Jeremy F Lane
Biographic Data
| ID | 239969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeremy F Lane |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeremy F |
| FAMILY NAME | Lane |
| SIGNATURE | LANE J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6900-5219 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Hidden Dangers: Instrumental Reason, Discipline, and Bureaucracy in Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder
Critical commentary on Dora Bruder tends to compare Patrick Modiano’s task in writing the book to the decipherment of a palimpsest or the uncovering of long-hidden geological strata. These metaphors suggest the récit contains multiple historical layers. Yet most commentary uncovers either only one such layer, relating to the Occupation era, or sometimes two, exploring the relationship between the Holocaust and French imperialism. This overlooks t…
The Baby and the Bathwater? Bourdieu’s Critique of ‘Jacobin Ideology’ and the Neo-liberal Assault on Education
Bruce Robbins has criticised Bourdieu’s account of the State and of the cultural values it promotes through its educational institutions. So all-encompassing is Bourdieu’s denunciation of the ideological nature of the State’s claims to universalism that it leaves no grounds on which to defend those values against the neo-liberal onslaught, according to Robbins. On the face of it, it is easy to refute Robbins’s criticisms: in his work of the 1980s…
Calum Watt, Derivative Images. Financial Derivatives in French Film, Literature and Thought
From Bourdieu to Piketty: Tracing the emergence of ‘un nouveau capitalisme patrimonial’
Thomas Piketty has claimed that his best-selling study of socio-economic inequality, Le Capital au XXIe siècle is significantly indebted to Pierre Bourdieu’s work on social class and distinction. This claim has not convinced a number of commentators in France who claim some allegiance to Bourdieu’s theoretical legacy. Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Didier Eribon, and Frédéric Lordon have argued that Piketty’s work represents a betrayal of Bourdieu’s leg…
The anti-city: Representing La Défense in recent French fiction and film
This article begins with the 2009 documentary, La Dépossession, by filmmaker Jean-Robert Viallet, suggesting that La Défense is depicted as an anti-city. It seeks to anatomise this trope and chronotope, examining the manner in which a range of recent novels and feature films similarly lament the destructive effects of globalised finance on French society, polity and nation. They figure spatiotemporal relationships between France's present and its…
Ranciere's 'literary animals: The Conditions of Possibility of 'Political Subjectivation
Jacques Rancière re-inflects Aristotle's famous maxim to claim that ‘man is a political animal because he is a literary animal’. He goes on to relate this characteristic of ‘literarity’ to Plato’s description of written language as an ‘orphan letter’, to a process of ‘disincorporation’ and to a distinction between a ‘body’ and a ‘quasi-body’. These founding assumptions of Rancière's theory of politics have attracted significant attention among co…
Gabriel Josipovici at 75
This article, as a tribute to Gabriel Josipovici, describes his impact on the author over many decades, initially as his teacher and thesis supervisor, later as colleague and friend at the University of Sussex. This impact included broadening his knowledge of contemporary French literary critics and of writers engaged with criticism, and opening up European dimensions to otherwise insular English academic approaches to literature. A study of Josi…
Work in crisis: Film, fiction and theory
From ‘moule’ to ‘modulation’: Logics of Deleuzean ‘control’ in recent reforms to French Labour Law
In his influential ‘Postscriptum sur les sociétés de contrôle’ (1990), Gilles Deleuze argues that one defining characteristic of contemporary ‘societies of control’ is that salaried labour functions no longer as a ‘moule,’ defining workers’ identities once and for all, but rather as an open-ended process of ‘modulation,’ in which workers must constantly adapt their identities and aptitudes. This article argues that Deleuze’s distinction between ‘…
From Bataille to Badiou Lignes, the preservation of Radical French Thought, 1987–2017
From Bataille to Badiou Lignes, the preservation of Radical French Thought, 1987–2017." Modern & Contemporary France, 27(2), pp. 279–280
French Music and Jazz in Conversation: From Debussy to Brubeck. By Deborah Mawer
