Outputs (15)

Lacan's Sade: the politics of happiness (2015)
Journal Article
Wright, C. (2015). Lacan's Sade: the politics of happiness. Paragraph, 38(3), https://doi.org/10.3366/para.2015.0174

This article assesses the contemporary relevance of Sade’s work and thought by returning to Jacques Lacan’s interpretation of it. It is argued that if the Sadean emphasis on sexual freedom has been co-opted by neoliberal capitalism, this is in part t... Read More about Lacan's Sade: the politics of happiness.

Layering engagement: the temporal dynamics of transmedia television (2015)
Journal Article
Evans, E. (2015). Layering engagement: the temporal dynamics of transmedia television. Storyworlds, 7(2), https://doi.org/10.5250/storyworlds.7.2.0111

The last fifteen years have seen dramatic changes in the UK within both the television industry and televisual storytelling techniques. Rapid technological changes have not only increased the variety of screen devices, they have also changed the boun... Read More about Layering engagement: the temporal dynamics of transmedia television.

Towards a rhizomatic technical history of control (2015)
Journal Article
Goffey, A. (2015). Towards a rhizomatic technical history of control. New Formations: A Journal of Culture, Theory, Politics, 58-73. https://doi.org/10.3898/NewF%3A84/85.03.2015

Gilles Deleuze's Postscript on Control Societies lends itself readily - too readily, perhaps - to historical interpretations of control that accept the universalising claims of techno-science. Critical social and cultural theory tacitly confirms the... Read More about Towards a rhizomatic technical history of control.

“Show us your moves”: trade rituals of television marketing (2015)
Journal Article
Grainge, P., & Johnson, C. (2015). “Show us your moves”: trade rituals of television marketing. Arts and the Market, 5(2), 126-138. https://doi.org/10.1108/aam-06-2014-0022

The purpose of this paper is to examine the professional culture of television marketing in the UK, the sector of arts marketing responsible for the vast majority of programme trailers and channel promos seen on British television screens. In researc... Read More about “Show us your moves”: trade rituals of television marketing.

“Noch nie in einem Warenhaus gewesen, Kind?” - Literarische Interventionen in die Zirkulation von ‘Warenhaus-Wissen’ am Ende der Weimarer Republik (2015)
Book Chapter
Meyer, F. (2015). “Noch nie in einem Warenhaus gewesen, Kind?” - Literarische Interventionen in die Zirkulation von ‘Warenhaus-Wissen’ am Ende der Weimarer Republik. In Konsum und Imagination- Tales of Commerce and Imagination (67-87). Peter Lang

Alain Delon, International Man of Mystery (2015)
Book Chapter
Gallagher, M. (2015). Alain Delon, International Man of Mystery. Alain Delon: Style, Stardom and Masculinity. Bloomsbury

Authorship Assembled: Joss Whedon as Promotional Auteur in Marvel's The Avengers (2015)
Book Chapter
Hadas, L. (2015). Authorship Assembled: Joss Whedon as Promotional Auteur in Marvel's The Avengers. In V. E. Frankel (Ed.), The Comics of Joss Whedon: Critical Essays (199-208). McFarland & Co

Homo immunologicus: on the limits of critique (2015)
Journal Article
Goffey, A. (2015). Homo immunologicus: on the limits of critique. Medical Humanities, 41(1), 8-13. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2014-010661

Through a discussion of a range of research drawn from the humanities and social sciences, and with a particular emphasis on work that tackles questions about the discourse of the life sciences, this paper considers some of the difficulties with rese... Read More about Homo immunologicus: on the limits of critique.

'Criticism at the frontier: Lawrence Alloway at the Movies' (2015)
Book Chapter
Bradnock, L. (2015). 'Criticism at the frontier: Lawrence Alloway at the Movies'. In L. Bradnock, C. J. Martin, & R. Peabody (Eds.), Lawrence Alloway: critic and curator. Getty Research Institute

This essay examines the role of film viewing and film criticism in the early intellectual formation of the British art critic and curator Lawrence Alloway. Drawing on archival material from the Alloway Papers at the Getty Research Institue, including... Read More about 'Criticism at the frontier: Lawrence Alloway at the Movies'.

Tidy House, Tidy Mind? Nonhuman Agency in the Hoarding Situation (2015)
Journal Article
Potts, T. (2015). Tidy House, Tidy Mind? Nonhuman Agency in the Hoarding Situation. Subjectivity, 8(2), https://doi.org/10.1057/sub.2015.1

This article aims to disturb the received wisdom ‘tidy house, tidy mind’ by tracing its emergence and consolidation: from psychoanalysis to clinical psychology through to philosophy and reality television. The contention here is that the commanding p... Read More about Tidy House, Tidy Mind? Nonhuman Agency in the Hoarding Situation.