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‘The Cradle of Scottish Industry’?: exploring Culross’s unique legacy of industrial advancement

Donald Adamson and Robert Yates on the revolutionary 'Moat Pit' of Sir George Bruce, and the global significance it brought to industry in Culross

April 16, 2025
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Fascism at the Limits of Capitalism

Reading Marx’s 'Capital' with Deleuze and Guattari

Edinburgh University Press
July 4, 2024

A coloured picture (the colours are mainly black, white, grey and purple) depicting a portrait sketching of Karl Marx and Baruch Spinoza side by side. Marx is on the right hand side looking towards the left and Spinoza is on the left hand side looking ahead and to the left.

Alienation Reconsidered: Fischbach on Marx and Spinoza

How can reading Spinoza help us to understand Marx's concept of alienation under capitalism?

Chastity and Capitalism, from Shakespeare’s England to Trump’s America

By Katherine Gillen Interest in Shakespeare’s economic philosophy intensified in the wake of the 2008 financial crash, reaching beyond academic circles into public discourse. For example, New York’s Public Theater hosted an event called “What Are We Worth? Shakespeare, Money and…

Carla Hepburn
July 17, 2017

‘The Cradle of Scottish Industry’?: exploring Culross’s unique legacy of industrial advancement

Fascism at the Limits of Capitalism

Alienation Reconsidered: Fischbach on Marx and Spinoza

Chastity and Capitalism, from Shakespeare’s England to Trump’s America

‘The Cradle of Scottish Industry’?: exploring Culross’s unique legacy of industrial advancement

A Deleuzian Conversion

Q&A with the editors of Finnegans Wake – Human and Nonhuman Histories

5 reasons why Dickens wasn’t a bad playwright

Is There Such a Thing as an Irish Female Child?