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Ranciere’s ‘literary animals’: the conditions of possibility of ‘political subjectivation’ (2020)
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© 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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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.

Work in crisis: film, fiction and theory (2018)
Journal Article

From 'moule' to 'modulation': logics of Deleuzean 'control' in recent reforms to French labour law (2018)
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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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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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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).

“Come you spirits unsex me!”: representations of the female executive in recent French film & fiction (2015)
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This article analyses the representation of female executives in a corpus of French films and novels produced from 2000 on. The corpus includes a mixture of male and female directors and novelists, all of whom adopt broadly centre-left or left-wing p... Read More about “Come you spirits unsex me!”: representations of the female executive in recent French film & fiction.