D-M Withers
Biographic Data
| ID | 1340044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D-M Withers |
| GIVEN NAMES | D-M |
| FAMILY NAME | Withers |
| SIGNATURE | WITHERS D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6345-9076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Working as a Sensitivity Reader: Just Another Step on the Way to Publication
The use of sensitivity readers has become increasingly prevalent in the publishing industry over the past decade (Brouillette 2023; Jilani 2023; Kingsbury 2024; Sharma 2023; Thomalla 2023; West-Knights 2023). To some, sensitivity readers are controversial figures who seek to censor writers’ voices, while for others they are much-needed defences against the perpetuation of discrimination in literature (Lawrence 2020). Given the relatively novel ap…
Deben Bhattacharya at the BBC, 1949–79: Cultural entrepreneurism, precarity, and the business of post-war folklore collection
Deben Bhattacharya (1921–2001) had a prolific career as a field recordist that spanned the second half of the twentieth century. Yet his impressive contributions in radio, tv and film have to date been overlooked. Bhattacharya arrived in London from India in November 1949; by the end of the year, he had made his first broadcast on the BBC Eastern Service. Drawing on material held in the BBC Written Archives, this article focuses on Bhattacharya’s…
I pictured you only as an adventurous explorer”: Deben Bhattacharya, Ella K. Maillart, friendship and polygraphic influence
Ella K. Maillart (1903–97), the Swiss travel writer-adventuress, and Deben Bhattacharya (1921–2001), the Bengali field recordist and media producer, first corresponded in July 1949 and remained friends their whole lives. This article traces the evolution of their personal and professional relationship. I begin by discussing development of Bhattacharya's career in the early 1950s. I then outline how Maillart offered Bhattacharya a model for using …
Honno: The Welsh Women’s Press and the Cultural Ecology of the Welsh Publishing Industry, c . 1950s to the Present
Honno: the Welsh Women’s Press is the longest running independent publisher of books by women currently operating in the UK. This article situates Honno’s publishing activities within the ‘cultural ecology’ of the Welsh publishing industry. This unique cultural and economic infrastructure is traced back to the 1950s, when grassroots organizations such as the Books Council of Wales and state-subsidized initiatives were established to support the c…
Wounding poppies: Hyper-Commemoration and Aesthetic Interventions
In Britain the centenary of the First World War has generated new state-funded aesthetic, cultural, and educational activities. The red poppy has often been the focal point of artistic interventions, as artists have created works that respond to the potency of a symbol that has become, within a culture of hyper-commemoration, a ubiquitous part of everyday life. This Encounters piece offers a personal reflection on the aesthetic and social meaning…
The politics of the workshop: Craft, Autonomy and Women's Liberation
The women's liberation movements that emerged in Britain in the late 1960s are rarely thought of through their relationship with technology and technical knowledge. To overlook this is to misunderstand the movement's social, cultural and economic interventions; it also understates how the technical environment conditioned the emergence of autonomous, women-centred politics. This article draws on archival evidence to demonstrate how the autonomous…
Enterprising Women: Independence, Finance and Virago Press, c.1976–93
Virago Press were established in 1972 and became one of the twentieth century's most enduring publishing brands. As a women-led enterprise, articulations of independence have defined key moments in Virago's history. This article explores two moments when the company re-structured as independent, in 1976 and 1987. To become successful, Virago had to overcome barriers that have historically hindered women's participation in business, namely limited…
Diabolic Marks, Organs, and Relations: Exiting Symbolic Misery
The globalized societies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are de-composing, according to Bernard Stiegler. This decay is expressed by breakdown in the compositional process between symbol and diabol as the dynamic circuit of interiorization and exteriorization, vital for individuation, has become subject to mass calculation, marketization, and hyper-synchronization. For Stiegler there is no way out of this impasse and the re…
Neither Pure Love nor Imitating Capitalism: Euro Wild and the Invention of Women's Music Distribution in Europe, 1980–1982
Euro Women's Independent Label Distribution (WILD) was a pan-European network of feminist music distributors active in the early 1980s. They were affiliated to WILD, the US-based Women's Music distribution network founded in 1979 to disseminate the growing corpus of Women's Music emerging from the US Women's Liberation Movement (WLM). This article presents an interpretation of archive materials that document Euro WILD's activities from the Women'…
Playing with time: Kate Bush's temporal strategies and resistant time consciousness
This article focuses on two of Kate Bush's post-Aerial(2005) albums:Director's Cut(2011) and50 Words for Snow(2011). In these albums Bush plays with the temporal qualities of recorded music to create the conditions forself-reflexiveinternal time consciousness to emerge within the listener. I argue that self-reflexive internal time consciousness is a process that enables a listener to gain some understanding that they are embroiled in an act of pe…
Wounding poppies: Hyper-Commemoration and Aesthetic Interventions
In Britain the centenary of the First World War has generated new state-funded aesthetic, cultural, and educational activities. The red poppy has often been the focal point of artistic interventions, as artists have created works that respond to the potency of a symbol that has become, within a culture of hyper-commemoration, a ubiquitous part of everyday life. This Encounters piece offers a personal reflection on the aesthetic and social meaning…
Enterprising Women: Independence, Finance and Virago Press, c.1976–93
Virago Press were established in 1972 and became one of the twentieth century's most enduring publishing brands. As a women-led enterprise, articulations of independence have defined key moments in Virago's history. This article explores two moments when the company re-structured as independent, in 1976 and 1987. To become successful, Virago had to overcome barriers that have historically hindered women's participation in business, namely limited…
