04/30/2021
In other good news, this essay collection, which contains my chapter on debt in Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive, will be out in two months! Some of you have heard an early version at Debt in History.
Debt in History
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This project, based in the Department of English at Dalhousie University, explores representations of debt from the nineteenth century to the present.
Scholarship on Victorian literature has long argued that Mr Gradgrind, the schoolmaster in Dickens’ Hard Times (1854), is a caricature and criticism of the Benthamite James Mill. This project argues that renewed attention be given to the Bentham-Dickens connection by exploring the social, political, epistemological, and ethical implications of debt in their writing. Its central questions are: (1)
04/30/2021
04/28/2021
Jakob Gaardbo Nielsen will be defending his PhD next week. The thesis investigates nineteenth-century literary portrayals of financial institutions and joint-stock companies. Come and learn about stock exchange novels, speculative fantasies, corporate persons and speaking corporations. The event is open and free for all, but it is necessary to sign up via the link below.
https://arts.au.dk/en/news-and-events/events/vis/artikel/online-phd-defence-jakob-gaardbo-nielsen/?fbclid=IwAR0g65Knau2lGja6uhJa9p0tx9fsZYhC-Nb3zNaKATNR7zCXlTrwEAHjgjc
03/25/2021
Neil ten Kortenaar has a new book that's forthcoming! Check it out here! https://www.mqup.ca/debt--law--realism-products-9780228006695.php?page_id=106998&
01/19/2021
Hurrah! ReFocus: The Films of Albert Brooks is coming out in July from Edinburgh University Press. Some of you have heard an early version of my chapter on Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive at Debt in History.
11/02/2020
RSVP for "Where Do We Go From Here?"
Where Do We Go From Here? Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on election 2020 and it's aftermath.
09/16/2020
Congrats to David Tough and team! https://www.mqup.ca/who-pays-for-canada--products-9780228001249.php?page_id=73&
Who Pays for Canada? | McGill-Queen’s University Press McGill-Queen’s University Press
09/03/2020
RIP David Graeber
David Graeber, anthropologist and author of Bu****it Jobs, dies aged 59 The anarchist and author of bestselling books on capitalism and bureaucracy died in a Venice hospital on Wednesday
08/29/2020
RIP Chadwick Boseman
Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman dies at 43 after 4-year fight with colon cancer | CBC News Black Panther actor Chadwick Boseman has died at age 43 after a four-year fight with colon cancer, a representative has told The Associated Press.
08/22/2020
My friend Barbara Straumann has a PhD position. This would be ideal for a student working on nineteenth-century writing and/or debt.
08/05/2020
I've enjoyed thinking and writing about economics in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl here. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_262-1?fbclid=IwAR0MQjhcXlEwK9YxFKPaMQFA6dn8YSyVDQAz4nAWWNlwFCF6bUvbXBV_Vho
I've enjoyed thinking and writing about economics in Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl here. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-62592-8_262-1
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