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Conclusion: Humility’s Edges
Authors: de Villiers Rick
Published: May 2022

The conclusion reflects on the differences between Eliot’s and Beckett’s respective handling of humility and humiliation. This leads to a broader discussion about the interpretive difficulties of deciphering performances of humility.
Deindustrialisation and the Moral Economy in Scotland since 1955
Authors: Phillips Jim , Wright Valerie , Tomlinson Jim
Published: May 2022

Deindustrialisation was a long-running process in Scotland, managed carefully by policy-makers in the 1960s and 1970s, and recklessly in the 1980s and 1990s. This book examines the social, cultural and political implications of this process. It uses unpublished documentary sources and oral history interviews from industrial sectors that have not been examined together before, along with a moral economy conceptual framework, to explain popular understanding of deindustrialisation. The perceived injustices of industrial job losses stimulated support for Scottish Home Rule within the UK from the 1960s to the 1990s and then for Independence in the 2000s. The book links political and industrial changes through a two-part integration of themes and case studies. Part one elaborates understanding of deindustrialisation: in global and historical terms; within the moral economy framework in Scotland; and as a phased and politicised phenomenon. It is shown that deindustrialisation was accepted as fair in the 1960s and 1970s, because the UK government made provision for economic alternatives in dialogue with communities affected. It was regarded as unjust in the 1980s and 1990s because the UK government offered no meaningful support to redundant workers and newly-insecure localities. Part two examines the working-class moral economy of deindustrialisation in action through case studies: shipbuilding, with Fairfield shipyard in Govan; motor manufacturing, with the Linwood car plant in Renfrewshire; and watchmaking and electronics sub-assembly, with Timex in Dundee. The book concludes its long chronological sweep with a chapter-length analysis of deindustrialisation since the mid-1990s.
Introduction
Authors: Phillips Jim , Wright Valerie , Tomlinson Jim
Published: May 2022

On 3 June 1966, workers at the British Motor Corporation (BMC) commercial vehicle plant in Bathgate, West Lothian, began an unofficial strike. They were acting in support of their workplace shop stewards and local union officials, who were attempting to negotiate a substantial pay increase with BMC management. The grievance was substantial: a fundamental disparity of £3 a week between earnings at Bathgate and BMC factories in the English West Midlands....
The Moral Economies of Deindustrialisation
Authors: Phillips Jim , Wright Valerie , Tomlinson Jim
Published: May 2022

In Scotland from the 1950s to the 1990s there was a working-class moral economy, consisting of customs and expectations that were rooted in the worlds of employment and industry. Workers tolerated structural change where their longer-term economic security was protected, and when their trade-union and political representatives were involved in managing the restructuring. Three transition points are emphasised: the movement out of ‘traditional’ industry in the late 1950s; the stalled growth of new industries in the late 1960s; and the rapid acceleration of industrial job losses in the 1980s. Moral-economy understanding of industrial job losses fed a long-term movement of political opinion away from Unionism or Conservatism and the unreformed constitutional structures of the UK., towards Labour, Home Rule and the SNP.
Timex, Dundee: Watches, Electronics and the Moral Economy
Authors: Phillips Jim , Wright Valerie , Tomlinson Jim
Published: May 2022

Timex, a US Corporation, established its watch-making presence in Dundee in 1947. The firm’s production and labour processes were bifurcated by skill and gender. Engineering workers, mainly men, made components in workshops; semi-skilled workers, mainly women, assembled watches on production lines. In the 1970s Timex moved into electronics sub-contracting. A major crisis followed in 1983 when watch-making was abandoned. Engineers occupied their workshops, defending the moral economy right to work in a city and period of rising unemployment, and avoided compulsory redundancy. Timex left Dundee in 1993 when workers refused damaging pay and fringe benefit cuts. The politics of Timex fed a broader Scottish narrative where working-class security was compromised by hostile multinational capital and unsympathetic Westminster decision-makers.
Introduction: Fifty Years of Columbo
Authors: Martin-Jones David
Published: May 2022

This book argues that analysis of the extremely popular television show Columbo uncovers its sustained engagement with attention. This analysis of attention stems from the (oft-noted) understanding that television is itself an attention-seeking device. Indeed, that television plays a powerful role in shaping the manner in which we, its viewers, pay attention to the world around us. This is to engage with the idea that what we pay attention to is shaped by external forces, and that this shaping is an integral aspect of how society functions. Attention may even be a key factor in driving the economy. What the exploration of Columbo reveals is how our manner of paying of attention to the world was shaped in the later decades of the Twentieth Century in ways which continue even to this day. This Introduction first explores the enduring cultural influence of Columbo, at its fiftieth anniversary, and considers Peter Falk’s appearance in Wim Wenders Wings of Desire – Falk/Columbo as zeitgeist figure of US capitalism expanding globally.
Introduction: In the Beginning Was the Word
Authors: Bourdeau Loïc
Published: May 2022

