Vernacularism as Ideology

Information Ethics as Ideology

If we live indeed in the early stages of what has been termed the " information society, " then it is clear that ethical concerns with regards to information are of central importance. This can explain the growing interest in issues of information ethics. The use of the word " ethics " seems to suggest that there is something wrong or bad and that this can be addressed by morally acceptable mea...

Ideology as Cultural Software

Ideology as Constraint

“ Ideal Theory ” as Ideology

individual subsume the workers, women, and nonwhites who are also persons—even if, admittedly, they were not historically recognized as such? I think the problem here is a failure to appreciate the nature and magnitude of the obstacles to the cognitive rethinking required, and the mistaken move— especially easy for analytic philosophers, used to the effortless manipulation of variables, the shi...

Conservation as a Territorial Ideology

Growth machine theory has typically interpreted successful contemporary conservation efforts as rare victories of elite liberal factions to protect their own use values or, alternatively, as greenwashing for growth. By studying an elite coalition dedicated to land conservation in the South Carolina Lowcountry, I probe whether growth theory can be used to understand conservation as a territorial...