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The Writer as Memory Activist

Antonia Wimbush explores how cultural works preserve the overlooked memories of Caribbean migration to France through the BUMIDOM program and challenge France’s national narrative.

July 2, 2025
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Extract: Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics

Enjoy a sneak peek of the Introduction to Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics edited by Ryan Bishop and Sunil Manghani An unfolding line of enquiry has been the revisiting of Barthes’ term ‘zero degree’, which dates back to…

Kevin Worrall
November 3, 2021

The Writer as Memory Activist

Extract: Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics

The Writer as Memory Activist

Translating Bréhier: How did The Theory of Incorporeals in Ancient Stoicism come to be?

Feeling the Rainbow: LGBT Rights and Reforms

Q&A with Daniel Behar, author of Syrian Poets and Vernacular Modernity

Trans media’s expanding horizons