Enda Mccaffrey
Biographic Data
| ID | 580027 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Enda Mccaffrey |
| GIVEN NAMES | Enda |
| FAMILY NAME | Mccaffrey |
| SIGNATURE | MCCAFFREY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nottingham Trent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Lupine and zig-zag lines
In this article I investigate how a theory of becomings-animal operates in a number of contemporary queer French films by director Alain Guiraudie (L’inconnu du lac [2013] and Rester vertical [2016]). In particular I explore how a becomings-animal’s association with a Deleuzian theory of affect enhances our understanding of queer intimacy. The aim of this article is to reposition queer intimacy as an ontology outside – outside synthetic and verti…
Zazie ’s enduring legacy
This article explores how Sartean existentialism can be used to explain the sexual orientation of the main character Gabriel in Raymond Queneau’s Zazie dans le métro. The article draws firstly on the novel’s rich and broader philosophical roots in Kantianism and Thomism. Describing Gabriel as a Kantian Thomist at the start of the novel, Queneau sets in train a philosophical dialogue that shapes the novel’s response to reality and Gabriel’s place …
Introduction. Zazie @60
In this Introduction, we will outline how Raymond Queneau’s novel Zazie dans le metro (1959) was received during 1959, the early 1960s and over the course of the last decades. Our attention will fo
Apostles of anti-philosophy
This article explores the impact of the turn in French theological thought in the 1980s by focusing on one of its consequences – the advent of anti-philosophy as act. In his work L’antiphilosophie de Wittgenstein (2009a), Alain Badiou explored the main aspects of anti-philosophy: the void, non-thought, anti-historicism. Drawing on this work and with specific reference to Badiou’s Saint Paul: La fondation de l’universalisme (1997) and Jean-Françoi…
Towards an Ethics of Distance
This article takes it inspiration from a crisis between Deleuzian free production and representation in contemporary virtual and digital culture. The aim is to sketch a different ethics to the ethics of difference between free production and representation as described by Deleuze and Guattari and invoked by Michel Foucault in his preface to Anti-Oedipe. This article outlines the case for an ethical relationality between these two structures which…
From Bad Boys to New Men? Masculinity, Sexuality and Violence in the Work of Éric Jourdan
The Squared Horizon
Rewriting Modernity
This article rereads Paul Virilio, drawing on the distinction between topography and topology to argue a case for Virilio as a rewriter of modernity. Invoking Jean-François Lyotard’s notion of rewriting modernity as an unbroken process of accumulation founded on affective life in “Re-writing Modernity” and “Argumentation and Presentation: The Foundation Crisis,” it enlists topology as a horizontal spatial structure that enables us to rethink spac…
Paralyses
The Cinema of Michael Haneke. Europe Utopia
B. McCann & D. Sorfa (Eds), London, Wallflower Press, 2012, 256 pages, £52.00, 978 1906660307 (hbk) Michael Haneke is one of the most influential ‘European’, ‘international’ cinema-makers of the co
Michel Henry
The ‘Eclectic’ deficit
The Intertexts of ‘Seeing’ and ‘Non-Seeing’ in Schnabel’s Le Scaphandre et le papillon
This article examines the complexity of the relationship between ‘seeing’ and ‘non-seeing’ and its connection to a knowledge of the Self in Julian Schnabel’s film Le Scaphandre et le papillon. It is argued that ‘seeing’ is an impediment to an understanding of the visible world, while variations on ‘non-seeing’ enhance knowledge of visibility and Self. In the context of the filmic text, knowledge is associated specifically with the act of retrospe…
From Universalism to Post-universalism
The PaCS has been a positive development for many lesbians and gays in France. On social, cultural, political and pragmatic levels, it has afforded gays recognition, protection, rights and a platform on which to negotiate new gay-friendly legislation. It is important therefore that complacency and lack of strategic foresight do not undermine these advances, particularly when lesbians and gays appear divided over how their interests are best serve…
The Return of Faith and Reason to Laïcité
In 1985, Marcel Gauchet wrote of the ‘retour du religieux’ as an end to the social role of religion and the beginning of its privatisation. However, far from an indication of the withering of religion on the vine of modernity, the return of a religious discourse was resurrected by the democratisation of the ‘croyant’ in the mid-1980s. The ‘âge égalitaire’, coupled with the specificity of the ‘croyant’, created a platform on which to challenge the…
Rewriting Modernity
This article rereads Paul Virilio, drawing on the distinction between topography and topology to argue a case for Virilio as a rewriter of modernity. Invoking Jean-François Lyotard’s notion of rewriting modernity as an unbroken process of accumulation founded on affective life in “Re-writing Modernity” and “Argumentation and Presentation: The Foundation Crisis,” it enlists topology as a horizontal spatial structure that enables us to rethink spac…
Towards an Ethics of Distance