This introduction locates the volume within the rich scholarship on François Ozon and highlights his commitment to making films that speak to social debates and offer alternative models of sociality grounded in queerness. It also shows Ozon’s attachment to cinema as a tool to connect us all, how it is an integral part of the fabric of society as well as his attachment to words, text and naming. Considering that he has adapted a number of novels and plays and includes references to songs or poems in his work, it is clear that Ozon has a (self)referential approach to filmmaking, a true signature as an auteur and a commitment to social justice. This introduction then includes a summary of all 11 chapters and shows that if Ozon embraces ambiguity and ambivalence, this volume brings the necessary clarity to better understand his oeuvre.
François Ozon’s Sitcom and Politics of Form
Authors: Tasevska Tamara
Published: May 2022

This chapter investigates New Queer Cinema and discusses the use of queer within a French context, Ozon’s reworking of the mechanisms of cinema and the ways he in fact challenges the structure of heteronormative, mainstream cinema. This chapter shows that Sitcom (1998) – with its excessive mise-en-scène and use of perversion – not only yields queer attachments, but also experiments with social value, beyond patriarchal culture.
‘The Scent of a Middle-class Woman’: Desire, Family and the Adolescent Imagination in François Ozon’s Dans la maison
Authors: Steele Jamie
Published: May 2022

This chapter explores Ozon’s filmmaking style and approach to institutions at the centre of the French national imaginary, such as the school system. By questioning these structures, Dans la maison/In the House (2012) subverts heteronormative assumptions of Western European society and culture. In particular, Steele investigates desire and how it permeates the depiction of the school and the family institutions. Finally, this chapter confirms that it is reductive to consider Ozon’s films only through the representation of homosexuality, even if the topic is at the heart of many productions.
Bringing Up Baby in the Twenty-first Century: Le Refuge and the Ozonian Family
Authors: Schilt Thibaut
Published: May 2022

This chapter first situates the 2009 film within Ozon’s existing oeuvre and highlights its innovative aspects. Then, after an analysis of the ways Le Refuge/The Refuge further complicates visions of motherhood and kinship structures, the chapter – using references to Les Amants criminels/Criminal Lovers or 8 femmes/8 Women, among others, – discusses the film’s portrayal of fatherhood through the figure of Paul, an openly gay man and surrogate father to his deceased brother’s child. Finally, the chapter takes into account the French socio-political context and contemporary debates over LGBTQ rights in which the films seems to intervene.
Indexicalism: A Paradoxico-Metaphysics
Authors: Bensusan Hilan
Published: May 2022

Chapter 1 presents indexicalism as idea that the world is ultimately best described in terms of indexical expressions like 'here', 'you', 'now', 'outside', 'same' or 'other'. Substantive descriptions are appropriate to think things through only to the extent that they have an implicit indexicality. Indexical expressions are context-dependent and therefore thoroughly situated. Indexicalism is a paradoxico-metaphysics in the terms defined by Cogburn; it can also be seen as a critique of metaphysics if metaphysics aims at a general, substantive view of how things are and they are such that no substantive description is adequate. Indexicalism draws from elements of Whitehead’s philosophy of the organism – especially the notion of locus standi in the theory of measurement – of Levinas’ account of the asymmetric Other and of Perry and Kaplan’s work on demonstratives and implicit indexicality. An indexicalist image of things has no space for total, third-person views of everything. The postulated absolute is deictic.
The Metaphysics of the Others
Authors: Bensusan Hilan
Published: May 2022

Chapter 2 provides an elaboration of the metahysics of the others that follows from indexicalism. The analysis the others as an indexical entail a recommendation of the injunction formulated by Anna Tsing: tell the world with the best of one’s capacities and leave space in the ground for alternative narratives. The injunction, in its turn, is connected to Amerindian perspectivism and its insistence in the deictic character of any narrative. The metaphysics of the others is contrasted to Meillassoux’s speculative materialism and a method of bound speculation is then outlined. The chapter engages with Deleuze’s analysis of Michel Tournier’s Robinson Crusoe to discuss how the others relate to the Great Outdoors. In order to step from the Levinasian Other to the Great Outdoors, two approaches are examined: the one around Silvia Benso’s attempt to expand Levinas’ approach to faces to all things and the one provided by Jacques Derrida’s notion of ‘supplement’.
Against Empathy
Authors: Light Alison
Published: May 2022

A short polemic, meant to provoke, given as a talk at a conference for senior school students. It argues against the insistence in teaching and reading on ‘identifying’ with characters and on empathy, the idea that reading fiction, novels, drama and poetry, is primarily about feeling for ‘other people’ or a route to ‘self-discovery’ rather than anything else. The piece suggests that this reduces the huge and marvellous and challenging possibilities of art to a mere reflection of the concerns of the present day and to a repetition of the same moral messages regardless of historical or social, linguistic or aesthetic considerations. The role of the critic, I argue, is also hugely diminished.
A Woolf in Dog’s Clothing: Flush
Authors: Light Alison
Published: May 2022

This is an introduction to Virginia Woolf’s often ignored spoof-biography of Flush, the spaniel belonging to the poet, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Woolf’s relation to her Victorian predecessors, the role of animals, and of dogs in particular, and their symbolic presence in society; Woolf’s experiments with biography and her troubled relation to the body, are among its themes. The critical reception of Flush is also analysed and its place in Woolf’s oeuvre.
Science Fiction Film
Authors: Sorensen Eli Park
Published: May 2022

