N Badmington
Biographic Data
| ID | 30178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Badmington |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Badmington |
| SIGNATURE | BADMINGTON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6552-6618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hermaphrodite, Rosalba
An Undefined Something Else: Barthes, Culture, Neutral Life
How might Roland Barthes' posthumously published account of the Neutral invite us to rethink the very activity of cultural analysis? How did Barthes the cultural critic change when, towards the end of his career, he described and desired Neutral Life? Cultural criticism has often taken Barthes' early semiological work as a guide, but this essay examines how we might need to reorient ourselves as critics, shift our stance, learn to look and live d…
The bothersome details of the world: Richard Byrd, Little America, and the problem of retreat
In 1934, Admiral Richard E. Byrd retreated from his crew at the remote Little America encampment in Antarctica to an even more isolated setting: a small underground shack on ‘the dark immensity of the Ross Ice Barrier, on a line between Little America and the South Pole’. Byrd remained there in solitude for a little over four months and later wrote about his ordeal in Alone. This essay considers Byrd’s account alongside his earlier Antarctic writ…
Deliberations: The journals of Roland Barthes
e d fo r p u blic a tio n
Bored with Barthes: Ennui in China
Between 11 April and 4 May 1974, Roland Barthes visited Mao’s China. Accompanying him on the trip were François Wahl and, representing Tel Quel, Julia Kristeva, Marcelin Pleynet, and Philippe Sollers. Barthes published a short, disaffected piece on the experience in Le Monde shortly after his return, but the true scale and level of his disappointment did not become apparent until 2009, when several journals that he filled during the trip were pub…
Posthumanism
Punctum Saliens: Barthes, Mourning, Film, Photography
In the light of the publication of Roland Barthes's Mourning Diary (2009), this essay examines how the influential theory of the photographic punctum has cinematic roots which are repressed in Barthes's Camera Lucida (1980). My aim is not to repeat familiar arguments about how Barthes's 'The Third Meaning' (1970) anticipates the photographic punctum in a cinematic context; it is, rather, to attend specifically to Mourning Diary as a much closer, …
Editors’ Foreword
Danger! Keep out: Exploring culture with Catherine Belsey (and other animals)
Blade Runner's blade runners
Who but a nostalgic reactionary would take an interest today in the version of Blade Runner that was originally released in 1982- With its anchoring voice-over and a happy ending
The 'Inkredible' Roland Barthes
The opening of the fourth session of The Neutral - the course given by Roland Barthes at the Collège de France in 1977-8 - is marked by a dramatic spillage of ink. Rather than take this as an incidental, trivial moment, I read it as one of the many 'ink blots' that colour the work of Barthes. Tracing his 'almost obsessive relation to writing instruments' and the material act of inscription, this essay relates the 'ink blots' to the development of…
Derridanimals
Cultural Studies and the Posthumanities
Alien Chic
Alien Chic provides a cultural history of the alien since the 1950s, asking ourselves why our attitudes to aliens have shifted from fear to affection, and what this can tell us about how we now see ourselves and others. Neil Badmington explores our relationship with aliens, inscribed in films such as The War of the Worlds, Mars Attacks!, Mission to Mars and Independence Day; and how thinkers such as Descartes, Barthes, Freud, Lyotard and Derrida …
Mapping Posthumanism: An Exchange
The serried ranks of post-prefixed isms marched their way through human geographyduring the 1990s. To open the door to yet another may seem the habitual act of ahopelessly trendy discipline, one derivatively preoccupied with what’s de rigeur in thesocial sciences and humanities. Yet there might be something both apposite andproductive about staging a confrontation between a subject whose very title announcesits determined commitment to ontologica…
Theorizing Posthumanism
Posthumanism, the story often goes, needs no theorizing. How could it? Only the most foolish or self-absorbed cultural critic would spend time speculating about something that was actually staring him or her in the face. "'Man,'" as Steve Beard confidently puts it, "does not have to be theorized away; the intersection of consumerism and techno-culture has already done the job" (1998, 114). All that was solid has melted into air. Posthumanism has …
Posthumanist (Com)Promises: Diffracting Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Through Marge Piercy’s Body of Glass
Introduction: Approaching Posthumanism
He is young, reliable, quiet, clean and intelligent. He is good with numbers and will teach or entertain the children without a word of complaint. He is, according to Time magazine’s tradition, Man of the Year, 1982
Mapping Posthumanism: An Exchange
The serried ranks of post-prefixed isms marched their way through human geographyduring the 1990s. To open the door to yet another may seem the habitual act of ahopelessly trendy discipline, one derivatively preoccupied with what’s de rigeur in thesocial sciences and humanities. Yet there might be something both apposite andproductive about staging a confrontation between a subject whose very title announcesits determined commitment to ontologica…
Theorizing Posthumanism
Posthumanism, the story often goes, needs no theorizing. How could it? Only the most foolish or self-absorbed cultural critic would spend time speculating about something that was actually staring him or her in the face. "'Man,'" as Steve Beard confidently puts it, "does not have to be theorized away; the intersection of consumerism and techno-culture has already done the job" (1998, 114). All that was solid has melted into air. Posthumanism has …
