Cathy Gere
Biographic Data
| ID | 950383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathy Gere |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathy |
| FAMILY NAME | Gere |
| SIGNATURE | GERE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2396-7914 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The wins of the grassroots climate movement in the University of California
As the climate and ecological predicament worsens, too many people seem to be waiting for policy to be implemented from “on high.” Yet the history of many social struggles shows us that achieving policy wins requires a strong push from below. Here we recount how members of the climate justice organization The UC San Diego Green New Deal were critical to reorienting the climate policy of a very large institution, the 10 campus University of Califo…
Dig Beneath a Mosque
A review essay on recent books considering archaeology and ethno-nationalist projection, including books by Johann Chapoutot, Jean-Paul Demoule, Ashish Avikunthak, and Raphael Greenberg and Yannis Hamilakis
Footnotes
This essay takes the form of footnotes to a non-existent text and limps through a number of questions of feet and legs and shoes and paths and routes, in relation to the work of Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger. Predictably enough it stumbles over Heidegger’s engagement with Van Gogh’s peasant shoes, Meyer Schapiro’s critique of that engagement and Derrida’s polylogue, ‘Restitutions’ on the encounter between Heidegger and Schapiro. In the end…
Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America by Christine Filippone
Reviewed by: Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America by Christine Filippone Charlie Gere (bio) Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America By Christine Filippone. London: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 218. Science, Technology, and Utopias: Women Artists and Cold War America By Christine Filippone. London: Routledge, 2016. Pp. 218. Christine Filippone's book looks at the work of several women artists du…
Book Forum
Science, Values, and Science Communication: Competencies for Pushing Beyond the Deficit Model
The deficit (knowledge transmission) model of science communication is widespread and resistant to change, highlighting the limited influence of science communication research on practice. We argue that scholar–practitioner partnerships are key to operationalizing science communication scholarship. To demonstrate, we present a transformative product of one such partnership: a set of ethics and values competencies to foster effective communication…
Media
In this year’s chapter, covering work published in 2015, I continue to look at some of the ways that those concerned with media address the question of the Anthropocene. If, in Friedrich Kittler’s words, media determine our situation, and there is no outside-media, then the media are central to the Anthropocene, and this necessitates rethinking what media is and, who or what, mediates what or who through it. Such a thinking necessitates questioni…
Necromedia by Marcel O'Gorman
Reviewed by: Necromedia by Marcel O’Gorman Charlie Gere (bio) Necromedia. By Marcel O’Gorman. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2015. Pp. 256. $25. Necromedia, by artist and theorist Marcel O’Gorman, is a good example of a recent thanatotropic turn, or perhaps re-turn, in culture. In response to the threat of climate catastrophe and the more general political uncertainly and pervasive unease of contemporary existence, death has emerged as …
Media
Journal Article 13Media Get access Charlie Gere Charlie Gere Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Volume 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 270–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbv012 Published: 07 May 2015
Curating aphasia: Pierre Paul Broca’s Museological Science
In this article, the importance of the famous nineteenth-century surgeon Pierre Paul Broca’s curatorial activities is assessed. Broca’s curatorship secured his achievement in localising the function of speech, which was a watershed moment in the history of neuroscience. Historians have debated why Broca succeeded where others had failed, citing cultural, political and personal influences, but what has been overlooked in these previous discussions…
The Tomb of Agamemnon
Community without Community in Digital Culture
Community Without Community in Digital Culture presents the view that our digital culture is determined not by greater connection, but by the separation and gap that is a necessary concomitant of our
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, Cathy Gere relates the fascinating story of Evans' excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After World War I left the Enlightenment dream in tatte…
Art of the Digital Age by Bruce Wands
The Flesh Made Word: Banking the Body in the Age of Information
Genealogy of the computer screen
This article proposes that the modern computer screen is derived more from the radar screen rather than, as might be expected, the television screen, which has important ramifications for how the computer has developed and been understood. These ramifications are being obscured by the current drive towards the ‘convergence’ of television and computing. This article traces the modern computer screen back to the development of nuclear early warning…
Contested bodies: Property models and the commodification of human biological artefacts
The authors would like to thank the Wellcome Trust for funding the project on which this research is based and King’s College, Cambridge for accommodating the project. They are particularly indebted to the members of the CFAS/Addenbrookes Hospital Brain Bank collective who allowed themselves to be subject to such intense and prolonged scrutiny! For very helpful comments on an earlier draft, the authors would like to thank Chris Wilbert and Damian…
New Media Art
Breaking the Time Barrier
This paper examines the cultural implications of the increasing speed and acceleration of technological operation and development. It takes its cue from the notion originally proposed by Ernst Jünger and later taken up by Maurice Blanchot and, more recently, Bernard Stiegler, that we are ‘breaking the time barrier’. For Stiegler this is happening because ‘technics is evolving faster than culture’. This paper examines the beginnings of this idea i…
The Brain in a Vat
The technologies and politics of delusion: An interview with artist Rod Dickinson
The technologies and politics of delusion: An interview with artist Rod Dickinson
The brain in a vat
Thought in a vat: Thinking through Annie Cattrell
Thought in a vat: Thinking through Annie Cattrell
Contested bodies: Property models and the commodification of human biological artefacts
The authors would like to thank the Wellcome Trust for funding the project on which this research is based and King’s College, Cambridge for accommodating the project. They are particularly indebted to the members of the CFAS/Addenbrookes Hospital Brain Bank collective who allowed themselves to be subject to such intense and prolonged scrutiny! For very helpful comments on an earlier draft, the authors would like to thank Chris Wilbert and Damian…
