Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies
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Dr. Derek Briton
Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies
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Archie Zariski
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Dr. Collette Oseen
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Dr. Lorelei Hanson
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Dr. Mike Sosteric
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Dr. Wendell Kisner
Associate Professor, MAIS
Recent Submissions
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Mystical experience and global revolution
(Athens Journal of Social Sciences, 2018-07)An article that examines the revolutionary potential of mystical experience. -
Rocket Scientists' Guide to Money and the Economy
(2017)Rocket Scientists' Guide to Money and the Economy is a popular and critical introduction to money, capitalist accumulation, and debt. -
A Sociology of Tarot
(Canadian Journal of Sociology, 2014)This article examines the Masonic roots of the popular Tarot deck. -
Erinnerung, Retrait, Absolute Reflection: Hegel and Derrida
(The Owl of Minerva, 1995)In this essay I show that Jacques Derrida not only mistakenly reads the Hegelian text in terms of reflection, but that his own way of thinking could be characterized from a Hegelian perspective as itself reflective. For ... -
A Species-Based Environmental Ethic in Hegel’s Logic of Life
(The Owl of Minerva, 2009)In this paper I will argue that Hegel’s account of the category of life in the Science of Logic provides ontological grounds for the recognition of living species along with their various ecosystems as the proper objects ... -
Agamben, Hegel, and the State of Exception
(Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2007)In his account of the state of exception, Agamben repeatedly relies upon what Hegel would have called Wesenslogik or ‘transcendental thinking’. Because of this reliance, the state of exception appears in Agamben’s account ... -
The Concrete Universal in Žižek and Hegel
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The Fourfold Revisited: Heideggerian Ecological Practice and the Ontology of Things
(The Trumpeter, 2008) -
The Category of Life, Mechanistic Reduction, and the Uniqueness of Biology
(Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2008)The conceptual and ontological determinacies belonging to the category of mechanism, determinacies that began to occupy centre stage within the scientific and philosophical understanding of nature in seventeenth century ... -
Agamben’s Curio Cabinet, Animality, and the Zone of Indeterminacy
(Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2017)As I have argued elsewhere, Agamben’s thought remains mired in a transcendental way of thinking that falls under the Hegelian critique. In this essay, through a hermeneutical method that can be aptly characterized ... -
‘It’s not only what we say but what we do’: Pay inequalities and gendered workplace democracy in Argentinian worker cooperatives.
(Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2014-07)In a study conducted by the author in 2006 of five mixed-sex, worker-led cooperatives in Buenos Aires, all of the workers in each of the coops were paid exactly the same. Five years later, only two of the worker cooperatives ... -
Subjectivity and the Labour Process: A Case Study in the Food and Beverage Industry
(Work, Employment, and Society, 1996)This is what happens when an aspiring sociologist takes a job as a bartender. -
The New Old Lawyer: How Lawyers have Adapted to Mediation to Preserve their Power, Income, and Identity
(2011-05-08)This paper outlines the evolution of mediation in some common law jurisdictions from an idea most lawyers dismissed to a practice most now use. It highlights the attitudes and actions of lawyers as they have adjusted their ... -
Avatars go to Law School: Digital Standardized (and not so Standard) Clients for Law School Teaching
(2010-12-15)Standardized clients have been a feature of medical schools for years. Digital technologies now offer the opportunity to create them in interactive form as avatars. In addition, advances in semantic computing now allow ... -
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Artistry, Expertise, and Professionalism in Mediation and the Role of Higher Education
(2009-05-12)This paper examines what it takes to be a good mediator. It suggests that mediators should strive for artistry in their work which is the result of “reflection in action”. The paper then surveys the fields of knowledge ... -
(2008) 'The different next to the different': Worker Coops in Buenos Aires, women and men, and rethinking and redoing the role of the coordinator
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(2008) Rethinking Difference, Rethinking Deference
(Recma, the International Review of Social Economy at http://recma.org. This web site offers a free access at 10 years of publication of the Revue internationale de l'économie sociale (paying access for the 2 last years of publication), with english abstracts. Recma.org presents many links towards international organisations and research institutes of social economy., 2008)It’s impossible to understand how to organize cooperatively without focusing on ‘sexual difference’, the French philosopher Luce Irigaray’s category for what has not yet been thought within our ostensibly sexually indifferent ... -
The Modern Practice of Adult Education: A Postmodern Critique
(Albany State University of New York Press, 1996)