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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.

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.

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.

The Sociology of Debt (Ed. M Featherstone) (2019)
Book
Featherstone, M. (2019). M. Featherstone (Ed.). The Sociology of Debt (Ed. M Featherstone). Bristol University Press. https://doi.org/10.46692/9781447339533

This book includes contributions from a range of authors in a variety of disciplines who approach debt from holistic perspectives, providing accounts that span both social scientific as well as economic analysis.

‘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.