Selfy Stories

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Our special guest, Clare Carlisle, Professor of Philosophy at King’s College London, introduces the concept, explaining what Bourdieu hoped to achieve by coining a new term to designate the idea of a collective disposition or class sensibility.

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Season 2, Episode 1 - The Sociological Self, with special guest Prof. Clare Carlisle In this episode, we talk about the importance of sociology to Annie Ernaux’s Nobel-Prize-winning literary project, specifically focusing on the influence of Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of ‘habitus’. Our

The first episode, out today, considers the self from a sociological perspective. We talk about the importance of sociology to Ernaux’s Nobel-Prize-winning literary project, specifically focusing on the influence of Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of ‘habitus’.

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Season 2 of Selfy Stories is here!

Five episodes exploring the self in literature and philosophy and focusing closely on Annie Ernaux’s magnum opus of 2008, The Years.

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Rachel Cusk on the novelist’s job and the status of the self.

Watch more of the conversation on YouTube:

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Brian Dillon on his relationship to memoir-writing.

👀🎥 Watch the highlights of the conversation on YouTube:

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🔵 ANNIVERSARY SALE 🔵

To celebrate eleven years since we published our first book, we are running a sale on our website until 11.59 p.m. BST on 30 September, with a 40 per cent discount across our website.

Use the code ‘ANNIVERSARY40’ at checkout: fitzcarraldoeditions.com

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We hope you find it as fascinating as we did.

⭐️⭐️⭐️A SUPERSPECIAL BONUS EPISODE OF SELFY STORIES⭐️⭐️⭐️ has landed, featuring Rachel Cusk, Brian Dillon, and Vidyan Ravinthiran in conversation on the subject of Literature in the Age of the Self.

With thanks to
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Enjoy the best moments of a terrific conversation about the experience and representation of selfhood in contemporary culture. 🎥🎞️

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The highlights video of our Literature in the Age of the Self event is here at last! ✨✨✨

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Featuring Brian Dillon, Rachel Cusk, Vidyan Ravinthiran, Clare Carlisle, Eric Langley, and Tom Stern.

The authorial roundtable will also be released as a bonus episode of Selfy Stories.

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Just a few days to go until the release of the highlights video of our LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF THE SELF event.

Featuring incredible writers

⭐️ Rachel Cusk! Brian Dillon! Vidyan Ravinthiran! ⭐️

and amazing academics

⭐️ Clare Carlisle! Eric Langley! Tom Stern! ⭐️

on the subject of the self.

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And we have some amazing ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ guests lined up to help us think through the philosophy and literature of selfhood - Prof. Clare Carlisle, Prof. Lucy O’Brien, and Emmanuel Campion-Dye.

Our ANNIE ERNAUX season is coming SOON! Just a few short weeks to wait before the second season of Selfy Stories begins.

Deep in the UCL Studio, we’ve been perfecting our plosives, fine-tuning our fricatives, and jiggling our jingles.

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Dr Scarlett Baron and Alice Harberd @artshumsucl.bsky.social have launched a new podcast: @selfystories.bsky.social.

In each episode, they ponder on how present-day literary representations of the self relate to what philosophers have to say about it. 

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Preschool’s out!

What better way to fill those long sunny summer days than to philosophize?

It’s never too early, or too late, to lead an examined life. #selfystories

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Selfy Stories Podcast · UCL Minds · Reference to the self is ubiquitous in contemporary culture. But what is the self? Is it discovered or created? To what degree is it shaped by external forces and to what degree ...

You can prepare by listening to Selfy Stories, our brand new podcast about the self in contemporary literature and philosophy.

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Selfy Stories Podcast · UCL Minds · Reference to the self is ubiquitous in contemporary culture. But what is the self? Is it discovered or created? To what degree is it shaped by external forces and to what degree ...

Have a listen!
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Summer in the city and the heat is ON! ☀️☀️

Season 1 of Selfy Stories may have come to an end…

But Season 2 is coming to slake that burning thirst. 🧊🧊

After devoting 5 episodes to Rachel Cusk’s Outline, we’ll be moving on to Annie Ernaux and The Years.

Time to reach for your Fitzcarraldo shelf! 📚📖

LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF THE SELF…

Watch this space: highlights reel and audio podcast coming soon…

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Selfy Stories Podcast · UCL Minds · Reference to the self is ubiquitous in contemporary culture. But what is the self? Is it discovered or created? To what degree is it shaped by external forces and to what degree ...

Hoping to produce a corresponding episode of Selfy Stories soon!

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Literature in the Age of the Self!

It HAPPENED and we LOVED it!

Rachel Cusk, Brian Dillon, Vidyan Ravinthiran

Prof. Clare Carlisle, Dr Eric Langley, Prof. Tom Stern

Wonderful conversation, amazing talks.

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