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As the pursuit of profit becomes increasingly surreal, virtual, and exotic by the day, the symbiosis between libidinal and financial flows demands to be reframed and rethought. Clickbait capitalism offers a stimulating and game-changing introduction to how the current confluence of economy and desire pre-empts our behaviour, structures our identity, influences our decisions, and tugs at our wallets.>Lie back on the couch with this book and let it analyse your triggers and traumas about student debt and intergenerational inequity. Ramble down the royal road of the unconscious, interpreting the collective delirium from Cryptokitties to cryogenics, Squid Game to GameStop. These bracing chapters, invoking theorists from Adorno to Zizek, fuse psychology and economics to diagnose the neuroses of our moment. The results are electric!>Desire plays a crucial yet poorly understood role within economic life. This is increasingly untenable as potent new cultures of desire take shape around the intersection of digital technology and finance. Clickbait capitalism stages an encounter between psychoanalysis, political economy, and the calling cards of twenty-first-century capitalism. Drawing on a theoretical tradition known as 'libidinal economy', the book engages digital-economic life as a site of ongoing psychological capture and release. The result is a unique survey of the moods and structures of feeling that underwrite capitalism today, from online paranoia and the ecstatic mania of the crypto-boom to the escape and revenge fantasies of the indebted young. Adopting a pluralistic approach, the book offers a range of new perspectives on the psychological foundations and ongoing viability of capitalism as a social formation and economic system.

Everyday humanitarianism in Cambodia grapples with an essential human conundrum: in a world of pervasive inequality and poverty, where should one intervene? What shapes our choices? And what difference can a seemingly small act make? Humanitarianism is often understood through its institutional forms, with large-scale approaches being equated with importance. This book shows how informal and local forms of aid - everyday humanitarianism - disrupts this assumption. Drawing on ethnographic work with Cambodian and foreign practitioners who set up their own projects, it offers a detailed account of the unseen world of privately-funded aid. It reveals radically different understandings of how individual actions matter. Everyday humanitarians make use of their own, interlinking scales, rendering people and causes meaningful regardless of numbers or size. Applying this scalar approach to social relations unsettles long-held imperatives such as humanitarian impartiality. Through tracing whom people choose to support and why, Fechter argues that much of this humanitarianism is, on the contrary, driven by partiality. Critically nuancing the trope of the white saviour, what matters is shared history and biographical affinities between people - which motivate humanitarian action. Recalibrating our understanding of how individual actions matter and what 'counts' in humanitarianism, this volume will appeal to humanitarian scholars, policy makers and practitioners, as well as those interested in social activism, human rights, and kindness and mutual aid.

A city burns, and a queen burns for love: Dido, Queen of Carthage re-imagines one of the great legendary stories. The encounter between a wandering hero and an African queen engenders love and loss, eroticism and absurdity, childish simplicity and compelling eloquence. This Revels Plays volume is the first single-text scholarly edition of Dido in English. It is an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and theatre practitioners. Dido's time has come, with accelerating interest, critical and theatrical, in the play. The edition features an accessible text, lightly punctuated for ease in reading and speaking, with spelling more consistently modernised. The introduction gives the first comprehensive account of the play since M.E. Smith's 1977 monograph, locating Dido within its theatrical, pedagogical, literary, political, and cultural contexts. Dido is here considered on its own terms, as a 1580s play intended for children to perform, but also as a play of multiple possibilities that speaks to the present. The edition incorporates new research into authorship (which indicates that Marlowe wrote the play), as well as a detailed analysis of Dido's sources. It includes a survey of criticism and considers the implications of writing for performance; it assesses the evidence for early performances and provides extensive information about modern productions. Dido is a remarkable play. In its own time, it was revolutionary, featuring a dominant female role, experimental blank verse, and a refusal to moralise. And soon thereafter, as Laurie Maguire and Emma Smith propose, Dido became 'the play Shakespeare could not forget'.

This book is a collection of articles by anthropologists and social scientists concerned with gendered labour, care, intimacy and sexuality, in relation to mobility and the hardening of borders in Europe. Interrogating the relation between physical, geopolitical borders and ideological, conceptual boundaries, this book offers a range of vivid and original ethnographic case studies that will capture the imagination of anyone interested in gendered migration, policies of inclusion and exclusion, and regulation of reproduction and intimacy. The first part of the book presents ethnographic and phenomenological discussions of people's changing lives as they cross borders, how people shift, transgress and reshape moral boundaries of proper gender and kinship behaviour, and moral economies of intimacy and sexuality. In the second section, the focus turns to migrants' navigation of social and financial services in their destination countries, putting questions about rights and limitations on citizenship at the core. The final part of the book scrutinises policy formation at the level of state, examining the ways that certain domains become politicised and disputed at different historical junctures, while others are left outside of the political.

