All Outputs (10)

Why (and how) statues matter (2024)
Journal Article
Stopford, R. J. (online). Why (and how) statues matter. Philosophy and Social Criticism, https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537241308112

In this paper, I consider the import of the metaphysics of statues to the decolonizing statues debate. On the one hand, this may seem an odd starting point: after all, the issues surrounding decolonizing statues are political, moral and, perhaps, aes... Read More about Why (and how) statues matter.

Decolonising the Curriculum: common-sense, threshold concepts and epistemic injustice (2024)
Journal Article
Stopford, R. (online). Decolonising the Curriculum: common-sense, threshold concepts and epistemic injustice. Higher Education, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-024-01354-3

In On the Affective Threshold of Power and Privilege (2023), Julie Rattray reflects on the impact of decolonising the curriculum (DtC) on Threshold Concept (TC) theory. In this paper, I focus on student troublesomeness in the context of DtC—troubleso... Read More about Decolonising the Curriculum: common-sense, threshold concepts and epistemic injustice.

An Analytic of Eeriness (2024)
Journal Article
Stopford, R. (2024). An Analytic of Eeriness. British Journal of Aesthetics, 64(4), 483-504. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayad046

In this paper, I analyse the phenomenon of eeriness as a kind of strange aesthetic experience. Beginning with Fisher’s insight (The Weird and the Eerie, 2017) that we can distinguish weirdness and eeriness from uncanniness, I offer an original accoun... Read More about An Analytic of Eeriness.

Criticality and Film Music: Funny Games, Drive, and Meta-Textuality (2022)
Journal Article
Stopford, R. (2022). Criticality and Film Music: Funny Games, Drive, and Meta-Textuality. Music, Sound, and the Moving Image, 16(2), 153-178. https://doi.org/10.3828/msmi.2022.10

In this article, I argue that film music sometimes plays a ‘critical’ role. As such, my analysis seeks to extend writing on the philosophy of film, which tends to focus exclusively on its narrative and affective functions. I argue that ‘criticality’... Read More about Criticality and Film Music: Funny Games, Drive, and Meta-Textuality.

Eerie (2022)
Journal Article
Cattien, J., & Stopford, R. (2022). Eerie. Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 27(5), https://doi.org/10.1080/0969725x.2022.2110399

In this paper, we explore what it means for an object to be eerie. We argue that the Eerie is an index of phenomenology’s limits: it is a complex, contradictory moment in the dialectics of subject/object formation. If the familiar story of phenomenol... Read More about Eerie.

The appropriating subject: Cultural appreciation, property and entitlement (2022)
Journal Article
Cattien, J., & Stopford, R. J. (2023). The appropriating subject: Cultural appreciation, property and entitlement. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 49(9), 1061–1078. https://doi.org/10.1177/01914537211059515

What is cultural ‘appropriation’? What is cultural ‘appreciation’? Whatever the complex answer to this question, cultural appropriation is commonly defined as ‘the taking of something produced by members of one culture by members of another’ (Young 2... Read More about The appropriating subject: Cultural appreciation, property and entitlement.

Threshold concepts and certainty: a critical analysis of ‘troublesomeness’ (2020)
Journal Article
Stopford, R. (2021). Threshold concepts and certainty: a critical analysis of ‘troublesomeness’. Higher Education, 82(1), 163-179. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-020-00628-w

The threshold concept framework is a key contemporary theory in pedagogy. The core idea is that ‘threshold concepts’ are distinctively ‘troublesome’ for students and act as gatekeepers to their disciplines. No doubt the theory is compelling because t... Read More about Threshold concepts and certainty: a critical analysis of ‘troublesomeness’.

Teaching feminism: Problems of critical claims and student certainty (2020)
Journal Article
Stopford, R. (2020). Teaching feminism: Problems of critical claims and student certainty. Philosophy and Social Criticism, 46(10), 1203-1224. https://doi.org/10.1177/0191453720903473

Learning about feminism can be a revelation for many students. However, for others, it can be a confounding, troubling experience. These difficulties return as problems for the teacher: how to help sceptical, resistant students understand the theory.... Read More about Teaching feminism: Problems of critical claims and student certainty.

Preserving the Restoration of the Pietà (2016)
Journal Article
Stopford, R. (2016). Preserving the Restoration of the Pietà. British Journal of Aesthetics, 56(3), 301-315. https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayw042

In this paper, I consider Mark Sagoff’s well-known discussion of the restoration of Michelangelo’s Pietà (1978). Provocatively, he argues that the Pietà should not have been restored to its undamaged state after it was attacked. I argue that Sagoff i... Read More about Preserving the Restoration of the Pietà.

The Transcendental Economy Of Aesthetic (2013)
Book Chapter
Hamilton, A., & Stopford, R. (2013). The Transcendental Economy Of Aesthetic. In O. Hulatt (Ed.), Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy. Bloomsbury

I have approached the complex issue of aesthetic autonomy through the lens of Adorno’s analysis of Kant. Speciically, my focus rests upon scattered remarks he makes about Kantian subjectivity in the idiom of economics. he recasting of key elements in... Read More about The Transcendental Economy Of Aesthetic.