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The Mirror of Anarchy: The Egoism of John Henry Mackay and Dora Marsden
The mirror of anarchy: the egoism of John Henry Mackay and Dora Marsde
âBy ones and twos and tensâ: pedagogies of possibility for democratizing higher education
This paper concerns the relationship between teaching and political action both within and outside formal educational institutions. Its setting is the recent period following the 2010 Browne Review on the funding of higher education in England. Rather than speaking directly to debates around scholar-activism, about which much has already been written, I want to stretch the meanings of both teaching and activism to contextualise the contemporary politics of higher learning in relation to diverse histories and geographies of progressive education more generally. Taking this wider view suggests that some of the forms of knowledge which have characterised the university as a progressive institution are presently being produced in more politicised educational environments. Being receptive to these other modes of learning can not only expand scholarly thinking about how to reclaim intellectual life from the economy within universities, but stimulate the kind of imagination that we need for dreaming big about higher education as and for a practice of democratic life
Space is the (non)place: Martians, Marxists, and the outer space of the radical imagination
Intuition and intellect: Henri Bergson's influence on Katherine Mansfield's representations of places
Bacon and Bergson on Time and Motion
he bearing of Bergsonian thought on Baconâs paintings has become apparent as a result of Deleuzeâs study, Francis Bacon: Logique de la sensation (1981). But aside from Deleuzeâs application, there is a lot to recommend constructing a parallel between Bacon and Bergson as figures in their own right. This article explores Bergsonâs approaches to temporality and the idea of immediate experience, and applies these to Baconâs oeuvre, especially with respect to the artistâs antithetical views about an interpretation of narrative, the violence in his work and the phenomenology of the body