Robinson Murphy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4634686 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robinson Murphy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robinson |
| FAMILY NAME | Murphy |
| SIGNATURE | MURPHY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Environmental Studies, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5263-6911 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Death-Driven Eco-Ethics of David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021) and Darren Aronofsky’s mother! (2017)
Notes1 Leo Bersani posed a similar question: “is it possible to invent ‘new relational modes’ [Foucault’s phrase] while taking into account the intractability of the death drive?” (Bersani Citation2010, 134).2 For a Lowery film that features a great many long takes, see A Ghost Story (2017).3 Ecocentrism values the entire ecosphere, not just what humans deem worthy. The Green Knight’s ecocentrism extends to its extra-textual commitments: “no leat…
Climate Change and the Death Drive
Using James Bradley’s novel Clade (2015) and the real-life example of Kaylen Ward (aka the Naked Philanthropist, 2020), this article argues that the death drive—as it manifests in normative Western subjectivity—has generated destruction on a macro scale in the form of global climate change. However, the death drive is not always-already destructive, but is rather something that can be partnered with creatively. This necessitates constructing a no…
Queer Child, Decolonial Child
the year 2012 saw the release of twenty-nine-year-old director Benh Zeitlin's first feature, Beasts of the Southern Wild. This independent film and its unknown cast enjoyed immediate fanfare, garnering the Caméra d'Or at Cannes, the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and four Oscar nominations. Its success on the award circuit was matched, at least initially, by acclaim from the reviewing establishment. Writing for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis c…
The Woods , by Bibikhin, Vladimir
Christianity and Climate Change
Trans* Thinking in Irish Television and Film
This article begins with an analysis of the six-episode British television series Hit & Miss (2012) before moving back in time to a discussion of the films The Crying Game (1992) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005). Though seemingly counterintuitive, the article progresses in this fashion because, as a television show, Hit & Miss is afforded more space for developing trans characterization than is either of the films. In other words, the fuller concept…
Castration Desire
According to orthodox psychoanalysis, “castration” is always negative: to lose the “phallus” is to lose everything. Against this account, this article argues that “castration desire” offers a model for sustainable relationality on an imminently eco-apocalyptic earth. Using the novel Never Let Me Go (2005) to explicate castration desire, this article posits that Kazuo Ishiguro's organ-donating clones – in acquiescing to their own diminishment, and…
Elizabeth Barton's Claim
Sons of Ulster
Caroline Magennis, New York, Peter Lang, 2010, 192 pp., £35.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-3034301107 Caroline Magennis's Sons of Ulster: Masculinities in the Contemporary Northern Irish Novel, another i
The politics of rebirth in Colm Tóibín's ‘Three Friends’ and ‘A Long Winter’
This paper explores the compatibility of Catholic and homosexual identities. Because the language of Catholicism is so deeply entrenched in the popular imagination, I aim to show that not only does it provide a vocabulary for oppression but also for change. For the contemporary Irish novelist, the latter means conferring new meaning onto formerly oppressive language. In ‘Three Friends’ and ‘A Long Winter’, two short stories from Tóibín's Mothers …
The politics of rebirth in Colm Tóibín's ‘Three Friends’ and ‘A Long Winter’
This paper explores the compatibility of Catholic and homosexual identities. Because the language of Catholicism is so deeply entrenched in the popular imagination, I aim to show that not only does it provide a vocabulary for oppression but also for change. For the contemporary Irish novelist, the latter means conferring new meaning onto formerly oppressive language. In ‘Three Friends’ and ‘A Long Winter’, two short stories from Tóibín's Mothers …
The politics of rebirth in Colm Tóibín's ‘Three Friends’ and ‘A Long Winter’
This paper explores the compatibility of Catholic and homosexual identities. Because the language of Catholicism is so deeply entrenched in the popular imagination, I aim to show that not only does it provide a vocabulary for oppression but also for change. For the contemporary Irish novelist, the latter means conferring new meaning onto formerly oppressive language. In ‘Three Friends’ and ‘A Long Winter’, two short stories from Tóibín's Mothers …
Sons of Ulster
Caroline Magennis, New York, Peter Lang, 2010, 192 pp., £35.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-3034301107 Caroline Magennis's Sons of Ulster: Masculinities in the Contemporary Northern Irish Novel, another i
Elizabeth Barton's Claim
Christianity and Climate Change
Trans* Thinking in Irish Television and Film
This article begins with an analysis of the six-episode British television series Hit & Miss (2012) before moving back in time to a discussion of the films The Crying Game (1992) and Breakfast on Pluto (2005). Though seemingly counterintuitive, the article progresses in this fashion because, as a television show, Hit & Miss is afforded more space for developing trans characterization than is either of the films. In other words, the fuller concept…
Castration Desire
According to orthodox psychoanalysis, “castration” is always negative: to lose the “phallus” is to lose everything. Against this account, this article argues that “castration desire” offers a model for sustainable relationality on an imminently eco-apocalyptic earth. Using the novel Never Let Me Go (2005) to explicate castration desire, this article posits that Kazuo Ishiguro's organ-donating clones – in acquiescing to their own diminishment, and…
The Woods , by Bibikhin, Vladimir
Climate Change and the Death Drive
Using James Bradley’s novel Clade (2015) and the real-life example of Kaylen Ward (aka the Naked Philanthropist, 2020), this article argues that the death drive—as it manifests in normative Western subjectivity—has generated destruction on a macro scale in the form of global climate change. However, the death drive is not always-already destructive, but is rather something that can be partnered with creatively. This necessitates constructing a no…
Queer Child, Decolonial Child
the year 2012 saw the release of twenty-nine-year-old director Benh Zeitlin's first feature, Beasts of the Southern Wild. This independent film and its unknown cast enjoyed immediate fanfare, garnering the Caméra d'Or at Cannes, the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance, and four Oscar nominations. Its success on the award circuit was matched, at least initially, by acclaim from the reviewing establishment. Writing for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis c…
The Death-Driven Eco-Ethics of David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021) and Darren Aronofsky’s mother! (2017)
Notes1 Leo Bersani posed a similar question: “is it possible to invent ‘new relational modes’ [Foucault’s phrase] while taking into account the intractability of the death drive?” (Bersani Citation2010, 134).2 For a Lowery film that features a great many long takes, see A Ghost Story (2017).3 Ecocentrism values the entire ecosphere, not just what humans deem worthy. The Green Knight’s ecocentrism extends to its extra-textual commitments: “no leat…
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