# Steven Connor

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Futurism

"The beauty of speed. Time and space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created the eternal, omnipresent speed." Part of the 1909 manifesto drawn up by Italian poet Filippo Tommaso Marinetti that declared the aims of the groundbreaking Futurist branch of modernism. The…

S4, ep 33: Musing on Samuel Beckett and Modernism

an informal lecture/musing on the author Samuel Beckett, focusing a bit on his works KRAPP'S LAST TAPE and WAITING FOR GODOT, through a modernist lens. with excerpt from Steven Connor's book BECKETT, MODERNISM AND THE MATERIAL IMAGINATION published by Cambridge University Press. (2014)

Army Special Operations Insights: Training for Large Scale Combat at NTC Pt 2 (Ep. 2)

This is the conclusion of the interview with MSG Steven Connor focusing on what Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) can gain from training at the National Training Center (NTC). About the Host: CPT Weston Rich is a member of SOF Plans at the NTC and former member of Burro Team, the Special…

Army Special Operations Insights: Training for Large Scale Combat at NTC Pt 1 (Ep. 1)

In this debut episode of Off the Radar the Special Operations Training Detachment podcast. We discuss the value proposition of Army Special Operations Forces (ARSOF) training Large Scale Conflict Operations (LSCO) in support of Conventional Forces. CPT Weston Rich interviews MSG Steven Connor to …

Fiction and the Fantastic: ‘The Thousand and One Nights’

The Thousand and One Nights is an ‘infinite text’: it has no fixed shape or length, no known author and is transformed with each new translation. In this first episode of Fiction and the Fantastic, Marina Warner and Anna Della Subin explore two particularly mysterious stories in the context of the …

26 October 2012 - Steven Connor - Taking Pity on Things

A talk by Professor Steven Connor, literary critic, cultural commentator and the author of Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things which investigates our strange relationships with mundane objects.

Air

Time to take in a breath of fresh air. In episode 133 of Overthink, Ellie and David close out their four-part series on the elements with air. They consider Anaximenes of Miletus’s belief that all things are made of air, Luce Irigaray’s belief that air is feminine, and the modern use of air as a we…

‘The Thousand and One Nights’

The Thousand and One Nights is an ‘infinite text’: it has no fixed shape or length, no known author and is transformed with each new translation. In this first episode of Fiction and the Fantastic, Marina Warner and Anna Della Subin explore two particularly mysterious stories in the context of the …

Gaston Bachelard: An Intellectual Biography with Steven Connor

Steven Connor is Professor of English and Director of Research of the Digital Futures Institute, King’s College London. He is the author of more than twenty books including The Madness of Knowledge (2019) and Dreamwork (2023), both published by Reaktion Books.Book link: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/…

Exorbitance: A grammar of overdoing

Exorbitance A Grammar of Overdoing Steven Connor https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/exorbitance