Sunil Manghani
Biographic Data
| ID | 252947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sunil Manghani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sunil |
| FAMILY NAME | Manghani |
| SIGNATURE | MANGHANI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6406-7456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction
This commentary introduces a section of the journal titled ‘Notes on Structuralism’. It centres around two interviews. The first, from 1987, is with the structural anthropologist Mary Douglas (who speaks on various aspects of her work, including on Purity and Danger). The second is an interview with Roland Barthes, who, speaking in 1965, was at the height of his structuralist phase. The interview focuses upon the structural analysis of narrative …
On Narrative: An Interview with Roland Barthes
This article presents a dialogue between Roland Barthes and Paolo Fabbri, which took place on 18 December 1965 in Florence, Italy. Barthes offers an engaging account of his structuralist approach to narrative, as was later published in essay form, 'Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative', included in a special issue of Communications (Issue 8, 1966). In a cordial exchange with Fabbri, Barthes provides a more candid presentation of m…
Rhythm and Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices
Could Rhythm Become a New Scientific Paradigm for the Humanities?
This chapter by French theorist Pascal Michon, adapted from his keynote speech for the Rhythm as Pattern and Variation conference organised by the editors at Goldsmiths in 2016, follows the milestones of the recent reawakening of interest in rhythm and rhythmanalysis. Michon presents here rhythm, intended as rhuthmos , as a new paradigm implying diversity of approaches and flexible articulations.
Rhythm and Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices
Neutral Life: Roland Barthes' Late Work - An Introduction
As the introduction and lead article for a special issue of Theory, Culture & Society, 'Neutral Life/Late Barthes', this article offers an overview of the 'new' Barthes that emerges from the late writings and recent 'Barthes Studies'. The account centres upon the posthumous publication of Barthes' three key lecture courses delivered at the Collège de France, at the end of the 1970s, which reflect his preoccupation with the everyday, yet reveal a …
On Barthes' Biography: A Dialogue
This article presents an interview with Tiphaine Samoyault, author of Roland Barthes, Biographie (2015). There is always a difficulty in approaching the biography of Roland Barthes, who famously gave us the thesis of the 'death of the author'. Nonetheless, Samoyault's lengthy study can be considered the closest thing to an 'official' biography. Unlike other biographers, she was given access to and granted permission to cite from a wide range of p…
Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics
Examines the critical concept ‘zero degree’ through the work of Roland Barthes and Victor Burgin In the fields of literature and the visual arts, 'zero degree' represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to, and outside of, the dominant cultural order. Taking Roland Barthes’ 1953 book Writing Degree Zero as just one starting point, this volume examines the historical, theoretical and visual impact of the term and draws directly upon the e…
Seeing Degree Zero
Barthes/Bataille: The Writing of Neutral Economy
By his own admission, Roland Barthes was seemingly remiss in not placing Georges Bataille within his account of 'zero degree' writing. This article draws inference from this fact, but specifically examines commonalities between Bataille's heterology and Barthes' late project on the Neutral (in which reference to 'zero degree' is again raised). The article works through Barthes' two key articles on Bataille, 'The Metaphor of the Eye' and 'Outcomes…
The Art of Paolo Cirio: Exposing New Myths of Big Data Structures
This article examines the work of internet activist and artist Paolo Cirio, whose practice intersects with matters of copyright, privacy, transparency and corporate finance. His project Loophole for All, for example, exposes the practice of tax evasion in the Cayman Islands by counterfeiting Certificate of Incorporation documents. An important aspect of Cirio's work is how he names himself in the process. Placed within our contemporary 'data turn…
Barthes/Burgin
Introducing E-Special Issues of Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society
Zones of Indeterminacy: An Interview with Peng Yu
