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A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information (2007)
Journal Article
Throughout the 1990s the relationship between culture and technology was sharply focused in a debate about whether digital technologies signalled the death or radical displacement of photography. The case for the cultural continuity of photography ce... Read More about A sack in the sand: Photography in the age of information.
Gilles Deleuze and the history of philosophy (2007)
Journal Article
A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change (2007)
Journal Article
This paper posits that certain "qualificatory" semantic primes are recruited to serve face-management needs in a metonymic Meaning1>Meaning2 relationship at what Traugott and Dasher (2002) have called the inter-subjective, non-truth-conditional, proc... Read More about A politeness-theoretic approach to pragmatico-semantic change.
Justus Lipsius's De Constantia: A stoic spiritual exercise (2007)
Journal Article
This essay offers an introduction to Justus Lipsius's dialogue De Constantia, first published in 1584. Although the dialogue bears a superficial similarity to philosophical works of consolation, I suggest that it should be approached as a spiritual e... Read More about Justus Lipsius's De Constantia: A stoic spiritual exercise.
Thatcher's children: Alienation and anomie in the plays of Judy Upton (2007)
Book Chapter
Thatcherite polices impacted upon the theatre, not just in the gradual erosion of subsidization and implementation of the market-driven economy, but also in the subject matter and use of dramatic form. Whilst it was initially suggested that many of t... Read More about Thatcher's children: Alienation and anomie in the plays of Judy Upton.
Drunk with the glitter: Space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture (2007)
Book
Completion of this monograph was supported by an AHRC Research Leave Award, in 2004-5. Chapters 1 and 6 were first published before this reporting period. Chapter 5 is an extended version of a chapter in a previous book (this version comprises 18,00... Read More about Drunk with the glitter: Space, consumption and sexual instability in modern urban culture.
'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions': synthesis, disintegration and 'distractibility' (2007)
Journal Article
At the centre of this peer-reviewed journal article on distractibility is a detailed investigation of William McDougall's 1920s-1940s adaptation of William James' notion of distraction developed in the 1890s. While the argument concerning the applica... Read More about 'Shattered into a multiplicity of warring functions': synthesis, disintegration and 'distractibility'.
After the war was over: The civilian return to Leningrad (2007)
Journal Article
This article focuses on the civilian return to Leningrad after the end of the Blockade and in the immediate post-war period. It examines how the authorities tried to control movement back to the city but proved to be overwhelmed by vast numbers of ci... Read More about After the war was over: The civilian return to Leningrad.
After the bathhouse, or, in praise of awkwardness (2007)
Journal Article
Beauty in the parlour: Letting yourself go (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence (2007)
Journal Article
This publication is an important contribution to language contact theory. Taking a typological perspective to contact-induced change, the authors investigate the ways in which grammatical structures from one language can be integrated into another. T... Read More about Investigating the mechanisms of pattern replication in language convergence.
Banking on change: Information systems and technologies in UK high street banking, 1919-1969 (2007)
Journal Article
This article explores the automation of the supply of financial services by British high street banks and provides a comparative assessment of the impact of similar developments in the USA. Its aim is to provide a historical perspective to highlight... Read More about Banking on change: Information systems and technologies in UK high street banking, 1919-1969.
The socialist revolutionary party, Ukraine, and Russian national identity in the 1920s (2007)
Journal Article
The transformation of welfare and housing: Reflections from a British perspective (2007)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Set in stone? Statues and slavery in London (2007)
Journal Article
This article examines public monuments in London and their relationship to slavery and abolition, a topic that has attracted remarkably little empirical research. It argues that a significant proportion of the individuals commemorated by public statu... Read More about Set in stone? Statues and slavery in London.
Official responses to foreign travel at the british foreign andlndia offices before 1914 (2007)
Journal Article
30 years of hurt? (2007)
Journal Article
Socialism and radicalism (2007)
Book Chapter
This chapter examines the flowering of radical and socialist political cultures at the fin de siècle in which forms of collectivism, as against individualism, gain increasing prominence. The influence of Comtean Positivism, Philosophical Idealism and... Read More about Socialism and radicalism.