Opening a debate about the political dimension of science fiction films, this book uses Carl Schmitt’s thought to provide a new theoretical approach to American cinematic sci-fi since the late 1970s. Drawing on Schmitt’s notion of the state of exception and its basis in the unpredictability of tomorrow, the book looks at the political ramifications when the moment of the future finally arrives. Analyzing films such as Alien, Blade Runner and Minority Report, the book explores how power reconfigures itself to ensure the survival of the state, what ‘society’ means, who ‘we, the people’ are, and whether it will still be possible to retain a sphere of liberal, individual rights after the transformative event of the future.
The Production of Meaning in Islamic Architecture and Ornament
Authors: Tabbaa Yasser
Published: May 2022

The book presents investigative and interpretive articles on some of the most significant monuments and innovative features of medieval Islamic architecture, ornament, and gardens in Syria and Iraq, with comparative expansions into Anatolia, Egypt, North Africa, and Spain. These monuments, many of which have vanished in recent years, are examined within the context of the political divisions and theological ruptures that characterized the Islamic world between the eleventh and mid thirteenth centuries. Although some of these forms—including muqarnas vaulting, proportioned Qur’anic scripts, and cursive public inscriptions—would become ubiquitous in all Islamic architecture, these papers argue that they were produced and systematized within highly contentious political and theological discourses that imbued them with fairly specific meanings. Furthermore, the monumental types that were created in this period—in particular, the madrasa, the hospital, the tribunal (dar al-‘adl), and the citadel palace—represent borrowings from Baghdad, the Abbasid capital and safeguard of Sunni Islam. As such, the reader will be presented with medieval Islamic architecture as a discursive formation that echoes, though on a reduced scale, Abbasid glory and signals future developments in later Islamic architecture.
Circles of Power: Palace, Citadel and City in Ayyubid Aleppo
Authors: Tabbaa Yasser
Published: May 2022

Studies the mighty citadel of Aleppo and its Ayyubid palace in relation to the adjacent tribunal (Dar al-‘Adl) and the southern extramural quarter. The article further links the Ayyubid Palace with eight other related medieval Syrian palaces and ultimately with the vast palaces of early Islam. Concludes that these medieval palaces were a greatly shrunken versions of Umayyad and Abbasid palaces.
The Muqarnas Domes and Vaults of Cairo
Authors: Tabbaa Yasser
Published: May 2022

Although incipient muqarnas forms were used in the late Fatimid period, their use for vaults and domes was considerably postdates such developments in Syria and the much of the Islamic world. The article examines the introduction of muqarnas vaulting to Cairo by Syrian craftsmen and suggests some reasons for the delay of its adoption.
The Transformation of Arabic Writing: Part 1, Qur ʾ ānic Calligraphy
Authors: Tabbaa Yasser
Published: May 2022

Discusses the conversion of Qur’anic writing from ambiguously majestic Kufic scripts to the elegantly legible scripts developed by Ibn Muqla (d. 940) and Ibn al-Bawwab (d. 1022), focusing on a substantial group of Qur’an manuscripts made between the 10th and 11th centuries. The article argues that this two-phase transformation of Qur’anic writing reflected a specifically exoteric/zahir view of the scriptures, in conformity with contemporary Abbasid theology and as a challenge to its divergent Fatimid counterpart.
The Transformation of Arabic Writing: Part 2, the Public Text 1
Authors: Tabbaa Yasser
Published: May 2022

Examines the transformation of public texts (both Qur’anic and historical) from Kufic, in particular floriated Kufic, to cursive in the 11th and 12th centuries. As mandated by Nur al-Din in the middle of the twelfth century, legible cursive scripts would completely replace the ambiguous floriated Kufic script, reflecting and embodying the exoteric and inclusive doctrines of the Sunni revival.
Eternal Hunting Fields: The Frescos at Qusayr ʿ Amra as a Pastoralist Interpretation of the Paradise Garden
Authors: Tabbaa Yasser
Published: May 2022

A critical examination of the ahistoricism of the Islamic paradise garden paradigm leads to advancing the pastoralist garden, focused on the hunt, as an early garden type. Concludes that the extensive hunt cycles at Qusayr ‘Amra (c.740) embodied an entirely variant vision of paradise, one that embraced a more active paradise, with hunt at its centre.
Glorifying the Imamate: Architecture and Ritual in the Shi ʿ i Shrines of Syria
Authors: Tabbaa Yasser
Published: May 2022

This article proposes a phenomenological methodology that links Shi’i core beliefs and ritual practices with the main architectural and design features of major Shi’i shrines. It argues that the main features of Shi’i shrine architecture—its plan, design, ornament, and inscriptions—reflect exigencies of visitation and amplify the main tenets of Shi’ism.
3 Northern Line
Authors: Radman Andrej
Published: May 2022

