Patricia MacCormack

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Patricia MacCormack
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Patricia MacCormack is an Australian scholar who lives and works in London, England. [1] Currently she is Professor of Continental Philosophy in English and Media at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge.

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She has published extensively on philosophers including Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Serres, Luce Irigaray, and concepts such as queer theory, teratology, body modification, posthuman theory, animal rights, horror films and antinatalism. [2] In 2013 she was a visiting Leverhulme Fellow at the University of California, Santa Barbara. [3] [4]

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  1. "Weekender: Dr Patricia MacCormack, academic, 38". TheGuardian.com . 12 August 2011.
  2. Scialom, Mike (5 February 2020). "'End procreation to save Earth', says ARU author in 'The Ahuman Manifesto'". Cambridge Independent. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  3. Professor Patricia MacCormack
  4. "Post-Human Nature". 20 November 2013.
  5. Huntley, Tim (2010), "Abstraction is ethical: The ecstatic and erotic in Patricia MacCormack's Cinesexuality" (PDF), Irish Journal of Horror Studies, 8: 17–29
  6. Grant, Catherine (18 December 2008). "Encounters with a big screen lover". Times Higher Education. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  7. "Cinesexuality (Book Review)". Contemporary Sociology. 39 (2): 226. 2010. doi:10.1177/0094306110361590l. JSTOR   20695388.
  8. Martin, Adrian (August 2012). "A theory of agitation, or: Getting off in the cinema". Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. 26 (4): 519–528. doi:10.1080/10304312.2012.698032. S2CID   143222822.