In 'Zones of Indeterminacy: Art, Body and Politics in Daoist Thought', Peng Yu foregrounds the concept of Xu from Zhuangzi's philosophical writings, and relates this to questions about the political body. Xu refers to a Daoist notion of ambiguity, though it remains unclear as to how to fully define the term. The article explores its meaning through reference to debates of the body, but also liubai painting, which refers to the idea of 'leaving bl…
‘Yes… but when?’ – An Open Letter
Love Messaging: Mobile Phone Txting Seen Through the Lens of Tanka Poetry
The article examines the nature of mobile phone text messaging, or 'txting', in the context of a discourse of love. It draws links between the txt message and the much older, revered form of love messaging, Japanese tanka poetry. In cutting across both a historical and technological divide, it seeks to elucidate a more subtle understanding of how text messaging - from a literary perspective - plays its part in amorous exchange and argues how it h…
Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Although we are now accustomed to watching history unfold live on the air, the fall of the Berlin Wall was one of the first instances when history was produced on television. Inspired by the Wall and its powerful resonances, Sunil Manghani’s breakthrough study presents the new critical concept of “image critique,” a method of critiquing images while simultaneously using them as a means to engage with contemporary culture. Manghani examines curren…
Public (re)visions: Critical pictures of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Experimental Text-Image Travel Literature
Neutral Life: Roland Barthes' Late Work - An Introduction
As the introduction and lead article for a special issue of Theory, Culture & Society, 'Neutral Life/Late Barthes', this article offers an overview of the 'new' Barthes that emerges from the late writings and recent 'Barthes Studies'. The account centres upon the posthumous publication of Barthes' three key lecture courses delivered at the Collège de France, at the end of the 1970s, which reflect his preoccupation with the everyday, yet reveal a …
Barthes/Bataille: The Writing of Neutral Economy
By his own admission, Roland Barthes was seemingly remiss in not placing Georges Bataille within his account of 'zero degree' writing. This article draws inference from this fact, but specifically examines commonalities between Bataille's heterology and Barthes' late project on the Neutral (in which reference to 'zero degree' is again raised). The article works through Barthes' two key articles on Bataille, 'The Metaphor of the Eye' and 'Outcomes…
Love Messaging: Mobile Phone Txting Seen Through the Lens of Tanka Poetry
The article examines the nature of mobile phone text messaging, or 'txting', in the context of a discourse of love. It draws links between the txt message and the much older, revered form of love messaging, Japanese tanka poetry. In cutting across both a historical and technological divide, it seeks to elucidate a more subtle understanding of how text messaging - from a literary perspective - plays its part in amorous exchange and argues how it h…
The Art of Paolo Cirio: Exposing New Myths of Big Data Structures
This article examines the work of internet activist and artist Paolo Cirio, whose practice intersects with matters of copyright, privacy, transparency and corporate finance. His project Loophole for All, for example, exposes the practice of tax evasion in the Cayman Islands by counterfeiting Certificate of Incorporation documents. An important aspect of Cirio's work is how he names himself in the process. Placed within our contemporary 'data turn…
Experimental Text-Image Travel Literature
Public (re)visions: Critical pictures of the fall of the Berlin Wall
Image Critique and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Although we are now accustomed to watching history unfold live on the air, the fall of the Berlin Wall was one of the first instances when history was produced on television. Inspired by the Wall and its powerful resonances, Sunil Manghani’s breakthrough study presents the new critical concept of “image critique,” a method of critiquing images while simultaneously using them as a means to engage with contemporary culture. Manghani examines curren…
Love Messaging: Mobile Phone Txting Seen Through the Lens of Tanka Poetry
The article examines the nature of mobile phone text messaging, or 'txting', in the context of a discourse of love. It draws links between the txt message and the much older, revered form of love messaging, Japanese tanka poetry. In cutting across both a historical and technological divide, it seeks to elucidate a more subtle understanding of how text messaging - from a literary perspective - plays its part in amorous exchange and argues how it h…
‘Yes… but when?’ – An Open Letter
