Some Other Publications by Eugene Halton

2009   “Preface: On Materialism.” Material Culture and Technology in Everyday Life: Ethnographic Approaches. Edited by Phillip Vannini. New York: Peter Lang: vi-xiii.

2008   "Don't Worry. Be Happy. Be Very Happy." review of Gross National Happiness by Arthur C. Brooks, National Catholic Reporter, 7/11. Click to read it

2008  "Mind Matters," Symbolic Interaction. Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring, 2008: 119-141. Abstract

2008  "Earth to Manning: A Reply," Symbolic Interaction. Vol. 31, No. 2, Spring, 2008: 149-154.

2008 “Haiku for EATNIKS.” Explorations in Consumer Culture Theory. Edited by John F. Sherry and Eileen Fischer. New York: Routledge: 215.

2007    "Eden Inverted: On the Wild Self and the Contraction of Consciousness," The Trumpeter, Vol. 23, No. 3, 2007: 45-77. Click to read it

2007    Kitsch Me if You Can, Doughboy,” in Consumers, Commodities, & Consumption Newsletter, Vol. 9, No. 1, Nov.  Click to read it

2007    Eugene Halton and Joseph Rumbo, “Membrane of the Self: Marketing, Boundaries, and the Consumer Incorporated Self.@
Consumer Culture Behavior. Edited by Russell Belk and John  Sherry. Oxford: Jai Press: 297-318.

2006 “The Cosmic Fantasia of Life,” in Integrative Learning and Action: a Call to Wholeness. Edited by David K. Scott. New York: Peter Lang: 91-114.

2005 “Peircean Animism and the End of Civilization,” Contemporary Pragmatism, Vol. 2, No. 1 (June 2005): 135-166. Click to read it

2004      “Pragmatism.” Encyclopedia of Social Theory. Edited by George Ritzer. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications: 595-599.

2004     “The Living Gesture and the Signifying Moment,” Symbolic Interaction. Jan. 2004: 27(1): 89-113. Click to read it

2004   Preface to Understanding Lewis Mumford: A Guide for the Perplexed. By Kenneth R.Stunkel. Mellon. 

2003    "The Cosmic Fantasia of Life." Mythen der Kreativität: Das Schöpferische zwischen Innovation und Hybris.Hg. von Annette Deschner, Oliver Krüger und Refika Sariönder. Frankfurt-am-Main, Verlag Otto Lembeck, 2003: 51-76.

2002    "Le Suce-Cerveau." X-Alta, No. 6 <<Police et corps du texte>>, octobre, 2002, p. 145-159. Translation of "Brain Suck," by Henri Vaugrand.

2002    "No Man is an Island: It Takes a Village Idiot: A Review of On Temptation Island: The View from the Hot Tub by Art Dimsdale.” In Teleparody: Predicting/Preventing the TV discourse of Tomorrow. Edited by David Lavery and Angela Hague. London: Wallflower Press: 99-108. See Teleparody.

2001 The Semiautomatic Weapon as Text. Poem. In Cultural Studies–Cultural Methodologies. 1: 4,  Nov, 2001: 488-489.

2000    "Brain Suck." In New Forms of Consumption: Consumers, Culture, and Commodification. Edited by Mark Gottdeiner. New York: Roman and Littlefield:  93-109.

1999   "The Truth About That Quiet Decade." Notre Dame Magazine, May, 1999: 43-48.

1999   "Ich packe meine Wohnung aus." In Persoenliche Objekte, Identitaet, und Entwicklung. Fuhrer, U. & Josephs, I. E. (Hrsg.). Goettingen: Vandenhoeck & Rupprecht. ("Unpacking my Living Room," translated by Ingrid E. Josephs.

1998 Beyond the Ghost in the Machine. Alfred Lang Festschrift CD-ROM. Bern, Switzerland.

1995 The Modern Error: Or, The Unbearable Enlightenment of Being. In Global Modernities. Edited by Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash and Roland Robertson. N.Y.: Sage Press. Pp. 260-277.

1994 Communicating Democracy, Or, Shine Perishing Republic. In The Sociosemiotics of Things. Edited by Stephen Riggins. Amsterdam: Mouton de Gruyter. Pp. 309-333.

