HASTAC Commons | Steven Swarbrick | Activity https://hastac.hcommons.org/members/sswarbrick/activity/ Activity feed for Steven Swarbrick. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:04:31 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 8832b3080bc5aa9e87c28af5f243ceac Steven Swarbrick deposited "The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac" in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1752176/ Fri, 17 Sep 2021 02:25:14 +0000 Building on the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay develops a queer naturalist account of film form centered on the ontogenetic dimensions of Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac (2013).

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]]> 0 f2bf12c14cfe583ad8aa05db1561a839 Steven Swarbrick deposited "The Violence of the Frame: Image, Animal, Interval in Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac" https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1752139/ Thu, 16 Sep 2021 18:23:39 +0000 Building on the film philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, this essay develops a queer naturalist account of film form centered on the ontogenetic dimensions of Lars von Trier’s film Nymphomaniac (2013).

]]> 0 66f46f16b179f136c95fdc1b71a26de2 Steven Swarbrick deposited Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives in the group TC Science and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1720175/ Thu, 17 Dec 2020 02:32:14 +0000 Introduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives.

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]]> 0 94397ab3566a24ad0cc15365bcf3e441 Steven Swarbrick deposited Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter's Tale in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1707310/ Fri, 04 Sep 2020 02:28:07 +0000 Shakespeare scholarship has long been interested in the temporal dynamics of The Winter’s Tale, and has often turned to melancholic or traumatic time frames to explain the thematic persistence of lost time in Shakespeare’s romance. In this chapter, I argue that dance provides a key interpretive framework for understanding the play’s interest in bo…[Read more]

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]]> 0 3b089f39ed2a32904f0449653c82a8c1 Steven Swarbrick deposited Dancing with Perdita: The Choreography of Lost Time in The Winter's Tale https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1707205/ Thu, 03 Sep 2020 12:03:58 +0000 Shakespeare scholarship has long been interested in the temporal dynamics of The Winter’s Tale, and has often turned to melancholic or traumatic time frames to explain the thematic persistence of lost time in Shakespeare’s romance. In this chapter, I argue that dance provides a key interpretive framework for understanding the play’s interest in bo…[Read more]

]]> 0 f14ecb0d3d6c2f11737735a2d3ede301 Steven Swarbrick deposited The Life Aquatic: Liquid Poetics and the Discourse of Friendship inThe Faerie Queene in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685721/ Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:32:30 +0000 From Michel de Montaigne’s essay “Of Friendship” to Jacques Derrida’s rearticulation of the former in The Politics of Friendship, scholars both early modern and modern have sought ways to address the fluid co-mixture of bodies from which the discourse of friendship can and does emerge. More recently still, new materialist thinkers of ontolog…[Read more]

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]]> 0 538770b5b322f9101591269cf09ed0d2 Steven Swarbrick deposited In Anthropocene Air: Deleuze's Encounter with Shakespeare in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685578/ Tue, 28 Apr 2020 16:32:21 +0000 A reading of Shakespeare and Deleuze on the subject of Anthropocene air. Keywords: endurance, climate change, fossil capitalism, carbon ghosts, Hamlet.

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]]> 0 14c34015dda842c3a86d238971d76d38 Steven Swarbrick deposited Idiot science for a blue humanities: Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors and Deleuze’s mad Cogito in the group Literary theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1685180/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:45:44 +0000 Can we imagine a Blue Humanities that takes the non-relation as a starting point for ecological thought? I believe we can. Following Shakespeare and Deleuze, this essay engages in a thought experiment that, if it is not too absurd, might, like the ship of fools of medieval times, unmoor the Blue Humanities from its current safe harbor by putting…[Read more]

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]]> 0 b8be0d8374056b93ce37050889322e06 Steven Swarbrick deposited Shakespeare’s Blush, or “the Animal” in Othello in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1685177/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:41:50 +0000 This essay examines how the rhetoric of animalization in Shakespeare’s Othello compels us to think early modern categories of race in connection with early modern discourses of “human” versus “animal.” Beginning with Shakespeare’s representation of Iago, I suggest that it is the potential for sameness conditioned by Iago’s counterfactua…[Read more]

]]> 0 0e629b776e636764d5e18dfc3efa2785 Steven Swarbrick deposited Shakespeare’s Blush, or “the Animal” in Othello in the group Literary theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1685176/ Fri, 24 Apr 2020 16:41:44 +0000 This essay examines how the rhetoric of animalization in Shakespeare’s Othello compels us to think early modern categories of race in connection with early modern discourses of “human” versus “animal.” Beginning with Shakespeare’s representation of Iago, I suggest that it is the potential for sameness conditioned by Iago’s counterfactua…[Read more]

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]]> 0 a8b1027f7e73980910448b56d8c4d552 Steven Swarbrick deposited Unworking Milton: Steps to a georgics of the mind in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1682437/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:36:44 +0000 Traditionally read as a poem about laboring subjects who gain power through abstract and abstracting forms of bodily discipline, John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) more compellingly foregrounds the erotics of the Garden as a space where humans and nonhumans intra-act materially and sexually. Following Christopher Hill, who long ago pointed t…[Read more]

]]> 0 e537b9bf408f601ebbb05edeb8682ff6 Steven Swarbrick deposited Unworking Milton: Steps to a georgics of the mind in the group TC Ecocriticism and Environmental Humanities https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1682436/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:35:52 +0000 Traditionally read as a poem about laboring subjects who gain power through abstract and abstracting forms of bodily discipline, John Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667, 1674) more compellingly foregrounds the erotics of the Garden as a space where humans and nonhumans intra-act materially and sexually. Following Christopher Hill, who long ago pointed t…[Read more]

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]]> 0 f985aaa5b7744c552a4888f91716fcfa Steven Swarbrick deposited Tempestuous Life: Ralegh's Ocean in Ruins in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1682433/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 16:28:55 +0000 Turning to Walter Ralegh’s Discoverie of Guiana (1596) and The History of the World (1614), I reframe such biopolitical factors as Ralegh’s “dissability” around a concept that has less to do with human world-making and more to do with the “states of exception” (Giorgio Agamben) under which inhuman agencies come to matter for world history (of…[Read more]

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]]> 0 b7425db8f3f645c4cd00d4cef9dd882b Steven Swarbrick deposited Object-Oriented Disability: The Prosthetic Image in Paradise Lost in the group TM Literary and Cultural Theory https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1682118/ Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:36:13 +0000 Though the verbal icon has a long and robust multisensory history extending beyond Milton, my goal here is to challenge ableist readings of Milton’s poetry by linking his poetic ekphrasis to the politics and aesthetics of disability.

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