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Robert Edward Mitchell

Professor Emeritus of English
English
90015, Durham, NC 27708
304F Allen, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Books


The Smartness Mandate

Book · January 10, 2023 The smartness mandate constitutes a new form of planetary governance, and Halpern and Mitchell aim to map the logic of this seemingly inexorable and now naturalized demand to compute, to illuminate the genealogy of how we arrived here and ... ... Cite

Infectious Liberty: Biopolitics Between Romanticism and Liberalism

Book · April 6, 2021 Infectious Liberty is available from the publisher on an open-access basis. Infectious Liberty generatively reconceives Romantic literature as a set of counter-hegemonic techniques of biopolitical experimentation. ... Open Access Cite

Experimental life: Vitalism in Romantic science and literature

Book · January 1, 2013 Featured Publication If the objective of the Romantic movement was nothing less than to redefine the meaning of life itself, what role did experiments play in this movement? While earlier scholarship has established both the importance of science generally and vitalism specifi ... Cite