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The sadism of the author or the masochism of the reader? (2014)
Book Chapter
White, G. (2014). The sadism of the author or the masochism of the reader?. In J. Jordan, & M. Ryle (Eds.), B.S. Johnson and Post-War Literature : The Possibilities of the Avant-Garde (153-166). Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137349552_10

The symposium giving rise to this collection and the thriving of the B.S. Johnson Society both indicate that there is something exceptional going on with the literary and academic community’s relationship with this author, something we (collectively)... Read More about The sadism of the author or the masochism of the reader?.

Worktown Observation Centre (2014)
Exhibition / Performance

‘The Observers are the cameras with which we are trying to photograph contemporary life’

The Worktown Observation Centre is a collaborative visual archive of everyday life in Bolton. It is inspired by Mass Observation’s Worktown study of everyday... Read More about Worktown Observation Centre.

Rooted in violence: civil war, international trade and the expansion of palm oil in Colombia (2014)
Journal Article
Maher, D. (2015). Rooted in violence: civil war, international trade and the expansion of palm oil in Colombia. New Political Economy, 20(2), 299-330. https://doi.org/10.1080/13563467.2014.923825

Internal armed conflict severely inhibits economic growth according to a prominent set of civil war literature. Similarly, emerging scholarship finds that civil war inhibits processes of economic globalisation which are argued to produce economic gro... Read More about Rooted in violence: civil war, international trade and the expansion of palm oil in Colombia.

Slurs and expletives: a case against a general account of expressive meaning (2014)
Journal Article
Blakemore, D. (2015). Slurs and expletives: a case against a general account of expressive meaning. Language Sciences, 52, 22-35. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2014.06.018

This paper argues against the case for treating slurs alongside expletives in a general account of expressive meaning (cf Hedger, 2102, 13; Kaplan, 1997; Richard, 2008). Working within a relevance theoretic account of communication (. Sperber and Wil... Read More about Slurs and expletives: a case against a general account of expressive meaning.

Immersive, interactive, real and imagined sonic environments (2014)
Journal Article
Davismoon, S. (2014). Immersive, interactive, real and imagined sonic environments. Lecture notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering (Internet), 136, 113-117. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08189-2_14

Perhaps the most significant contributions that computer and digital technologies have brought to our experience of music and sound art are to be found in the transformative effect that it has had upon auditory space and performative practice. Of cou... Read More about Immersive, interactive, real and imagined sonic environments.

Formation and cut : the distinct stratification of live media performance (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Scott, J. (2014, July). Formation and cut : the distinct stratification of live media performance. Presented at International Federation of Theatre Research Annual Conference, University of Warwick

This presentation uses the theme of stratification in relation to Karen Barad’s ‘agential cut’ (in Kember and Zylinska 2012: 81) to argue for a discrete understanding of live media work within the field of intermediality. Live media performance encom... Read More about Formation and cut : the distinct stratification of live media performance.

Interdisciplinary approaches to documenting performance (2014)
Journal Article
Sant, T. (2014). Interdisciplinary approaches to documenting performance. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 10, 3-6. https://doi.org/10.1080/14794713.2014.912495

A special issue of the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Documenting Performance featuring papers from the TaPRA (Theatre and Performance Research Association) working group on Documenting... Read More about Interdisciplinary approaches to documenting performance.