Outputs (37)

Against the Humiliation of Thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential (2019)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2019). Against the Humiliation of Thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 51(3), 297-309. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2018.1477044

My objective in this paper is to write a pharmacology of the university by thinking about its relationship to systemic stupidity, intelligence, and the possibility of becoming. Starting with an exploration of the contemporary dystopia of drive-based... Read More about Against the Humiliation of Thought: The university as a space of dystopic destruction and utopian potential.

Simmel's Borderline Sociology (2018)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2018). Simmel's Borderline Sociology. Theory, Culture and Society,

The Letting Go: The Horror of Being Orphaned in Nicolas Winding Refn's Cinema (2017)
Journal Article
featherstone. (2017). The Letting Go: The Horror of Being Orphaned in Nicolas Winding Refn's Cinema. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2017.1369686

In this article, I read the recent cinema of the Danish-American Director Nicolas Winding Refn through a contradictory complex of Freudian–Jungian psychoanalysis, Bataillean philosophy and Buddhist thought. By focusing on Winding Refn’s three most re... Read More about The Letting Go: The Horror of Being Orphaned in Nicolas Winding Refn's Cinema.

Stiegler's university (2017)
Journal Article
Featherstone, M. (2017). Stiegler's university. Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, 39(3), 289-306. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2017.1326275

‘Brexit means Brexit’: On the Horror of the Other in (Neo)Liberal Britain (2017)
Journal Article
featherstone. (2017). ‘Brexit means Brexit’: On the Horror of the Other in (Neo)Liberal Britain. CTheory,

Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation (2017)
Book
Featherstone. (2017). Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315212500

The key figure of the capitalist utopia is the individual who is ultimately free. The capitalist’s ideal society is designed to protect this freedom. However, within Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation, Featherstone argues that capitalist... Read More about Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation.

Planet Utopia (2017)
Book
Featherstone, M. (2017). Planet Utopia. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315212500

The key figure of the capitalist utopia is the individual who is ultimately free. The capitalist’s ideal society is designed to protect this freedom. However, within Planet Utopia: Utopia, Dystopia, Globalisation, Featherstone argues that capitalist... Read More about Planet Utopia.

Trump, A Psy Fi Story: On American Germanicity (2016)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2016). Trump, A Psy Fi Story: On American Germanicity. CTheory,

My purpose in this short reflection is to think the rise of Donald Trump through Laurence Rickels’ theory of American Germanicity, which shows that there is an unconscious connection between the American way of life and its Nazi other, in the name of... Read More about Trump, A Psy Fi Story: On American Germanicity.

The Specter of Neoliberalism: Thanatonomics and the Possibility of Trans-Individualism (2016)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2016). The Specter of Neoliberalism: Thanatonomics and the Possibility of Trans-Individualism

Luxus: A Thanatology of Luxury from Nero to Bataille (2016)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2016). Luxus: A Thanatology of Luxury from Nero to Bataille. Cultural Politics, 66-82. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-3436391

In this article, I seek to explore the psychopolitical significance of the contemporary idea of luxury through reference to the Roman concept of luxus, which means excess, extravagance, indulgence, and debauchery. In the first section of the article,... Read More about Luxus: A Thanatology of Luxury from Nero to Bataille.