Ben Dibley
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 75318 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ben Dibley |
| PRENOMES | Ben |
| SOBRENOME | Dibley |
| ASSINATURA | BEN DIBLEY |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7517-0405 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Climate Collections and Photosynthetic, Fossil-Fueled Atmospheres
Historical, cultural, and technological collections are routinely put to work to illustrate narratives of progress, history, and identity. They can also convey new stories that articulate how cultural objects might serve as material expressions of climate change embedded in climate processes. This article considers the oldest surviving largely unaltered Boulton and Watt rotative engine, housed in the collection of the Science Museum, London, as a…
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney
This article presents a history of Sydney's New Year's Eve event. First established when a crowd gathered outside Sydney's General Post Office in 1897 to celebrate the inauguration of International Standard Time, in more recent years it has evolved into a signature event on the city's calendar, drawing in excess of 1 million people into the Central Business District in a spectacular celebration of the global city. For those authorities charged wi…
Assembling and Governing Habits
Assembling and Governing Habits
Habit, Suggestion and the Paradox of the Crowd
This chapter is concerned with ways in which notions of habit and suggestion have been deployed in discussions of the crowd in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social science literatures—particularly as used by LeBon and Tarde. The chapter’s purpose is to tease out the ways in which the adjacent terms—habit and suggestion—are mobilized in crowd discourses and in the theories of the subject on which they rely. In doing so, it explores …
Provoking Animal Realities on TV
This paper investigates the logistics of crafting and accounting for animal realities on television. Using the case of The Making of David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies, a behind-the-scenes documentary about how the Sky TV series David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies was created, it explores how the material reality of animals becomes a televisual reality. In seeking to challenge the lingering concern within many media studies critiqu…
Making animals public
This paper analyses how animals became devices of the public in the early years of ABC television. It investigates the challenges of how to make animals televisual and reflects on the various forms of public interest and environmental awareness these animals generated. Over this period most animal content on the ABC was imported from the BBC. By examining a 1956 episode of Attenborough’s Zoo Quest, we see how capturing wild animals on film was te…
Technofossil
In the process of formally identifying a geological interval, it is crucial for stratigraphersto find the point at which strata reveal a significant, dramatic shift in the types of fossilsand other geological markers being found. In the nomenclature of the discipline thispoint constitutes a "golden spike". For the geologists advancing the proposition that theAnthropocene might be formalized as the Earth's latest interval on the geologic time scal…
Marking Differences
This paper examines the similarities and differences between the cultural tastes and practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and non-Indigenous Australians as evidenced by the relationships between the main sample and an Indigenous sample recruited by a 2015 national survey. It does so in order to identify the respects in which Indigenous tastes are distinctive in relation to (i) cultural practices with an Indigenous reference, (ii) c…
Favourite Sounds
Drawing on data from the Australian Cultural Fields survey, this article investigates the music field. Following the protocols of multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), it charts the music field in Australia, mapping the cultural and social contours of those who populate this space. In this context, the article considers the notion of emerging cultural capital deployed in recent surveys on social class. The article questions the contention that …
Morale and Mass Observation
This paper focuses on Mass Observation (MO)'s morale work, commissioned by the British Government over the period 1939-41. It examines the ways in which MO's earlier collecting practices were recomposed through its research into civilian morale, and linked up with national centres of calculation, in particular the Ministry of Information (MoI). We explore the associations through which civilian morale was established, simultaneously, as an autono…
Museums and Empire
While discussions of the relations between museums and empire are now well developed, the two volumes under review are without doubt significant contributions to this field. Each offers new insight
Introduction
This special issue contributes to an emerging literature on the materialities of colonial government by considering the changing relations between practices of data collecting, styles of anthropological knowing and modes of governing which target the conduct of colonial and metropolitan populations. Drawing on comparative studies from Australia; the Australian administered territory of Papua; France; French Indo-China; New Zealand; North America …
Assembling an Anthropological Actor
This paper traces the networks through which particular practices of collecting cultures became imbricated in new relations governing colonial populations. It investigates the socio-technical arrangements associated with “practical anthropology” as they were enrolled in the Australian administered territory of Papua. The paper follows the assemblage of a new kind of anthropological actor: one which is framed in relation to new articulations of th…
‘The Shape of Things to Come’
As epoch and as discourse it would seem the Anthropocene has arrived. For it is a term that supplies an arresting image of a daunting development: the advent of a geological era of humanity's own making. For the earth system scientists who have championed the notion, the Anthropocene signals a geological interval since the industrial revolution, where, through its activities, through its numbers, the human species has emerged as a geological forc…
Museums and a common world
At stake in this paper is the nature of the relationship between the institution of the museum and the common world. It is contended that such relations are regularly asserted through cosmopolitan appeals, which are premised on the assumption that a cosmos, a world, a universal, pre-exists its articulation, and, that it is the task of reason and of science to adjust the citizen-subject to this already-present condition. This paper argues that thi…
