Angus Fletcher
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 295501 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Angus Fletcher |
| NOMBRES | Angus |
| APELLIDO | Fletcher |
| FIRMA | FLETCHER A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of the Arts London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4850-5230 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1930 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Our photographic future
This interview with Joanna Zylinska was conducted by Alex Fletcher on 8 July 2025. It focuses on Zylinska’s recent study The Perception Machine: Our Photographic Future Between the Eye and AI (2023), which investigates the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI. The interview explores the critical affordances of key concepts developed in the book – including ‘a philosophy of after-photography’, ‘the perception machine’ and ‘p…
The Creative Opportunity of Carpentaria
Why is Carpentaria so challenging – yet so liberating – to read? How can Carpentaria deal so frankly with trauma and tragedy – yet be so healing and hope-inspiring? Answers to those paradoxes are ventured by this article, which suggests that Carpentaria’s narrative style replicates a psychological effect of oral storytelling, remaking the conventional literary experience of reading a novel
Shot/countershot
This article examines the work of three artists - Harun Farocki, Hito Steyerl and Rabih Mroué - who in different ways mobilize the cinematic device of 'shot/countershot' in two distinct post-cinematic contexts (the moving image installation and the performance lecture) as a tool for scrutinizing images of war and violence from divergent historical, socio-economic, geopolitical and ethical perspectives. In returning to and reworking this classical…
Killing for Show
This interview with the art historian and curator Julian Stallabrass was conducted by Alex Fletcher and Andrew Fisher over the winter of 2022-23. It takes as its point of departure Stallabrass's recent and large-scale study Killing for Show: Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq (2020), in order to consider the changing ways in which images have been used to both document and to wage war. The interview explores Stallabrass's central…
Allegory
History at a Standstill
Labour in a Single Shot
From the late 1960s until his death in 2014, the filmmaker and artist Harun Farocki repeatedly returned in his work to the subject of labour. This article examines a selection of Farocki’s films and video installations, delineating his recurrent chronicling of the historical trajectory of the labour process and technological development under capitalist industrialisation. In particular, it focuses on Farocki’s sustained investigation into capital…
New facts emerge
En blanc et noir
Potential History
Review of: Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism , Ariella Aïsha Azoulay (2019) London and New York: Verso, 656 pp., ISBN 978-1-78873-571-1, p/bk, £30.00
To Think the Home in Terms of the Factory’
Drawing on theories of social reproduction, this article explores how Jean-Luc Godard’s metaphor, to ‘think the home in terms of the factory’, plays itself out within his and Anne-Marie Miéville's 1975 film Numéro deux (Number Two), as well as their film-making practice more broadly. In particular, we focus on how their use of video and their foregrounding of the space of film postproduction serves to challenge traditional notions of film product…
Facing Darwin
Against the idea that there is one true form of tragedy that can anchor a universal human ethics, Darwinism suggests that life is filled with endless kinds of tragic circumstance. But even as this biological view of tragedy spells the end of moral idealism, it opens up an inclusive practical ethics in which literature can function as a dynamic cognitive toolkit for helping us adapt to the ever-changing tides of life
Another Literary Darwinism
Evolving Hamlet
Fletcher, Angus. Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012, pp. 5-187), on Érudit
A Scientific Justification for Literature
Willa Cather and the Upside-Down Politics of Feminist Darwinism
Of all the revolutionary ideas contained in Th e Origin of Species, none was more so than its account of women’s natural suff rage. Such was the power of the female vote, Darwin observed, that it drove men to “display with the most elaborate care, and show off in the best manner, their gorgeous plumage; they likewise perform strange antics before the females, which, standing by as spectators, at last choose the most attractive partner.”1 Men, tha…
The Machine in the Text
Howard Marchitello. The Machine in the Text: Science and Literature in the Age of Shakespeare and Galileo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 256 pp. $99. ISBN: 978–0–19–960805–8. - Volume 65 Issue 1
Defending Pluralism