Come you spirits unsex me!’ Representations of the Female Executive in Recent French Film and Fiction
This article analyses the representation of female executives in a corpus of French films and novels produced from 2000 on. The corpus includes a mixture of male and female directors and novelists, all of whom adopt broadly centre-left or left-wing positions that are highly critical of contemporary forms of globalised, neo-liberal capitalism. Yet each of these directors and novelists depicts powerful female executives in highly conservative terms…
Parody of political correctness or allegory of ‘immaterial labour’? A second look at Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001)
This article questions whether readings of Francis Veber’s Le Placard (2001) as simply a parody of political correctness have tended to overlook the allegorical significance of its depiction of a middle-aged executive forced to pretend to be gay, simulating libidinal investments he does not in fact possess, in order to protect his job. It argues that the film merits reinterpretation as being not only a parody of political correctness but also a p…
Right to Reply
Theorising performance, performing theory: Jacques Derrida and Ornette Coleman at the Parc de la Villette
On the evening of 1 July 1997, Jacques Derrida made an appearance on stage during a concert by the celebrated African American free jazz saxophonist, Ornette Coleman. Derrida’s attempts to read from a pre-prepared text, as Coleman responded on his saxophone, were interrupted by loud boos and catcalls from the audience. After a few moments, Derrida left the stage, having failed to complete his peroration. By means of a close reading of the text of…
France in the Age of Organization. Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy
Jackie Clarke, New York & Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2011, 218 pp, £53.00, 978 08574 50807 In this new study, Jackie Clarke sets out to map the intellectual networks inhabited by a select band of inte
From ‘ Amor Fati ’ to ‘disgust’: Affect, habitus, and class identity in Didier Eribon’s Retour à Reims
In his Retour à Reims (2010), Didier Eribon draws on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and on his own earlier work on gay identity to offer a moving and insightful account of his social trajectory and of the issues of class, education and sexual identity that trajectory raises. Throughout this autobiographical account, Eribon stresses the centrality of affect and emotion to social and sexual identity, and the feelings of shame, disgust, frustratio…
Between Repression and Anamnesis: Pierre Bourdieu and the Vicissitudes of Literary Form
Pierre Bourdieu's work on literature has frequently been criticized for its perceived failure to attend to the specificities of literary form. This article argues that, in fact, literary form plays an important role in Bourdieu's theorizations of literature, or rather, that form is called upon to play a range of different, potentially conflicting roles. Through close readings of both The Rules of Art and the 1975 essay 'L'Invention de la vie d'ar…
Disaffection in the Post-Fordist Workplace: Figurations of ‘Immaterial Labour’ in Recent French Theory and Literature
Between them, André Gorz and Yann Moulier Boutang have offered some of the most persuasive theorisations of what is at stake in the shift from a Fordist to a Post-Fordist regime of accumulation. Despite the various theoretical and political differences between Gorz and Moulier Boutang, both share the assumption that the affective, cognitive, and immaterial forms of labour on which Post-Fordism depends constitute, by their very nature, a fundament…
Intellectuals, Culture and Public Policy in France: Approaches from the Left
Intellectuals, Culture and Public Policy in France: Approaches from the Left." Modern & Contemporary France, 20(1), pp. 135–136
Not So Nice Work, Always Supposing You Can Get it: Some Recent Literature on Post-Fordism
The bachelors' ball - Pierre Bourdieu
Rythme De Travail, Rythme De Jazz: Jazz, primitivism, and machinisme in inter-war France
Existing studies of the reception of jazz in France have tended to posit a neat distinction between those commentators, who saw the music as the degraded product of an Americanized machine age on the one hand, and those who sought in its unconventional rhythms and melodies a source of primitive, Black African authenticity, on the other hand. This article questions such accounts by showing how notions of primitivism and modernity were closely arti…
