David Houston Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 5772045 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Houston Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | David Houston |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES D H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9186-6114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Forensic rhetoric
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the shifting role of healthcare evidence in public health presentations. This article investigates the rhetoric of those presentations as a phenomenon indicating both the commitment to evidence-based public health messaging and its political loading in three interlinked case studies: computer-generated imagery ; 'podium' presentation and the NSO Fleming leak of COVID-19 contact tracing data. The …
From Commonplace to Common Ground
This essay assesses the ambivalent gesture of repair in the work of the Franco-Algerian artist Kader Attia, as it is brought to bear upon the history of the facially injured soldiers of the First World War. Attia mobilises installation art to ask searching questions of the epistemological frameworks within which the experience of the gueules cassées has been understood in the last hundred years. That history is scrutinised by means of the notion …
Introduction
The mutilated face of soldiers injured during the Great War is an emblem not only of a new era in warfare but also of a period of unprecedented experimentation and innovation in medical practice and the arts. In this special issue, we consider two interrelated issues: (1) The reciprocal influence of art and medicine. In particular, the debt to artistic practices and practitioners of the forms of surgery pioneered during WWI (with particular refer…
The inadequate archive
This article considers Silvia Kolbowski’s video installation After Hiroshima mon amour as an instance of ethical remaking. In remaking Duras and Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour (1959) in the shadow of the Iraq war, Kolbowski taps into an existing repetition dynamic: Kolbowski foregrounds the impossibility of an end to the conflict in Iraq by reference to a film concerned with the memorial persistence of Hiroshima. Kolbowski’s practice further recal…
Sex, Sainthood and the Other Body
From Commonplace to Common Ground
This essay assesses the ambivalent gesture of repair in the work of the Franco-Algerian artist Kader Attia, as it is brought to bear upon the history of the facially injured soldiers of the First World War. Attia mobilises installation art to ask searching questions of the epistemological frameworks within which the experience of the gueules cassées has been understood in the last hundred years. That history is scrutinised by means of the notion …
Sex, Sainthood and the Other Body
Sex, Sainthood and the Other Body
The inadequate archive
This article considers Silvia Kolbowski’s video installation After Hiroshima mon amour as an instance of ethical remaking. In remaking Duras and Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour (1959) in the shadow of the Iraq war, Kolbowski taps into an existing repetition dynamic: Kolbowski foregrounds the impossibility of an end to the conflict in Iraq by reference to a film concerned with the memorial persistence of Hiroshima. Kolbowski’s practice further recal…
From Commonplace to Common Ground
This essay assesses the ambivalent gesture of repair in the work of the Franco-Algerian artist Kader Attia, as it is brought to bear upon the history of the facially injured soldiers of the First World War. Attia mobilises installation art to ask searching questions of the epistemological frameworks within which the experience of the gueules cassées has been understood in the last hundred years. That history is scrutinised by means of the notion …
Introduction
The mutilated face of soldiers injured during the Great War is an emblem not only of a new era in warfare but also of a period of unprecedented experimentation and innovation in medical practice and the arts. In this special issue, we consider two interrelated issues: (1) The reciprocal influence of art and medicine. In particular, the debt to artistic practices and practitioners of the forms of surgery pioneered during WWI (with particular refer…
Forensic rhetoric
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the shifting role of healthcare evidence in public health presentations. This article investigates the rhetoric of those presentations as a phenomenon indicating both the commitment to evidence-based public health messaging and its political loading in three interlinked case studies: computer-generated imagery ; 'podium' presentation and the NSO Fleming leak of COVID-19 contact tracing data. The …
Art (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works)