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  • Common Sense: Between Democratic Promise and Political Peril

    Thomas Telios considers common sense as a contested and performative concept shaping democratic discourse and political exclusion.

    March 2, 2026
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Love Across the Atlantic

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Read on to catch a glimpse of one of the chapters from Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular…

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Esprit de Corps and the Right (Not) To Belong

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  • Philosophy / Political Philosophy / Politics, Philosophy and Religion

I have always liked in French the word esprit, and this is not very surprising for a philosopher. In 2014,…

  • ByZuzana IHNATOVA
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Techno thrillers, real life surveillance and data technology: mapping the future?

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  • Cultural Studies / Film and TV / Language and Literature / Politics / Post 19th Century Literary Studies

By Heike Henderson What can contemporary techno thrillers tell us about possible future developments in the areas of surveillance, data…

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A career in crime: Dr Eric Sandberg reflects on research in crime fiction studies

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I came to crime fiction studies through the back door. Like many people, I grew up reading mysteries. Franklin W.…

  • ByTeri Williams
  • OnFebruary 27, 2020

“There’s a lot of mythology about these events”: unreliable narrators of the Battle of George Square

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  • British History / History / Politics / Politics, Philosophy and Religion / Scottish History / Scottish Politics / Scottish Studies

Last year, near the centenary, Scottish Affairs published my article about the mythology surrounding the so-called ‘Battle of George Square’…

  • ByTeri Williams
  • OnFebruary 24, 2020
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Common Good: The curious case of Princes Street Gardens

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Andrew Ferguson discusses Common Good Law and the curious case of Princes Street Gardens

  • ByKirsty Crosbie
  • OnFebruary 11, 2020

A New Age of Whitehead Scholarship

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  • Philosophy / Politics, Philosophy and Religion

At the end of his first year of what would turn out to be thirteen years teaching at Harvard, Alfred…

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  • OnFebruary 7, 2020

Beyond time travel in time travel stories and cinema with Gilles Deleuze

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Trips into history. Journeys to the future. Encounters in the present with visitors from the future or past. There are…

  • ByTeri Williams
  • OnFebruary 6, 2020

Ghost Stories in the Post-Truth Age – A Dialogue

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Charlie Pidcock interviews Catherine Belsey about her latest book, Tales of the Troubled Dead, which traces examples of ghost stories from Homer to present.

  • ByCarla Hepburn
  • OnJanuary 31, 2020
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