Michael Bernard–Donals
Biographic Data
| ID | 5423338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Bernard–Donals |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernard–Donals |
| SIGNATURE | DONALS M B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Higher Education
With higher education in a state of flux, it’s time to more clearly understand what flux—mobility—means for the work of faculty at colleges and universities. With threats to shared governance, tenure, and academic freedom representing one sort of change, what would it mean for faculty to lean into the vulnerability that they are experiencing? Mobility has consequences: one of them is the risk of harm; another is the potential to destabilize conce…
Academic Freedom and Institutional Violence
Academic freedom is typically understood as a means of protecting faculty rights against the violence—physical or intellectual—of the state or of the institution’s administration. This article argues that academic freedom may be seen as a form of violence, insofar as it is potentially threatening to the methodological and institutional stasis of colleges and universities
Academic Freedom’s Rhetorical “Gray Zone”
The tension between freedom of speech and academic freedom results from the contradiction between democracy and expertise, resulting in a rhetorical “gray zone” that stymies faculty appeals to due process and constitutional protection. It’s not so much that certain “uncivil” words and utterances cannot be said in this gray zone; it’s that such words, when said, require one’s ejection from the (academic) demos. In an examination of the case of Ste…
Inside the Teaching Machine
The full integration of public higher education in the United States into the global capitalist economy should come as no surprise to anyone. Catherine Chaput makes the case in Inside the Teaching Machine that despite the Morrill Act and its aim of turning out “critical citizens,” the U.S. system of public higher education has always worked to produce subjects whose labor would promote the aims of national and, later, international capital. She g…
On Violence and Vulnerability in a Pandemic
Pandemics and plagues function rhetorically, by doing violence to the structures of discourse, sociality, hospitality, and mutual engagement that characterize ethical human interaction. They infect us, as rhetorical subjects, and reorient our capacity for engagement. The coronavirus's “novelty” renders it uncertain as to how long it will last or who will be infected next; the near-uniform response to it has been a forced distance of ourselves fro…
The Politics of Responsibility
Bakhtin Ethics Rhetoric
This essay evaluates the early phenomenological work of Mikhail Bakhtin and makes the case that the rhetorical dimension of that work cannot be understood outside the context of ethics, and argues that the connection between rhetoric and ethics poses certain problems for scholars who have taken up his language philosophy as rhetorical in more or less orthodox terms. Because his ethics and rhetoric are founded on the idea of non-coincidence, the o…
The Belated Witness
Book Review| January 01 2007 The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust SurvivalLevine, Michael G.Testimony after Catastrophe: Narrating Traumas of Political ViolenceWeine, Stevan Michael Bernard-Donals Michael Bernard-Donals Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2007) 44 (3): 340–3…
Conflations of Memory
Conflations of Memoryor, What They Saw at the Holocaust Museum after 9/11 Michael Bernard-Donals (bio) As visitors to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm) leave the permanent exhibit, they find an open, loose-leafed binder, in which they are invited to write comments about what they saw. Many of them do so, sometimes leaving a single word or sentence, and sometimes covering an entire page with writing, attempting in one way or anot…
Between Witness and Testimony
Bakhtin and Phenomenology
Gary Saul Morson's recent attempts to unify Bakhtin's oeuvre under single term prosaics seem at first glance a welcome change from industry's prevailing modus operandi. Rather than trying to understand Bakhtin's thinking as unitary from start to finish-treating terms like answerability' or dialogics2 as embryonic instances of entirety of Russian thinker's work-Morson sees Bakhtin's work as anti-theoretical and growing in stages. Morson's primary,…
The Rodney King Verdict, the "New York Times", and the "Normalization" of the Los Angeles Riots; Or, What Antifoundationalism Can't Do
Michael Bernard-Donals, The Rodney King Verdict, the "New York Times", and the "Normalization" of the Los Angeles Riots; Or, What Antifoundationalism Can't Do, Cultural Critique, No. 27 (Spring, 1994), pp. 61-87