Climate Crisis and the Actuarial Imaginary
Has there ever been a climate crisis? Or an economic crisis? Did these ever happen? Are they happening? 'Merry crisis and a happy new fear' - these words, spray painted outside the Bank of Greece in Athens, as that country erupted in riots in December 2008, seemed to say it so well. There is always another crisis, a new crisis. Enjoy your crisis. But also be scared. Since the crisis perpetuates fear. In this paper we want to critically interrogat…
The museum’s redemption
Despite a history deeply implicated in an imperial, bourgeois and phallocentric social order, the museum is a cultural institution that can be redeemed from this legacy of racism, classism and sexism. Or so it would seem from reading the now burgeoning critical scholarship on museums. Here, almost all of the museum’s analysts argue that, in some way or another, the institution can be reformed so that it can overcome the exclusions of the past and…
Antipodean Aesthetics, Public Policy and the Museum
The Museum of New Zealand-Te Papa Tongarewa has proved a complex cultural site that has generated much public debate and a growing academic literature. This article departs from critical approaches that resolve the analysis of this museum by pointing up its programmatic inconsistencies, internal contradictions, representational inadequacies or its institutional paradoxes. Rather than establishing Te Papa as an object for reform the author reads i…
Introduction
This special issue contributes to an emerging literature on the materialities of colonial government by considering the changing relations between practices of data collecting, styles of anthropological knowing and modes of governing which target the conduct of colonial and metropolitan populations. Drawing on comparative studies from Australia; the Australian administered territory of Papua; France; French Indo-China; New Zealand; North America …
The museum’s redemption
Despite a history deeply implicated in an imperial, bourgeois and phallocentric social order, the museum is a cultural institution that can be redeemed from this legacy of racism, classism and sexism. Or so it would seem from reading the now burgeoning critical scholarship on museums. Here, almost all of the museum’s analysts argue that, in some way or another, the institution can be reformed so that it can overcome the exclusions of the past and…
Technofossil
In the process of formally identifying a geological interval, it is crucial for stratigraphersto find the point at which strata reveal a significant, dramatic shift in the types of fossilsand other geological markers being found. In the nomenclature of the discipline thispoint constitutes a "golden spike". For the geologists advancing the proposition that theAnthropocene might be formalized as the Earth's latest interval on the geologic time scal…
Assembling an Anthropological Actor
This paper traces the networks through which particular practices of collecting cultures became imbricated in new relations governing colonial populations. It investigates the socio-technical arrangements associated with “practical anthropology” as they were enrolled in the Australian administered territory of Papua. The paper follows the assemblage of a new kind of anthropological actor: one which is framed in relation to new articulations of th…
Making animals public
This paper analyses how animals became devices of the public in the early years of ABC television. It investigates the challenges of how to make animals televisual and reflects on the various forms of public interest and environmental awareness these animals generated. Over this period most animal content on the ABC was imported from the BBC. By examining a 1956 episode of Attenborough’s Zoo Quest, we see how capturing wild animals on film was te…
Marking Differences
This paper examines the similarities and differences between the cultural tastes and practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and non-Indigenous Australians as evidenced by the relationships between the main sample and an Indigenous sample recruited by a 2015 national survey. It does so in order to identify the respects in which Indigenous tastes are distinctive in relation to (i) cultural practices with an Indigenous reference, (ii) c…
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney
This article presents a history of Sydney's New Year's Eve event. First established when a crowd gathered outside Sydney's General Post Office in 1897 to celebrate the inauguration of International Standard Time, in more recent years it has evolved into a signature event on the city's calendar, drawing in excess of 1 million people into the Central Business District in a spectacular celebration of the global city. For those authorities charged wi…
Provoking Animal Realities on TV
This paper investigates the logistics of crafting and accounting for animal realities on television. Using the case of The Making of David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies, a behind-the-scenes documentary about how the Sky TV series David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies was created, it explores how the material reality of animals becomes a televisual reality. In seeking to challenge the lingering concern within many media studies critiqu…
Antipodean Aesthetics, Public Policy and the Museum
The Museum of New Zealand-Te Papa Tongarewa has proved a complex cultural site that has generated much public debate and a growing academic literature. This article departs from critical approaches that resolve the analysis of this museum by pointing up its programmatic inconsistencies, internal contradictions, representational inadequacies or its institutional paradoxes. Rather than establishing Te Papa as an object for reform the author reads i…
The museum’s redemption
Despite a history deeply implicated in an imperial, bourgeois and phallocentric social order, the museum is a cultural institution that can be redeemed from this legacy of racism, classism and sexism. Or so it would seem from reading the now burgeoning critical scholarship on museums. Here, almost all of the museum’s analysts argue that, in some way or another, the institution can be reformed so that it can overcome the exclusions of the past and…
Climate Crisis and the Actuarial Imaginary
Has there ever been a climate crisis? Or an economic crisis? Did these ever happen? Are they happening? 'Merry crisis and a happy new fear' - these words, spray painted outside the Bank of Greece in Athens, as that country erupted in riots in December 2008, seemed to say it so well. There is always another crisis, a new crisis. Enjoy your crisis. But also be scared. Since the crisis perpetuates fear. In this paper we want to critically interrogat…
