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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.

(Un)Happy 21st Birthday NEET! A genealogical approach to understanding young people Not in Education, Employment or Training (2019)
Journal Article
Wrigley. (2019). (Un)Happy 21st Birthday NEET! A genealogical approach to understanding young people Not in Education, Employment or Training. Youth and Policy,

The term ‘NEET’ (Not in Education, Employment or Training) in the UK has become a contentious issue for policy makers, youth services, academia and government alike. In this article, Liam Wrigley offers a genealogical appraisal of how 'NEET' has impa... Read More about (Un)Happy 21st Birthday NEET! A genealogical approach to understanding young people Not in Education, Employment or Training.

Fateful aspects of aspiration among graduates in New York and Los Angeles (2019)
Journal Article
Loewenthal, J., Alexander, P., & Butt, G. (2019). Fateful aspects of aspiration among graduates in New York and Los Angeles. International Studies in Sociology of Education, 28(3-4), 345-361. https://doi.org/10.1080/09620214.2019.1627898

This article presents ethnographic research on the aspirations of graduates from a private university in New York City, some of whom move to Los Angeles. Findings depict financial and family pressures exerting a governing force upon the graduates’ fu... Read More about Fateful aspects of aspiration among graduates in New York and Los Angeles.

Just as I am: a life of J.R. Darling, by Peter Gronn (2019)
Journal Article
Howlett, J. (2020). Just as I am: a life of J.R. Darling, by Peter Gronn. History of Education, 49(5), 729-731. https://doi.org/10.1080/0046760x.2019.1666925

Despite contemporary philosophical and epistemological attempts to question and in some cases undermine the role of biography in our understandings of the past, there remains, still, a strong element of such an approach in the history of education. P... Read More about Just as I am: a life of J.R. Darling, by Peter Gronn.

Henry Caldwell Cook, Creativity and Democratic Learning (2019)
Journal Article
Howlett. (2019). Henry Caldwell Cook, Creativity and Democratic Learning. History of Education Review, 227-241. https://doi.org/10.1108/her-07-2018-0016

Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to re-examine the life and work of a forgotten progressive educator – (Henry) Caldwell Cook who was an English and drama teacher at the Perse School in Cambridge, UK. By looking at his key work The Play Way (1917... Read More about Henry Caldwell Cook, Creativity and Democratic Learning.

Referring Image Segmentation by Generative Adversarial Learning (2019)
Journal Article
Qiu, S., Zhao, Y., Jiao, J., Wei, Y., & Wei, S. (2020). Referring Image Segmentation by Generative Adversarial Learning. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 22(5), 1333-1344. https://doi.org/10.1109/tmm.2019.2942480

Referring expression is a kind of language expression being used for referring to particular objects. In this paper, we focus on the problem of image segmentation from natural language referring expressions. Existing works tackle this problem by augm... Read More about Referring Image Segmentation by Generative Adversarial Learning.

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.

Anne Conway and Henry More on Freedom (2019)
Journal Article
Head. (2019). Anne Conway and Henry More on Freedom. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2019.1659843

This paper seeks to shed light on the often-overlooked account of divine and human freedom presented by Anne Conway in her Principles of the Most Ancient Modern Philosophy (1690), partly through a comparison with the theory of freedom offered by her... Read More about Anne Conway and Henry More on Freedom.