Altered States of Academia

Tag: theory

  • Discipline, Incorporated

    Claire Birkenshaw “By means of strange incantations, they conjured up a new incarnation of evil, another grinning mask of fear, home to the constantly renewed magic of purification and exclusion” (Foucault, [1972] 2009, p.3).  Film, as Sian Barber (2015, p.4) reminds us, is a “crafted artefact”, which is “never produced in a cultural and social…

  • Developing doppelganger as method

    Dr Mandy Pierlejewski. Have you watched the Marvel series Moon Knight (2022) or the cult film Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)? In these and many other stories, the protagonist comes face to face with another version of themselves- a doppelganger. The idea of a doppelganger or ghostly double is a feature of the gothic genre of…