Deleuze In and Out of This World
In the final pages of his study of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Peter Hallward makes the surely unfashionable claim that ‘the political aspect of Deleuze’s philosophy amounts to little more than utopian distraction’. He goes on to note that whilst ‘no small number of enthusiasts continues to devote much energy and ingenuity to the task, the truth is that Deleuze’s work is essentially indifferent to the politics of this world’ (162). Although…
Bourdieu's Politics: Problems and Possiblities
Introduction 1. Neo-Liberalism as 'Imposition' and 'Invasion'? 2. The Poetics and Politics of Practice 3. From Practical Sense to Performative Politics 4. Field Theory and Political Analysis 5. Gender Politics and the Return of Symbolic Domination 6. Aesthetics, Politics, and the Market 7. Universalism and the Elusive Public Sphere. Conclusion
Pierre Bourdieu: A Critical Introduction
Come you spirits unsex me!’ Representations of the Female Executive in Recent French Film and Fiction
This article analyses the representation of female executives in a corpus of French films and novels produced from 2000 on. The corpus includes a mixture of male and female directors and novelists, all of whom adopt broadly centre-left or left-wing positions that are highly critical of contemporary forms of globalised, neo-liberal capitalism. Yet each of these directors and novelists depicts powerful female executives in highly conservative terms…
From ‘ Amor Fati ’ to ‘disgust’: Affect, habitus, and class identity in Didier Eribon’s Retour à Reims
In his Retour à Reims (2010), Didier Eribon draws on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and on his own earlier work on gay identity to offer a moving and insightful account of his social trajectory and of the issues of class, education and sexual identity that trajectory raises. Throughout this autobiographical account, Eribon stresses the centrality of affect and emotion to social and sexual identity, and the feelings of shame, disgust, frustratio…
From ‘moule’ to ‘modulation’: Logics of Deleuzean ‘control’ in recent reforms to French Labour Law
In his influential ‘Postscriptum sur les sociétés de contrôle’ (1990), Gilles Deleuze argues that one defining characteristic of contemporary ‘societies of control’ is that salaried labour functions no longer as a ‘moule,’ defining workers’ identities once and for all, but rather as an open-ended process of ‘modulation,’ in which workers must constantly adapt their identities and aptitudes. This article argues that Deleuze’s distinction between ‘…
Work in crisis: Film, fiction and theory
Theorising performance, performing theory: Jacques Derrida and Ornette Coleman at the Parc de la Villette
On the evening of 1 July 1997, Jacques Derrida made an appearance on stage during a concert by the celebrated African American free jazz saxophonist, Ornette Coleman. Derrida’s attempts to read from a pre-prepared text, as Coleman responded on his saxophone, were interrupted by loud boos and catcalls from the audience. After a few moments, Derrida left the stage, having failed to complete his peroration. By means of a close reading of the text of…
France in the Age of Organization. Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy
Jackie Clarke, New York & Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2011, 218 pp, £53.00, 978 08574 50807 In this new study, Jackie Clarke sets out to map the intellectual networks inhabited by a select band of inte
Rythme De Travail, Rythme De Jazz: Jazz, primitivism, and machinisme in inter-war France
Existing studies of the reception of jazz in France have tended to posit a neat distinction between those commentators, who saw the music as the degraded product of an Americanized machine age on the one hand, and those who sought in its unconventional rhythms and melodies a source of primitive, Black African authenticity, on the other hand. This article questions such accounts by showing how notions of primitivism and modernity were closely arti…
Pierre Bourdieu's Forgotten Aesthetic: The Politics and Poetics of Practice
The Stain, The Impotent Gaze, and the Theft of jouissance: Towards A Žižekian Reading of Robbe‐Grillet's La Jalousie
1University of Nottingham
Un étrange retournement'? Pierre Bourdieu and the French republican tradition