The chapter draws on Deleuze and Guattari’s reading of the concept of the ‘Northern Line’ as a theoretical disposition towards the differential difference in contrast to the dialectical difference. The latter operates in terms of opposition, negation and, ipso facto, resistance correlative to a molar notion of power (pouvoir) and not, as the former, at the (molecular) level of ‘desiring assemblages’. The chapter shows that the ‘Northern Line’ provides an aesthetic reading – neither distributed nor organised around the mind, nor oriented towards cognition – that is capable of escaping architecture’s long-standing dependence on representationalism.
6 The Impredicative City: or What Can a Boston Square Do?
Authors: Radman Andrej
Published: May 2022

The chapter draws upon schizoanalytic cartography to concentrate on the perception which occurs not on the level at which actions are decided but on the level at which the very capacity for action forms. If representation is a means to an end (tracing), cartography is a means to a means (intervention). The goal-oriented human action cannot be used as the design criterion, because the freedom of action is never a de facto established condition; it is always virtuality.
8 Zigzagging: Bound by the Absence of a Tie
Authors: Radman Andrej
Published: May 2022

The chapter unpacks Deleuze and Guattari’s ‘machinic’ conception of consistency which is determined neither by the naïve ‘organic’ autonomy of the vitalist whole, nor by the crude reductionist expression of the whole in the sum of its mechanical parts. Machinism entails the dark precursor’s zigzagging between the immanent limits of empathy and abstraction, nature and culture, the extensive and the intensive, signification and significance, as well as the political and the libidinal.
9 3D Perception ≠ 2D Image + 1D Inference: or Why a Single Precise Shot Would Often Miss the Target, Whereas a Series of Imprecise Shots Will Eventually Lead to a Hit
Authors: Radman Andrej
Published: May 2022

The chapter draws on what Deleuze diagnosed as the historical crisis of psychology caused by the ‘ontological iron curtain’ between the mind and the body, which keeps the images in consciousness separated from the movements in space. Such a dualist position is not attainable, for there has never been such a thing as a bounded body coupled to the world. The ‘movement- image’ as a pure event is antecedent to the formation of the border between the inside and the outside. To escape the pernicious ‘reversed ontology’ whereby the cart of representation is placed before the horse of morphogenesis, we need to draw on the ‘reversal (of the reversal)’. The realist account of metastable structures as being produced out of material flows requires that we put the event before and beyond meaning and organism altogether. Images cannot be reduced to their all-too-human semiotic function in a cultural system.
10 Double Bind: On Material Ethics
Authors: Radman Andrej
Published: May 2022

The chapter champions the neologism ethico-aesthetic in order to underline the inseparability of action and perception. The chapter argues that it is practice and experimentation that actively shape the subject. Until recently the sentient was considered as a mere supplement to the sapient. The ranking order in major philosophical systems clearly reveals a historical bias towards the cognitive over the affective. But it is in the manner of such lowly supplements to end up supplanting what they are meant to subserve.
Deleuze and the Problem of Affect
Authors: Cross D. J. S.
Published: May 2022

Perhaps more than any other philosopher, theorist or critic, Deleuze has been pivotal for the recent ‘affective turn’ in the humanities. Not without reason. He is in large part responsible for popularising the term ‘affect’ by insisting upon the translation of Spinoza’s affectus as ‘affect’ (l’affect), which was long translated as passion or sentiment in French (‘emotion’ in English). And yet, critics and proponents alike have failed to appreciate the extent to which Deleuze himself remains profoundly ambivalent toward affect and embodiment in general. This ambivalence and its longevity have been overlooked, I argue, because it only becomes apparent through a systematic analysis of affect throughout Deleuze’s work. I undertake this analysis in Deleuze and the Problem of Affect. By demonstrating the ways in which, from beginning to end, Deleuze’s system of thought both ruptures and complies with the tradition, most often for one and the same reason, I recalibrate Deleuze’s philosophy and the recent ‘affective turn’ that hinges upon it.
Introduction
Authors: Cross D. J. S.
Published: May 2022

The Introduction serves several distinct but interrelated purposes. First, it clarifies my terminology vis-à-vis Deleuze. Second, it articulates the general argument that guides the book at large. Namely, Deleuze’s most radical deployments of affect do not preclude conservative tendencies. On the contrary, the radical place of affect in his system even exacerbates his complicity with traditional treatments of it. Third, the Introduction situates this argument with respect to the critical landscape that, even when critical of Deleuze, does not tend to call his radicality into doubt. Fourth and finally, I offer a blueprint of the various chapters that subsequently buttress my argument.
Conclusion: The Body without Affects
Authors: Cross D. J. S.
Published: May 2022

Rather reiterate my argument, I conclude by confirming Deleuze’s ambivalence in Logic of Sense and Anti-Oedipus. I argue that, although Deleuze himself announces a ‘rupture’ between these two works, the problem of affect remains consistent despite all shifts in topography, axiology and teleology. Consequently, this reading not only consolidates the logic of ambivalence but also concludes that, uninterrupted across otherwise incompatible works, ambivalence operates a structural invariant of Deleuze’s oeuvre at large.
In Praise of Hybrid Purity: Nomadism and Pierre Joris
Authors: Baetens Jan
Published: May 2022

