Robin Jackson explores the life and extraordinary range of work of 20th century German artist Hermann Gross
by Amanda M. Dennis Tell us a bit about your book. Beckett and Embodiment interrogates the strange, disconcerting representations of the human body across Samuel Beckett’s work. Such attention to the body and the varied forms it takes—often integrated with…
by Patricia Macdonald This is the second of a series of blogs featuring themes and participants from the book Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and photography now, edited by Patricia Macdonald (for an introduction to the book, see Q & A…
by Patricia Macdonald Tell us a bit about your book… The purpose of the book is to explore the range of responses of thoughtful photographic image-makers worldwide to the current emergency times – the global situation of multiple, interconnected, environmental…
Graham Harman and Monika Kaup Read the full conversation here. Graham Harman: You begin your book New Ecological Realisms by discussing a widely observed turn in recent continental theory, from the preoccupations with language found in structuralism and poststructuralism to…
The captivating reflection of Chris Watkin on why he chose to write on Michel Serres continues below. Hermeneutics of suspicion, hermeneutics of federation Serres is antipathetic to the method of critique characteristic of the human sciences, and in particular to…
Read this captivating reflection of Chris Watkin on why he chose to write on Michel Serres in his recently published Michel Serres: Figures of Thought. I woke this morning to the news that Michel Serres, philosopher, mountaineer, broadcaster, grandfather, historian…
Once known primarily as the author of ‘twee’ children’s books about fastidious mice and naughty rabbits, Beatrix Potter has gained recognition in recent years for her wide-ranging accomplishments as a conservationist, mycologist and scientific illustrator. In the 1890s, before embarking…