articles By Giorgio Agamben 24 June 2014The relationship between documentation and construction in Walter Benjamin’s work was central to his originality and another bone of amicable conten...
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articles By Sophie Lewis 7 June 2014Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac considers the feasibility of love with men, and whether heterosexual fucking – or abjuring it – can be women’s s...
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articles By Jonathan Kemp 4 June 2014Acknowledging the trends of a new cultural-topological turn Jonathan Kemp reads Sha Xin Wei’s recent book on poiesis, enchantment and topology, insi...
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articles By L.S. 30 May 2014While much analysis has emphasised the flexible, precarious and improvisatory subjectivities of neoliberal ‘post-fordist’ society, the post-crunch...
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articles By Dominic Pettman 23 May 2014Massively open online courses (MOOCs) have been sold as the future of higher education but there is more than a whiff of ‘primitive accumulatio...
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articles By Michelle Jones 14 May 2014Post-fordist visions of flexible, personalised, and life-long learning have grown even leaner and meaner post-2008. The student body is increasingly v...
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articles By Anne Boyer 1 May 2014Brecht ventriloquised the questions of a worker who reads, and Walt Whitman declared the 'direct trial' of the poet to be – 'today'. In a time when ...
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