Patrick Valiquet asks why contemporary sound studies forgets the troubling moral and political aspects of Pierre Schaeffer’s experimental music research.
Continuing our celebrations of OLR’s 40th Anniversary and its widespread impact, this month we are highlighting Jacques Derrida’s ‘Let…
By Lena Wånggren What is an ‘unwomanly’ woman? Or an ‘unsexed’ woman? At the end of the nineteenth century, both…
An extract from the introduction of Spanish Erotic Cinema, edited by Santiago Fouz-Hernandez If there is something that the various…
Can the contents of an academic book be expressed by means other than words? In centuries past, it was common…
The guest editors of the Somatechnics Special Issue, ‘Trans Temporalities‘, draw on their inspirations for the issue theme, as well…
By Ben Clements. My Scottish Affairs research looks in detail at recent survey data on religious decline and secularisation in…
In the early years of China’s Civil War, the Communist army and leadership sought refuge from Nationalist troops in the…
Last month we celebrated the writing of Hélène Cixous, both as part of Women’s History Month and of OLR’s…
Who was Richard Owen? Richard Owen (1804–1892) is one of the most important British biologists of the nineteenth century. He…