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Why US presidential election year 2024 could be pivotal — Some historical reflections on the…

It is something of a truism in international relations that a nation’s grand strategy requires deep and serious thought about the…

Feb 28

Why US presidential election year 2024 could be pivotal — Some historical reflections on the…

Feb 28

Will Caulfield

Barthes’ claim [at least, the second part in your gloss, as quoted above] has always been, in my…

What I mean is, the fiat lux of authorship remains no matter what a post-structuralist might like to claim, and this is — in my view — a…

Apr 7

Apr 7

Will Caulfield

This is not at all obvious. More to the point, what's Mr and Mrs Trump got to do with it?

As per the soil map of the circumpolar region (available here…

Mar 27

Mar 27

Will Caulfield

Is the World Sleepwalking into Another Disaster?

Learning from History and the Humanities.

Nov 20, 2023

Is the World Sleepwalking into Another Disaster?

Nov 20, 2023

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Short. Sweet. Valuable.

Armada Days with Mozart and Buttercup the Beagle

As the days grow short with fingers that claw long into the evening, when the frost bites, it is the mood that makes the music. A glint of…

Nov 18, 2023

Nov 18, 2023

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Reflecting on Literature & Languages

Reflection | When a novel is adapted for film or television is it still the same?

All the Light We Cannot See (2014): from page to screen.

Nov 16, 2023

Reflection | When a novel is adapted for film or television is it still the same?

Nov 16, 2023

Will Caulfield

Indeed. This is how the world [allegedly] used to work; if it is to stay [or ever to become] a…

** That may or may not include Crimea, as controversial as that idea is; any decisions to cede land for peace must nevertheless be taken by…

Nov 11, 2023

Nov 11, 2023

Will Caulfield

A Humanist Looks at A.I. and Eyes Trouble on the Horizon — Part II: Memory and Politics

It was Aristotle who famously observed, ‘man is by nature a political animal’ (in — surprise! — Politics). True, the section from which…

Nov 10, 2023

Nov 10, 2023

Will Caulfield

A Humanist Looks at A.I. and Eyes Trouble on the Horizon — Part I: Memory

My partner observed something interesting at the weekend, and as it happens, it was their observation which prompted me to write this…

Nov 3, 2023

Nov 3, 2023

Will Caulfield

I think the broader issue is the subjectivity which informs protest.

I think it always helps to remember that fascist thinkers such as Carl Schmitt are undoubtedly correct in their surmise of one thing: the…

Nov 1, 2023

Nov 1, 2023

Will Caulfield

Will Caulfield

English Literature at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Germany). Full-time contrarian, part-time cynic, arch-provocateur, educator, humanist, and writer.

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