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    <p><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">an We Unlearn Liberal
          Individualism Like We Can Unlearn Racism and Sexism? </span></b><span
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        style="font-family:Helvetica">oin us for this ‘In-conversation’,
        where Gary Hall and Carolina Rito address this question while
        discussing Hall's latest book,<i> A Stubborn Fury: How Writing
          Works in Elitist Britain</i></span> <b><span
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          writing in England is realist, humanist and anti-intellectual?</span></p>
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          literature pirated?</span></p>
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          Oxbridge-educated journalists obsessed with protecting
          ‘ordinary’ people from difficult language?</span></p>
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          Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">What do we need most –
          another theory of revolution or a revolution of theory?</span></p>
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          Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Is everyone writing
          their memoirs today or does it just seem like it?</span></p>
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style="font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><span
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          New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">And why is Gary so
          mean to Tom McCarthy?</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> </span></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Biographies</span></b><span
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      <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica"></span></b><b><span
            style="font-family:Helvetica">Gary Hall - Author </span></b><span
          style="font-family:Helvetica"></span> </p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Gary Hall
          is a critical theorist and media philosopher working in the
          areas of digital culture, politics and technology. He is
          Professor of Media in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at
          Coventry University, UK, where he directs the Centre for
          Postdigital Cultures. He is the author of a number of books,
          including <i>Pirate Philosophy</i> (MIT Press, 2016) and <i>The
            Uberfication of the University</i> (University of Minnesota
          Press, 2016).</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Helvetica"> </span></b><b><span
            style="font-family:Helvetica">Carolina Rito</span></b><span
          style="font-family:Helvetica"></span> </p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica">Carolina
          Rito is Professor of Creative Practice Research, at the
          Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC), at
          Coventry University; and leads on the centre’s Critical
          Practices research strand. She is a researcher and curator
          whose work explores ‘the curatorial’ as an investigative
          practice, expanding practice-based research in the fields of
          curating, visual arts, visual cultures and cultural studies.
          Rito is Executive Board Member of the Midlands Higher
          Education & Culture Forum; Research Fellow at the
          Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), Universidade NOVA de
          Lisboa; Founding Editor of The Contemporary Journal; and Chair
          for the Collaborative Research Working Group for the MHECF.
          Rito is the co-editor of Institution as Praxis – New
          Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research (Sternberg,
          2020), Architectures of Education (e-flux Architecture, 2020),
          and FABRICATING PUBLICS: the dissemination of culture in the
          post-truth era (Open Humanities Press, forthcoming). </span></p>
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style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
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          Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> </span></p>
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        style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">---</span></p>
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        style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Details about the
          book:</span></p>
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        style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Gary Hall, A Stubborn
          Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain<br>
          London: Open Humanities Press, 2021<br>
          Series: Media : Art : Write : Now<br>
          <br>
          E-version freely available on an open access, no copyright
          basis:<br>
        </span><a
          href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/"
          target="_blank"><span
            style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:
            "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
            New Roman";mso-fareast-language: EN-GB">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/</span></a><span
style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New
          Roman"; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New
          Roman";mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><br>
          <br>
          Also available in paperback<br>
          <br>
          <b>Abstract</b></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-family:Helvetica">A
              Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain</span></i></b></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Helvetica"></span><span
          style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:
          "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
          New Roman";color:#222222; mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Two
          fifths of Britain’s leading people were educated privately:
          that’s five times the amount as in the population as a whole,
          with almost a quarter g</span><span
          style="font-family:Helvetica">raduating from Oxford or
          Cambridge. Eight private schools send more pupils to Oxbridge
          than the remaining 2894 state schools combined, making modern
          Britain one of the most unequal places in Europe.</span> </p>
      <p class="MsoNormal"><span
          style="font-family:Helvetica;mso-fareast-font-family:
          "Times New Roman";mso-bidi-font-family:"Times
          New Roman";mso-fareast-language: EN-GB"> </span><span
          style="font-family:Helvetica">In </span><a
          href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/"><i><span
              style="font-family:Helvetica">A Stubborn Fury</span></i></a><span
          style="font-family:Helvetica">, Gary Hall offers a powerful
          and provocative look at the consequences of this inequality
          for English culture in particular. Focusing on the literary
          novel and the memoir, he investigates, in terms that are as
          insightful as they are irreverent, why so much writing in
          England is uncritically realist, humanist and
          anti-intellectual. Hall does so by playfully rewriting two of
          the most acclaimed contributions to these media genres of
          recent times. One is that of England’s foremost avant-garde
          novelist Tom McCarthy, and the importance he attaches to
          European modernism and antihumanist theory. The other is that
          of the celebrated French memoirists Didier Eribon and Édouard
          Louis, and their attempt to reinvent the antihumanist
          philosophical tradition by producing a theory that speaks
          about class and intersectionality, yet generates the
          excitement of a Kendrick Lamar concert. Experimentally
          pirating McCarthy, Eribon and Louis, <i>A Stubborn Fury</i> addresses
          that most urgent of questions: what can be done about English
          literary culture’s addiction to the worldview of privileged,
          middle-class white men, very much to the exclusion of more
          radically inventive writing, including that of working-class,
          BAME and LGBTQIAP+ authors?</span></p>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Director of the Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Faculty of Arts & Humanities, Coventry University:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures">http://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/postdigital-cultures</a>

<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.garyhall.info">http://www.garyhall.info</a>

Latest:
Book (open access): A Stubborn Fury: How Writing Works in Elitist Britain:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/a-stubborn-fury/</a>

Chapter (open access): ‘Postdigital Politics’, in Cornelia Sollfrank, Shuhsa Niederberger and Felix Stalder, eds, Aesthetics of the Commons: 
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419">https://www.diaphanes.com/titel/aesthetics-of-the-commons-6419</a>




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