It’s always nice to present a challenge to that frustrating binarism that seeks to separate science from the humanities, and after last month’s…
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Last month the Feminist and Women’s Studies Association (UK & Ireland) listserv spilled into a public debate about the exclusion of women not biologically…
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In ‘Postcards from the Posthuman Solar System’, Scott Bukatman argues that ‘The body is no longer simply the repository of the soul; it has become…
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In his book, Empathy and Moral Development, the psychologist Martin Hoffman defines empathic response as ‘the involvement of…
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Revelling in Bad Romances; music video murders by poisonous catering and flame-throwing bras; elaborate (dis)guises involving raw meat…
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As I inform my students exhaustedly year on year, cultural criticism is concerned with asking crucial questions about the world…
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Outside of academic postmodernism, around the edges of genre fiction, and beyond the purview of the mainstream literary novel…
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Welcome to the launch issue of Alluvium, a new online journal of literary criticism that is dedicated to 21st-century writing as well as 21st-century approaches…
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