Outputs (10)

The architecture of authoritarian luxury (2019)
Book Chapter

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

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

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.

Writing the Body Politic: A John O’Neill Reader (2019)
Book

Prometheus and the Degenerate: Arno Breker, Hans Bellmer, and Francis Bacon's Extreme Realism (2019)
Book Chapter

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

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

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

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

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

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.