This essay addresses the notion of ‘nomadic poetry’, in a theoretical as well as a practical sense. The first part of the contribution discusses certain theoretical presuppositions of nomadism (as practised by Pierre Joris), more specifically its praise of textual hybridity and readerly freedom or, if one wants to put it in a negative manner, its reluctance toward purity and rhetoric. The chapter starts from Jan Baetens’s own writing, which is both nomadic and non-nomadic, and further relies on examples drawn from modern French literature. The text suggests that all complex forms of nomadism should also take into account its own ‘other,’ namely purity and rhetoric. The final part of the essay discusses some aspects of the genesis and never ending transformations of a literary project, ‘Ce monde’ (‘This World’), which represents Jan Baetens’s creative response to Joris’s work – a displaced and nomadic one, of course.
Enigmatic and Revealing: Lucienne Stassaert’s Neo-Avant-Garde Short Story Collection Verhalen van de jonkvrouw met de spade (1964)
Authors: Janssens Nele
Published: May 2022

Amid the experimental zeal in Flemish prose in the 1960s, Lucienne Stassaert published her first short story collection Verhalen van de jonkvrouw met de spade (‘Stories of the lady with the shovel’, 1964). The stories are not conventional prose texts, but feature musical patterns, ungrammatical phrases and highly metaphorical language. This chapter analyses Stassaert’s prose debut as a neo-avant-garde experiment, more specifically as lyrical prose. While critics associate this prose with Labris, a Flemish neo-avant-garde periodical that is inspired by French surrealism and the American beat generation, they also present Stassaert as a unique and wayward author. Stassaert cultivates this image: in accordance with the Labris program – and using typical Labris techniques – she creates autonomous texts, but she also distances herself from this writers’ collective. Moreover, her writing has an autobiographical, therapeutic dimension. This chapter studies Stassaert’s ambiguous attitude towards Labris and the particular intersection of the autonomy of the text and the writer’s personal reality.
From Zero to Neo: Ivo Michiels, Book Alpha and the Neo-Avant-Garde
Authors: Bernaerts Lars
Published: May 2022

Ivo Michiels (1923-2012) is a towering figure of the neo-avant-garde in Dutch literature. His five-volume The Alpha Cycle (1963-79) is a pivotal part of his work. The chapter discusses how Michiels associates himself with the artists of the Zero movement and how he integrates the topoi of the avant-garde in Book Alpha (1963), the first part of The Alpha Cycle. The book ties together the rhetoric of the new and of rupture, radical skepticism toward language, and a tendency towards abstraction. Against the background of theories of the neo-avant-garde, the contribution argues that Michiels uses the performative power of language to turn harmful, oppressive speech into a creative and original literary language.
Nietzsche as Phenomenologist
Authors: Daigle Christine
Published: May 2022

This book explores a novel interpretation of Nietzsche’s philosophy as phenomenological. It unpacks Nietzsche's phenomenological method, a 'wild phenomenology', to elucidate his understanding of the human being as an intentional embodied consciousness, as a being-in-the-world and as a being-with-others. Establishing this phenomenological conception of the human prepares the ground to revisit the Nietzschean notions of free spirit and the Overhuman and how they express the ethical and cultural-political flourishing Nietzsche envisions for human beings.
Nietzsche’s Phenomenological Notion of the Self
Authors: Daigle Christine
Published: May 2022

This chapter tackles Nietzsche’s views on intentionality and selfhood. It offers an explanation of how his position takes shape given his critical relation to Kant and the related critique of metaphysics. Indeed, it is upon his critique of the distinction between the real and appearances that Nietzsche operates a return to immanence and to our fundamental experience of constituting the world as intentional consciousness. The chapter explains how both postmodern and naturalist understandings of Nietzsche miss the mark by claiming that he rejects the self. Nietzsche offers a notion of the self that may significantly differ from the one inherited from centuries of rationalist and idealist philosophizing but that does not amount to a rejection. Instead, he proposes that the human self is the colourist of its world, what amounts to a phenomenological concept of constitutive consciousness.
Multi-Layered Embodied Consciousness
Authors: Daigle Christine
Published: May 2022

This chapter further unpacks Nietzsche’s phenomenological view of consciousness as multi-layered and embodied. It delineates the topology of consciousness that emerges in key passages of Thus Spoke Zarathustra, such as “On the Despisers of the Body”, wherein his view of the body as “grand reason” emerges. It is important to understand how he repositions the ego, and thereby repositions agency and the traditional cogito as a tool for the conscious body. This understanding leads to an exploration of the key Nietzschean concept of perspectivism which is revisited as yet another phenomenological feature of Nietzsche’s thought. The chapter also discusses the notion of the soul as subjective multiplicity as it is presented in the first book of Beyond Good and Evil. This text is importantly connected to the topology of consciousness presented in Thus Spoke Zarathustra and to the notion of perspectivism. The soul, as multiple, is a dynamic becoming within which drives and affects compete in their interaction with the world, leading to the adoption of multiple perspectives. The chapter concludes by revisiting one of the most important passages in Nietzsche’s work with regards to the notion of will to power, aphorism 36 of Beyond Good and Evil. The analysis shows that this section serves to summarize Nietzsche’s views on intentional consciousness and its constitution of itself and the world.
Fettered And Free Spirits
Authors: Daigle Christine
Published: May 2022

