Academic Publications by Eamonn Connor
Scottish Archives , 2023
In July 1931, a woman named ‘Kit’ boarded the S.S. Britannia on the Clyde for an 18-day North Atl... more In July 1931, a woman named ‘Kit’ boarded the S.S. Britannia on the Clyde for an 18-day North Atlantic and Mediterranean cruise. During the journey, she made daily entries in a diary, including photographs and memorabilia. In this paper, I use this material, located at the Scottish Business Archives, to analyse how passenger subjectivity is articulated and co-constituted by the multimedia construction of the shipboard diary. I consider the diary a type of material-discursive practice in order to shift attention to the embodiments of leisure cruising during the interwar period in Scotland. I argue that Kit’s diary does not function as a passive reflection on her holiday from Glasgow, but rather plays a crucial role in shaping her subjectivity as a passenger and her experience of the cruise.
The Cine-Files, 2019
This essay marks an attempt to think towards the possibility of a trans-corporeal experience in t... more This essay marks an attempt to think towards the possibility of a trans-corporeal experience in the cinema. I draw upon Stacy Alaimo’s notion of “trans-corporeality” and Karen Barad’s theory of “intra-action” in arguing that the film Leviathan (2012) traces how the (post)human is always already part of intra-active arrangements and systems that are simultaneously material, discursive, economic, and ecological.
a|b: AUTO|BIOGRAPHY STUDIES, 2020
During a period marked by profound ecological transformations, there has been surprisingly little... more During a period marked by profound ecological transformations, there has been surprisingly little consideration of how testimony may operate as a mediating discourse between human and nonhuman. Based on a close read- ing of C. D. Wright’s “memoir” Casting Deep Shade, this article reconsiders the subject positions of witnessing in posthuman terms.
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Academic Publications by Eamonn Connor