Joseph Darlington
Biographic Data
| ID | 3947637 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Darlington |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Darlington |
| SIGNATURE | DARLINGTON J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Salford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4309-679X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Enough names on the cover already
Using archive materials, this article investigates the decades-long translation process behind the year 2000 Carcanet collection ‘Cyprian Norwid: Poems, Letters, Drawings’. In doing so, it explores the role that translation played in the initial blossoming, and later collapse of, Christine Brooke-Rose and Jerzy Peterkiewicz’s romantic relationship. The translation of Christian mystic Cyprian Norwid’s poetry, from Polish to English, was undertaken…
Mirrors and envelopes
This article explores the influence of John Berger on Eva Figes’ novel Light (1981). The novel describes a day in the life of Claude Monet. Figes’ depiction of Monet’s artistic processes reflects her own explorations of literary-critical theory as well as showing the clear influence of Berger’s ideas. The article uses archive materials newly recently made available at the British Library to outline the personal relationship between the two writer…
Christine Brooke-Rose and Post-War Literature
The Writer’s Action Group (WAG) and the Fight for Public Lending Right (PLR)
In 1972, the experimental writers Brigid Brophy and Maureen Duffy came together with three friends to found the Writer’s Action Group (WAG). The group aimed to improve the financial lot of British writers, being inspired by an article in the Bookseller stating that the average author earned less in 1971 than they had done in 1966 even before taking into account the rapid inflation of the new decade. Within a year, they had published 17 articles a…
The beauty and the terror
The beauty and the terror: an alternative history of the Italian renaissance." Visual Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Cloak and Dagger
Book Review| November 01 2020 Cloak and Dagger Venice’s Secret Service: Organising Intelligence in the Renaissance, by Iordanou, Ioanna, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 288 pages, £29.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0198791317 Joseph Darlington Joseph Darlington Joseph Darlington is head of animation at Futureworks Media School. His most recent monograph is British Terrorist Novels of the 1970s (2018), and he has published widely in journal…
America’s digital army
Techno-Wizardry and movie magic
This paper will argue that 3D digital animation, unlike its 2D and stop-motion counterparts, currently lacks recognisable self-reflexive aesthetic devices through which the trace of animators’ labour can be made visible. It will open with a brief history of how animation has previously shown its workings; from the pencil-wielding hand of Émile Cohl to the opening seconds of South Park, plus the intentional and unintentional smears and multiples v…
Truth, death and memory in Christine Brooke-Rose's autobiographical writings
Christine Brooke-Rose published two ostensibly autobiographical works; the quasi-fictionalised ‘antibiography’ Remake and Life: End of which takes a philosophical rather than narrative form. Utilising correspondence and other personal documents, this paper concerns the notable life events which Brooke-Rose left unaddressed in her writing (war work, illness, marriage breakdown and poststructuralist feuding), the reasons for these excisions and wha…
Pleasures of the Vanguard
Whispers have been traveling around the Left for a while now, telling of a strange entity without a name. In the midst of multitudes and multiplicities strange phrases appear—“fidelity to the Event,” “kernel of truth,” “commitment”—a language at once new and yet archaic. The radical dogmas that all organizations must be horizontal and all revolutions organic are no longer repeated with enthusiasm. There is a specter haunting communism—the specter…
Plagued by the Self
Elisabeth Roudinesco, Lacan: In Spite of Everything, trans. Gregory Elliott, London, Verso, 2014.As anyone who has attempted to teach Lacan's work will recognise, there are perhaps as many different Lacans as there are readers of Lacan. The tendency of his concepts to be at once so evocative and yet ultimately evasive makes him a perfect tool for the literary critic, but perhaps not so useful for the medical practitioner. Elisabeth Roudinesco, he…
An education in impermanence
This paper seeks a reengagement with Doris Lessing's classic novel The Golden Notebook in relation to the concept of intermittency outlined in Andrew Gibson's recent theoretical work. Gibson argues that recent continental philosophy has broken with a linear reading of history in favour of the intermittent occurrence of Events: moments of crisis and rupture from which truth, politics, and justice emerge into the actual. Lessing's novel, praised fo…
That Dawn to Be Alive
That Dawn to Be Alive Andrew Gibson, Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, 326 pp, £70 hardcoverUnder long shadow of postmodernism, project of assigning any final meaning to history has come to be considered by many as naive, if not dangerous. A conception of human story which moves towards a future end point - a final totality associated with Hegel or Marx - is r…
Catchphrases
This paper focuses upon the catchphrase form as a means of approaching comedy's social function beyond its initial humorous effects. The fairly recent historical appearance of the catchphrase as a recognisable entity and target of derision is unpacked, and various aspects of its signification considered in light of pre-existing theories of comedy. As a counterargument to some of these theories, the paper then goes on to consider catchphrases as s…
America’s digital army
An education in impermanence
