Benjamin Morgan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858674 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Morgan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Morgan |
| SIGNATURE | MORGAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Public Interest Law Centre, England |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-1128-7970 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Planet
This essay argues that “planet” has recently become an important concept for scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture. Whereas concepts such as the “globe” or the “world” portray the Earth as a space subject to surveillance and political power, the concept of the planet emphasizes the alien, nonanthropocentric aspects of the Earth and its history
Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion
Diminishing Dreams
Introduction In a 2019 report for the International Journal of Communication, Baym et al. positioned distributed blockchain ledger technology, and what would subsequently be referred to as Web3, as a convening technology. Riffing off Barnett, a convening technology “initiates and serves as the focus of a conversation that can address issues far beyond what it may ultimately be able to address itself” (403). The case studies for the Baym et al. re…
London's deportation apparatus
Brexit brought an end to the free‐movement rights of EU citizens in the United Kingdom, but the rights of the poorest Europeans were being actively curtailed even before that. From 2010, street homeless EU citizens were deported through a series of pilot schemes operating in London. In 2016, their ‘administrative removal’ was instituted as national policy. Using process‐tracing methodology, we have analysed publicly available documents and others…
What fresh hell? UK policies targeting homeless migrants for deportation after Brexit and Covid-19
Before Covid-19 around a quarter of the UK’s rough sleeping population were non-UK nationals, with the proportion rising above half in some metropolitan areas. The UK government’s targeting of rough-sleeping EU citizens for ‘administrative removal’ between 2010–2017 reflected a trend in social policy towards enforcement- rather than support-based ‘solutions’ to migrant homelessness. Changes to the Immigration Rules in late 2020 to make rough slee…
Aesthetics
A ESTHETICS was the bad object for a surprising diversity of critical traditions in the 1970s and 1980s. Poststructuralists, sociologists, and Marxists all argued that the Enlightenment notion of aesthetic judgment as transhistorically detached from contingency, praxis, and ethics was an expression of bourgeois ideology. 1 Theodor Adorno's dialectical Aesthetic Theory (1970) discerned antinomies rather than pure ideology. The idea of the aestheti…
Fin du Globe
As scholars across disciplines have turned their attention to the climate crisis, they have developed expanded critical frameworks—most notably, the Anthropocene—that aspire to understand a new planetary scale of human agency and to situate human history in relation to geological time. This essay argues that the literature of British decadence, which often contemplated the eventual ends of the planet and of the human species, offers resources for…
After the Arctic Sublime
Arctic voyage narratives, a popular genre of nineteenth-century writing replete with dramatic descriptions of sublime scenery and dangerous adventure, have often been read symptomatically as expressing an imperialist political unconscious. This essay argues that in the context of anthropogenic climate change, a new mode of reading becomes necessary, which would take seriously the literal meaning of the text, including its transmission of scientif…
Undoing Legal Violence
Giorgio Agamben calls for a ‘playful’ relation to law as a way to counteract its inherent violence. Such a relation would prevent law from functioning as a means to an end, instead treating it as a ‘pure means.’ This article evaluates the significance of Agamben's proposal and of the concept of pure means, arguing that both implicitly draw on a Kantian model of aesthetic experience
Fin du Globe
As scholars across disciplines have turned their attention to the climate crisis, they have developed expanded critical frameworks—most notably, the Anthropocene—that aspire to understand a new planetary scale of human agency and to situate human history in relation to geological time. This essay argues that the literature of British decadence, which often contemplated the eventual ends of the planet and of the human species, offers resources for…
What fresh hell? UK policies targeting homeless migrants for deportation after Brexit and Covid-19
Before Covid-19 around a quarter of the UK’s rough sleeping population were non-UK nationals, with the proportion rising above half in some metropolitan areas. The UK government’s targeting of rough-sleeping EU citizens for ‘administrative removal’ between 2010–2017 reflected a trend in social policy towards enforcement- rather than support-based ‘solutions’ to migrant homelessness. Changes to the Immigration Rules in late 2020 to make rough slee…
