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‘Wanna fight?’: utopia-dystopia in Nicolas Winding Refn’s recent cinema (2019)
Book Chapter
Featherstone, M. (2019). ‘Wanna fight?’: utopia-dystopia in Nicolas Winding Refn’s recent cinema. In Law, Cinema, and the Ill City (31-41). Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429442254-4

This chapter aims to read the cinema of the Danish-American filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn through the lens of his utopian-dystopian representations of the city. In Winding Refn’s films it is possible to see the effects of the conversion of the utopi... Read More about ‘Wanna fight?’: utopia-dystopia in Nicolas Winding Refn’s recent cinema.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Negative Abyss Surface, Depth, and Violence in Virilio and Stiegler (2015)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2015). The Negative Abyss Surface, Depth, and Violence in Virilio and Stiegler. Cultural Politics, 210-221. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-2895771

This article explores what one might call the dystopia of contemporary screen-based culture through a discussion of the work of Paul Virilio and Bernard Stiegler. Centrally, it explains that the screen might be seen as a negative abyss, where absolut... Read More about The Negative Abyss Surface, Depth, and Violence in Virilio and Stiegler.

Utopias: An Introduction (2014)
Journal Article
Featherstone, M., & Miles, M. (2014). Utopias: An Introduction. Cultural Politics, 10(2), 125-131

La pesadilla de Einstein Sobre: la tecno-distopía en Bernard Stiegler (2014)
Journal Article
Featherstone, M. (2014). La pesadilla de Einstein Sobre: la tecno-distopía en Bernard Stiegler. CTheory,

En invierno de 2013, me hice consciente de la "pesadilla de Einstein", un meme de internet, un fragmento de información, que refleja el horror de lo que llamo en este artículo "distopía tecnológica". [1] El meme, titulado "La peor pesadilla de Einste... Read More about La pesadilla de Einstein Sobre: la tecno-distopía en Bernard Stiegler.