Pat McConville
Biographic Data
| ID | 5688564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pat McConville |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pat |
| FAMILY NAME | McConville |
| SIGNATURE | MCCONVILLE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7339-1669 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
'Condemned to Proceeding'
Work on Merleau-Ponty has tended to overlook the role of the internal body in his phenomenology. In this paper, I examine the role of the heart as a temporalising and motivating organ for human experience by aligning his work with phenomenologist and writer, María Zambrano. In the first part, I consider some of Merleau-Ponty’s comments on temporality and the organs, especially the heart. In the second part, I consider two interpretations of the h…
Hard data or heart data? Interrupting prereflective experience with medical representations
Toward a phenomenology of congenital illness
Asteroids, Holoblack and Clearance Futurism
In this paper, I argue that the video game Asteroids’ enduring appeal turns on its ability to be read as futurist text. I connect Asteroids’ black and white aesthetic to the phenomenologist Vivian Sobchack’s notion of postfuturism. Central to postfuturism is a change from representations of space as deep to representations of space as surface, incapable of concealment. I consider materials designed to absorb almost all visible light—which I call …
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Toward a phenomenology of congenital illness
Asteroids, Holoblack and Clearance Futurism
In this paper, I argue that the video game Asteroids’ enduring appeal turns on its ability to be read as futurist text. I connect Asteroids’ black and white aesthetic to the phenomenologist Vivian Sobchack’s notion of postfuturism. Central to postfuturism is a change from representations of space as deep to representations of space as surface, incapable of concealment. I consider materials designed to absorb almost all visible light—which I call …
Hard data or heart data? Interrupting prereflective experience with medical representations
'Condemned to Proceeding'
Work on Merleau-Ponty has tended to overlook the role of the internal body in his phenomenology. In this paper, I examine the role of the heart as a temporalising and motivating organ for human experience by aligning his work with phenomenologist and writer, María Zambrano. In the first part, I consider some of Merleau-Ponty’s comments on temporality and the organs, especially the heart. In the second part, I consider two interpretations of the h…
Philosophy (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Mental Health and Psychiatry (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Asteroid (1 work) · Astrobiology (1 work)