Tim Luke

Timothy W. Luke (born June 28, 1951) is university distinguished professor of political science in the College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences as well as program chair of the Government and International Affairs Program, School of Public and International Affairs at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia.

Education

He received a B.A. with high distinction in government and English studies, English from the University of Arizona in 1972; a M.A. in political science from the University of Arizona in 1975; a M.A. in political science from Washington University in St. Louis in 1977; and in 1981, a Ph.D. in political science from Washington University.

Career

His areas of research and teaching specialization include public ecology, environmental politics and cultural studies as well as comparative politics, international political economy, and modern critical theory, critical social theory, social and political theory. Many articles and book chapters by him on these topics have been published in scholarly journals and books in the United States and abroad. He has been very actively involved with critical theory communities tied to the Frankfurt School, the critique of mainstream social sciences, critical geopolitics, and environmental political theory groups associated with journals like ''Capitalism Nature Socialism'', ''New Political Science'', ''International Political Sociology'', and ''Telos (journal), TELOS'' for many years.

During 1996, he served as visiting research and teaching scholar at The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand, and in 1995 he was the Fulbright Program, Fulbright Professor of Cultural Theory and the Politics of Information Society at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. In 1994–1995, he was a key organizer of the Virginia Tech Virtual learning environment, Cyberschool, a founder of th
Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
in 1997, and the first executive director of th
Institute of Distance and Distributed Learning
at Virginia Tech from 1998 to 2001. As part of these activities, he created the first entirely online MA degree program in political science available in the US in th
Department of Political Science
at Virginia Tech. He has taught in the past at the University of Arizona, the University of Missouri, the University of Missouri–St. Louis, and Washington University.

Works

Tim Luke's Online Papers
* ''Ideology and Soviet Industrialization (Contributions in Political Science)'', Greenwood Press, 1985. 283 pp. 
* ''Social Theory and Modernity: Critique, Dissent, and Revolution'', Sage Publications, 1990. 278 pp. 
* ''Shows of Force: Power, Politics, and Ideology in Art Exhibitions'', Duke University Press, 1992. 264 pp. \
* “Searching for Alternatives: Postmodern Populism and Ecology”
''Telos''
103 (Spring 1995). New York: Telos Press.
* ''Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy, and Culture'', University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 272 pp. 
* ''Capitalism, Democracy, and Ecology: DEPARTING FROM MARX'', University of Illinois Press, 1999. 272 pp. 
* ''Museum Politics: Power Plays at the Exhibition'', University of Minnesota Press, 2002. 265 pp. 
* "Displaying the Enola Gay, hiding Hiroshima", ''Arena Journal'' 22 (January 1, 2004), p. 73
* ''Vectors of Virtualization'', Sage Publications, 2005. 240 pp. 

"The Anthropocene and Freedom: Terrestrial time as political mystification"
''Platypus Review'' 60 (October, 2013)

See also

*Telos Press
*Paul Piccone
*Fordism

References

External links

Telos Press



Timothy Luke's Website

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1951 births
Living people
American political scientists
American editors
University of Arizona alumni
Washington University in St. Louis alumni
Virginia Tech faculty
University of Arizona faculty
University of Missouri faculty
University of Missouri–St. Louis people