All Outputs (6)

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.

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.

‘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.