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Mike Hill

SUNY: University at Albany, English, Faculty Member

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Papers by Mike Hill

War Anthropology On the Human Terrain Systems Program

On Posthuman War, 2022

Examines the history of anthropology as a war discipline. Links ethnography and cultural studies... more Examines the history of anthropology as a war discipline. Links ethnography and cultural studies to war operations and contemporary counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine. Focuses on the Human Terrain Systems (HTS) program, used in the global war on terror and the US war in Afghanistan. Compares the HTS program with COIN strategies in the US war in Vietnam.

War Demography: A Revolution in Military Affairs

On Posthuman War, 2022

Examines the use of demographic analyses in counterinsurgency warfare, historically through the g... more Examines the use of demographic analyses in counterinsurgency warfare, historically through the global war on terror. Explains the changing relationship between identity, civil society, and the state under conditions of de-civilianization. Shows how demographic difference can be scaled up to to fit military objectives consistent with the 'everywhere war.'

After Whiteness

After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority

After Whiteness aims to address just that, exploring the remnants of white identity to ask how an... more After Whiteness aims to address just that, exploring the remnants of white identity to ask how an emergent post-white national imaginary figure into public policy issues, into the habits of sexual intimacy, and into changes within public higher education. Through discussions of the 2000 census and debates over multiracial identity, the volatile psychic investments that white heterosexual men have in men of color—as illustrated by the Christian men's group the Promise Keepers and the neo-fascist organization the National Alliance—and the rise of identity studies and diversity within the contemporary public research university, Mike Hill surveys race among the ruins of white America. At this crucial moment, when white racial change has made its ambivalent cultural debut, Hill demonstrates that the prospect of an end to whiteness haunts progressive scholarship on race as much as it haunts the paranoid visions of racists.

Imperial Diversity

The Future of Postcolonial Studies, 2014

11. Another “Neo-Racism”: Balibar and the Everywhere War

Balibar and the Citizen Subject, 2017

The other Adam Smith

Choice Reviews Online, 2016

The Other Adam Smith represents the next wave of critical thinking about the still under-examined... more The Other Adam Smith represents the next wave of critical thinking about the still under-examined work of this paradigmatic Enlightenment thinker. Not simply another book about Adam Smith, it allows and even necessitates his inclusion in the realm of theory in the broadest sense. Moving beyond his usual economic and moral philosophical texts, Mike Hill and Warren Montag take seriously Smith's entire corpus, his writing on knowledge, affect, sociability and government, and political economy, as constituting a comprehensive-though highly contestable-system of thought. We meet not just Smith the economist, but Smith the philosopher, Smith the literary critic, Smith the historian, and Smith the anthropologist. Placed in relation to key thinkers such as Hume, Lord Kames, Fielding, Hayek, Von Mises, and Agamben, this other Adam Smith, far from being localized in the history of eighteenth-century economic thought or ideas, stands at the center of the most vibrant and contentious debates of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

跨越现代学科的界限来重塑英语语言文学：麦克·希尔访谈录

外国文学研究, Feb 26, 2021

Lord of the Fleas

Playing with Reality, 2022

The the Other Adam Smith: Popular Contention, Commercial Society, and the Birth of Necro-Economics

Re-Enlightening the Novel, Un-Restoring History: Numbers, Time, and Category in Fielding and Hume

Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, 2015

Masses, Classes and the Public Sphere

$30/£20/$42 CAN Despite the passing of some forty years since the original publication of Jurgen ... more

Whiteness: A Critical Reader

Advance Praise for the Book "This book brings together much of the best of the new scholarsh... more

Scotland and the Geometric Imagination

Studies in Scottish literature, 2019

Invention of the White Race Scholar; or, A Life as Insurrection, Ted Allen (1919-2005)

the minnesota review, 2005

Hill on Nordic Whiteness

Whiteness as War by Other Means: Racial Complexity in an Age of Failed States

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2009

... ironic twists and turns of the enforcement of the one-drop rule of black hypodescent. ... C... more

