{"id":327,"date":"2021-10-24T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimclarke.net\/?p=327"},"modified":"2021-10-24T17:42:49","modified_gmt":"2021-10-24T17:42:49","slug":"understanding-the-old-ultraviolence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimclarke.net\/index.php\/2021\/10\/24\/understanding-the-old-ultraviolence\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the old Ultraviolence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It would of course have been more useful had I told more people about this in advance. Nevertheless, I’m a firm believer in the principle that people who need to know things find their way to that knowledge somehow. So it’s more as a marker of record, a waystone en route to the actual publication of an actual book, that I note the passing of this particular conference and my particular contribution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So firstly, this was the conference, co-organised by my co-editor (of the forthcoming Religious Futurisms volume) Sumeyra Buran Utku and her colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I really wish I’d been able to attend more of the conference, not least because Francesca Ferrando is always box office, and I was especially intrigued to see what she had to say about violence and posthumanism, or alternatively posthumanism AS violence. (OK, she was unlikely to take that angle, but I must question her along those lines some day.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyhow, as I said, as mark of record and waystone on the winding path to publication, here’s what I was talking about, nicked wholesale from the book I wrote last year and this on A Clockwork Orange<\/em>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So, yes, as you may have gathered, it featured some examination of women as victims (and as subalterns) in ACO, considered the novella as an anti-carceral text in the wake of the BLM calls to end incarceration (spoiler: ultimately it’s not, of course), and explored the extent of Alex’s psychopathic tendencies, and whether they can indeed be rehabilitated, and whether they are indeed rehabilitated in chapter 21 of the published novella (aka Schrodinger’s last chapter, the now-you-see-it, now-you-don’t chapter which materialises and dematerialises depending on which edition of the text you read), in which Alex waves goodbye to his misspent youth and embraces a life of banal domesticity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve probably said too much. But I will say more in the book. I just need to find the time to edit it first. More, as they say, anon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postscript: Apparently it was recorded and the stream is now on YouTube. If I’d known that, I’d have scrubbed up a bit more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/youtu.be\/ELT-y02vXQM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It would of course have been more useful had I told more people about this in advance. Nevertheless, I’m a firm believer in the principle that people who need to know things find their way to that knowledge somehow. So it’s more as a marker of record, a waystone en route to the actual publication … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Understanding the old Ultraviolence”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[34,28],"tags":[23,22,204,205,203,102,202],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-literary-criticism","tag-a-clockwork-orange","tag-anthony-burgess","tag-gender","tag-misogyny","tag-prisons","tag-psychology","tag-violence"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t