Outputs (39)

Apocalypse Now!: From Freud, Through Lacan, to Stiegler’s Psychoanalytic ‘Survival Project (2020)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2020). Apocalypse Now!: From Freud, Through Lacan, to Stiegler’s Psychoanalytic ‘Survival Project. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09715-8

The objective of this article is to explore the value of psychoanalysis in the early twenty-first century through reference to Freud, Lacan, and Stiegler’s work on computational madness. In the first section of the article I consider the original obj... Read More about Apocalypse Now!: From Freud, Through Lacan, to Stiegler’s Psychoanalytic ‘Survival Project.

Psychoanalysing the 21st Century: Introduction (2020)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2020). Psychoanalysing the 21st Century: Introduction. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 403-408. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-020-09714-9

The purpose of this introduction is to sketch out the value of psychoanalysis for the twenty-first century and in particular the ways in which analysis might enable us to move beyond the crisis of the post-Cold War symbolic order.

Simmel’s (non-human) humanism: On Simmel’s ‘ethics of endings and futures’ (2020)
Journal Article
featherstone. (2020). Simmel’s (non-human) humanism: On Simmel’s ‘ethics of endings and futures’. Journal of Classical Sociology, 21(2), 203-220. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468795X20915667

Given the recent non-human turn in sociology and the social sciences, the popularity of theories of entanglement, and contemporary concern with the concept of the anthropocene, it is easy to forget that classical sociology was always-already aware of... Read More about Simmel’s (non-human) humanism: On Simmel’s ‘ethics of endings and futures’.

The libertine (2020)
Book Chapter
Featherstone, M. (2020). The libertine. In Crime, Harm and Consumerism (39-53). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429424472-4

My objective in this chapter is to explore the moment where crime, harm, and the consumer experience meet through the figure of the libertine. In order to develop my reading of this figure, I start by focusing on the work of the Marquis de Sade, and... Read More about The libertine.

The architecture of authoritarian luxury (2019)
Book Chapter
Featherstone, M. The architecture of authoritarian luxury. In The Third Realm of Luxury (47-66). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350062801.0007

Mark Featherstone In his Origin of German Tragic Drama (2009) , Walter Benjamin reflects upon the condition of tyranny in early modern German drama. The king sits uncomfortably upon his throne. The world is a maelstrom of events, and he is crippled b... Read More about The architecture of authoritarian luxury.

French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK (2019)
Book Chapter
Featherstone, M. French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK. In I. Goh (Ed.), French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK. Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367809287

In this chapter I begin by exploring the impact of Paul Virilio’s thought upon British academia from the 1980s through the 1990s to the contemporary. Following this work, I move on to show how Virilio’s dromology can shed light on the history and pre... Read More about French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK.

Stiegler’s ecological thought: The politics of knowledge in the anthropocene (2019)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2019). Stiegler’s ecological thought: The politics of knowledge in the anthropocene. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1 - 11. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2019.1665025

My objective in this article is to consider the implications of Bernard Stiegler’s theory of the neganthropocene for the politics of knowledge and education. Stiegler sets out his theory of the neganthropocene in his recent books, Automatic Society a... Read More about Stiegler’s ecological thought: The politics of knowledge in the anthropocene.

Prometheus and the Degenerate: Arno Breker, Hans Bellmer, and Francis Bacon's Extreme Realism (2019)
Book Chapter
Featherstone. (2019). Prometheus and the Degenerate: Arno Breker, Hans Bellmer, and Francis Bacon's Extreme Realism. In Representing the Experience of War and Atrocity (153-177). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13925-4_7

The author considers the visualisation of the body under conditions of war through a discussion of two artists, the sculptor Arno Breker (1900–1991) and the surrealist Hans Bellmer (1902–1975), who imagined the fate of corporeality in Nazi Germany an... Read More about Prometheus and the Degenerate: Arno Breker, Hans Bellmer, and Francis Bacon's Extreme Realism.

Introduction: Towards a Sociology of Debt (2019)
Book Chapter
Featherstone. (2019). Introduction: Towards a Sociology of Debt. In The sociology of debt (1-26)

This collection brings together a range of perspectives of key thinkers on debt to provide a sociological analysis focused upon the social, political, economic, and cultural meanings of indebtedness.

Ecologies of Indebtedness (2019)
Book Chapter
Featherstone. (2019). Ecologies of Indebtedness. In The sociology of debt

This collection brings together a range of perspectives of key thinkers on debt to provide a sociological analysis focused upon the social, political, economic, and cultural meanings of indebtedness.