Defending Pluralism: The Chicago School and the Case of Tom Jones Angus Fletcher (bio) and Michael Benveniste (bio) Over the past two decades, walter benn michaels has established himself as a strident critic of diversity.1 His target is a broad one, encompassing everything from multiculturalism to “diversity of thought,” but his attack is elegantly focused.2 The academic Left, he argues, has betrayed its progressive politics by claiming an intri…
Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare
This focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering the secrets of motion. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo, Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem of motion as the central cultural issue of the time, pursued through the poetry of the age, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ben Jonson and Milton
Circles of Curiosity
Research Article| August 01 2007 Circles of Curiosity Angus Fletcher Angus Fletcher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (3): 23–31. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-012 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Angus Fletcher; Circles of Curiosity. boundary 2 1 August 2007; 34 (3): 23–31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-012 Download…
Allegory without Ideas
Research Article| February 01 2006 Allegory without Ideas Angus J. S. Fletcher Angus J. S. Fletcher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 77–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-33-1-77 Connected Content Errata: Erratum Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Angus J. S. Fletcher; Allegory without Ideas. boundary 2 1 February 2006; 33 (1): 77–…
Living Magnets, Paracelsian Corpses, and the Psychology of Grace in Donne's Religious Verse
Living Magnets, Paracelsian Corpses, and the Psychology of Grace in Donne's Religious Verse Angus Fletcher In "An Anatomie of the World" (1612), John Donne dissects the fresh corpse of the world, stopping only when he concludes that the stench has grown unbearable.1 The putative occasion for this gruesome work was the one-year anniversary of Elizabeth Drury's death, but the poem's apocalyptic imagery has seemed too excessive to represent genuine …
Doctor Faustus and the Lutheran Aesthetic
Gnomic Sublimity and the New Science
The Subject of Modernity
Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare
This focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering the secrets of motion. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo, Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem of motion as the central cultural issue of the time, pursued through the poetry of the age, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ben Jonson and Milton
Allegory without Ideas
Research Article| February 01 2006 Allegory without Ideas Angus J. S. Fletcher Angus J. S. Fletcher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 77–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-33-1-77 Connected Content Errata: Erratum Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Angus J. S. Fletcher; Allegory without Ideas. boundary 2 1 February 2006; 33 (1): 77–…
Colors of the Mind
Angus Fletcher is one of our finest theorists of the arts, the heir to I. A. Richards, Erich Auerbach, Northrop Frye. This, his grandest book since the groundbreaking Allegory of 1964, aims to open another field of study: how thought--the act, the experience of thinking--is represented in literature. Recognizing that the field of formal philosophy is only one demonstration of the uses of thought, Fletcher looks for the ways other languages (and t…
Killing for Show
This interview with the art historian and curator Julian Stallabrass was conducted by Alex Fletcher and Andrew Fisher over the winter of 2022-23. It takes as its point of departure Stallabrass's recent and large-scale study Killing for Show: Photography, War, and the Media in Vietnam and Iraq (2020), in order to consider the changing ways in which images have been used to both document and to wage war. The interview explores Stallabrass's central…
Labour in a Single Shot
From the late 1960s until his death in 2014, the filmmaker and artist Harun Farocki repeatedly returned in his work to the subject of labour. This article examines a selection of Farocki’s films and video installations, delineating his recurrent chronicling of the historical trajectory of the labour process and technological development under capitalist industrialisation. In particular, it focuses on Farocki’s sustained investigation into capital…
Another Literary Darwinism
A Scientific Justification for Literature
Defending Pluralism
Defending Pluralism: The Chicago School and the Case of Tom Jones Angus Fletcher (bio) and Michael Benveniste (bio) Over the past two decades, walter benn michaels has established himself as a strident critic of diversity.1 His target is a broad one, encompassing everything from multiculturalism to “diversity of thought,” but his attack is elegantly focused.2 The academic Left, he argues, has betrayed its progressive politics by claiming an intri…