After the Arctic Sublime
Arctic voyage narratives, a popular genre of nineteenth-century writing replete with dramatic descriptions of sublime scenery and dangerous adventure, have often been read symptomatically as expressing an imperialist political unconscious. This essay argues that in the context of anthropogenic climate change, a new mode of reading becomes necessary, which would take seriously the literal meaning of the text, including its transmission of scientif…
Undoing Legal Violence
Giorgio Agamben calls for a ‘playful’ relation to law as a way to counteract its inherent violence. Such a relation would prevent law from functioning as a means to an end, instead treating it as a ‘pure means.’ This article evaluates the significance of Agamben's proposal and of the concept of pure means, arguing that both implicitly draw on a Kantian model of aesthetic experience
London's deportation apparatus
Brexit brought an end to the free‐movement rights of EU citizens in the United Kingdom, but the rights of the poorest Europeans were being actively curtailed even before that. From 2010, street homeless EU citizens were deported through a series of pilot schemes operating in London. In 2016, their ‘administrative removal’ was instituted as national policy. Using process‐tracing methodology, we have analysed publicly available documents and others…
Undoing Legal Violence
Giorgio Agamben calls for a ‘playful’ relation to law as a way to counteract its inherent violence. Such a relation would prevent law from functioning as a means to an end, instead treating it as a ‘pure means.’ This article evaluates the significance of Agamben's proposal and of the concept of pure means, arguing that both implicitly draw on a Kantian model of aesthetic experience
Fin du Globe
As scholars across disciplines have turned their attention to the climate crisis, they have developed expanded critical frameworks—most notably, the Anthropocene—that aspire to understand a new planetary scale of human agency and to situate human history in relation to geological time. This essay argues that the literature of British decadence, which often contemplated the eventual ends of the planet and of the human species, offers resources for…
After the Arctic Sublime
Arctic voyage narratives, a popular genre of nineteenth-century writing replete with dramatic descriptions of sublime scenery and dangerous adventure, have often been read symptomatically as expressing an imperialist political unconscious. This essay argues that in the context of anthropogenic climate change, a new mode of reading becomes necessary, which would take seriously the literal meaning of the text, including its transmission of scientif…
Aesthetics
A ESTHETICS was the bad object for a surprising diversity of critical traditions in the 1970s and 1980s. Poststructuralists, sociologists, and Marxists all argued that the Enlightenment notion of aesthetic judgment as transhistorically detached from contingency, praxis, and ethics was an expression of bourgeois ideology. 1 Theodor Adorno's dialectical Aesthetic Theory (1970) discerned antinomies rather than pure ideology. The idea of the aestheti…
Diminishing Dreams
Introduction In a 2019 report for the International Journal of Communication, Baym et al. positioned distributed blockchain ledger technology, and what would subsequently be referred to as Web3, as a convening technology. Riffing off Barnett, a convening technology “initiates and serves as the focus of a conversation that can address issues far beyond what it may ultimately be able to address itself” (403). The case studies for the Baym et al. re…
London's deportation apparatus
Brexit brought an end to the free‐movement rights of EU citizens in the United Kingdom, but the rights of the poorest Europeans were being actively curtailed even before that. From 2010, street homeless EU citizens were deported through a series of pilot schemes operating in London. In 2016, their ‘administrative removal’ was instituted as national policy. Using process‐tracing methodology, we have analysed publicly available documents and others…
What fresh hell? UK policies targeting homeless migrants for deportation after Brexit and Covid-19
Before Covid-19 around a quarter of the UK’s rough sleeping population were non-UK nationals, with the proportion rising above half in some metropolitan areas. The UK government’s targeting of rough-sleeping EU citizens for ‘administrative removal’ between 2010–2017 reflected a trend in social policy towards enforcement- rather than support-based ‘solutions’ to migrant homelessness. Changes to the Immigration Rules in late 2020 to make rough slee…
Planet
This essay argues that “planet” has recently become an important concept for scholars of nineteenth-century literature and culture. Whereas concepts such as the “globe” or the “world” portray the Earth as a space subject to surveillance and political power, the concept of the planet emphasizes the alien, nonanthropocentric aspects of the Earth and its history
Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion
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