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Undoubtedly, barbarity lies at the epicentre of modernity.
Hollywood movies have long leaned into colonial representations of the tropics: imagined as romantic palm-fringed coasts full of abundance, but also scary places full of pestilence and primitiveness.
Travel and philosophy have enjoyed a quiet love affair for centuries.
Killing Eve may seem like an ultra-modern take on the spy genre but it is more traditional that it seems.
Anarchists old and new are populating film and TV a lot at the moment – reflecting the profound anxiety of the times.
For too long the Scottish writer was seen as a populist pedlar of boy’s own adventures. This didn’t happen by accident.
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Chercheuse associée, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
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Professor of English Literature, Edinburgh Napier University
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Associate Professor of Philosophy, author of The Meaning of Travel: Philosophers Abroad (2020), Durham University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Humanities in Africa, University of Cape Town
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Research Fellow in German and Comparative Literature, University of Cambridge
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PhD Candidate, Department of English, Concordia University
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Emeritus Professor of Literary Studies at School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Monash University