Northrop Frye
Arthur James Balfour
Essay| May 01 1930 Arthur James Balfour Angus Fletcher Angus Fletcher Director of British Library of Information, New York Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1930) 32 (2): 299–311. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1930.32.2.299 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon…
The Central Commentary
Around and about the Masque
Northrop Frye
The Interpretation of Beginnings
Prophets of Extremity
On the Syncretic Allegory of the New Science
Iconographies of Thought
Research Article| October 01 1989 Iconographies of Thought Angus Fletcher Angus Fletcher Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (1989) 28: 99–112. https://doi.org/10.2307/2928587 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Angus Fletcher; Iconogr…
In Memoriam Northrop Frye (1912–1991)
Colors of the Mind
Angus Fletcher is one of our finest theorists of the arts, the heir to I. A. Richards, Erich Auerbach, Northrop Frye. This, his grandest book since the groundbreaking Allegory of 1964, aims to open another field of study: how thought--the act, the experience of thinking--is represented in literature. Recognizing that the field of formal philosophy is only one demonstration of the uses of thought, Fletcher looks for the ways other languages (and t…
Zeitgeist in Babel
The New Art of Autobiography
Words with Power
The Subject of Modernity
Gnomic Sublimity and the New Science
Living Magnets, Paracelsian Corpses, and the Psychology of Grace in Donne's Religious Verse
Living Magnets, Paracelsian Corpses, and the Psychology of Grace in Donne's Religious Verse Angus Fletcher In "An Anatomie of the World" (1612), John Donne dissects the fresh corpse of the world, stopping only when he concludes that the stench has grown unbearable.1 The putative occasion for this gruesome work was the one-year anniversary of Elizabeth Drury's death, but the poem's apocalyptic imagery has seemed too excessive to represent genuine …
Doctor Faustus and the Lutheran Aesthetic
Allegory without Ideas
Research Article| February 01 2006 Allegory without Ideas Angus J. S. Fletcher Angus J. S. Fletcher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 77–98. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-33-1-77 Connected Content Errata: Erratum Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Angus J. S. Fletcher; Allegory without Ideas. boundary 2 1 February 2006; 33 (1): 77–…
Time, Space, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare
This focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering the secrets of motion. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo, Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem of motion as the central cultural issue of the time, pursued through the poetry of the age, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ben Jonson and Milton
Circles of Curiosity
Research Article| August 01 2007 Circles of Curiosity Angus Fletcher Angus Fletcher Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google boundary 2 (2007) 34 (3): 23–31. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-012 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Angus Fletcher; Circles of Curiosity. boundary 2 1 August 2007; 34 (3): 23–31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-2007-012 Download…
Defending Pluralism
Defending Pluralism: The Chicago School and the Case of Tom Jones Angus Fletcher (bio) and Michael Benveniste (bio) Over the past two decades, walter benn michaels has established himself as a strident critic of diversity.1 His target is a broad one, encompassing everything from multiculturalism to “diversity of thought,” but his attack is elegantly focused.2 The academic Left, he argues, has betrayed its progressive politics by claiming an intri…
The Machine in the Text
Howard Marchitello. The Machine in the Text: Science and Literature in the Age of Shakespeare and Galileo. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. 256 pp. $99. ISBN: 978–0–19–960805–8. - Volume 65 Issue 1
Evolving Hamlet
Fletcher, Angus. Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 35, Number 2, Spring 2012, pp. 5-187), on Érudit
A Scientific Justification for Literature
Willa Cather and the Upside-Down Politics of Feminist Darwinism
Of all the revolutionary ideas contained in Th e Origin of Species, none was more so than its account of women’s natural suff rage. Such was the power of the female vote, Darwin observed, that it drove men to “display with the most elaborate care, and show off in the best manner, their gorgeous plumage; they likewise perform strange antics before the females, which, standing by as spectators, at last choose the most attractive partner.”1 Men, tha…
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