The uniqueness of Norman Italy (Southern Italy and Sicily c. 1000-1200) has long rested on its geographic location at Latin Europe's periphery, a circumstance that led to the intermixing of Latin Christians with Byzantine Greeks and Muslims and fostered a vibrant multiculturalism. While elements of this characterisation remain valid, new scholarship has brought to light the significant cross-pollination between Norman Italy and the wider medieval world throughout the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Emphasising that it was not just a parochial Norman or Mediterranean entity but also an integral player in the medieval mainstream, this collection endeavours to move beyond the frontier and to articulate Norman Italy's contribution to broader historical currents. Honouring and reflecting on the pioneering scholarship of Graham A. Loud, Rethinking Norman Italy features chapters on an array of topics, including the secular and monastic church, aristocratic networks, the papacy, crusading, urbanisation, Byzantium and Islam. It reassesses and recasts the paradigm by which Norman Italy has conventionally been understood, making it essential reading for students and scholars studying the region.

This edition of a previously unpublished manuscript defence of witchcraft belief offers a unique insight into learned opinion on the subject in Elizabethan England. It includes a comprehensive analytical introduction and will appeal to scholars with an interest in witchcraft across disciplinary boundaries.

Reading David Foster Wallace between philosophy and literature explores Wallace's unique way of being a writer and shows that this uniqueness resides in how his work functions in between philosophy and literature. Philosophy is not a mere supplement to or decoration of his writing, nor does he use literature to illustrate preestablished philosophical truths. Rather, as this collection aims to demonstrate, for Wallace philosophy and literature are co-originating ways of apprehending and articulating the world. The readings of Wallace presented here follow an investigative approach rather than a fixed methodology or homogenous theoretical slant. Sixteen prominent and promising Wallace scholars present their individual takes on Wallace's in-betweenness, which are clustered around three themes: general aspects of Wallace's oeuvre - such as his aesthetics, form and engagement with performance - 'consciousness, self and others', and 'embodiment, gender and sexuality'. Readers will find fresh insights on key issues in Wallace's work - from solipsism and narcissism to the problem of other minds and role of the imagination - together with investigations of gender, performativity and race, and Wallace's engagement with writers such as Joyce, Dostoevsky, Hegel and Lasch.

Understanding baby loss offers an extraordinary ethnographic exploration of the sensitive subject of baby loss and post-mortem. The book combines an in-depth sociological analysis of clinical and technological aspects of the post-mortem process with detailed understandings of parent and professional feelings, emotions and care practices. Throughout the book, the authors show that post-mortem is not just a scientific or clinical examination but, rather, forms a key part of the bereavement process. The book offers a comprehensive and thoughtful account of how parents experience different forms of baby loss, and subsequently make decisions about post-mortem examination. It also analyses some of the challenges professionals face when working in this highly sensitive field of medicine. The book shows that post-mortem can play a crucial role in establishing cause of death and assist parents with emotional and diagnostic closure. By shedding light on this hidden and taboo aspect of healthcare, Understanding baby loss offers a valuable contribution to the sociology of emotions, medical sociology, sociology of work, death and dying studies and science and technology studies.

It is often unmentioned and sometimes only implied, but sex provided much of the charge that infused post-war youth culture. This collection seeks to locate the sex in the well-known trilogy of 'sex & drugs & rock 'n' roll'. From the masculine swagger of the Teds to the sensual fetishization of all things Goth, the essays here locate the sexual performance and implications of British youth culture in the context of post-war history. By looking at how sex and sexuality were expressed, presented and received, the collection shows youth culture to be crucial to the changes and challenges that informed British society into the late twentieth century.

This study focuses on the significance of the displays of stained glass at several international exhibitions held in Britain, France, the USA and Australia between 1851 and 1900. It provides new perspectives for the study of nineteenth-century stained glass, within these temporary secular exhibition contexts. -- .

Unparalleled catastrophe chronicles and critically analyses recent events that have brought about a dangerous Third Nuclear Age. It presents the case for rethinking how we understand nuclear weapons and international security, and argues that today the planet stands on the brink of catastrophe. This book tells you why, and what we can do about it. -- .

'In the growing literature on the far right and the environment, too few works centre the visual politics that are so integral to extremist appeals. Forchtner and his collaborators work to address this lacuna. Novel in its focus, global in its scope and rigorous in its analysis, Visualising far-right environments makes a necessary and compelling contribution to our understanding of the far right today.' >'A welcome, timely and original contribution. This set of diverse global case studies richly analyses the evergreen appeal of environmental and ecological claims - and their visual representations - to burgeoning far-right movements around the world. An essential read.' >From smiling faces in the nation's scenic landscape to the ridiculing of environmental activists and beyond, images play a crucial role in the far right's politics of nature. This book examines representations of natural environments and environmentalism by the far right around the world, scrutinising its implications for humans and nature. Visualising far-right environments approaches the visual as a key means of (re)producing identities and 'doing politics'. Images are not simply pervasive in our increasingly visual culture, but particularly persuasive in proposing worlds to viewers. In response, this book makes a first, concerted effort to put visuality centre-stage in the analysis of environmental communication by the far right. From the countryside to climate change, covering political parties and non-party actors from around the world, the volume demonstrates various ways in which the far right articulates natural environments and the rampant environmental crises of the twenty-first century. It provides a crucial insight into the multifaceted politics of nature.

