I find it perplexing that response to my last article (which, I might add, never so much as mentioned the word censorship) Matilda Marshall should conclude that I would have any kind problem with Joyce’s account of Bloom taking a dump. A fictional, non-sexual and non-degrading episode which   does not represent coprophilia. From...
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Matilda Marshall provides her response to the normalisation of pornography. “Pornography is not entitled to an unchallenged status of acceptance” writes Holly Phillips, and I am inclined to agree. Her article was not, however, an effective challenge to the problems of pornography. Ignorant at best and deceptive at worst, “From Page Three” simplified and...
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Given the extent to which metaphysics has been chased out of the lecture theatre, and indeed out of cultural theory itself in the past few decades, it may seem rather surprising for me to herald its return. And I do so not on the balance and tone of any purported majority of recent publications,...
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