1992 The Cultic Roots of Culture. Culture: Effects and Consequences. Edited by Neil Smelser & Richard Münch. Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp. 29-63 .

1992 The Reality of Dreaming. Theory, Culture, and Society, 9(3): 119-39. Click to read

1992 Zum Vergleich: Die symbolische Selbstrepräsentation der Demokratie--der Fall Amerika. In Staatsrepräsentation. Hrsg. von J-D Gauger u. Justin Stagl. Bonn: 131-156.

1992 Habermas and Rorty: Between Scylla and Charybdis. Symbolic Interaction. Special issue on "Habermas, Pragmatism, and Critical Theory," Vol. 15, No. 3, Fall '92: 333-358.

1990 The Transformation of Social Theory. In Lewis Mumford: Public Intellectual. Edited by Thomas P. and Agatha Hughes. New York: Oxford University Press. Pp. 127-151.

1989 Life, Literature, and Sociology in Turn-of-the Century Chicago. Consuming Visions: Accumulation and Display of Goods in America,1880-1920. Edited by Simon J. Bronner. New York: W.W.Norton, 311-338.

1989 On the Life-Concept in Social Theory. Comparative Social Research. 11, 1: 319-342.

1989 Jürgen Habermas's Theory of Communicative Etherealization. Journal of Symbolic Interaction. 12, 2: 333-353. click to read it

1989 Nachwort (Afterword). Das Ritual: Struktur und Antistruktur. Victor Turner. German translation of The Ritual Process. Translated by Sylvia Schomberg-Scherff. Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag, 198-213.

1989 An Unlikely Meeting of the Vienna School and the New York School. New Observations 72, 5-9.

1989 An American Epiphany in Nashville. New Observations. 72: 14-19. (Selected as notable mention in Best American Essays, 1990).

1989 Never the Twain Shall Meet? Commentary in The American Sociologist. 20, 3: 242-245.

1989 Mead Market or Slaughterhouse? Commentary in Symbolic Interaction. 12 Spring, 33-35. click to read it

1987 Why Pragmatism Now? Sociological Theory. 5 (2) Fall: 194-200.

1983 The Real Nature of Pragmatism and Chicago Sociology. Symbolic Interaction. 6, 1: 139-153. Click to read it

BOOK REVIEWS

2003 Review of Blasco José Sobrinho, Signs, Solidarities, and Sociology: Charles S. Peirce and the Pragmatics of Globalization. Contemporary Sociology, 32, 3: 395-396.

1999 Review of Daniel Belgrad, The Culture of Spontaneity: Improvisation and the Arts in Postwar America. Contemporary Sociology:28, 3, May 1999.

1995 Review of David Halle, Inside Culture: Art and Class in the American Home. American Journal of Sociology, (January): 1068-1069.

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Other Commentaries, Editorials

Interviewed for “Burning question: Is it race or music? Rap DJs wonder why Inferno blames them for violence.” South Bend Tribune, January 2, 2006

AStoring the Self,@ a show onAThe Connection,@ National Public Radio, WBUR, Boston. August 25, 2003

The Home Front. In Consumers, Commodities, and Consumption. Vol. 3, no.1, Dec. 2001: 7-8.

“The Fat Content of Mammon.” in Consumers, Commodities, and Consumption Newsletter, 12/99:2-3.

interviewed for article on face and body altering and fear of the monstrous: Allure Magazine, November, 1998.

Is There a Freedom Test? Op-Ed in South Bend Tribune, October, 1998.

interviewed on mourning of celebrities: in South Bend Tribune, July 20, 1997.

Interviewed on mudrooms and architectural trends, in House and Garden, May, 1997.

Reply to review, Contemporary Sociology, Jan. 1997, 26, 2, March, 256

Interviewed on contemporary nomads, on Iowa public radio, April, 1993.

letter on Afrocentrism, Chronicle of Higher Education, Sept. 4, 1991.

"Building the Cold War Monument." Op-ed, The New York Times, March, 1990.

"On the Resectioning of Culture." Am. Soc. Assoc. Footnotes, Dec. 1988.

"Lewis Mumford." The American Scholar, Summer, 1988, p.478.

"When Hot Rain Ruined Spring." Op-ed, Chicago Tribune, April 24, 1987. On the first anniversary of Chernobyl.

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