Thinking Loneliness 15 April 2021 Thinking Loneliness is the sixth event in our series of The English Association’s special interest group on Loneliness and Technology. What is the relationship between loneliness and the history of thought? How have thinkers thought about loneliness through time? The reinvention of aesthetics in eighteenth-century Europe saw an influential upheaval…
Loneliness and Feminism 1 April 2021 Feminism is sustained by collective organising but one of the dominant emotions that has driven women to organise and to campaign for different gendered relations has often been a sense of loneliness. A gendered perspective on loneliness allows us to see at once how politicisation can ease and provide…
The Phenomenology of Social Distancing 25 March 2021 At the beginning of the pandemic, signs were installed that demarcated a two-metre-distance that people must observe from one another – leaving effectively two vacant spaces hovering on benches and on public transport – a ghostly presence that was both physically evident and affectively registered. Social distancing…
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