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Beyond the disenchanted university: A pharmacology of the British university in the age of Coronavirus (2021)
Journal Article
Featherstone, M. (2023). Beyond the disenchanted university: A pharmacology of the British university in the age of Coronavirus. Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, 45(1), 29-52. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714413.2021.2007209

In the teeth of the coronavirus crisis the British HE system has been thrown into chaos and the severe limitations of the market model have been cruelly exposed. After thirty years of expansion and increasing neoliberalization, the contradictions of... Read More about Beyond the disenchanted university: A pharmacology of the British university in the age of Coronavirus.

Žižek's Pandemic (2021)
Journal Article
Featherstone, M. (2021). Žižek's Pandemic. Cultural Politics, 17(1), 124-134. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8797613

In the first part of this article on Žižek's recent book Pandemic! I show how he develops a political theology of the spirit through a discussion of social distancing. In this argument Žižek connects the idea of physical distance to the biblical stor... Read More about Žižek's Pandemic.

Viral Culture (2021)
Journal Article
Armitage, J., & Featherstone, M. (2021). Viral Culture. Cultural Politics, 17(1), 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1215/17432197-8797445

Primal Crime: Visions of the Law and Its Transgression in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Cinema (2021)
Journal Article
Featherstone. (2021). Primal Crime: Visions of the Law and Its Transgression in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Cinema. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 49-67. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11196-019-09632-5

In this paper I consider contemporary expressions of what Freud called the primal crime and collapse of paternal law through an exploration of the cinema of the Danish-American Director Nicolas Winding Refn. Introducing the paper I outline Freud’s th... Read More about Primal Crime: Visions of the Law and Its Transgression in Nicolas Winding Refn’s Cinema.

The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity (2021)
Journal Article
Featherstone, M. (2021). The Technical Delusion: Electronics, Power, Insanity. Emotion, Space and Society, 38, Article ARTN 100762. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100762