Jazz, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Rap and Politics
The Rodney King Verdict, the "New York Times", and the "Normalization" of the Los Angeles Riots; Or, What Antifoundationalism Can't Do
Michael Bernard-Donals, The Rodney King Verdict, the "New York Times", and the "Normalization" of the Los Angeles Riots; Or, What Antifoundationalism Can't Do, Cultural Critique, No. 27 (Spring, 1994), pp. 61-87
Jazz, Rock ‘n’ Roll, Rap and Politics
Bakhtin and Phenomenology
Gary Saul Morson's recent attempts to unify Bakhtin's oeuvre under single term prosaics seem at first glance a welcome change from industry's prevailing modus operandi. Rather than trying to understand Bakhtin's thinking as unitary from start to finish-treating terms like answerability' or dialogics2 as embryonic instances of entirety of Russian thinker's work-Morson sees Bakhtin's work as anti-theoretical and growing in stages. Morson's primary,…
Between Witness and Testimony
Conflations of Memory
Conflations of Memoryor, What They Saw at the Holocaust Museum after 9/11 Michael Bernard-Donals (bio) As visitors to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm) leave the permanent exhibit, they find an open, loose-leafed binder, in which they are invited to write comments about what they saw. Many of them do so, sometimes leaving a single word or sentence, and sometimes covering an entire page with writing, attempting in one way or anot…
The Belated Witness
Book Review| January 01 2007 The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust SurvivalLevine, Michael G.Testimony after Catastrophe: Narrating Traumas of Political ViolenceWeine, Stevan Michael Bernard-Donals Michael Bernard-Donals Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Literature Studies (2007) 44 (3): 340–3…
Bakhtin Ethics Rhetoric
This essay evaluates the early phenomenological work of Mikhail Bakhtin and makes the case that the rhetorical dimension of that work cannot be understood outside the context of ethics, and argues that the connection between rhetoric and ethics poses certain problems for scholars who have taken up his language philosophy as rhetorical in more or less orthodox terms. Because his ethics and rhetoric are founded on the idea of non-coincidence, the o…
The Politics of Responsibility
On Violence and Vulnerability in a Pandemic
Pandemics and plagues function rhetorically, by doing violence to the structures of discourse, sociality, hospitality, and mutual engagement that characterize ethical human interaction. They infect us, as rhetorical subjects, and reorient our capacity for engagement. The coronavirus's “novelty” renders it uncertain as to how long it will last or who will be infected next; the near-uniform response to it has been a forced distance of ourselves fro…
Academic Freedom’s Rhetorical “Gray Zone”
The tension between freedom of speech and academic freedom results from the contradiction between democracy and expertise, resulting in a rhetorical “gray zone” that stymies faculty appeals to due process and constitutional protection. It’s not so much that certain “uncivil” words and utterances cannot be said in this gray zone; it’s that such words, when said, require one’s ejection from the (academic) demos. In an examination of the case of Ste…
Inside the Teaching Machine
The full integration of public higher education in the United States into the global capitalist economy should come as no surprise to anyone. Catherine Chaput makes the case in Inside the Teaching Machine that despite the Morrill Act and its aim of turning out “critical citizens,” the U.S. system of public higher education has always worked to produce subjects whose labor would promote the aims of national and, later, international capital. She g…
Academic Freedom and Institutional Violence
Academic freedom is typically understood as a means of protecting faculty rights against the violence—physical or intellectual—of the state or of the institution’s administration. This article argues that academic freedom may be seen as a form of violence, insofar as it is potentially threatening to the methodological and institutional stasis of colleges and universities
Higher Education
With higher education in a state of flux, it’s time to more clearly understand what flux—mobility—means for the work of faculty at colleges and universities. With threats to shared governance, tenure, and academic freedom representing one sort of change, what would it mean for faculty to lean into the vulnerability that they are experiencing? Mobility has consequences: one of them is the risk of harm; another is the potential to destabilize conce…
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