Science, Values, and Science Communication: Competencies for Pushing Beyond the Deficit Model
The deficit (knowledge transmission) model of science communication is widespread and resistant to change, highlighting the limited influence of science communication research on practice. We argue that scholar–practitioner partnerships are key to operationalizing science communication scholarship. To demonstrate, we present a transformative product of one such partnership: a set of ethics and values competencies to foster effective communication…
The brain in a vat
Genealogy of the computer screen
This article proposes that the modern computer screen is derived more from the radar screen rather than, as might be expected, the television screen, which has important ramifications for how the computer has developed and been understood. These ramifications are being obscured by the current drive towards the ‘convergence’ of television and computing. This article traces the modern computer screen back to the development of nuclear early warning…
Bones that matter: Sex determination in paleodemography 1948–1995
Breaking the Time Barrier
This paper examines the cultural implications of the increasing speed and acceleration of technological operation and development. It takes its cue from the notion originally proposed by Ernst Jünger and later taken up by Maurice Blanchot and, more recently, Bernard Stiegler, that we are ‘breaking the time barrier’. For Stiegler this is happening because ‘technics is evolving faster than culture’. This paper examines the beginnings of this idea i…
The Brain in a Vat
The Brain in a Vatguest Editors
Brains-in-vats, giant brains and world brains: The brain as metaphor in digital culture
Inscribing nature: Archaeological metaphors and the formation of new sciences
This paper examines how new sciences legitimate themselves through the deployment of archaeological metaphors. It begins by considering one of the earliest examples of this deployment, exploring why metaphorical archaeology has been so useful in launching new readings of nature. The second section traces the subsequent fortunes of the archaeological metaphor, examining how it was exploited in the context of the museum sciences of the early 19th c…
Bones that matter: Sex determination in paleodemography 1948–1995
Williams Harvey's Weak Experiment: The Archaeology of an Anecdote
William Harvey's Weak Experiment: the archaeology of an anecdote' examines an anonymous seventeenth century manuscript, published in the Gentleman's Magazine in 1832, that recounts a story about Dr William Harvey. The manuscript describes how the discoverer of the circulation of the blood, during a sojourn in Newmarket with his patron King Charles I, disguised himself one day as a wizard and set off for a lone house on the borders of Newmarket He…
The Book at the End of the Book
Books reviewed in this article: Peter Weibel and Timothy Druckrey, (eds) net condition: art and global media Timothy Druckrey, (ed.) Ars Electronica: Facing the Future Lev Manovich, The Language of New Media
Inscribing nature: Archaeological metaphors and the formation of new sciences
Inscribing nature: Archaeological metaphors and the formation of new sciences
This paper examines how new sciences legitimate themselves through the deployment of archaeological metaphors. It begins by considering one of the earliest examples of this deployment, exploring why metaphorical archaeology has been so useful in launching new readings of nature. The second section traces the subsequent fortunes of the archaeological metaphor, examining how it was exploited in the context of the museum sciences of the early 19th c…
Breaking the Time Barrier
This paper examines the cultural implications of the increasing speed and acceleration of technological operation and development. It takes its cue from the notion originally proposed by Ernst Jünger and later taken up by Maurice Blanchot and, more recently, Bernard Stiegler, that we are ‘breaking the time barrier’. For Stiegler this is happening because ‘technics is evolving faster than culture’. This paper examines the beginnings of this idea i…
The Brain in a Vat
The technologies and politics of delusion: An interview with artist Rod Dickinson
The technologies and politics of delusion: An interview with artist Rod Dickinson
The brain in a vat
Thought in a vat: Thinking through Annie Cattrell
Thought in a vat: Thinking through Annie Cattrell
The brain in a vat
The Brain in a Vatguest Editors
Brains-in-vats, giant brains and world brains: The brain as metaphor in digital culture
New Media Art
The Flesh Made Word: Banking the Body in the Age of Information
Genealogy of the computer screen
This article proposes that the modern computer screen is derived more from the radar screen rather than, as might be expected, the television screen, which has important ramifications for how the computer has developed and been understood. These ramifications are being obscured by the current drive towards the ‘convergence’ of television and computing. This article traces the modern computer screen back to the development of nuclear early warning…
Contested bodies: Property models and the commodification of human biological artefacts
The authors would like to thank the Wellcome Trust for funding the project on which this research is based and King’s College, Cambridge for accommodating the project. They are particularly indebted to the members of the CFAS/Addenbrookes Hospital Brain Bank collective who allowed themselves to be subject to such intense and prolonged scrutiny! For very helpful comments on an earlier draft, the authors would like to thank Chris Wilbert and Damian…
Art of the Digital Age by Bruce Wands
Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
In the spring of 1900, British archaeologist Arthur Evans began to excavate the palace of Knossos on Crete, bringing ancient Greek legends to life just as a new century dawned amid far-reaching questions about human history, art, and culture. With Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, Cathy Gere relates the fascinating story of Evans' excavation and its long-term effects on Western culture. After World War I left the Enlightenment dream in tatte…
The Tomb of Agamemnon
Community without Community in Digital Culture
Community Without Community in Digital Culture presents the view that our digital culture is determined not by greater connection, but by the separation and gap that is a necessary concomitant of our
Curating aphasia: Pierre Paul Broca’s Museological Science
In this article, the importance of the famous nineteenth-century surgeon Pierre Paul Broca’s curatorial activities is assessed. Broca’s curatorship secured his achievement in localising the function of speech, which was a watershed moment in the history of neuroscience. Historians have debated why Broca succeeded where others had failed, citing cultural, political and personal influences, but what has been overlooked in these previous discussions…
Media
Journal Article 13Media Get access Charlie Gere Charlie Gere Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Volume 23, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 270–290, https://doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbv012 Published: 07 May 2015
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