Lisa Downing
@ProfLisaDowning
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Author & Professor @unibirmingham | Edits @ParagraphEUP | Author: The Subject of Murder, Selfish Women & more | Against Affect out w/ Nebraska UP, 1 April '26.
London, England
Joined November 2011
I do love a bargain! Paragraph "Special Issues as Books" titles reduced from £26.99 to £16.99, including my edited Critical Freedoms (2023).
🫰💰 SALE💰🫰.Some titles in the Paragraph "Special Issues as Books" series, which ran until 2023, are currently on sale - selected titles slashed from £26.99 to £16.99.
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New SI of @ParagraphEUP on "Thinking Care in the 21st Century" now published. The SI is dedicated to the memory of Isabelle McNeill and Isabelle's article is the free-to-read one. My article on "reactionary feminism" and why we need *more* not *less* female freedom is also here.
🌟Just published🌟: 48:2, SI on "Thinking Care in the 21st Century" ed. Jasmine Cooper & Katie Pleming. This issue is dedicated to the memory of Isabelle McNeill who is very profoundly missed. Isabelle's article is the free-to-read article at the link.
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Honoured to see “self-fulness” featured in this poem by @natasharoses87.
With reference to the book Selfish Women by @ProfLisaDowning.
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RT @ParagraphEUP: The Paragraph editors are pleased to announce that a prize will be awarded for an outstanding article submitted for publ….
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Anyone wishing to hear all/ part of the event will find a Zoom link at the URL.
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I'll be speaking at this conference in Vienna on female rage. (2-4 April.) My argument that anger, while valid, is less politically effective than often claimed, will borrow from the anti-affective thesis in my (forthcoming) book Against Affect.
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The latest attack on the humanities, and especially the discipline of Modern Languages, in #UKHE is the thread of closures at Cardiff. Please sign and share this petition.
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Wishing all my friends, near and far. A very happy new year! .Gelukkig Nieuwjaar! .Boldog új évet!.¡Feliz Año Nuevo! .Bonne Année! .Un an nou ferecit!.С Новым Годом! .Frohes Neues Jahr!.Sťastný nový rok! .Feliz Ano Novo!.Честита Нова Година!.Gott Nytt År!.Blwyddyn Newydd Dda!
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I am, for now, on both Bsky & X. The reason? I joke about being "the perfect centrist" - & there is no centrist echo chamber. I don't want to see only "Left" or "Right" viewpoints. How centrist am I? Here's the result of a test I did. I'm *that* dot. Right in the middle.
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I am, by the way, simultaneously over at the other place.
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It's beginning to feel a lot like. the season when I put Freddie Mercury on the top of my tree.
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RT @ParagraphEUP: 🥳Just published! SI: 47:3 "Post-Deconstructive Thought and Biological Theory” ed. Ian James. 🥳.Articles: Francesco Vital….
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An absolutely fantastic discussion after my lecture at @ceu today. What an amazing group of colleagues and students!
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I will be giving this talk at CEU later today. Vienna is just beautifully cold and sunny today.
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I am looking forward to talking about Against Affect at @ceu, Vienna, in a couple of weeks' time.
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A worrying development. Check your publication contracts’ t&cs.
We are concerned about reports that a number of publishers, including Taylor & Francis (Routledge), Wiley, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. [1/4].
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I'm very proud that my brilliant former PhD student Katie Masters's book, based on her doctoral thesis, is now published! 🎉🎉🎉Congrats, Katie, on Feminist and Anti-Psychiatry Perspectives on 'Social Anxiety Disorder': The Socially Anxious Woman. 🎉🎉🎉
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A great thread about neurosis and emotion. I like how Aaron is able to show the enduring relevance of Freud’s insights.
Freud’s famous statement about the potential for psychoanalysis to “transform neurotic misery into ordinary unhappiness” is less pessimistic and more profound than it appears at first glance. 🧵 1/7
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