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Relationality and identity migration among methamphetamine users: An exploratory study
Where: Georgia Sociological Association, Morehouse College Dates: 29th October 2009 - 31st October 2009
Based on a study of methamphetamine use in suburban Atlanta, this paper addresses the question: what insights might a focus upon the relational dynamics of selfhood provide to understanding how methamphetamine practices are negotiated throughout the drug-use career? It is suggested that the interdependencies which form as methamphetamine users pursue opportunities: to practice methamphetamine use, to disclose the consequences of their practices, and to display recovering identities, illustrate a fundamentally relational character to methamphetamine use.
LikeHeavy bored cyborg: Attunement and addiction
Where: Seattle University, First Annual Meeting of the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT) Dates: 8th October 2009 - 9th October 2009
Utilizing insights from Heidegger's discussion of profound boredom as the source of Dasein's richest possibilities, this paper attempts to present a theory of addiction that eschews the familiar (false) dichotomies between agency and structure, or volition versus chemistry and discuss instead the phenomenon of addiction as a social event, fundamentally relational. The popular addiction discourse holds that it is the fundamental failure of the addicted individual to maintain self-control (a self free of technology), thus making problematic the call for use of cognition-enhancing substances as well as obscuring the base conditions (Dasein's pursuit of meaning generation) that vitiate the social practice of addiction. Thus, the problem of “addiction” is the problem of how one might relate to technology as the discourse shifts to defining what is “problematic use” of substances.
Introducing Identity Migration in Addiction
Where: European Graduate School (Egs) Media and Communications When: 12th August 2009
Social Bonds in the Initiation of Methamphetamine Use
Where: 7th Annual Suburban Studies Conference, Kennesaw State University When: 17th April 2009
Music-as-Philosophy: Graham Parkes as Social Philosopher
Where: Third Annual Comparative-Continental Philosophy Circle, East-West Center, University of Hawai`i When: April 2008
What do Girl Talk's "Night Ripper", Nietzsche, and Graham Parkes have to say to one another; in their conversation what do we learn about the social?
Gender Differences in Response to a Prejudice Reduction Program
Where: Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta When: May 2007
Univocity in the Confucian Project: Mengzi and Zisizi
Where: North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference When: April 2007
Later published in Quinta Essentia: The Selected Proceedings from the NGSPC with Walter Brogan
Examines the "continuous thread" of Fingarette that develops the Classical Confucian Canon and asks what, if anything, this can teach us.
A Rhizomatic Zhongyong 中庸
Where: 13th National Asian Studies Development Program, Seattle When: February 2007
Kudzu Kongzi: Harmonies Between Deleuze & Guattari and the Zhongyong 中庸
Where: North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference When: April 2006
Later published in Interplay: The Selected Proceedings from the NGSPC with David Farrell Krell
Discussant to David Wood's The Step Back: Ethics and Politics After Deconstruction
Where: Georgia Continental Philosophy Circle When: April 2006
(Invited)
Suicide Is Painless: Desiring Human Rights
Where: Midsouth Philosophy Conference, University of Memphis When: March 2006
A Confucian response to Zizek's recent commentary on the nature of human rights in the context of the war in Iraq, Hurricane Katrina, and the Parisian banlieus
Toward a New Rationality: Levinas and Marcel’s Conceptions of Peace and the Other
Where: North Georgia Student Philosophy Conference When: April 2004
Later published in The Exquisite Corpse: The Selected Proceedings from the NGSPC with Roger T. Ames
Discussant to Jason Wirth's The Conspiracy of Life: Meditations on Schelling and His Time
Where: Georgia Continental Philosophy Circle When: April 2004
(Invited)
Social Responsibility and the Confucian Li 禮
Where: North Georgia Philosophy Conference When: April 2003
Later published in Beyond the Box: The Selected Proceedings from the NGSPC with Henry Rosemont, Jr.
Appreciating Values: Weber's Protestant Work Ethic and Master Kong's Li 禮
Where: Kennesaw State University, Sociology Student Symposium When: March 2003
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