This chapter examines the ethical ideal of the free spirit that is grounded in Nietzsche’s phenomenological perspective. The free spirits are the sceptics that are searching for truth while freeing themselves from received knowledge and external authorities. Indeed, their search for truth and knowledge entails a constructive type of nihilism that negates in order to create. Their scepticism allows them to be authentic. Their longing for authenticity and self-scrutiny leads them to embrace themselves as the dynamic becoming that they are. The chapter provides an analysis of the first section of Schopenhauer as Educator that allows for an understanding of the imperative to become what one is. The human being as homo poeta seeks to become oneself but this entails needing the other for one’s own flourishing. Indeed, as required by the phenomenological conception of the self as a being-with-others, we need to pursue relationships with others that will foster our overcoming and our becoming what we are. The chapter explains Nietzsche’s view according to which agonistic friendships among equals will open the path for this and will pave the way for the Overhuman.
The Incomplete Project of Schizoanalysis
Authors: Buchanan Ian
Published: May 2022

A collection of essays written over a period of 20 years focused on the work of Deleuze and Guattari paying particular attention to its application in critical theory and cultural studies. Consisting of 20 essays grouped into 5 sections, each focused on a different topic (methodology, film, space, analysis, and assemblages), this collection canvases a wide variety of topics including architecture, the films of Alfred Hitchcock, the work of Paulo Freire, Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of schizoanalysis, as well as the concept of the assemblage. It offers close-readings of Deleuze and Guattari’s most important concepts, with detailed and clear explanations of their origin and meaning.
Deleuze and American (Mythopoeic) Literature
Authors: Buchanan Ian
Published: May 2022

This chapter investigates Deleuze’s philosophical usage of his non-philosophical sources, especially those drawn from the field of literature and literary studies. This chapter pays particular attention to the work of mythopoeic critics D.H. Lawrence, Leslie Fiedler and Richard Slotkin, both of whom offer ‘geographical’ readings of the history of American literature, emphasizing the importance of violence. This way of reading texts classifies them according to whether they are western, eastern, northern, or southern, and typifies their plot construction according to the compass point they are oriented towards. Each compass point represents a different stage in the development of American literature and reflects a different moment in American history. Essentially it follows the path of the settler-colonial conquest and occupation of the North American continent. This chapter asks why Deleuze might be interested in mythopoeic criticism and investigates the degree to which his use of literature in his philosophical writing is consistent with mythopoeic criticism.
Schizoanalysis and Literary Criticism
Authors: Buchanan Ian
Published: May 2022

This chapter notes that Fredric Jameson claimed that his seminal work The Political Unconscious was inspired (in part) by Deleuze and Guattari’s notion of immanence. Jameson also wanted to identify the symptoms of history as they are expressed in literature. It then proposes that we can use Jameson’s method of reading critical texts as a means of understanding Deleuze’s literary criticism. By singling out Deleuze’s ‘method of dramatisation’ articulated in his work on Nietzsche, this chapter makes the case that it is possible to articulate a Deleuzian method of literary criticism. It uses Deleuze’s account of the work of Emile Zola in the appendices to The Logic of Sense as its test case.
Introduction: A World of Objects
Authors: Nail Thomas
Published: May 2022

The introduction frames the motivations of the book as a whole and conducts a brief review of the ways other theorists have thought about objects. It considers their weaknesses and proposes a different movement-oriented approach. It then outlines the main theses of the book and gives a brief outline of its main parts. This is a book about objects and the history of their emergence. It is a book of theory but also takes the history of scientific knowledge and the creation of new objects seriously. There can be no single theory of the object. Because objects have a history, they also tend to follow different patterns of emergence.
The Centripetal Object
Authors: Nail Thomas
Published: May 2022

In this short chapter, the purpose and direction of part two of this book is described, which is to elaborate a theory of objects built from the history of four main kinds or orders of objects. The first section of this four-section history begins by introducing the broad strokes of the first kind of object that emerged in prehistory: the ordinal object. Instead of offering a formal definition of the ordinal object as the English philosopher Bertrand Russell did, a more materialist and process-oriented definition is given. In particular, ordinal objects are shown to not be abstract ideas but are the result of centripetal motions, sequential cycles, and kinetic acts of one-to-one coordination.
The Ancient Object II
Authors: Nail Thomas
Published: May 2022

This chapter expounds upon the last by showing how two more significant scientific practices contributed to the development of cardinal objects in the ancient world. In particular, it shows how the creation of new measurement techniques and the invention of logic followed a similar four-stage process toward increasing centrifugal movement and cardinal abstraction.
The Medieval Object II
Authors: Nail Thomas
Published: May 2022

This chapter continues the discussion of the last chapter on the ways that medieval scientists helped invent a whole new world of objects. It discusses the way that two more major scientific practices contributed to the development of intensive objects in the early modern world: the mathematics of infinity and the experimental method. This chapter argues that these new sciences followed a tensional pattern of motion.
The Modern Object I
Authors: Nail Thomas
Published: May 2022

