Niall Sreenan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6574555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Niall Sreenan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Niall |
| FAMILY NAME | Sreenan |
| SIGNATURE | SREENAN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5057-3259 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
David Gillott, Samuel Butler against the Professionals
Universal, acid
This article examines Houellebecq’s two genomics novels, Les Particules élémentaires and La Possibilité d’une île and elaborates their relationship with Neo-Darwinian evolutionary naturalism and neoliberal capitalism. In these works, the mutual interdependence of these two regimes of thought both necessitates and makes possible the technology of human cloning, which promises humanity an escape from the misery of its own biological, political pred…
Dreaming of islands
This paper conducts an exploration of the post-Darwinian literary and philosophical imaginary through the topos of the island. Drawing upon philosophical reflections by Gilles Deleuze on the nature of material islands and their psychic function as fantasies of transcendence, I argue that the island takes on new significance in a post-Darwinian world by offering an image of human independence that is unavailable under the regime of biological evol…
Dreaming of islands
This paper conducts an exploration of the post-Darwinian literary and philosophical imaginary through the topos of the island. Drawing upon philosophical reflections by Gilles Deleuze on the nature of material islands and their psychic function as fantasies of transcendence, I argue that the island takes on new significance in a post-Darwinian world by offering an image of human independence that is unavailable under the regime of biological evol…
Dreaming of islands
This paper conducts an exploration of the post-Darwinian literary and philosophical imaginary through the topos of the island. Drawing upon philosophical reflections by Gilles Deleuze on the nature of material islands and their psychic function as fantasies of transcendence, I argue that the island takes on new significance in a post-Darwinian world by offering an image of human independence that is unavailable under the regime of biological evol…
Universal, acid
This article examines Houellebecq’s two genomics novels, Les Particules élémentaires and La Possibilité d’une île and elaborates their relationship with Neo-Darwinian evolutionary naturalism and neoliberal capitalism. In these works, the mutual interdependence of these two regimes of thought both necessitates and makes possible the technology of human cloning, which promises humanity an escape from the misery of its own biological, political pred…
David Gillott, Samuel Butler against the Professionals
Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Darwinism (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Art history (1 work)