Whistleblower Subjectivities: Organization and Passionate Attachment

The Organization of Attachment Relationships

Affect, Performance and Queer Subjectivities

Passionate Utterance and Moral Education

In his chapter “Performative and Passionate Utterance” which appears in Philosophy The Day After Tomorrow, Stanley Cavell makes a claim for what he describes as the expressive or passional aspects of speech. This claim (plea might be a more appropriate term) is, in part, a response to what Cavell regards as a missed opportunity or failing in Austin’s theory of the performative utterance, an opp...

Rebecca Heald: Passionate about cycles

W hen she isn't cycling up a mountain, Rebecca Heald is blazing new trails in cell biology. Her work on dynamic cytoskeletal structures involved in mitosis and meio-sis—particularly the microtubule-based mitotic spindle—has continually set the pace in her fi eld. After completing her graduate studies on nuclear lamins in Frank McKeon's laboratory at Harvard (1), Heald sought a change of scenery...

Indifferent Public, Passionate Advocates, and Strategic Media

We present a dynamic reputation model of news reporting by a profitmaximizing media outlet whose credibility is uncertain to the public. In each period, the media outlet chooses its source of news: a costly independent investigation or, possibly, a free report prepared by an interest group. The revenue of the media outlet consists of the subscription fees for the public and the access fees for ...