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A Q&A with the editors of Refocus: The Films of Jane Campion
Read moreby Alexia L. Bowler and Adele Jones Refocus: The Films of Jane Campion (2023) is the first collection of scholarly […]
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…
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…
Calvin and Hobbes: Reformed Protestants, Natural Law and Secularisation
by Simon P. Kennedy Back in 1532, the French Protestant reformer, John Calvin, wrote a major commentary on Seneca’s De clementia. Buried in this work is an important statement: “Man is a social animal.” Calvin believed that humans were naturally…
A Conversation with Graham Harman and Monika Kaup on ‘New Ecological Realisms’ (Part 4)
Graham Harman and Monika Kaup Missed Part 1 – 3? Check them out here!Part 1Part 2Part 3 Or read the full conversation here! Graham Harman: Finally we come to the somewhat unorthodox pairing of your fifth chapter: Jean-Luc Marion and…
A Conversation with Graham Harman and Monika Kaup on ‘New Ecological Realisms’ (Part 3)
Graham Harman and Monika Kaup Missed Part 1 and 2? Check them out here!Part 1Part 2 Or read the full conversation here. Graham Harman: In Chapter Two your focus shifts toward the Chilean immunologists and autopoiesis theorists Humberto Maturana and…
New journal launch: Journal of Social and Political Philosophy
By Paul Patton, editor of Journal of Social and Political Philosophy Journal of Social and Political Philosophy (JSPP) is an exciting new venture in collaboration with the School of Philosophy at Wuhan University, one of the leading universities in China.…
A Conversation with Graham Harman and Monika Kaup on ‘New Ecological Realisms’ (Part 2)
Graham Harman and Monika Kaup Missed Part 1? Check it out here! Or read the full conversation here. Graham Harman: Much of the contemporary discussion of the material turn focuses on a group sometimes called the New Materialist Feminists, some…
A Conversation with Graham Harman and Monika Kaup on ‘New Ecological Realisms’ (Part 1)
Graham Harman and Monika Kaup Read the full conversation here. Graham Harman: You begin your book New Ecological Realisms by discussing a widely observed turn in recent continental theory, from the preoccupations with language found in structuralism and poststructuralism to…