Publications
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Athens and the War on Public Space: Tracing a City in Crisis
(2018)
Sometimes, the maelstrom of a crisis can be captured in a single image. The image of the mundane, barely noticeable movement of an urban dweller as they go about their everyday life. Athens and the War on Public Space ...
Covert Plants: Vegetal Consciousness and Agency in an Anthropocentric World
(2018)
Covert Plants contributes to newly emerging discourses on the implications of vegetal life for the arts and culture. This stretches to changes in our perception of ‘nature’ and to the adapting roles of botany, evolutionary ...
Walk on the Beach: Things from the Sea, Volume 1
(2016)
This volume brings together writing and imagery from the experimental “beachwalk” session(s) at the Third Biennial Meeting of the BABEL Working Group, On the Beach: Precariousness, Risk, Forms of Life, Affinity, and Play ...
The Saga of Þórður kakali
(2020)
Icelandic literature, Nordic civil wars, saga, the Age of Sturlungar, thirteenth-century Iceland, Þórður kakali Sighvatsson
The Funambulist Pamphlets 11: Cinema
(2015)
The Funambulist Pamphlets is a series of small books archiving articles published on The Funambulist, collected according to specific themes. These volumes propose a different articulation of texts than the usual chronological ...
Pedagogies of Disaster
(2013)
We live in an era where the university system is undergoing great changes owing to developments in financing policies and research priorities, as well as changes in the society in which this system is embedded. This change ...
Theory Is Like a Surging Sea
(2015)
In a 1917 letter to Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin writes, “Theory is like a surging sea.” This small book takes more than its title from that line—it takes that line as a point of departure in Erich Auerbach’s sense, ...
Television Scales
(2019)
How to reckon with the staggering volume of television materials, past and present? And how to comprehend all the potential, complex scales at which to grapple with television, from its tiniest units of audiovisual content ...
The Ballad of the Lone Medievalist
(2018)
Are you a Lone Medievalist? Working medievalists are often the only scholar of the Middle Ages in a department, a university, or a hundred-mile radius. While working to build a body of focused scholarly work, the lone ...
Cinema's Doppelgängers
(2021)
"Cinema’s Doppelgängers is a counterfactual history of the cinema – or, perhaps, a work of speculative fiction in the guise of a scholarly history of film and movie guide. That is, it’s a history of the movies written from ...