Daniel Davison‐vecchione
Biographic Data
| ID | 741915 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Davison‐vecchione |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Davison‐vecchione |
| SIGNATURE | VECCHIONE D D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4376-1195 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Dystopian Literature and Classical Social Theory
This article considers what might be learnt from revisiting classical social theory in the context of contemporary utopian studies. More specifically, it returns to the early twentieth century and to the work of Max Weber in order to consider how Weber’s profound reflections on the themes of asceticism, religion, human excellence, and science might be used to reframe and reevaluate a classic dystopian text whose concerns can be seen to overlap wi…
The Outsider Within. Anticolonial Critiques of Humanity and the Cosmopolitan Vision
This article re-examines the anticolonial critique of the concept of 'humanity'. It uses the example of Leopold Senghor to show the extent to which this critique is shaped by their sociological marginality. Drawing on Georg Simmel's discussion of the 'stranger' and Patricia Hill Collins's discussion of the 'outsider within', the study rethinks the production of knowledge in racially structured societies. As 'outsiders within' colonial empires, an…
The secret and The Circle
This article considers Dave Eggers' 2013 dystopian novel The Circle , which critically explores digital surveillance, alongside Georg Simmel's social-theoretical writings on the secret, social distance and proximity, and the intersection of social circles. The article shows how Simmel's social theory illuminates important aspects of secrecy and surveillance in The Circle , including the secret's constitutive role in individuality and social relat…
With and against Max Weber
The following discussion with philosopher and political theorist Wendy Brown revisits some of the arguments of her latest book, Nihilistic Times, in the light of her larger diagnosis presented in Undoing the Demos and In the Ruins of Neoliberalism. Thinking with and against Max Weber, Wendy Brown guides us through and to ways of doing politics and conducting scholarship capable of informing world-making practices that face up to the challenges of…
Ursula Le Guin's Speculative Anthropology
This article argues that Ursula Le Guin's science fiction is a form of 'speculative anthropology' that reconciles thick description and historicity. Like Clifford Geertz's ethnographic writings, Le Guin's science fiction utilises thick description to place the reader within unfamiliar social worlds rendered with extraordinary phenomenological fluency. At the same time, by incorporating social antagonisms, cultural contestation, and historical con…
Filipe Carreira da Silva and Mónica Brito Vieira, The Politics of the Book
Dystopian literature and the sociological imagination
This article argues that sociologists have much to gain from a fuller engagement with dystopian literature. This is because (i) the speculation in dystopian literature tends to be more grounded in empirical social reality than in the case of utopian literature, and (ii) the literary conventions of the dystopia more readily illustrate the relationship between the inner life of the individual and the greater whole of social-historical reality. Thes…
Dystopian literature and the sociological imagination
This article argues that sociologists have much to gain from a fuller engagement with dystopian literature. This is because (i) the speculation in dystopian literature tends to be more grounded in empirical social reality than in the case of utopian literature, and (ii) the literary conventions of the dystopia more readily illustrate the relationship between the inner life of the individual and the greater whole of social-historical reality. Thes…
Ursula Le Guin's Speculative Anthropology
This article argues that Ursula Le Guin's science fiction is a form of 'speculative anthropology' that reconciles thick description and historicity. Like Clifford Geertz's ethnographic writings, Le Guin's science fiction utilises thick description to place the reader within unfamiliar social worlds rendered with extraordinary phenomenological fluency. At the same time, by incorporating social antagonisms, cultural contestation, and historical con…
With and against Max Weber
The following discussion with philosopher and political theorist Wendy Brown revisits some of the arguments of her latest book, Nihilistic Times, in the light of her larger diagnosis presented in Undoing the Demos and In the Ruins of Neoliberalism. Thinking with and against Max Weber, Wendy Brown guides us through and to ways of doing politics and conducting scholarship capable of informing world-making practices that face up to the challenges of…
Dystopian literature and the sociological imagination
This article argues that sociologists have much to gain from a fuller engagement with dystopian literature. This is because (i) the speculation in dystopian literature tends to be more grounded in empirical social reality than in the case of utopian literature, and (ii) the literary conventions of the dystopia more readily illustrate the relationship between the inner life of the individual and the greater whole of social-historical reality. Thes…
Filipe Carreira da Silva and Mónica Brito Vieira, The Politics of the Book
Ursula Le Guin's Speculative Anthropology
This article argues that Ursula Le Guin's science fiction is a form of 'speculative anthropology' that reconciles thick description and historicity. Like Clifford Geertz's ethnographic writings, Le Guin's science fiction utilises thick description to place the reader within unfamiliar social worlds rendered with extraordinary phenomenological fluency. At the same time, by incorporating social antagonisms, cultural contestation, and historical con…
With and against Max Weber
The following discussion with philosopher and political theorist Wendy Brown revisits some of the arguments of her latest book, Nihilistic Times, in the light of her larger diagnosis presented in Undoing the Demos and In the Ruins of Neoliberalism. Thinking with and against Max Weber, Wendy Brown guides us through and to ways of doing politics and conducting scholarship capable of informing world-making practices that face up to the challenges of…
The Outsider Within. Anticolonial Critiques of Humanity and the Cosmopolitan Vision
This article re-examines the anticolonial critique of the concept of 'humanity'. It uses the example of Leopold Senghor to show the extent to which this critique is shaped by their sociological marginality. Drawing on Georg Simmel's discussion of the 'stranger' and Patricia Hill Collins's discussion of the 'outsider within', the study rethinks the production of knowledge in racially structured societies. As 'outsiders within' colonial empires, an…
The secret and The Circle
This article considers Dave Eggers' 2013 dystopian novel The Circle , which critically explores digital surveillance, alongside Georg Simmel's social-theoretical writings on the secret, social distance and proximity, and the intersection of social circles. The article shows how Simmel's social theory illuminates important aspects of secrecy and surveillance in The Circle , including the secret's constitutive role in individuality and social relat…
Dystopian Literature and Classical Social Theory
This article considers what might be learnt from revisiting classical social theory in the context of contemporary utopian studies. More specifically, it returns to the early twentieth century and to the work of Max Weber in order to consider how Weber’s profound reflections on the themes of asceticism, religion, human excellence, and science might be used to reframe and reevaluate a classic dystopian text whose concerns can be seen to overlap wi…
Sociology (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Dystopia (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works)