Over recent years, the French sociologist and ethnologist Pierre Bourdieu has become involved in a series of increasingly high‐profile political interventions all of which have been couched in a rhetoric of the most classically French republican kind. Many commentators have reacted with shock to Bourdieu's adoption of this kind of rhetoric, seeing it as wholly contradictory when set against his assaults on the ‘myths’ of French republicanism in h…
Hearsay and see here: Communication and rhetoric in Joyce
A recurrent commonplace in the criticism of James Joyce is the judgment that he is a writer of and for the ear (and voice) as opposed to the eye. His poor and, in his later years, severely deteriorating eyesight is said to render him incapable of and uninterested in the representation of the visible world, as when David Daiches, way back in 1939, speaks of his indifferent novelist’s eye and characterises him, artistically as well as actually, as …
Orpheus: Myths for the moderns
‘Domestiquer l'exotique… exotiser le domestique’: The symbiosis of ethnology and sociology in the work of Pierre Bourdieu
Bourdieu's attempt to work through what he considers to be the false dichotomy between ethnology and sociology is at the heart of his intellectual enterprise; inseparable from his determination to overcome the opposition between ‘objectivist’ and ‘subjectivist’ modes of sociological analysis, it is also central to his claim to have avoided the pitfalls of ethnocentrism whilst remaining true to the principles of scientificity. Having outlined Bour…
Short notices
BELOT, R. Aux frontières de la liberté. Vichy, Madrid, Alger, Londres. S'évader de France sous l'OccupationFayard, 1998 793 pp., 220F., ISBN 2 213 59175 X BONIFACE, P. Atlas des relations internationalesHatier, 1997 176 pp., no price indicated ISBN 2 218 71430 2 BOURDIEU, P. Les Règles de l'art: genèse et structure du champ littéraireSeuil, 1998 567 pp., 59F., ISBN 2 02 034975 2 Chroniques de l'histoire PétainEditions Chronique, 1997 128 pp., no …
Un étrange retournement'? Pierre Bourdieu and the French republican tradition
Over recent years, the French sociologist and ethnologist Pierre Bourdieu has become involved in a series of increasingly high‐profile political interventions all of which have been couched in a rhetoric of the most classically French republican kind. Many commentators have reacted with shock to Bourdieu's adoption of this kind of rhetoric, seeing it as wholly contradictory when set against his assaults on the ‘myths’ of French republicanism in h…
La Bourdieumania fait des ravages dans les médias'1
Bourdieu, P., La Domination masculine (Seuil/Collection Liber, 1998), 142 pp., 85F., ISBN 2 02 035251 6 Verdès‐Leroux, J., Le Savant et la politique: essai sur le terrorisme sociologique de Pierre Bourdieu (Grasset, 1998), 248 pp., 125F., ISBN 2 246 56531 6
Pierre Bourdieu: A Critical Introduction
The Stain, The Impotent Gaze, and the Theft of jouissance: Towards A Žižekian Reading of Robbe‐Grillet's La Jalousie
1University of Nottingham
Neo-Liberalism as `Imposition' and `Invasion: Problems in Bourdieu's Politics
Neo-liberalism as 'imposition' and 'invasion: Problems in Bourdieu's politics
Pierre Bourdieu's Forgotten Aesthetic: The Politics and Poetics of Practice
Bourdieu's Politics: Problems and Possiblities
Introduction 1. Neo-Liberalism as 'Imposition' and 'Invasion'? 2. The Poetics and Politics of Practice 3. From Practical Sense to Performative Politics 4. Field Theory and Political Analysis 5. Gender Politics and the Return of Symbolic Domination 6. Aesthetics, Politics, and the Market 7. Universalism and the Elusive Public Sphere. Conclusion
Bourdieu's Politics
In the last decade of his career, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu became involved in a series of high-profile political interventions, defending the cause of striking students and workers, speaking out in the name of illegal immigrants, the homeless and the unemployed, challenging the incursion of the market into the field of artistic and intellectual production. The first sustained analysis of Bourdieu's politics, this study seeks to asse…
Towards a Poetics of Consumerism: Gaston Bachelard's ‘Material Imagination’ and a Narratives of Post-War Modernisation
The influence of Gaston Bachelard's studies of the ‘poetic’ or ‘material imagination’ on the ‘nouvelle critique’ has long been acknowledged. Similarly, the importance of Bachelard's work in the history of science to social theorists such as Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault and Pierre Bourdieu has received considerable critical attention. What has been largely unexplored, however, is the impact of Bachelard's studies of the ‘material imagination’ …
