Susan B. Anthony declared in 1896 that the bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.” The comparative study of ‘Whale Rider’ (2002) and ‘Wadjda’ (2012) demonstrates that this liberating effect of the basic tool of transportation is being reinforced in the new millennium. The analysis further situates two con…[Read more]

Keynote presentation at the UK’s first academic folk horror conference.

Invited research presentation given at the University of Reading, 8 October 2015.

It has become a standard approach when considering screen presentations that incorporate the country house to examine them in the light of Andrew Higson’s formulation of the heritage drama, which presented an essentially conservative, depoliticised spectacle of grandeur, safely distanced from the reality of the majority of viewers. However, the c…[Read more]

We say, you belong to me, or I belong to you. But is it possible to be possessed by others? And can we ever possess ourselves? In this raw and intimate account, Eva-Lynn Jagoe merges memoir with critical theory as she recounts the unraveling of everything she thought she knew about selfhood, relationships, and desire. Through the story of an…[Read more]

From Michel de Montaigne’s essay “Of Friendship” to Jacques Derrida’s rearticulation of the former in The Politics of Friendship, scholars both early modern and modern have sought ways to address the fluid co-mixture of bodies from which the discourse of friendship can and does emerge. More recently still, new materialist thinkers of ontolog…[Read more]

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In her paper on “Invasion, Infection, Invisibility: An Iconology of Illegalized
Immigration”, FRANCESCA FALK contrasts in a paradigmatic way
two photos of boat people: Either immigration is depicted as an invasion,
or an individual refugee is portrayed as a victim, following the tradition of
the Christian Iconography. Yet both discussed pic…[Read more]

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Ein Streifzug durch die Szene der Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten in
Tunesien zeigt neben anhaltender Repression und Ernüchterung eine
starke Politisierung der Gesellschaft, viel Selbstbewusstsein und Mut.
DieWahlen waren für sie nur ein kleiner Schritt, den einige boykottiert
haben. Ihre Botschaft: Die Revolution hat erst begonnen, in T…[Read more]

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A reading of Shakespeare and Deleuze on the subject of Anthropocene air. Keywords: endurance, climate change, fossil capitalism, carbon ghosts, Hamlet.