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Publication of a new edited volume of interdisciplinary essays on autonomy co-edited by Oliver Davis

Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:06:03 GMT

Arising from a Warwick-Monash Alliance collaboration, with Dr Chris Watkin, undertaken during the Covid years, this new edited volume considers whether autonomy is still a useful concept today. Is the Enlightenment understanding of autonomy still relevant in addressing contemporary challenges? How have the limits and possibilities of autonomy been transformed by recent developments in artificial intelligence and big data, political pressures, intersecting oppressions and the climate emergency? The challenges to autonomy today reach across society with unprecedented complexity, and in this book leading scholars from philosophy, economics, linguistics, literature and politics examine the role of autonomy in key areas of contemporary life, forcefully defending a range of different views about the nature and extent of resistance to autonomy today. These essays are essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the predicament and prospects of one of modernity’s foundational concepts and one of our most widely cherished values. Oliver Davis's chapter, on conceptualising the role of patient autonomy in psychedelically assisted psychotherapy, can be viewed Open Access here.

Jennifer Burns

Sun, 15 May 2022 09:36:00 GMT

Transnational Modern Languages: A Handbook, ed. by Jennifer Burns and Derek Duncan (Liverpool University Press, 2022). The cornerstone volume of the 'Transnational Modern Languages' series: 37 short essays on keywords for thinking critically about languages and cultures, from 'Animal' to 'Voice'.

New monograph, "Hatred of Sex" by Oliver Davis and Tim Dean, University of Nebraska Press (2022)

Mon, 04 Apr 2022 13:16:16 GMT

Hatred of Sex

New monograph, "Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood: the Rise of the Cine-fille", by Mary Harrod, Palgrave (2021)

Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:58:20 GMT

Heightened Genre and Women's Filmmaking in Hollywood

New monograph: "Past Imperfect: Time and African Decolonization, 1945-1960" by Pierre-Philippe Fraiture, published by Liverpool UP (April 2021)

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:06:00 GMT

Past Imperfect: Time and African Decolonization

Di Zhao has published a Chinese translation of Lacey Cep's Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee

Sat, 10 Oct 2020 09:37:26 GMT

Di Zhao, PhD student in Translation and Cultures in Warwick's School of Modern Languages & Cultures, has published a translation into Chinese of the award-winning true-crime book Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep (William Heinemann, 2019). The translation was published by Straits Literature and Art Publishing House in Fuzhou, China in July 2020. https://book.douban.com/subject/35092879/

Dr Jessica Wardhaugh publishes a research essay on theatricality for the Naxos Music Library

Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:20:07 GMT

Dr Jessica Wardhaugh publishes a research essay on theatricality for the Naxos Music Library

Read Dr. Mary Harrod's short piece on 'Romance in the Time of Coronavirus'

Mon, 21 Sep 2020 17:34:27 GMT

Read Dr. Mary Harrod's short piece on 'Romance in the Time of Coronavirus'

Dr James Hodkinson publishes a major volume surveying the position of German language culture in academia and beyond.

Sun, 13 Sep 2020 19:09:19 GMT

Over several years, working with Dr Benedict Schofield (KCL) James Hodkinson has curated an important volume of essays that asses the state of German Studies in education, but also in the worlds beyond it. Published by Camden House (Boydell & Brewer), James has written a blog reflecting on the book and its relevance. Read the entry here!

new free-to-view article by Oliver Davis: 'Neoliberal capitalism's bureaucracies of "governance"'

Sat, 12 Sep 2020 07:26:00 GMT

The account of bureaucracy under neoliberal capitalism which I present in this article, under the innocuous heading it prefers to use to describe itself (‘governance’), draws together recent critical work by the late David Graeber, Wendy Brown, William Davies and Pierre Dardot and Christian Laval, which it repositions in relation to Jacques Rancière’s conception of the ‘police order’. I suggest that the massive production of insecurity by proliferating bureaucracies which structure neoliberalism’s project of competitive hierarchisation creates the ideal conditions for a vicious circle of securitarian inflation. To read the full article click here