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Lacan’s Cybernetic Theory of Causality: Repetition and the Unconscious in Duncan Jones’ Source Code (2018)
Book Chapter
Wright, C. (2018). Lacan’s Cybernetic Theory of Causality: Repetition and the Unconscious in Duncan Jones’ Source Code. In S. Matviyenko, & J. Roof (Eds.), Lacan and the Posthuman (67-88). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76327-9_5

This chapter explores the intersections between the fields of Lacanian psychoanalysis and theories of the posthuman. It argues that Lacan's early engagements with cybernetics and game theory prefigured many of the questions about artificial intellige... Read More about Lacan’s Cybernetic Theory of Causality: Repetition and the Unconscious in Duncan Jones’ Source Code.

Colour intensities: logics of race and resistance in Jamaica (2019)
Journal Article
Wright, C. (2019). Colour intensities: logics of race and resistance in Jamaica. Philosophy Today, 62(4), 18-45

This article evaluates the gains but also the losses of the set-theoretical ontology Badiou develops in Being and Event, in order to stress the importance of the shift to a concern with appearance and difference in Logics of Worlds. It is argued that... Read More about Colour intensities: logics of race and resistance in Jamaica.

Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China (2018)
Book
Bao, H. (2018). Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China. Copenhagen, Denmark: Nias Press

• First book on gay identity and queer activism in the PRC examined from a cultural studies perspective. • An interdisciplinary project that combines historical and critical analysis of queer cultural texts and ethnographic studies of queer public c... Read More about Queer Comrades: Gay Identity and Tongzhi Activism in Postsocialist China.

Peter Gabriel: Global Citizen (2018)
Book
Hegarty, P. (2018). Peter Gabriel: Global Citizen. London: Reaktion Books

This book considers how Peter Gabriel's music, video, performance, multimedia work and political engagement amount to a shifting understanding of location and locatedness. This moves from personal, psychological, historical and mythical location to a... Read More about Peter Gabriel: Global Citizen.

Continuity and rupture: Levinas's temporal ethics and Gideon Koppel'ssleep furiously (2015)
Journal Article
Harries, R. (2015). Continuity and rupture: Levinas's temporal ethics and Gideon Koppel'ssleep furiously. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 13(2), 189-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2015.1004962

This paper considers the work of Emmanuel Levinas alongside Gideon Koppel's film sleep furiously to explore the significance of temporality for the ethical potential of documentary film. Though comparatively little attention has been devoted to Levin... Read More about Continuity and rupture: Levinas's temporal ethics and Gideon Koppel'ssleep furiously.