An Undefined Something Else: Barthes, Culture, Neutral Life
How might Roland Barthes' posthumously published account of the Neutral invite us to rethink the very activity of cultural analysis? How did Barthes the cultural critic change when, towards the end of his career, he described and desired Neutral Life? Cultural criticism has often taken Barthes' early semiological work as a guide, but this essay examines how we might need to reorient ourselves as critics, shift our stance, learn to look and live d…
Punctum Saliens: Barthes, Mourning, Film, Photography
In the light of the publication of Roland Barthes's Mourning Diary (2009), this essay examines how the influential theory of the photographic punctum has cinematic roots which are repressed in Barthes's Camera Lucida (1980). My aim is not to repeat familiar arguments about how Barthes's 'The Third Meaning' (1970) anticipates the photographic punctum in a cinematic context; it is, rather, to attend specifically to Mourning Diary as a much closer, …
Posthumanist (Com)Promises: Diffracting Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Through Marge Piercy’s Body of Glass
Introduction: Approaching Posthumanism
He is young, reliable, quiet, clean and intelligent. He is good with numbers and will teach or entertain the children without a word of complaint. He is, according to Time magazine’s tradition, Man of the Year, 1982
Theorizing Posthumanism
Posthumanism, the story often goes, needs no theorizing. How could it? Only the most foolish or self-absorbed cultural critic would spend time speculating about something that was actually staring him or her in the face. "'Man,'" as Steve Beard confidently puts it, "does not have to be theorized away; the intersection of consumerism and techno-culture has already done the job" (1998, 114). All that was solid has melted into air. Posthumanism has …
Alien Chic
Alien Chic provides a cultural history of the alien since the 1950s, asking ourselves why our attitudes to aliens have shifted from fear to affection, and what this can tell us about how we now see ourselves and others. Neil Badmington explores our relationship with aliens, inscribed in films such as The War of the Worlds, Mars Attacks!, Mission to Mars and Independence Day; and how thinkers such as Descartes, Barthes, Freud, Lyotard and Derrida …
Mapping Posthumanism: An Exchange
The serried ranks of post-prefixed isms marched their way through human geographyduring the 1990s. To open the door to yet another may seem the habitual act of ahopelessly trendy discipline, one derivatively preoccupied with what’s de rigeur in thesocial sciences and humanities. Yet there might be something both apposite andproductive about staging a confrontation between a subject whose very title announcesits determined commitment to ontologica…
Cultural Studies and the Posthumanities
Derridanimals
The 'Inkredible' Roland Barthes
The opening of the fourth session of The Neutral - the course given by Roland Barthes at the Collège de France in 1977-8 - is marked by a dramatic spillage of ink. Rather than take this as an incidental, trivial moment, I read it as one of the many 'ink blots' that colour the work of Barthes. Tracing his 'almost obsessive relation to writing instruments' and the material act of inscription, this essay relates the 'ink blots' to the development of…
Blade Runner's blade runners
Who but a nostalgic reactionary would take an interest today in the version of Blade Runner that was originally released in 1982- With its anchoring voice-over and a happy ending
Editors’ Foreword
Danger! Keep out: Exploring culture with Catherine Belsey (and other animals)
Punctum Saliens: Barthes, Mourning, Film, Photography
In the light of the publication of Roland Barthes's Mourning Diary (2009), this essay examines how the influential theory of the photographic punctum has cinematic roots which are repressed in Barthes's Camera Lucida (1980). My aim is not to repeat familiar arguments about how Barthes's 'The Third Meaning' (1970) anticipates the photographic punctum in a cinematic context; it is, rather, to attend specifically to Mourning Diary as a much closer, …
Posthumanism
Deliberations: The journals of Roland Barthes
e d fo r p u blic a tio n
Bored with Barthes: Ennui in China
Between 11 April and 4 May 1974, Roland Barthes visited Mao’s China. Accompanying him on the trip were François Wahl and, representing Tel Quel, Julia Kristeva, Marcelin Pleynet, and Philippe Sollers. Barthes published a short, disaffected piece on the experience in Le Monde shortly after his return, but the true scale and level of his disappointment did not become apparent until 2009, when several journals that he filled during the trip were pub…
The bothersome details of the world: Richard Byrd, Little America, and the problem of retreat
In 1934, Admiral Richard E. Byrd retreated from his crew at the remote Little America encampment in Antarctica to an even more isolated setting: a small underground shack on ‘the dark immensity of the Ross Ice Barrier, on a line between Little America and the South Pole’. Byrd remained there in solitude for a little over four months and later wrote about his ordeal in Alone. This essay considers Byrd’s account alongside his earlier Antarctic writ…
Hermaphrodite, Rosalba
An Undefined Something Else: Barthes, Culture, Neutral Life
How might Roland Barthes' posthumously published account of the Neutral invite us to rethink the very activity of cultural analysis? How did Barthes the cultural critic change when, towards the end of his career, he described and desired Neutral Life? Cultural criticism has often taken Barthes' early semiological work as a guide, but this essay examines how we might need to reorient ourselves as critics, shift our stance, learn to look and live d…
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