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Electric Signs and Echo Chambers: the Stupidity of Affect in Modern Irish Literature (2023)
Book Chapter
Sheils, B. (2023). Electric Signs and Echo Chambers: the Stupidity of Affect in Modern Irish Literature. In M. Kelleher, & J. O'Sullivan (Eds.), Technology in Irish Literature and Culture (83-98). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009182881.007

Ireland was in a rush to embrace electrification in the 1930s and 1940s, as it was digitalisation in the post-Celtic Tiger age of Yahoo and Google. In the face of this state-led dedication to light and currency, Irish literature has consistently foun... Read More about Electric Signs and Echo Chambers: the Stupidity of Affect in Modern Irish Literature.

The Meteorological Device: the daily weather forecast, literary modernism and the productions of anxiety (2022)
Journal Article
Sheils, B. (in press). The Meteorological Device: the daily weather forecast, literary modernism and the productions of anxiety. Modernism/modernity,

Modernist studies as the institutionalization of avant-garde culture– a repository for exciting futures – has a peculiar and self-conscious affinity to the devices of the modern weather forecast. Consider its structuring paradox: on the one hand, rup... Read More about The Meteorological Device: the daily weather forecast, literary modernism and the productions of anxiety.

Introduction: The Contemporary Problem of Style (2022)
Journal Article
Robinson, R., & Sheils, B. (2022). Introduction: The Contemporary Problem of Style. Textual Practice, 36(4), 473-500. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2030510

This essay sets the parameters of this special issue on the contemporary problem of style. Noting that the critical term style has returned to discursive prominence in recent years, the introduction explores the peculiarity of its status in literary... Read More about Introduction: The Contemporary Problem of Style.

Style Interminable: the autofictional object of the Humanities in works by Brigid Brophy and Ben Lerner (2022)
Journal Article
Sheils, B. (2022). Style Interminable: the autofictional object of the Humanities in works by Brigid Brophy and Ben Lerner. Textual Practice, 36(4), 518-541. https://doi.org/10.1080/0950236x.2022.2055284

Style emerged into discursive prominence in nineteenth-century Europe at the same time as the classical symptoms of hysteria were given new impetus by neurologists and psychoanalysts. Later, when the Post-War architecture of late capitalism seemed to... Read More about Style Interminable: the autofictional object of the Humanities in works by Brigid Brophy and Ben Lerner.

Multistability and Derrida’s Différance: Investigating the Relations Between Postphenomenology and Stiegler’s General Organology (2022)
Journal Article
Pavanini, M. (2022). Multistability and Derrida’s Différance: Investigating the Relations Between Postphenomenology and Stiegler’s General Organology. Philosophy & Technology, 35(1), https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-022-00501-x

In this paper, in the first place, I aim to enquire into Bernard Stiegler’s critical appropriation of his mentor Jacques Derrida’s notion of différance, emphasizing how Stiegler’s philosophy of technology stems from an original interpretation of the... Read More about Multistability and Derrida’s Différance: Investigating the Relations Between Postphenomenology and Stiegler’s General Organology.

Planetary Detox and the Neurobiology of Ecological Collapse (2021)
Book Chapter
Moore, G., Mylonas, N. A., Pavanini, M., Bossiere, M., & Alombert, A. (2021). Planetary Detox and the Neurobiology of Ecological Collapse. In B. Stiegler, & T. I. Collective (Eds.), Bifurcate: There Is No Alternative (220-248). Open Humanities Press

Alimentary Gothic: Horror, Puerto Rico, and the World-Food-System (2021)
Book Chapter
Oloff, K. (2021). Alimentary Gothic: Horror, Puerto Rico, and the World-Food-System. In C. Campbell, M. Niblett, & K. Oloff (Eds.), Literary and Cultural Production, World-ecology, and the Global Food System (193-214). Palgrave Macmillan