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Rancière's Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education (2024)
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Lane, J. F. (2024). Rancière's Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education. Palgrave MacMillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-59880-7

Jacques Rancière is almost unique amongst contemporary thinkers in his consistent hostility to sociologically informed modes of interpretation. This hostility is not limited to his detailed critiques of Pierre Bourdieu—it characterises his thinking a... Read More about Rancière's Counter-Sociology: Politics, History, Education.

The Anti-city: representing La Défense in recent French film and fiction (2022)
Journal Article
Lane, J. (2023). The Anti-city: representing La Défense in recent French film and fiction. French Cultural Studies, 34(1), 49-61. https://doi.org/10.1177/09571558221144369

This article begins with the 2009 documentary, La Dépossession, by filmmaker Jean-Robert Viallet, suggesting that La Défense is depicted as an anti-city. It seeks to anatomise this trope and chronotope, examining the manner in which a range of recent... Read More about The Anti-city: representing La Défense in recent French film and fiction.

Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects: representations of work in post-Fordist France (2020)
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Lane, J. (2020). Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects: representations of work in post-Fordist France. Liverpool University Press

Over recent decades concerns at the increased scarcity and precarity of salaried employment have dominated political struggles, theoretical debates and cultural representations in France. This study argues that such concerns are evidence of a profoun... Read More about Republican Citizens, Precarious Subjects: representations of work in post-Fordist France.

Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’: the conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’ (2020)
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Lane, J. F., & Lane, J. (2021). Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’: the conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’. Textual Practice, 35(4), 545-563. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2020.1733066

© 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Jacques Rancière re-inflects Aristotle's famous maxim to claim that ‘man is a political animal because he is a literary animal’. He goes on to relate this characteristic of ‘literarity’... Read More about Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’: the conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’.

Rouge Brun or Counterrevolutionary? Another Look at Michel Houellebecq's Politics (2020)
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Lane, J. (2020). Rouge Brun or Counterrevolutionary? Another Look at Michel Houellebecq's Politics. Modern Language Review, 115(1), 63-82. https://doi.org/10.5699/modelangrevi.115.1.0063

Michel Houellebecq has gained a reputation for combining left-wing critiques of neo-liberal capitalism with reactionary laments at the decline of nation, religion, honest labour, and the patriarchal family. Critics typically thus either declare the n... Read More about Rouge Brun or Counterrevolutionary? Another Look at Michel Houellebecq's Politics.

From 'moule' to 'modulation': logics of Deleuzean 'control' in recent reforms to French labour law (2018)
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Lane, J. F. (2018). From 'moule' to 'modulation': logics of Deleuzean 'control' in recent reforms to French labour law. Modern and Contemporary France, 26(3), 245-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/09639489.2018.1437126

In his influential ‘Postscriptum sur les sociétés de contrôle’ (1990), Gilles Deleuze argues that one defining characteristic of contemporary ‘societies of control’ is that salaried labour functions no longer as a ‘moule’, defining workers’ identitie... Read More about From 'moule' to 'modulation': logics of Deleuzean 'control' in recent reforms to French labour law.

Emancipation from work or emancipation through work? Aesthetics of work and idleness in recent French thought (2016)
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Lane, J. F. (2016). Emancipation from work or emancipation through work? Aesthetics of work and idleness in recent French thought. Nottingham French Studies, 55(1), 79-95. https://doi.org/10.3366/nfs.2016.0140

In Le Capitalisme cognitif (2007), Yann Moulier Boutang argues that, under Post-Fordism, workers are expected to invest ever more of their creative, affective, and cognitive powers in their labours. These eminently human qualities, he maintains, are... Read More about Emancipation from work or emancipation through work? Aesthetics of work and idleness in recent French thought.

Parody of political correctness or allegory of “Immaterial Labour”? A second look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001) (2015)
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Lane, J. F. (2015). Parody of political correctness or allegory of “Immaterial Labour”? A second look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001). French Cultural Studies, 26(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/0957155815597426

This article questions whether readings of Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001) as simply a parody of political correctness have tended to overlook the allegorical significance of its depiction of a middle-aged executive forced to pretend to be gay, sim... Read More about Parody of political correctness or allegory of “Immaterial Labour”? A second look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001).