Introducing E-Special Issues of Theory, Culture & Society and Body & Society
Zones of Indeterminacy: An Interview with Peng Yu
In 'Zones of Indeterminacy: Art, Body and Politics in Daoist Thought', Peng Yu foregrounds the concept of Xu from Zhuangzi's philosophical writings, and relates this to questions about the political body. Xu refers to a Daoist notion of ambiguity, though it remains unclear as to how to fully define the term. The article explores its meaning through reference to debates of the body, but also liubai painting, which refers to the idea of 'leaving bl…
Barthes/Burgin
The Art of Paolo Cirio: Exposing New Myths of Big Data Structures
This article examines the work of internet activist and artist Paolo Cirio, whose practice intersects with matters of copyright, privacy, transparency and corporate finance. His project Loophole for All, for example, exposes the practice of tax evasion in the Cayman Islands by counterfeiting Certificate of Incorporation documents. An important aspect of Cirio's work is how he names himself in the process. Placed within our contemporary 'data turn…
Barthes/Bataille: The Writing of Neutral Economy
By his own admission, Roland Barthes was seemingly remiss in not placing Georges Bataille within his account of 'zero degree' writing. This article draws inference from this fact, but specifically examines commonalities between Bataille's heterology and Barthes' late project on the Neutral (in which reference to 'zero degree' is again raised). The article works through Barthes' two key articles on Bataille, 'The Metaphor of the Eye' and 'Outcomes…
Seeing Degree Zero: Barthes/Burgin and Political Aesthetics
Examines the critical concept ‘zero degree’ through the work of Roland Barthes and Victor Burgin In the fields of literature and the visual arts, 'zero degree' represents a neutral aesthetic situated in response to, and outside of, the dominant cultural order. Taking Roland Barthes’ 1953 book Writing Degree Zero as just one starting point, this volume examines the historical, theoretical and visual impact of the term and draws directly upon the e…
Seeing Degree Zero
Rhythm and Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices
Could Rhythm Become a New Scientific Paradigm for the Humanities?
This chapter by French theorist Pascal Michon, adapted from his keynote speech for the Rhythm as Pattern and Variation conference organised by the editors at Goldsmiths in 2016, follows the milestones of the recent reawakening of interest in rhythm and rhythmanalysis. Michon presents here rhythm, intended as rhuthmos , as a new paradigm implying diversity of approaches and flexible articulations.
Rhythm and Critique: Technics, Modalities, Practices
Neutral Life: Roland Barthes' Late Work - An Introduction
As the introduction and lead article for a special issue of Theory, Culture & Society, 'Neutral Life/Late Barthes', this article offers an overview of the 'new' Barthes that emerges from the late writings and recent 'Barthes Studies'. The account centres upon the posthumous publication of Barthes' three key lecture courses delivered at the Collège de France, at the end of the 1970s, which reflect his preoccupation with the everyday, yet reveal a …
On Barthes' Biography: A Dialogue
This article presents an interview with Tiphaine Samoyault, author of Roland Barthes, Biographie (2015). There is always a difficulty in approaching the biography of Roland Barthes, who famously gave us the thesis of the 'death of the author'. Nonetheless, Samoyault's lengthy study can be considered the closest thing to an 'official' biography. Unlike other biographers, she was given access to and granted permission to cite from a wide range of p…
Notes on Structuralism: Introduction
This commentary introduces a section of the journal titled ‘Notes on Structuralism’. It centres around two interviews. The first, from 1987, is with the structural anthropologist Mary Douglas (who speaks on various aspects of her work, including on Purity and Danger). The second is an interview with Roland Barthes, who, speaking in 1965, was at the height of his structuralist phase. The interview focuses upon the structural analysis of narrative …
On Narrative: An Interview with Roland Barthes
This article presents a dialogue between Roland Barthes and Paolo Fabbri, which took place on 18 December 1965 in Florence, Italy. Barthes offers an engaging account of his structuralist approach to narrative, as was later published in essay form, 'Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative', included in a special issue of Communications (Issue 8, 1966). In a cordial exchange with Fabbri, Barthes provides a more candid presentation of m…
Art (13 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Literature (5 works)