) decide they must go feral, fighting fire with fire, using the illogical and irrational methods of thought they attribute to what they perceive as t…
Representing climate change in museum space and places
Museums and science centers hold a unique position in the media and political landscape as trusted information sources and are emerging as key players in climate change debates. The modes of engagement with audiences, visitors, and publics allow museums to provide sensorial and affective experiences though the agency of objects and immersive environments, which facilitate an active role on the part of audiences in cocreating narratives around cli…
What Was Postcolonialism
This essay examines the "pastness" of postcolonial theory by locating it in the project of an "uncompleted" modernity. It argues that as a theoretical problematic "postcolonialism" seems to have lost two of its crucial "memories": the memory of lexicon (especially the etymology of the word "colony") and the memory of a revitalised understanding of the links between imperialism, labour and modernity. Invoking a reworking of a Marxist analytic that…
Crossing Paradigms
This article develops the term meta‐autoethnography to describe self‐transformative narratives of border‐crossings between paradigms and cultures. It focuses on one formative experience, a field trip by a Brazilian‐Australian sociologist on a Brazilian urban sustainability project, planned within a positivistic framework, which went badly wrong. But the ‘failure’ revealed the complicity of the positivistic paradigm with local issues of ideology a…
National character and the discursive process
Cultural making’
There is an increasing adoption of large-scale, multisectoral collaborations which draw upon diverse expertise and innovative processes to tackle complex issues. How social change emerges through such transdisciplinary research alliances is the focus of our paper. Yet, broader participation and openness to uncertainty exacerbates issues of multidimensional power and complexity which continually shape and reshape practices. In this article, we int…
Culture/Communication/Theory in Australia
(2003). CULTURE/COMMUNICATION/THEORY IN AUSTRALIA. Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association: Vol. 100, No. 1, pp. 88-98
The Hydra Paradox
This article explores issues of disasters and their management, against a backdrop of multiple crises that are seen as defining the current condition of globalisation, driven by an ongoing dialectic between forces from 'above' and 'below'. The article draws on forms of chaos theory, treating disasters and their management as a key site in which to examine intersections of crisis and chaos in global processes, colliding with destructive natural ev…
Complexity theory and engaged research
This article reports on a study of Sydney's rail system to argue that engaged research requires a problem-oriented complexity framework. This needs a richer method drawing on ideas from more scientific and mathematical forms of complexity/chaos theory to complement cultural studies understandings of complexity. The paper develops the idea of critical incidents as a bridge between science, cultural studies and business, and uses it to analyse smal…
The Sokal ‘hoax’
Semiotics of corruption
This article analyses a complex text and event to examine the role of ramifying contradictions in strategic social semiotics analysis. The focus was a paradoxical intervention into corruption by then-Mexican President Peña, who responded to an unprecedented wave of popular criticisms of corruption by simultaneously launching an Anticorruption System and apologizing for his own corruption. We asked: how did this contradiction work, in this conjunc…
Multilingual language policy and mother tongue education in Timor-Leste
Oedipus and the CEO
This article situates the theme of the new, in its many guises, within the framework of shifting concepts and uses of change. It adapts ideas from Freud, Foucault and Marx to establish the intractable complexity of ideas of change and to explore its symptomatology in different texts and contexts in management. The article finds good reasons for such apparently opposite qualities as silence in theory and excess in talk about change. In doing so, i…
How the Medium is the Message in the Unconscious of `America Online
This article explores McLuhan's famous slogan `the medium is the message' as a point of departure for examining current views of the nature of the new electronic media understood as a revolutionary form, associated with a new (`post-modern') stage of society. It argues that this slogan packs into itself more layers of meaning than he was able to articulate in a complex and nuanced theory of the media. It suggests that McLuhan's work constructs a …
Beyond reason and hysteria
This article takes the controversy over ‘Mad Cow Disease’ ('BSE') in Britain as the starting point to reflect on postmodern contexts for the production, circulation and control of scientific discourse. It looks at two competing models of scientific rationality, modernist and postmodernist, as they function in contexts we call ‘postmodern’. With BSE? the Government began with the modernist project of combating hysteria with calm reasonableness, th…
TheRisk ofNamingViolence
(1999). The Risk of Naming Violence: An Unpleasant Encounter Between Legal Culture and Feminist Criminology. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 13, LAW, CULTURE AND THE QUESTIONS OF FEMINISM, pp. 13-37
Poetry and Politics in Oodgeroo
Politics has been described in many ways, most of them unflattering and all of them seemingly opposed to whatever poetry may be. Politics is the "art of the possible". As Kath Walker, Oodgeroo made Aboriginal literature possible in 1964 with the landmark publication of We Are Going. Politics in the Western democratic system is about getting the numbers. Oodgeroo's people do not have the numbers in Australia today but her poetry does. Her works ha…
Anthropology and/or/as ‘cultural studies'? A response to Trigger
"Mix a Little Folly with Your Wisdom"--Horace
Happy Auguries of the Decline of an Emergent Speciality
Language and Control
Language as Ideology
"Mix a Little Folly with Your Wisdom"--Horace
National character and the discursive process
Anthropology and/or/as ‘cultural studies'? A response to Trigger
Dark Side of the Dream
Poetry and Politics in Oodgeroo
Politics has been described in many ways, most of them unflattering and all of them seemingly opposed to whatever poetry may be. Politics is the "art of the possible". As Kath Walker, Oodgeroo made Aboriginal literature possible in 1964 with the landmark publication of We Are Going. Politics in the Western democratic system is about getting the numbers. Oodgeroo's people do not have the numbers in Australia today but her poetry does. Her works ha…
Beyond reason and hysteria
