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Narrated Rand: HUAC, engraved invitations, and the real of sexual difference
No full textThis chapter of my edited book on Rand draws on Rand’s testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), her description of the individualism of one of the heroes of her novel The Fountainhead, the infamous rape scene in that novel, and the celebrated analysis of this by Slavoj Žižek. The aim is to suggest that the purity of Rand’s narratives is always compromised, not least through its literary status: Rand is constantly disavowing the narrative frame that is necessary for her philosophy to be ‘revealed’. The chapter argues that a comparable disavowal can be read in the work of her most radical of critics
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‘“Oh, that's Francisco's private joke” […]’: Atlas shrugged, the gold standard, and utopia
No full textObjectivist economics rests upon the gold standard, this understood to signal a commitment to self-regulation and a rejection of all discretionary measures. For Objectivists, gold has an intrinsic value, and an economy based on the precious metal is thus taken to be rooted in reality and resistant to inflation. Rand makes an analogy between this understanding of gold and ‘competence’ within everyday life: accurately comprehending the world and having the skills to productively act within it are declared to be the ‘gold standard’ of morality. This chapter is concerned specifically with questioning this construction of the gold standard in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. Through a detailed reading of the text, it draws out gold’s constitutive tensions within the novel: a substance and yet substitutive; necessarily present whilst always somewhere else; secondary as well as primary; reassuringly natural yet dangerously figurative. Through an appeal to Melinda Cooper’s recent work on the family within C20th American politics, the chapter concludes this book by contending that the gold standard morality and economics of Atlas Shrugged rest on unacknowledged contradictions, with the uncanny supporting the Randian political economy even as it disturbs the self-identity and surety upon which it calls
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Questioning Ayn Rand: subjectivity, political economy, and the arts
No full textThis book will offer the first, sustained academic critique of the work of Ayn Rand. Rand’s texts are often dismissed out of hand by those hostile to the ideology promoted within them. This book argues, instead, that considering the influence this work exerts on the present cultural and economic climate, there is a pressing need for it to be taken seriously and analysed in detail. . Rand’s worldview does not tolerate uncertainty, relying as it does upon a notion of truth untroubled by doubt. In contrast, the contributors to this volume argue that any progressive response to Rand should resist the dubious comforts of a position of ethical or aesthetic purity, even as it challenges the individualistic ideology of ‘selfishness’ promoted within her philosophy. This critique is achieved through chapters that engage the diversity of Rand’s interests and influences, from Psychoanalysis to The Gold Standard; from Hannah Arendt to Spiderman
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The peripheral child in nineteenth century literature and its criticism
No full textFacing the Future: the Changing Shape of Academic Skills Support at Bournemouth University
No full textThis paper explores the potential impact of changes to higher education in England on student expectations, engagement, lifestyles and diversity, and outlines implications for the development of digital literacy within academic skills support at Bournemouth University (BU). We will investigate how tackling resource constraints with organisational change can also enable efficient, centralised provision of support materials that utilise networks to overcome the risk of fragmented support for digital literacy. We will also look at how changing delivery modes for support can accommodate changing student lifestyles whilst tackling a weakness of centralised support for digital literacy: that it can become detached from the student’s subject-focused academic practice. Finally we will explore how involving students in developing support can help us to face changes to student expectations and engagement whilst ensuring that materials are authentic and speak to learners in their own voice
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Transnational Gothic histories and the migrant experience in Britain
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Why Privacy Matters: An Interview with Neil Richards
No full textProfessor Daniel J. Solove discusses the book \u27Why Privacy Matters\u27 and the future of privacy with the author, Professor Neil Richards
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Ghost story in a box booklet
No full textIn 2020, the Department of English Literature at UoR worked on a Study Higher outreach project designed to acquaint GCSE literature students with ideas and approaches to the subject that might be encountered at HE level. The project took the form of a card game that encouraged collaborative story telling. It focused on The Ghost Story, and introduced players to ideas of genre, as well as addressing historical and theory contexts.
The repository item is the booklet that accompanied the game, It was written by Neil Cocks from DEL, with additional material from Katy Green, SLL Outreach Lead, and James Stoorie, a creative writer specialising in tales of the supernatural. The booklet was designed and illustrated by Study Higher
Interview with AntipodeFoundation.org: “Much More Than You Think: The Spatialities of Italian Autonomy” – Interview with Neil Gray, author of “Beyond the Right to the City: Territorial Autogestion and the Take over the City Movement in 1970s Italy”
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