This paper seeks a reengagement with Doris Lessing's classic novel The Golden Notebook in relation to the concept of intermittency outlined in Andrew Gibson's recent theoretical work. Gibson argues that recent continental philosophy has broken with a linear reading of history in favour of the intermittent occurrence of Events: moments of crisis and rupture from which truth, politics, and justice emerge into the actual. Lessing's novel, praised fo…
That Dawn to Be Alive
That Dawn to Be Alive Andrew Gibson, Intermittency: The Concept of Historical Reason in Recent French Philosophy, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, 326 pp, £70 hardcoverUnder long shadow of postmodernism, project of assigning any final meaning to history has come to be considered by many as naive, if not dangerous. A conception of human story which moves towards a future end point - a final totality associated with Hegel or Marx - is r…
Catchphrases
This paper focuses upon the catchphrase form as a means of approaching comedy's social function beyond its initial humorous effects. The fairly recent historical appearance of the catchphrase as a recognisable entity and target of derision is unpacked, and various aspects of its signification considered in light of pre-existing theories of comedy. As a counterargument to some of these theories, the paper then goes on to consider catchphrases as s…
Plagued by the Self
Elisabeth Roudinesco, Lacan: In Spite of Everything, trans. Gregory Elliott, London, Verso, 2014.As anyone who has attempted to teach Lacan's work will recognise, there are perhaps as many different Lacans as there are readers of Lacan. The tendency of his concepts to be at once so evocative and yet ultimately evasive makes him a perfect tool for the literary critic, but perhaps not so useful for the medical practitioner. Elisabeth Roudinesco, he…
An education in impermanence
This paper seeks a reengagement with Doris Lessing's classic novel The Golden Notebook in relation to the concept of intermittency outlined in Andrew Gibson's recent theoretical work. Gibson argues that recent continental philosophy has broken with a linear reading of history in favour of the intermittent occurrence of Events: moments of crisis and rupture from which truth, politics, and justice emerge into the actual. Lessing's novel, praised fo…
Pleasures of the Vanguard
Whispers have been traveling around the Left for a while now, telling of a strange entity without a name. In the midst of multitudes and multiplicities strange phrases appear—“fidelity to the Event,” “kernel of truth,” “commitment”—a language at once new and yet archaic. The radical dogmas that all organizations must be horizontal and all revolutions organic are no longer repeated with enthusiasm. There is a specter haunting communism—the specter…
Techno-Wizardry and movie magic
This paper will argue that 3D digital animation, unlike its 2D and stop-motion counterparts, currently lacks recognisable self-reflexive aesthetic devices through which the trace of animators’ labour can be made visible. It will open with a brief history of how animation has previously shown its workings; from the pencil-wielding hand of Émile Cohl to the opening seconds of South Park, plus the intentional and unintentional smears and multiples v…
Truth, death and memory in Christine Brooke-Rose's autobiographical writings
Christine Brooke-Rose published two ostensibly autobiographical works; the quasi-fictionalised ‘antibiography’ Remake and Life: End of which takes a philosophical rather than narrative form. Utilising correspondence and other personal documents, this paper concerns the notable life events which Brooke-Rose left unaddressed in her writing (war work, illness, marriage breakdown and poststructuralist feuding), the reasons for these excisions and wha…
America’s digital army
The beauty and the terror
The beauty and the terror: an alternative history of the Italian renaissance." Visual Studies, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Cloak and Dagger
Book Review| November 01 2020 Cloak and Dagger Venice’s Secret Service: Organising Intelligence in the Renaissance, by Iordanou, Ioanna, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019, 288 pages, £29.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0198791317 Joseph Darlington Joseph Darlington Joseph Darlington is head of animation at Futureworks Media School. His most recent monograph is British Terrorist Novels of the 1970s (2018), and he has published widely in journal…
Christine Brooke-Rose and Post-War Literature
The Writer’s Action Group (WAG) and the Fight for Public Lending Right (PLR)
In 1972, the experimental writers Brigid Brophy and Maureen Duffy came together with three friends to found the Writer’s Action Group (WAG). The group aimed to improve the financial lot of British writers, being inspired by an article in the Bookseller stating that the average author earned less in 1971 than they had done in 1966 even before taking into account the rapid inflation of the new decade. Within a year, they had published 17 articles a…
Mirrors and envelopes
This article explores the influence of John Berger on Eva Figes’ novel Light (1981). The novel describes a day in the life of Claude Monet. Figes’ depiction of Monet’s artistic processes reflects her own explorations of literary-critical theory as well as showing the clear influence of Berger’s ideas. The article uses archive materials newly recently made available at the British Library to outline the personal relationship between the two writer…
Enough names on the cover already
Using archive materials, this article investigates the decades-long translation process behind the year 2000 Carcanet collection ‘Cyprian Norwid: Poems, Letters, Drawings’. In doing so, it explores the role that translation played in the initial blossoming, and later collapse of, Christine Brooke-Rose and Jerzy Peterkiewicz’s romantic relationship. The translation of Christian mystic Cyprian Norwid’s poetry, from Polish to English, was undertaken…
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