Modern objects followed a predominantly elastic pattern of motion. This chapter and the next show how this shared pattern of movement emerged historically among several modern sciences: the statistical sciences, digital logic, and transcendental mathematics. These sciences were not always in direct or indirect conversation with one another. Nonetheless, there was a fascinating historical resonance where a shared pattern of motion and understanding took hold. This chapter begins the story of this resonance by looking at several sciences that all adopted the framework of statistical mechanics.
Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare
Authors: Lord Hall Joan
Published: May 2022

This book, which refers to every play in the canon as well as to Shakespeare’s narrative poems and several sonnets, begins by exploring how the signifier ‘will’ denotes sexual desire within Shakespearean contexts. Unlike earlier treatments of sexuality in Shakespeare’s work, Joan Lord Hall’s study deals fully with how his plays and poems treat the issue of rape and sexual coercion—the potential violence of male desire. After exploring the dark side of ‘will’, the book analyses the playwright’s critique of idealistic Petrarchan and Neoplatonic conceptions of love that tend to bypass sexual desire. It also covers Shakespeare’s sceptical approach to ‘fancy’: infatuation driven by visual attraction. Central chapters discuss ways in which Shakespeare’s plays reflect early modern views on the role of sex and love in marriage, and they assess in greater detail than ever before how these texts show heterosexual relationships challenged by homoerotic attraction and same-sex friendship. Finally, the book explores in depth incestuous currents in in the plays—the issue of sexual desire within the family. Its eight chapters provide a comprehensive, fresh understanding of how Shakespeare presents and to some extent reconciles two areas that are often polarized in the early modern period: sexual desire and romantic love.
The Politics of Islam
Authors: Baskan Birol
Published: May 2022

This book traces how state-religion relations in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE have changed from the 1950s to the 2010s, narrating the unfolding of two historical processes: Gulf states’ relations with an Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood and their religious policies. First, the book narrates how state-Muslim Brotherhood relations had been cordial in five Gulf countries from the 1950s to the 1970s, but eventually deteriorated in Kuwait, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, but not Qatar and Bahrain in reaction to geopolitical developments such as the rise and demise of pan-Arabism, the Iranian revolution, Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, the 9/11 attacks and finally the Arab Spring and domestic circumstances dictated by necessities and challenges of (rentier) state building and regime formation. Second, the book shows that Gulf states have never undergone any kind of forceful state secularization and therefore have been, and still are, quite religious states with Saudi Arabia always being more religious than other Gulf states.Tracing the continuities and discontinuities in both historical processes this book makes a simple yet intriguing claim: the level of state religiosity seems to have little impact on whether an Islamist opposition emerges in a country and the emergence of an Islamist opposition has similarly no major impact on the level of state religiosity. With this claim the book sheds light on Islamism's inherently oppositional character and challenges the premise that Islamist oppositionality and state religiosity are causally linked in the Middle East.
Historical Background: Desert and Its Legacies
Authors: Baskan Birol
Published: May 2022

This chapter first discusses the desert climate’s long and still lingering impacts on politics in the Gulf. The chapter then provides a brief political history of the Gulf and then discusses in detail how Saudi Arabia diverged from other Gulf States in developing a native class of religious scholars. To serve as a further historical background, the chapter also introduces Islamism and illustrates its core ideological element through the religious views of Hasan al-Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood. The chapter finally discusses the Gulf States’ early exposure to Islamism in the early twentieth century, claiming that this exposure facilitated the Muslim Brotherhood’s spread to the region.
Modern Sovereign State Building in the Gulf: From the 1980s to the 2000s
Authors: Baskan Birol
Published: May 2022

This chapter investigates and details the second stage of modern state building in the Gulf, lasting from the early-1980s until the late-2000s. The chapter argues that modern state building efforts in this second state have not changed state–religion relations in any fundamental way, but simply adjusted them to the new regional and domestic developments. The only noticeable change was that Gulf rulers began to emphasize their religious credentials more strongly than before. The chapter argues that this discursive change was due to the evolving geopolitical context, marked by a global resurgence of religion, forcing the Gulf States to emphasize their religious credentials even more vigorously.
Hi and Welcome to the Field
Authors: Otterbeck Jonas
Published: May 2022

Chapter one serves as an introduction. First, the chapter reflects on some field notes from a concert with Maher Zain and briefly presents the highly successful Islamic media Awakening that Zain is signed to. It then sketches the outline of the book. Further, the chapter positions the study as in Islamic studies focusing on Islamic discourses and popular culture. Finally, the chapter recommends a few online recourses including a Spotify playlist (named as the title of the book) containing almost all songs in the order they are mentioned in the book.
Setting the Stage: Ideas in Progress
Authors: Otterbeck Jonas
Published: May 2022