Museums and a common world
At stake in this paper is the nature of the relationship between the institution of the museum and the common world. It is contended that such relations are regularly asserted through cosmopolitan appeals, which are premised on the assumption that a cosmos, a world, a universal, pre-exists its articulation, and, that it is the task of reason and of science to adjust the citizen-subject to this already-present condition. This paper argues that thi…
‘The Shape of Things to Come’
As epoch and as discourse it would seem the Anthropocene has arrived. For it is a term that supplies an arresting image of a daunting development: the advent of a geological era of humanity's own making. For the earth system scientists who have championed the notion, the Anthropocene signals a geological interval since the industrial revolution, where, through its activities, through its numbers, the human species has emerged as a geological forc…
Museums and Empire
While discussions of the relations between museums and empire are now well developed, the two volumes under review are without doubt significant contributions to this field. Each offers new insight
Introduction
This special issue contributes to an emerging literature on the materialities of colonial government by considering the changing relations between practices of data collecting, styles of anthropological knowing and modes of governing which target the conduct of colonial and metropolitan populations. Drawing on comparative studies from Australia; the Australian administered territory of Papua; France; French Indo-China; New Zealand; North America …
Assembling an Anthropological Actor
This paper traces the networks through which particular practices of collecting cultures became imbricated in new relations governing colonial populations. It investigates the socio-technical arrangements associated with “practical anthropology” as they were enrolled in the Australian administered territory of Papua. The paper follows the assemblage of a new kind of anthropological actor: one which is framed in relation to new articulations of th…
Morale and Mass Observation
This paper focuses on Mass Observation (MO)'s morale work, commissioned by the British Government over the period 1939-41. It examines the ways in which MO's earlier collecting practices were recomposed through its research into civilian morale, and linked up with national centres of calculation, in particular the Ministry of Information (MoI). We explore the associations through which civilian morale was established, simultaneously, as an autono…
Technofossil
In the process of formally identifying a geological interval, it is crucial for stratigraphersto find the point at which strata reveal a significant, dramatic shift in the types of fossilsand other geological markers being found. In the nomenclature of the discipline thispoint constitutes a "golden spike". For the geologists advancing the proposition that theAnthropocene might be formalized as the Earth's latest interval on the geologic time scal…
Marking Differences
This paper examines the similarities and differences between the cultural tastes and practices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and non-Indigenous Australians as evidenced by the relationships between the main sample and an Indigenous sample recruited by a 2015 national survey. It does so in order to identify the respects in which Indigenous tastes are distinctive in relation to (i) cultural practices with an Indigenous reference, (ii) c…
Favourite Sounds
Drawing on data from the Australian Cultural Fields survey, this article investigates the music field. Following the protocols of multiple correspondence analysis (MCA), it charts the music field in Australia, mapping the cultural and social contours of those who populate this space. In this context, the article considers the notion of emerging cultural capital deployed in recent surveys on social class. The article questions the contention that …
Making animals public
This paper analyses how animals became devices of the public in the early years of ABC television. It investigates the challenges of how to make animals televisual and reflects on the various forms of public interest and environmental awareness these animals generated. Over this period most animal content on the ABC was imported from the BBC. By examining a 1956 episode of Attenborough’s Zoo Quest, we see how capturing wild animals on film was te…
Assembling and Governing Habits
Assembling and Governing Habits
Habit, Suggestion and the Paradox of the Crowd
This chapter is concerned with ways in which notions of habit and suggestion have been deployed in discussions of the crowd in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century social science literatures—particularly as used by LeBon and Tarde. The chapter’s purpose is to tease out the ways in which the adjacent terms—habit and suggestion—are mobilized in crowd discourses and in the theories of the subject on which they rely. In doing so, it explores …
Provoking Animal Realities on TV
This paper investigates the logistics of crafting and accounting for animal realities on television. Using the case of The Making of David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies, a behind-the-scenes documentary about how the Sky TV series David Attenborough's Conquest of the Skies was created, it explores how the material reality of animals becomes a televisual reality. In seeking to challenge the lingering concern within many media studies critiqu…
Climate Collections and Photosynthetic, Fossil-Fueled Atmospheres
Historical, cultural, and technological collections are routinely put to work to illustrate narratives of progress, history, and identity. They can also convey new stories that articulate how cultural objects might serve as material expressions of climate change embedded in climate processes. This article considers the oldest surviving largely unaltered Boulton and Watt rotative engine, housed in the collection of the Science Museum, London, as a…
A history of New Year’s Eve, Sydney
This article presents a history of Sydney's New Year's Eve event. First established when a crowd gathered outside Sydney's General Post Office in 1897 to celebrate the inauguration of International Standard Time, in more recent years it has evolved into a signature event on the city's calendar, drawing in excess of 1 million people into the Central Business District in a spectacular celebration of the global city. For those authorities charged wi…
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