This article takes the controversy over ‘Mad Cow Disease’ ('BSE') in Britain as the starting point to reflect on postmodern contexts for the production, circulation and control of scientific discourse. It looks at two competing models of scientific rationality, modernist and postmodernist, as they function in contexts we call ‘postmodern’. With BSE? the Government began with the modernist project of combating hysteria with calm reasonableness, th…
The Sokal ‘hoax’
TheRisk ofNamingViolence
(1999). The Risk of Naming Violence: An Unpleasant Encounter Between Legal Culture and Feminist Criminology. Australian Feminist Law Journal: Vol. 13, LAW, CULTURE AND THE QUESTIONS OF FEMINISM, pp. 13-37
The Politics of Chinese Language and Culture
An innovative text which adopts the tools of cultural studies to provide a fresh approach to the study of Chinese language, culture and society. The book tackles areas such as grammar, language, gender, popular culture, film and the Chinese diaspora and employs the concepts of social semiotics to extend the ideas of language and reading. Covering a range of cultural texts, it will help to break down the boundaries around the ideas and identities …
Feral Archaeology and the Atlantis Problem
This article uses a case study of a TV programme, Atlantis Uncovered, an archaeological programme debunking popular ideas of Atlantis and the ancient past, as an instance of a discursive paradox, or discursive pathology, in which defenders of traditional canons of scholarship (science and rationality) decide they must go feral, fighting fire with fire, using the illogical and irrational methods of thought they attribute to what they perceive as t…
How the Medium is the Message in the Unconscious of `America Online
This article explores McLuhan's famous slogan `the medium is the message' as a point of departure for examining current views of the nature of the new electronic media understood as a revolutionary form, associated with a new (`post-modern') stage of society. It argues that this slogan packs into itself more layers of meaning than he was able to articulate in a complex and nuanced theory of the media. It suggests that McLuhan's work constructs a …
Culture/Communication/Theory in Australia
(2003). CULTURE/COMMUNICATION/THEORY IN AUSTRALIA. Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association: Vol. 100, No. 1, pp. 88-98
Ute Culture and What's Left of Theory
This paper aims to contribute to a collective exploration by the Cultural Studies community into the nature and status of its project. It takes as its point of departure two recent titles of the Au
Biology, semiotics, complexity
This paper uses some recent ideas in biology as starting point to explore analogous concepts and tendencies in semiotics and biology, leading to reflections on interdisciplinarity itself within the framework of theories of chaos and complexity. It sees affinities between the biological concept of species and the semiotic category of discipline. It finds many suggestive parallels with semiotics from the recently emerging synthesis of evolution and…
What Was Postcolonialism
This essay examines the "pastness" of postcolonial theory by locating it in the project of an "uncompleted" modernity. It argues that as a theoretical problematic "postcolonialism" seems to have lost two of its crucial "memories": the memory of lexicon (especially the etymology of the word "colony") and the memory of a revitalised understanding of the links between imperialism, labour and modernity. Invoking a reworking of a Marxist analytic that…
Mexico Inc.? Discourse Analysis and the Triumph of Managerialism
Multinational corporations have become players on the global stage, alongside nations. This article addresses one aspect of this development, the way leaders of nations now use discourses and ways of thinking formerly characteristic of business in major policy documents. The paper distinguishes different senses of ‘discourse’ to identify what is managerial discourse, using textbooks as data. It then looks at a specific instance, the Mexican Gover…
Crossing Paradigms
This article develops the term meta‐autoethnography to describe self‐transformative narratives of border‐crossings between paradigms and cultures. It focuses on one formative experience, a field trip by a Brazilian‐Australian sociologist on a Brazilian urban sustainability project, planned within a positivistic framework, which went badly wrong. But the ‘failure’ revealed the complicity of the positivistic paradigm with local issues of ideology a…
Oedipus and the CEO
This article situates the theme of the new, in its many guises, within the framework of shifting concepts and uses of change. It adapts ideas from Freud, Foucault and Marx to establish the intractable complexity of ideas of change and to explore its symptomatology in different texts and contexts in management. The article finds good reasons for such apparently opposite qualities as silence in theory and excess in talk about change. In doing so, i…
Museums and attacks from cyberspace
This article examines a single virtual incident, a hostile review by climate change sceptic journalist Andrew Bolt of an Australian Museum exhibition on climate change, to explore its implications for contemporary museums curating controversial topics. It takes both topic and attack as aspects of new conditions which science and museums alike must cope with, which include new concepts of science and society, and new communication technologies. It…
Complexity theory and engaged research
This article reports on a study of Sydney's rail system to argue that engaged research requires a problem-oriented complexity framework. This needs a richer method drawing on ideas from more scientific and mathematical forms of complexity/chaos theory to complement cultural studies understandings of complexity. The paper develops the idea of critical incidents as a bridge between science, cultural studies and business, and uses it to analyse smal…
Critical Incident Analysis and the Semiosphere
In January 2007, media outlets across Australia reported the local court decision Police v Rose. Mr Rose pleaded guilty and the presiding magistrate recorded no conviction. This event sparked a 'butterfly effect' that culminated in legislative amendments changing the make-up of the body responsible for oversight of judges in New South Wales. Key players failed to observe the doctrine of the separation of powers; while others called for its observ…
Representing climate change in museum space and places
Museums and science centers hold a unique position in the media and political landscape as trusted information sources and are emerging as key players in climate change debates. The modes of engagement with audiences, visitors, and publics allow museums to provide sensorial and affective experiences though the agency of objects and immersive environments, which facilitate an active role on the part of audiences in cocreating narratives around cli…
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