Chapter four describes and analyses two parallel developments that form crucial backgrounds to the work of Awakening. First, it details the growth of a theology inclusive of popular culture among intellectual, conservative Muslims, and explicates on the concept al-fann al-hadif (purposeful art). The discussion of thinkers such as Yusuf al-Qaradawi, Abdullah Al Judai and Tariq Ramadan are stressed. This conversation is developed simultaneously as the rise of a new form of nashid originating among political Islamic activists in the Arab world in the 1970s that soon spread to similar circles worldwide. The style metamorphoses into pop music and becomes a global trend from the mid 1990s and onwards pioneered by British Yusuf Islam, Malaysian Raihan, South African Zain Bhikha and Canadian Dawud Wharnsby. Their respective music careers and productions are introduced and the connections with Awakening are emphasized. The chapter ends with the mentioning of other musicians and music styles that have influenced Awakening artists.
A Different Difference and Repetition’s Three Times
Authors: Pont Antonia
Published: May 2022

This chapter engages closely with Chapters 1 and 2 of Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition in order to explore the notions of Difference in Itself and Repetition for Itself. These repetitions and the differences generated thereby, then become the operations that weave the various temporal registers (or ‘syntheses’) in Deleuze’s account. The chapter offers a reading of these temporalities alongside moments in practising and in line with the unfolding of the four criteria. The chapter unpacks closely the first and second Deleuzian temporal syntheses, with Bergson a crucial interlocutor in the latter. Bergson’s paradoxes of time are examined, which account for the arising of different modes of time. Finally, the argument that practising amounts to a working-with-time takes shape in this chapter, with close reading of the third synthesis left to be explored in Chapter 5.
Kurdish Diaspora Mobilisation in Denmark
Authors: Sofie Schøtt Anne
Published: May 2022

This book examines how the Kurdish diaspora in Denmark supported the Kurdish struggle in Syria from the battle of Kobane (2014) to the defeat in Afrin (2018). It contributes to our understanding of mobilisation and identity formation in the periphery of the Kurdish diaspora by examining the small but well-established community in Denmark. Arguing that the diaspora is treated differently by Danish authorities – in comparison to neighbouring Sweden and Germany – the book examines the political lobbyism, the courtroom activism and the humanitarian actvism of the various Kurdish diaspora groups. Drawing on social movement theory, the book introduces strategic interactionism to the study of diaspora mobilisation, which exposes ambiguous aspects of the interaction between the diaspora and political decision-makers. The book also provides new knowledge on transnational actors in war by examining how the Kurdish diaspora engaged in the war against Islamic State, like Danish military forces were engaged, but on different terms. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork among Kurdish groups and organisations, the book uncovers the rivalry between the two main Kurdish movements, called the Öcalan movement and the Kurdistan movement. Moreover, the book zoom in on the position of the Syrian Kurds within the diaspora who, like the Kurds in Syria, have been largely ignored until recently. Finally, the book coins the term ‘alter-territorial’ identification to describe identifying with political entities in other parts of the homeland than the area of origin.
The Paper Knife – Patrick White and Katherine Mansfield
Authors: Stead Oliver
Published: May 2022

This article details the provenance of a paper knife which had belonged to Katherine Mansfield and was donated to the Alexander Turnbull Library by Patrick White. White was strongly influenced by Mansfield’s stories in his youth. While studying at Cambridge in 1932 he read Mansfield’s published letters and journals. In 1934, following a literary pilgrimage to Zennor, White had poems accepted by the London Mercury which had published Mansfield and Lawrence. In 1961 White visited his cousin Peggy Garland in Wellington and was introduced to her lodger, Mansfield’s biographer Antony Alpers. Alpers drove White around some of the settings of Mansfield’s Wellington stories and White visited the Alexander Turnbull Library where he examined Mansfield’s manuscript letters and journals. Alpers gave White Mansfield’s greenstone-handled and silver paper knife which had been given to him by Ida Baker. In 1972 White donated the paper knife to the Alexander Turnbull Library. In 1976 White and his partner Manoly Lascaris visited Katherine Mansfield Fellow Michael King at the Villa Isola Bella in Menton. White wrote an endorsement for the dust jacket of Viking Press’s 1980 edition of Alpers’ The Life of Katherine Mansfield.
Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority
Authors: Sommer Tim
Published: May 2022

This book examines the transatlantic writings and professional careers of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Building on recent research in literary studies, book history and cultural sociology, it explores how a range of different forms of authority – literary, cultural, political, legal – impacted on Anglo-American writing, publishing and lecturing. The book retraces nineteenth-century debates about race and nationhood, analyses the relationship between cultural nationalism and literary historiography and sheds light on Carlyle’s and Emerson’s professional identities as publishing authors and lecturing celebrities on both sides of the Atlantic. It reads canonical texts in conjunction with less familiar sources such as book paratexts, lecture manuscripts and periodical writing to re-evaluate two of the period’s key authors. Situating textual production at the intersection of institutional spheres and professional networks, Carlyle, Emerson and the Transatlantic Uses of Authority sheds light on intellectual and material exchanges between Victorian and antebellum literature and culture. The book’s first part focuses on discourses of ethnic identity and constructions of literary history; part two examines Carlyle’s and Emerson’s engagement with the mid-century transatlantic print market; part three discusses their careers as lecturing intellectuals. Bringing together these subjects and moving into the latter half of the century, the book’s epilogue considers the impact of the American Civil War on transatlantic literary relations and explores Carlyle’s and Emerson’s posthumous canonisation on both sides of the Atlantic.