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“The baseless fabric of this vision”: criminology, spectrality and the dialectic image
No full textThis chapter explores the ways in which the images used and produced within criminology have long been 'haunted'. In this piece, we examine the ways in which notions of (in)visibility have shaped the construction of crime and the criminal 'Other' within the social imaginary. The chapter's innovation lies in its development of Walter Benjamin's 'dialectical image' to 'conjure a ghost' and apply Derrida's notion of hauntology to ecological crimes that span time. This presents a new and vital conceptual framework to examine this important area
Interview: Prisoner B
No full textPrisoner B was one of the first prisoners to arrive at HMP Isis after it opened. He is interviewed by Michael Fiddler, a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Greenwich. The interview took place in February 2014
Michael Rodriguez interviews fiction writer Michael Kimball
No full textAuthor Michael Kimball talks about moving away from Michigan to become a successful writer, his education, the fiction reading series he has started in Baltimore, the life-story-on-postcard project, and his book "Dear everybody." Kimball is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Cutting through the fourth wall: the violence of home invasion in Michael Haneke’s Funny Games
No full textThe home is central to the Western imaginary. It is of foundational importance to the shaping of identity. It is where we begin to construct the story of our selves and where we first learn to navigate space. Yet, it is also a site of shadows and fear, of hidden desires and ambivalence. Within the cinematic “home invasion” genre, this is heightened by the presence of an antagonistic Other. They render all categorically interstitial. As with the Lacanian notion of extimité, the invading Other confuses interior and exterior boundaries. In Michael Haneke’s (1997 original and 2007 remake) Funny Games this is further problematized by the lead antagonist’s “movement” between the diegetic world and that of the viewer. This article examines this “fourth wall” breaking and unpacks how the audience’s consumption of violent media is critiqued as the lines between the home of the film and that of the viewing audience become blurred
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Paul Clemens
No full textAuthor Paul Clemens talks about his book "Made in Detroit," the genre of memoir, and writing about race. Clemens is interviewed by Michigan State University Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held in the MSU Main Library
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Tom Springer
No full textAuthor Tom Springer is interviewed about his writing career and his newest book "Looking for hickories". Springer talks about his career following after earning an Environmental Journalism degree from Michigan State University. He calls his genre "creative non-fiction" and explains how he weaves his memories into his books about life in rural and wild Michigan. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Springer is interviewed by Librarian Michael Rodriguez
Michael Rodriguez interviews author Gary Gildner
No full textAuthor Gary Gildner explains why he left his tenured teaching position to move to Idaho to became a full-time writer of poetry. Gildner talks about donating his personal papers to Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections, his writing style and how he approaches writing. Gildner is interviewed by MSU Librarian Michael Rodriguez for the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writer Series. Held at the MSU Main Library
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