Bourdieu's politics: Problems and Possibilities
This new study presents the first sustained critical analysis of the political implications of Pierre Bourdieu's sociology. Through a close reading of the political speeches and pronouncements of his later years, Jeremy F. Lane provides a detailed exposition both of Bourdieu's critique of neo-liberalism and of his own political position. Bourdieu's theory of politics is also brought into critical dialogue with the work of a range of other comment…
Rythme De Travail, Rythme De Jazz: Jazz, primitivism, and machinisme in inter-war France
Existing studies of the reception of jazz in France have tended to posit a neat distinction between those commentators, who saw the music as the degraded product of an Americanized machine age on the one hand, and those who sought in its unconventional rhythms and melodies a source of primitive, Black African authenticity, on the other hand. This article questions such accounts by showing how notions of primitivism and modernity were closely arti…
Deleuze In and Out of This World
In the final pages of his study of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, Peter Hallward makes the surely unfashionable claim that ‘the political aspect of Deleuze’s philosophy amounts to little more than utopian distraction’. He goes on to note that whilst ‘no small number of enthusiasts continues to devote much energy and ingenuity to the task, the truth is that Deleuze’s work is essentially indifferent to the politics of this world’ (162). Although…
The bachelors' ball - Pierre Bourdieu
Disaffection in the Post-Fordist Workplace: Figurations of ‘Immaterial Labour’ in Recent French Theory and Literature
Between them, André Gorz and Yann Moulier Boutang have offered some of the most persuasive theorisations of what is at stake in the shift from a Fordist to a Post-Fordist regime of accumulation. Despite the various theoretical and political differences between Gorz and Moulier Boutang, both share the assumption that the affective, cognitive, and immaterial forms of labour on which Post-Fordism depends constitute, by their very nature, a fundament…
Intellectuals, Culture and Public Policy in France: Approaches from the Left
Intellectuals, Culture and Public Policy in France: Approaches from the Left." Modern & Contemporary France, 20(1), pp. 135–136
Not So Nice Work, Always Supposing You Can Get it: Some Recent Literature on Post-Fordism
France in the Age of Organization. Factory, Home and Nation from the 1920s to Vichy
Jackie Clarke, New York & Oxford, Berghahn Books, 2011, 218 pp, £53.00, 978 08574 50807 In this new study, Jackie Clarke sets out to map the intellectual networks inhabited by a select band of inte
From ‘ Amor Fati ’ to ‘disgust’: Affect, habitus, and class identity in Didier Eribon’s Retour à Reims
In his Retour à Reims (2010), Didier Eribon draws on the sociology of Pierre Bourdieu and on his own earlier work on gay identity to offer a moving and insightful account of his social trajectory and of the issues of class, education and sexual identity that trajectory raises. Throughout this autobiographical account, Eribon stresses the centrality of affect and emotion to social and sexual identity, and the feelings of shame, disgust, frustratio…
Between Repression and Anamnesis: Pierre Bourdieu and the Vicissitudes of Literary Form
Pierre Bourdieu's work on literature has frequently been criticized for its perceived failure to attend to the specificities of literary form. This article argues that, in fact, literary form plays an important role in Bourdieu's theorizations of literature, or rather, that form is called upon to play a range of different, potentially conflicting roles. Through close readings of both The Rules of Art and the 1975 essay 'L'Invention de la vie d'ar…
Theorising performance, performing theory: Jacques Derrida and Ornette Coleman at the Parc de la Villette
On the evening of 1 July 1997, Jacques Derrida made an appearance on stage during a concert by the celebrated African American free jazz saxophonist, Ornette Coleman. Derrida’s attempts to read from a pre-prepared text, as Coleman responded on his saxophone, were interrupted by loud boos and catcalls from the audience. After a few moments, Derrida left the stage, having failed to complete his peroration. By means of a close reading of the text of…
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