Undisciplined: An Interview With Andrew Ross

Minnesota Review, 1995

... JW: You were saying at breakfast that you're gearing the program more towards not only p... more

Trading Races: Majorities, Modernity, Critique

Review of Education Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, 1996

If you read your glossy magazines after the Oklahoma bombing, you will remember seeing on the cov... more

Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Body (review)

Minnesota Review, 1992

Editing the Anthology: An Interview with Paul Lauter

Minnesota Review, 1997

War Anthropology On the Human Terrain Systems Program

On Posthuman War, 2022

Examines the history of anthropology as a war discipline. Links ethnography and cultural studies... more Examines the history of anthropology as a war discipline. Links ethnography and cultural studies to war operations and contemporary counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine. Focuses on the Human Terrain Systems (HTS) program, used in the global war on terror and the US war in Afghanistan. Compares the HTS program with COIN strategies in the US war in Vietnam.

War Demography: A Revolution in Military Affairs

On Posthuman War, 2022

Examines the use of demographic analyses in counterinsurgency warfare, historically through the g... more Examines the use of demographic analyses in counterinsurgency warfare, historically through the global war on terror. Explains the changing relationship between identity, civil society, and the state under conditions of de-civilianization. Shows how demographic difference can be scaled up to to fit military objectives consistent with the 'everywhere war.'

After Whiteness

After Whiteness: Unmaking an American Majority

After Whiteness aims to address just that, exploring the remnants of white identity to ask how an... more After Whiteness aims to address just that, exploring the remnants of white identity to ask how an emergent post-white national imaginary figure into public policy issues, into the habits of sexual intimacy, and into changes within public higher education. Through discussions of the 2000 census and debates over multiracial identity, the volatile psychic investments that white heterosexual men have in men of color—as illustrated by the Christian men's group the Promise Keepers and the neo-fascist organization the National Alliance—and the rise of identity studies and diversity within the contemporary public research university, Mike Hill surveys race among the ruins of white America. At this crucial moment, when white racial change has made its ambivalent cultural debut, Hill demonstrates that the prospect of an end to whiteness haunts progressive scholarship on race as much as it haunts the paranoid visions of racists.

Imperial Diversity

The Future of Postcolonial Studies, 2014

11. Another “Neo-Racism”: Balibar and the Everywhere War

Balibar and the Citizen Subject, 2017

The other Adam Smith

Choice Reviews Online, 2016

The Other Adam Smith represents the next wave of critical thinking about the still under-examined... more The Other Adam Smith represents the next wave of critical thinking about the still under-examined work of this paradigmatic Enlightenment thinker. Not simply another book about Adam Smith, it allows and even necessitates his inclusion in the realm of theory in the broadest sense. Moving beyond his usual economic and moral philosophical texts, Mike Hill and Warren Montag take seriously Smith's entire corpus, his writing on knowledge, affect, sociability and government, and political economy, as constituting a comprehensive-though highly contestable-system of thought. We meet not just Smith the economist, but Smith the philosopher, Smith the literary critic, Smith the historian, and Smith the anthropologist. Placed in relation to key thinkers such as Hume, Lord Kames, Fielding, Hayek, Von Mises, and Agamben, this other Adam Smith, far from being localized in the history of eighteenth-century economic thought or ideas, stands at the center of the most vibrant and contentious debates of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

跨越现代学科的界限来重塑英语语言文学：麦克·希尔访谈录

外国文学研究, Feb 26, 2021

Lord of the Fleas

Playing with Reality, 2022

The the Other Adam Smith: Popular Contention, Commercial Society, and the Birth of Necro-Economics

Re-Enlightening the Novel, Un-Restoring History: Numbers, Time, and Category in Fielding and Hume

Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, 2015

Masses, Classes and the Public Sphere

$30/£20/$42 CAN Despite the passing of some forty years since the original publication of Jurgen ... more

Whiteness: A Critical Reader

Advance Praise for the Book "This book brings together much of the best of the new scholarsh... more

