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A Deleuzian Conversion
Read more: A Deleuzian ConversionClaire Colebrook was dragged to Deleuze kicking and screaming, but she came to appreciate his difficult and disruptive work. Discover how.
‘Nobody Needs French Theory’ – an extract from Jean Baudrillard: From Hyperreality to Disappearance
Jean Baudrillard on Muslims in France, the simulation of freedom in America, the demise of the intellectual and why French theory is like the Statue of Liberty.
Neo-Victorian Masculinities
There is a shortage of men in neo-Victorianism. Or that, at least, is how it would appear to look at…
Bogus criticisms and animal becomings
By Ashley Woodward Peter Shaffer’s play Equus is perhaps best known to some today as ‘the one in which Harry…
Huffing and Puffing but getting there: the ups and downs of historical research
By William Knox Violence is an area much neglected by Scottish historians unlike those working in other countries, such as…
Apropos Written and yet to be Written Histories of Ancient Palestine and Israel
By Michael Nathanson The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, i.e., impasse over land ownership of the former mandatory Palestine, is rooted in and…
The Post-Mortem of Labour Scotland
Three years ago, Gerry Hassan and I published a book entitled ‘The Strange Death of Labour Scotland’. We envisaged that,…
Letters from Beyond: Sir Politic Would-Be Emails the author
Dear Bob, ‘Tis I, Would-Be, unicorn with panther’s breath. Are you aware, Bob, that Black Panthers are generally the melanistic…
Austerity Bites: Two 1980s British Road Movies
By Ieuan Franklin Where are the films being made today about ‘Austerity Britain’ that combine social realism and humour, as…
Call for Papers: Oxford Literary Review – Overpopulation
Global ‘overpopulation’, considered the central environmental issue in the 1970s, became an almost taboo topic in the twenty-first century, often…