Honno: The Welsh Women’s Press and the Cultural Ecology of the Welsh Publishing Industry, c . 1950s to the Present
Honno: the Welsh Women’s Press is the longest running independent publisher of books by women currently operating in the UK. This article situates Honno’s publishing activities within the ‘cultural ecology’ of the Welsh publishing industry. This unique cultural and economic infrastructure is traced back to the 1950s, when grassroots organizations such as the Books Council of Wales and state-subsidized initiatives were established to support the c…
The politics of the workshop: Craft, Autonomy and Women's Liberation
The women's liberation movements that emerged in Britain in the late 1960s are rarely thought of through their relationship with technology and technical knowledge. To overlook this is to misunderstand the movement's social, cultural and economic interventions; it also understates how the technical environment conditioned the emergence of autonomous, women-centred politics. This article draws on archival evidence to demonstrate how the autonomous…
Playing with time: Kate Bush's temporal strategies and resistant time consciousness
This article focuses on two of Kate Bush's post-Aerial(2005) albums:Director's Cut(2011) and50 Words for Snow(2011). In these albums Bush plays with the temporal qualities of recorded music to create the conditions forself-reflexiveinternal time consciousness to emerge within the listener. I argue that self-reflexive internal time consciousness is a process that enables a listener to gain some understanding that they are embroiled in an act of pe…
Neither Pure Love nor Imitating Capitalism: Euro Wild and the Invention of Women's Music Distribution in Europe, 1980–1982
Euro Women's Independent Label Distribution (WILD) was a pan-European network of feminist music distributors active in the early 1980s. They were affiliated to WILD, the US-based Women's Music distribution network founded in 1979 to disseminate the growing corpus of Women's Music emerging from the US Women's Liberation Movement (WLM). This article presents an interpretation of archive materials that document Euro WILD's activities from the Women'…
Enterprising Women: Independence, Finance and Virago Press, c.1976–93
Virago Press were established in 1972 and became one of the twentieth century's most enduring publishing brands. As a women-led enterprise, articulations of independence have defined key moments in Virago's history. This article explores two moments when the company re-structured as independent, in 1976 and 1987. To become successful, Virago had to overcome barriers that have historically hindered women's participation in business, namely limited…
Diabolic Marks, Organs, and Relations: Exiting Symbolic Misery
The globalized societies of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are de-composing, according to Bernard Stiegler. This decay is expressed by breakdown in the compositional process between symbol and diabol as the dynamic circuit of interiorization and exteriorization, vital for individuation, has become subject to mass calculation, marketization, and hyper-synchronization. For Stiegler there is no way out of this impasse and the re…
Wounding poppies: Hyper-Commemoration and Aesthetic Interventions
In Britain the centenary of the First World War has generated new state-funded aesthetic, cultural, and educational activities. The red poppy has often been the focal point of artistic interventions, as artists have created works that respond to the potency of a symbol that has become, within a culture of hyper-commemoration, a ubiquitous part of everyday life. This Encounters piece offers a personal reflection on the aesthetic and social meaning…
The politics of the workshop: Craft, Autonomy and Women's Liberation
The women's liberation movements that emerged in Britain in the late 1960s are rarely thought of through their relationship with technology and technical knowledge. To overlook this is to misunderstand the movement's social, cultural and economic interventions; it also understates how the technical environment conditioned the emergence of autonomous, women-centred politics. This article draws on archival evidence to demonstrate how the autonomous…
Honno: The Welsh Women’s Press and the Cultural Ecology of the Welsh Publishing Industry, c . 1950s to the Present
Honno: the Welsh Women’s Press is the longest running independent publisher of books by women currently operating in the UK. This article situates Honno’s publishing activities within the ‘cultural ecology’ of the Welsh publishing industry. This unique cultural and economic infrastructure is traced back to the 1950s, when grassroots organizations such as the Books Council of Wales and state-subsidized initiatives were established to support the c…
I pictured you only as an adventurous explorer”: Deben Bhattacharya, Ella K. Maillart, friendship and polygraphic influence
Ella K. Maillart (1903–97), the Swiss travel writer-adventuress, and Deben Bhattacharya (1921–2001), the Bengali field recordist and media producer, first corresponded in July 1949 and remained friends their whole lives. This article traces the evolution of their personal and professional relationship. I begin by discussing development of Bhattacharya's career in the early 1950s. I then outline how Maillart offered Bhattacharya a model for using …
Working as a Sensitivity Reader: Just Another Step on the Way to Publication
The use of sensitivity readers has become increasingly prevalent in the publishing industry over the past decade (Brouillette 2023; Jilani 2023; Kingsbury 2024; Sharma 2023; Thomalla 2023; West-Knights 2023). To some, sensitivity readers are controversial figures who seek to censor writers’ voices, while for others they are much-needed defences against the perpetuation of discrimination in literature (Lawrence 2020). Given the relatively novel ap…
Deben Bhattacharya at the BBC, 1949–79: Cultural entrepreneurism, precarity, and the business of post-war folklore collection
Deben Bhattacharya (1921–2001) had a prolific career as a field recordist that spanned the second half of the twentieth century. Yet his impressive contributions in radio, tv and film have to date been overlooked. Bhattacharya arrived in London from India in November 1949; by the end of the year, he had made his first broadcast on the BBC Eastern Service. Drawing on material held in the BBC Written Archives, this article focuses on Bhattacharya’s…
Sociology (8 works) · History (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · History (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works)