Hensley Hensley
Biographic Data
| ID | 6011373 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hensley Hensley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hensley |
| FAMILY NAME | Hensley |
| SIGNATURE | HENSLEY H |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Curatorial Reading and Endless War
This article presumes that recent debates about the nature of reading take implicit positions on the corporate university’s project of replacing critical with instrumental reason. In response it argues for a “curatorial” approach to historical objects, one predicated on a relation of care that is intrinsic (aimed at cultural objects themselves) and extrinsic (aimed at critiquing the violence such objects necessarily mediate). Three photographs by…
Liberal Epic
Reviewed by: Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill by Edward Adams Nathan K. Hensley (bio) Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill, by Edward Adams; pp. x + 322. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, $39.50, $29.50 paper. Near the end of Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana (2005), we watch the assassination of an Arab prince through drone eyes: inside a CIA control room, on a…
Armadale and the Logic of Liberalism
This article argues that Victorian ideas about character crystallize a tension between singularity and universality crucial to the smooth functioning of democracy. Formally equivalent to one another and able to engage in contrac - tual social relations, liberal subjects emerge through an operation J. S. mill's System of Logic describes as induction, and that Karl marx explains via the general equivalency of the money form. In dialogue with theori…
Curatorial Reading and Endless War
This article presumes that recent debates about the nature of reading take implicit positions on the corporate university’s project of replacing critical with instrumental reason. In response it argues for a “curatorial” approach to historical objects, one predicated on a relation of care that is intrinsic (aimed at cultural objects themselves) and extrinsic (aimed at critiquing the violence such objects necessarily mediate). Three photographs by…
Armadale and the Logic of Liberalism
This article argues that Victorian ideas about character crystallize a tension between singularity and universality crucial to the smooth functioning of democracy. Formally equivalent to one another and able to engage in contrac - tual social relations, liberal subjects emerge through an operation J. S. mill's System of Logic describes as induction, and that Karl marx explains via the general equivalency of the money form. In dialogue with theori…
Curatorial Reading and Endless War
This article presumes that recent debates about the nature of reading take implicit positions on the corporate university’s project of replacing critical with instrumental reason. In response it argues for a “curatorial” approach to historical objects, one predicated on a relation of care that is intrinsic (aimed at cultural objects themselves) and extrinsic (aimed at critiquing the violence such objects necessarily mediate). Three photographs by…
Liberal Epic
Reviewed by: Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill by Edward Adams Nathan K. Hensley (bio) Liberal Epic: The Victorian Practice of History from Gibbon to Churchill, by Edward Adams; pp. x + 322. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011, $39.50, $29.50 paper. Near the end of Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana (2005), we watch the assassination of an Arab prince through drone eyes: inside a CIA control room, on a…
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