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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 9d

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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 9d

#AnnieErnaux #TheYears #LesAnnées #NobelPrize #Literature #Autofiction #contemporaryculture #sociology #PierreBourdieu #aesthetics #philosophy #philosophyofmind #theself #interdisciplinarity #contemporarywriting #class #habitus #subjectivity #sharedsubjectivity #bookstagram

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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 9d

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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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 9d

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, 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

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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 9d

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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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 11d

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#rachelcusk #briandillon #vidyanravinthiran #memoir #lifewriting #essayism #personalwriting #literature #philosophy #autofiction #theory #literarytheory #form #self #selfhood #novel #outlinetrilogy

Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 11d

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

Watch more of the conversation on YouTube:

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Or listen to the whole conversation on Selfy Stories:

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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 12d

#briandillon #rachelcusk #vidyanravinthiran #memoir #lifewriting #essayism #personalwriting #literature #philosophy #autofiction #theory #literarytheory #genre #form #self #selfhood

Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 12d

Brian Dillon on his relationship to memoir-writing.

👀🎥 Watch the highlights of the conversation on YouTube:

youtu.be/uhY5MR87Av8?...

👂🏻🎧 Or listen to the whole conversation on Selfy Stories:

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on.soundcloud.com/DVm4Nw5oeaAI...

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Fitzcarraldo Editions @fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social · 18d

🔵 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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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 16d

#rachelcusk #briandillon #vidyanravinthiran #selfystories
#self #selfhood #literature #philosophy #history #ucl #authorialroundtable #contemporaryliterature #autofiction #memoir #lifewriting #autobiography
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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 16d

🎧 Listen on Soundcloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever else you get your podcasts:

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We hope you find it as fascinating as we did.

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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 16d

⭐️⭐️⭐️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.

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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 21d

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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 21d

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

#rachelcusk #briandillon #vydianravinthiran #literature #philosophy #self #autofiction #selfhood #memoir #selfystories #essay #essayism #novel #poetry #publicevent #UCL

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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · 21d

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.

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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · Sep 10

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

#rachelcusk #briandillon #vidyanravinthiran #literature #philosophy #ucl #interdisciplinarity #literatureandphilosophy #clarecarlisle #self #autofiction #memoir #autobiography #lifewriting

Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · Sep 10

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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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · Aug 12

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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · Aug 12

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.

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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · Aug 12

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.

#annieernaux #theyears #autosociobiography #philosophy

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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · Aug 5

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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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · Aug 4

Episode 1 of SELFY STORIES is here!

Have a listen! tinyurl.com/2s4c9jj9

In this episode, we consider the first chapter of Rachel Cusk’s novel ‘Outline’ alongside a paper by Daniela Dover entitled ‘The Conversational Self’.

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Alice Harberd and Scarlett Baron in the UCL Studio

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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

#philosophy #literature #rachelcusk #annieernaux #examinedlife #self #selfhood #authenticity #autofiction #memoir #litfic

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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · Aug 4

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

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#self #selfhood #literature #philosophy #briandillon #rachelcusk #memoir #autofiction #poetry #individualism #selfystories

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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 ...

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Selfy Stories @selfystories.bsky.social · Aug 4

Have a listen!
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#rachelcusk #philosophy #litfic #literature #philosophy #selfhood #self #selfystories #autofiction #authenticity #memoir #philosophypodcast #outlinetrilogy #annieernaux #theyears #lesannées #fitzcarraldoeditions #faber#contemporaryliterature

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 ...

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