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The Pharmakon of Shame

Séan Kennedy and Joseph Valente, editors of Irish Shame, explore the intricate relationship between empathy and shame in this blog.

May 7, 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?

Edinburgh University Press
September 20, 2023
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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 Pharmakon of Shame

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 Pharmakon of Shame

Decolonizing the human: Beginning from Edward Said’s humanism

Arriving with Deleuze

Five essential Shakespeare plays on radio

Q&A with the author of Contesting Cosmopolitan Moments in the Long Eighteenth Century