French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK

Featherstone, Mark

Abstract

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 present of British society. In the first section of the chapter I focus specifically on Virilio’s impact on the inter-disciplinary field of cultural studies, which fused a range of fields in an attempt to understand the changes taking place under conditions of globalisation. In the second section of the chapter I move on to explore the impact of his thought upon thinking about changes to British society in a high-speed world where structural limits were replaced by a logic of transgression and deterritorialisation.

Citation

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

• Online Publication Date: Oct 21, 2019
• Deposit Date: Jun 6, 2023
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
• Book Title: French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK
• Chapter Number: 6
• ISBN: 9780367809287
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367809287
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