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Timothy W. Luke (born June 28, 1951) is university distinguished professor of
political science Political science is the scientific study of politics. It is a social science dealing with systems of governance and power, and the analysis of political activities, political thought, political behavior, and associated constitutions and ...
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 Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also has educational facilities in six reg ...
in
Blacksburg, Virginia Blacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 44,826 at the 2020 census. Blacksburg, as well as the surrounding county, is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of ...
.


Education

He received a B.A. with high distinction in
government A government is the system or group of people governing an organized community, generally a state. In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislature, executive, and judiciary. Government ...
and English from the
University of Arizona The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona. Founded in 1885 by the 13th Arizona Territorial Legislature, it was the first university in the Arizona Territory. ...
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
environmental politics Environmental politics designate both the politics about the environment (see also environmental policy) and an academic field of study focused on three core components:Carter, Neil. 2007. ''The Politics of the Environment: Ideas, Activism, Policy ...
and cultural studies as well as comparative politics, international political economy, and modern critical
social Social organisms, including human(s), live collectively in interacting populations. This interaction is considered social whether they are aware of it or not, and whether the exchange is voluntary or not. Etymology The word "social" derives from ...
and
political theory Political philosophy or political theory is the philosophical study of government, addressing questions about the nature, scope, and legitimacy of public agents and institutions and the relationships between them. Its topics include politics, l ...
. 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 A critical theory is any approach to social philosophy that focuses on society and culture to reveal, critique and challenge power structures. With roots in sociology and literary criticism, it argues that social problems stem more from s ...
communities tied to the
Frankfurt School The Frankfurt School (german: Frankfurter Schule) is a school of social theory and critical philosophy associated with the Institute for Social Research, at Goethe University Frankfurt in 1929. Founded in the Weimar Republic (1918–1933), du ...
, the critique of mainstream
social sciences Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of society, societies and the Social relation, relationships among individuals within those societies. The term was formerly used to refer to the field of sociology, the o ...
,
critical geopolitics The basic concept behind critical geopolitics is that intellectuals of statecraft construct ideas about places; these ideas have influence and reinforce their political behaviors and policy choices, and these ideas affect how people process their o ...
, and environmental political theory groups associated with journals like ''
Capitalism Nature Socialism ''Capitalism Nature Socialism'' is an academic journal founded by James O'Connor and Barbara Laurence in 1988. It is published by Taylor and Francis. It publishes articles on political ecology, with an ecosocialist Eco-socialism (also known ...
'', ''
New Political Science The Caucus for a New Political Science (CNPS) was first founded in 1967 as a caucus, and then a formal section, within the American Political Science Association (APSA). APSA is the official professional organization of political scientists in the ...
'', ''
International Political Sociology International Political Sociology (IPS) is an interdisciplinary field and set of approaches at the crossroads of international relations theory International relations theory is the study of international relations (IR) from a theoretical perspe ...
'', and ''
TELOS Telos (; ) is a term used by philosopher Aristotle to refer to the final cause of a natural organ or entity, or of a work of human art. Intentional actualization of potential or inherent purpose,"Telos.''Philosophy Terms'' Retrieved 3 May 2020. ...
'' for many years. During 1996, he served as visiting research and teaching scholar at
The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand The Open Polytechnic of New Zealand or Open Polytechnic (Māori: Kuratini Tuwhera) is a government-owned tertiary education institution operating as the specialist national provider of open and distance learning (ODL). On 1 April 2020, The Open Po ...
, and in 1995 he was the Fulbright Professor of Cultural Theory and the Politics of Information Society at
Victoria University of Wellington Victoria University of Wellington ( mi, Te Herenga Waka) is a university in Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand. It was established in 1897 by Act of New Zealand Parliament, Parliament, and was a constituent college of the University of New Z ...
in
New Zealand New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 List of islands of New Zealand, smaller islands. It is the ...
. In 1994–1995, he was a key organizer of the Virginia Tech 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 (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded ...
, 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 Paul Piccone (January 17, 1940 – July 12, 2004) was an Italian-American philosopher, critical theorist, intellectual historian, and most notably the founder and long-time editor of the journal ''Telos''. He was born in L'Aquila in Italy to a fam ...
*
Fordism Fordism is a manufacturing technology that serves as the basis of modern economic and social systems in industrialized, standardized mass production and mass consumption. The concept is named after Henry Ford. It is used in social, economic, an ...


References


External links


Telos Press



Timothy Luke's Website
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