This article takes it inspiration from a crisis between Deleuzian free production and representation in contemporary virtual and digital culture. The aim is to sketch a different ethics to the ethics of difference between free production and representation as described by Deleuze and Guattari and invoked by Michel Foucault in his preface to Anti-Oedipe. This article outlines the case for an ethical relationality between these two structures which…
The Intertexts of ‘Seeing’ and ‘Non-Seeing’ in Schnabel’s Le Scaphandre et le papillon
This article examines the complexity of the relationship between ‘seeing’ and ‘non-seeing’ and its connection to a knowledge of the Self in Julian Schnabel’s film Le Scaphandre et le papillon. It is argued that ‘seeing’ is an impediment to an understanding of the visible world, while variations on ‘non-seeing’ enhance knowledge of visibility and Self. In the context of the filmic text, knowledge is associated specifically with the act of retrospe…
The Return of Faith and Reason to Laïcité
In 1985, Marcel Gauchet wrote of the ‘retour du religieux’ as an end to the social role of religion and the beginning of its privatisation. However, far from an indication of the withering of religion on the vine of modernity, the return of a religious discourse was resurrected by the democratisation of the ‘croyant’ in the mid-1980s. The ‘âge égalitaire’, coupled with the specificity of the ‘croyant’, created a platform on which to challenge the…
From Universalism to Post-universalism
The PaCS has been a positive development for many lesbians and gays in France. On social, cultural, political and pragmatic levels, it has afforded gays recognition, protection, rights and a platform on which to negotiate new gay-friendly legislation. It is important therefore that complacency and lack of strategic foresight do not undermine these advances, particularly when lesbians and gays appear divided over how their interests are best serve…
The ‘Eclectic’ deficit
The Intertexts of ‘Seeing’ and ‘Non-Seeing’ in Schnabel’s Le Scaphandre et le papillon
This article examines the complexity of the relationship between ‘seeing’ and ‘non-seeing’ and its connection to a knowledge of the Self in Julian Schnabel’s film Le Scaphandre et le papillon. It is argued that ‘seeing’ is an impediment to an understanding of the visible world, while variations on ‘non-seeing’ enhance knowledge of visibility and Self. In the context of the filmic text, knowledge is associated specifically with the act of retrospe…
The Cinema of Michael Haneke. Europe Utopia
B. McCann & D. Sorfa (Eds), London, Wallflower Press, 2012, 256 pages, £52.00, 978 1906660307 (hbk) Michael Haneke is one of the most influential ‘European’, ‘international’ cinema-makers of the co
Michel Henry
Paralyses
From Bad Boys to New Men? Masculinity, Sexuality and Violence in the Work of Éric Jourdan
The Squared Horizon
Rewriting Modernity
This article rereads Paul Virilio, drawing on the distinction between topography and topology to argue a case for Virilio as a rewriter of modernity. Invoking Jean-François Lyotard’s notion of rewriting modernity as an unbroken process of accumulation founded on affective life in “Re-writing Modernity” and “Argumentation and Presentation: The Foundation Crisis,” it enlists topology as a horizontal spatial structure that enables us to rethink spac…
Towards an Ethics of Distance
This article takes it inspiration from a crisis between Deleuzian free production and representation in contemporary virtual and digital culture. The aim is to sketch a different ethics to the ethics of difference between free production and representation as described by Deleuze and Guattari and invoked by Michel Foucault in his preface to Anti-Oedipe. This article outlines the case for an ethical relationality between these two structures which…
Apostles of anti-philosophy
This article explores the impact of the turn in French theological thought in the 1980s by focusing on one of its consequences – the advent of anti-philosophy as act. In his work L’antiphilosophie de Wittgenstein (2009a), Alain Badiou explored the main aspects of anti-philosophy: the void, non-thought, anti-historicism. Drawing on this work and with specific reference to Badiou’s Saint Paul: La fondation de l’universalisme (1997) and Jean-Françoi…
Lupine and zig-zag lines
In this article I investigate how a theory of becomings-animal operates in a number of contemporary queer French films by director Alain Guiraudie (L’inconnu du lac [2013] and Rester vertical [2016]). In particular I explore how a becomings-animal’s association with a Deleuzian theory of affect enhances our understanding of queer intimacy. The aim of this article is to reposition queer intimacy as an ontology outside – outside synthetic and verti…
Zazie ’s enduring legacy
This article explores how Sartean existentialism can be used to explain the sexual orientation of the main character Gabriel in Raymond Queneau’s Zazie dans le métro. The article draws firstly on the novel’s rich and broader philosophical roots in Kantianism and Thomism. Describing Gabriel as a Kantian Thomist at the start of the novel, Queneau sets in train a philosophical dialogue that shapes the novel’s response to reality and Gabriel’s place …
Introduction. Zazie @60
In this Introduction, we will outline how Raymond Queneau’s novel Zazie dans le metro (1959) was received during 1959, the early 1960s and over the course of the last decades. Our attention will fo
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