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Professor Fred Botting
Fred Botting worked in Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts until August 2010.
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Department: Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts
Research Interests
Cultural and critical theory (psycho- and schiz-analysis; Bataille and general economy; romanticism and postmodernism; techno-poiesis)Uncanny media (gothic technologies; cybergothic; neuromanticism) Smoking, sublimity, consumption and horror
Some publications:
Books
Gothic (Routledge, 1996)
Sex, Machines and Navels (Manchester University Press, 1999)
With Scott Wilson
The Tarantinian Ethics (Sage, 2001)
Bataille (Palgrave, 2001)
Edited
Essays and Studies: the Gothic (English Association, 2001)
Gothic: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, 4 vols. (Routledge, 2004) (Co-editor)
Selected articles/ essays:
'Dreaming Real', Parallax 6:3 (2000), 105-120
'The Art of Smoking in an Age of Techo-moral Consumption', NewFormations 39 (2000): 80-99.
'Metaphors and Monsters', Journal for Cultural Research 7.4 (2003): 339-65
'fcuk Speed', Culture and Organisation 10.1 (2004): 37-52
'Extimatrix I', Studies in the the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences 35 (2004): 269-86
'Resistance is Futile', Anglophonia 15 (2004): 265-93
Associated Keywords: Consumption, Critical theory, Cultural Studies, Culture, Gothic literature, Media, Postmodernism, Romanticism, Sublime
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