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Robert Alexander - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The language of the ‘naked facts’: Joseph Priestley and the apocalypse of language
    Language & Communication, 2006
    Co-Authors: Robert Alexander
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    Abstract This paper examines the apocalyptic theory of language described in three texts by the British chemist, theologian, and Political Radical Joseph Priestley. Combining a millennialist view of history with a Lockean conception of language and a republican zeal for liberty, Priestley displaces the Adamic dream of a fully motivated linguistic sign from the beginning of history to its end, predicting that a universal, philosophical language and the truth it would embody will one day arise provided that people are free to express and explore a plurality of views on all subjects. This paper suggests that, in foregrounding the performative dimension of language and presenting language as a process towards full meaningfulness, Priestley’s theory provides speakers with the possibility of contesting and revising received meanings and with them the relations of power and knowledge with which language is coextensive.

Cherry Lewis - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Parkinson's true passion
    New Scientist, 2017
    Co-Authors: Cherry Lewis
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    James Parkinson was many things: apothecary, surgeon, scientist, Political Radical, closet heretic. Today, most people know his name solely through the disease that immortalized it. A shame, because medicine was just one of Parkinson's passions: he was described in his lifetime as "not merely the best but almost the only fossilist of his day". And fossils, back then, were troublemakers. As a result, Parkinson struggled to reconcile the widely accepted biblical story of creation with the conflicting story being revealed to him by fossils. Here, Lewis discusses the contributions of Parkinson in medicine

Natalie Fenton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • digital Political Radical
    2016
    Co-Authors: Natalie Fenton
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    Digital, Political, Radical is a siren call to the field of media and communications and the study of social and Political movements to put the politics of transformation at the very heart of our analyses to meet the global challenges of gross inequality and ever-more impoverished democracies. Fenton makes an impassioned plea for re-invigorating critical research on digital media such that it can be explanatory, practical and normative. She dares us to be Politically emboldened. She urges us to seek out an emancipatory politics that aims to deepen our democratic horizons. To ask, how can we do democracy better? What are the conditions required to live together well? Then, what is the role of the media and how can we reclaim media, power and politics for progressive ends? Journeying through a range of protest and Political movements, Fenton debunks myths of digital media along the way and points us in the direction of newly emergent politics of the Left. Digital, Political, Radical contributes to Political debate on contemporary (re)configurations of Radical progressive politics through a consideration of how we experience (counter) politics in the digital age and how this may influence our being Political.

Vivian L. Huang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • "What Shall We Do?": Kathy Change, Soomi Kim, and Asian Feminist Performance on Campus
    TDR, 2018
    Co-Authors: Vivian L. Huang
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    Soomi Kim performed as Asian Political Radical Kathy Change in the Staging Asian America performance/lecture series at Harvard University in spring 2017. Kim’s performance provokes timely Political questions about stereotypes of gendered Asian docility and suggests that the ephemerality of Asian and feminine dissidence is all but erased in official institutional spaces. Performance, then, is the medium through which Asian feminine presence persists and survives.

Gilbert Abcarian - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Romantics and Renegades: Political Defection and the Radical Left
    Journal of Social Issues, 2010
    Co-Authors: Gilbert Abcarian
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    It is frequently asserted that Old and New Leftists are quintessentially similar. To explore this viewpoint, Political defection experiences among eight American ex-Communists of the Old Left as reported in their autobiographical writing are examined. Such experiences are briefly placed in the context of the contemporary New Left movement in order to assess the likelihood of their recurrence among New Left spokesmen. The concept of interchangeability, which postulates the unidimensionality of the Political Radical, is utilized for this purpose. The validity of that concept is questioned, in the context of inquiry, on the ground that the ideological structure as well as potentialities for alienation among Radicals of the Old and New Left are incommensurate.