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Updating Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetic Function’ with Vector Semantics
Read more: Updating Roman Jakobson’s ‘Poetic Function’ with Vector SemanticsKurzynski discusses how poetry extends beyond sound and rhythm and taps into a deeper network of meanings.
Stands Scottish Literature Where It Did? Revisiting Devolution
It’s been fifteen years since the last fat volume of essays on contemporary Scottish writing. Only a blink of historical time, but it’s been quite an eventful period. When the chapters of Berthold Schoene’s brilliant Edinburgh Companion to Contemporary Scottish Literature were being written, both the country and its debates looked rather different.
Event Catch-up: Etienne Balibar in Conversation
We were delighted to host philosopher Etienne Balibar in a fascinating online conversation about his book, Spinoza: The Transindividual. Published in our Incitements series, it is one of the most important books published on Spinoza in the last 30 years.…
Calling All Dissenters, Calling All ‘Woke’
by Stuart Sim The right to express political dissent is supposedly integral to democracy, but it is coming increasingly under threat from authoritarian governments. The danger this poses to the liberal democratic community is the subject of my latest book,…
Plato on how to describe the changing world
by Takeshi Nakamura From time to time throughout his dialogues, Plato complains how difficult it is to capture the transient natural world with inert language (e.g., the Theaetetus and the Cratylus). After all, the world in flux changes as you…
Moving forward with Aristotle
by John M. Pemberton Is the world changing? When you cycle along on your bicycle, are you moving? If you ask the woman on the Clapham omnibus, then the answer will be an emphatic: ‘Yes, of course!’ However, many of…
Excerpt from ‘Image-Thinking: Artmaking as Cultural Analysis’
by Mieke Bal My new book explores and analyses making “thought-images” by means of “image-thinking”. In my experience in making films and video installations I learned that making images and thinking through what the process involved and yielded, as a…
Understanding Stoicism with Deleuze: Laughter and Perversion
by Ryan J. Johnson Stoicism seems to be everywhere these days – bestseller lists, email blasts, social media posts, corporate training sessions. Stoicism seems just another self-help trend. But I think they all get it wrong. Stoicism is strange, very…
From Gelopolitics to Geopolitics: The Case of Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Patrick T. Giamario Just over three years ago, Volodymyr Zelenskyy wasn’t yet president of Ukraine; he only played one on TV. In Servant of the People Zelenskyy portrayed Vasyl Holoborodko, a high school history teacher who unexpectedly wins the presidency…
Shimmer: The Kiss of Life Includes Us, Too
An extract from Shimmer: Flying Fox Exuberance in Worlds of Peril by Deborah Bird Rose Australian anthropologist Deborah Bird Rose’s remarkable final book is a landmark piece of interdisciplinary, multi-species scholarship based on fieldwork with the zoologists, conservationists and Aboriginal…