A Progressive Education? argues that the period after WWII witnessed a fundamental transformation in concepts of childhood and adolescence in England and Wales. -- .

This book offers fresh perspectives on the history of humanitarianism and its impact on domestic and international politics in the era of the Great War.

Philipp Staab takes readers on a thought-provoking journey through the virtual realm, exploring how digital surveillance and evaluation practices have infiltrated every aspect of our lives. Staab's compelling analysis challenges us to confront the realities of surveillance capitalism and the urgent need to address the inequities it perpetuates. -- .

Associational anarchism presents a ground-breaking alternative to both liberal democracy and state socialism, derived from the ideas of Karl Marx and G. D. H. Cole. Uniting the public sphere of citizenship with the private sphere of production in a system of communal ownership, the book proposes a scheme of horizontal networks held together through libertarian politics. With no role for a centralised state, the functions of coordination and administration are fulfilled through pluralist self-governance. Political intermediation proceeds via a web of functional associations, which operate within a system of revitalised communities, while management is carried out through modes of self-regulation that embody the key anarchist values of equality, solidarity and mutual-aid. The book presents a new left-libertarian conception of liberty, bringing Marx's critique of capitalism into theoretical dialogue with Cole's guild socialist writings and the sub-schools of social anarchism. Associational anarchism contends that liberty can be attained without passing through the mediation of self-interested employers or career politicians; a condition of freedom requires democratic access to the material means of life, where self-mastery is attained in both the productive and consumptive spheres.

This book analyses the problem of distributive justice in the European Union. The author examines the nature of the distributive duties linked to EU membership and puts forward a set of policy proposals to advance a just Europe. -- .

This volume is the first comprehensive overview of how International Relations theories - liberal, rational choice, feminist, and sociological institutionalism, realism, constructivism, practice theories, critical security studies, and complexity theory - can help us understand UN peace operations.

This book offers a psychoanalytical, Marxist, feminist approach to the way motherhood is portrayed in quality American television series and how that affects the position of mothers in neoliberal American society.

Stuart Brisley is a pioneering English multi-media artist who developed performance as a form of social action in the 1960s and 1970s. This book assesses his seminal influence on British art through a focus on his lifelong engagement with the histories and imaginaries of revolution. Linking key aspects of revolutionary history with material gathered from a critical dialogue established between the author and Brisley over many years, the book views revolution as a rupture in time. It uses the 'trope' of the French Revolution to investigate Brisley's engagement with the idea of revolution as an ongoing and potentially permanent process. Brisley's work thus becomes a fascinating stage for addressing the relations between art, politics and historical discourse today. Performance art and revolution demonstrates how we can continue to value political art even when the idea of revolution has supposedly died or is no longer deemed possible. It also provides a new historical model for situating the 'afterlives' of performance art, demonstrating how they can be used to reveal latent aspects of the past, including the historical experience of revolution.

Global London on screen presents a mélange of films by directors from the Global South and North, portraying everyday life to the more fantastical, odious or extraordinary circumstances that are captured cinematically in this superdiverse city.

A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab springs. Featuring cases from Yemen, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and more, this book gives a voice to young men and women who are inventing the future of societies in the midst of radical change.

Explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century -- .

A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab springs. Featuring cases from Yemen, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and more, this book gives a voice to young men and women who are inventing the future of societies in the midst of radical change. -- .

The Island Book of Records brings the early years of this iconic record label to life.

In the summer of 2022, the little-known leader of a small union became a 'working-class hero'. Facing down media pundits who thought they could walk all over him, he offered a robust critique of the government and provided workers with an authentic voice. At a time when the Labour Party was unable to articulate a credible alternative to the Tories, Mick Lynch spoke for the working class. Where did Lynch come from? How did he develop the skills and traits that make him such an effective spokesperson and leader? This book, the first biography of Lynch, explores his family and social background and his rise to the top of the RMT union, which culminated in election as General Secretary in 2021. Considering his persona and politics, this book asks what quality singles out Lynch as a working-class hero compared to other union leaders and, more broadly, what leadership means for working people and for the left. If we want better leaders at every level, the case of Mick Lynch holds the key.

The John Rylands Library houses one of the finest collections of rare books, manuscripts and archives in the world. The collections span five millennia and cover a wide range of subjects, including art and archaeology; economic, social, political, religious and military history; literature, drama and music; science and medicine; theology and philosophy; travel and exploration. For over a century, the Bulletin of the John Rylands Library has published research that complements the Library's special collections. The editors invite the submission of articles in these fields and welcome discussion of in-progress projects.