Scotland and the Geometric Imagination

Studies in Scottish literature, 2019

Invention of the White Race Scholar; or, A Life as Insurrection, Ted Allen (1919-2005)

the minnesota review, 2005

Hill on Nordic Whiteness

Whiteness as War by Other Means: Racial Complexity in an Age of Failed States

Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism, 2009

... ironic twists and turns of the enforcement of the one-drop rule of black hypodescent. ... C... more

Undisciplined: An Interview With Andrew Ross

Minnesota Review, 1995

... JW: You were saying at breakfast that you're gearing the program more towards not only p... more

Trading Races: Majorities, Modernity, Critique

Review of Education Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, 1996

If you read your glossy magazines after the Oklahoma bombing, you will remember seeing on the cov... more

Disciplining Foucault: Feminism, Power, and the Body (review)

Minnesota Review, 1992

Editing the Anthology: An Interview with Paul Lauter

Minnesota Review, 1997

The Pagaoda of Deferral: Reading Hillis Miller Reading Literature Today

J. Hillis Miller, Literature, Culture, Theory, and The World, 2024

This paper exams Hillis Miller's response to the decline of literary studies traditionally define... more This paper exams Hillis Miller's response to the decline of literary studies traditionally defined as print based and human focused. Rather than deny, denounce, or decry this change, Miller finds a way to affirm literary studies as already preoccupied with loss. Reading English literature in China is especially important to literary studies given its impending absence in Western academe.

"Census and Sensibility: Quantitative Difference in Ferguson's _Rome_.

Adam Ferguson and the Politics of Virtue, 2016

Book chapter looks at the work of Eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson and the r... more Book chapter looks at the work of Eighteenth-century Scottish philosopher Adam Ferguson and the role figures of quantification--the multitudes, the proletariat, population--play in his theory of social organization. The chapter also focuses on the role of 'martial virtue' in Ferguson's understanding of social disorder under conditions of human inequality.

Hill, "Number Rules (Cybernetics and Netcentric War)"

On Posthuman War, 2022

Introductory pages to _On Posthuman War_, describing computation as the means of contemporary war... more

Hill Supping with the Devil Dogs pref to On Posthuman War

On Posthuman War, 2022

Preface to _On Posthuman War_. Details time spent training with the USMC in Paris Island,

"Lord of the Fleas: Science, Monsters, and Political Fraud"

Playing with Reality, 2022

Places rightwing attacks on science in the context of philosophical realism, tracing the history ... more

Whiteness: A Critical Reader (intro.)

by Mike Hill and Ualbany Loan

Introduction to ed. Mike Hill, Whiteness: A Critical Reader (NYU Press).

AfterWhiteness Hill,Mike

"Incalculable Community", 1997

Introduction to _After Whiteness: Unmaking and American Majority (NYU Press: 1997)

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO Identity Studies MIKE HILL

Essay on Identity Studies in ed. Jeffrey DiLeo, _Bloomsbury Handbook of Literary and Cultural The... more

Hill On _Paper Machines: Daniel Matthew Eddy's _Media and the Mind_"

Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies, 2024

This is a review essay of Daniel Matthew Eddy's _Media and Mind: Art, Society, and Notebooks as ... more

Mike Hill on Nordic Whiteness

Norwegian American Studies, 2021

Review of eds. Sverdljuk, et. al. Nordic Whiteness and Migration to the USA (Routledge: 2020).

Hill "The Virtues of Commerce"

Eighteenth-century Scotland, 2020

Review-essay of several books focused on the relation between Rousseau and Adam Smith.

Scotland and the Geometric Imagination

Studies in Scottish Literature, 2020

Review of: Matthew Wickman. Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scotti... more Review of: Matthew Wickman. Literature After Euclid: The Geometric Imagination in the Long Scottish Enlightenment. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Discusses Wickman's wide-ranging argument about the centrality of spatial, visual and geometric thought in what Wickman calls "the long looping eighteenth century," in Scottish philosophy, education and literature; commenting on the implications of Wickman's argument about the relationship between mathematical sciences, "how literary canons are made," and "the dynamics of disciplines."