Academic Publications
"Cosmic Society: Language and Economy in Walter Benjamin"
Kieran Brown
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities (forthcoming)
This paper examines the intersection of language and economy in the writings of Walter Benjamin.
"Faux Apparitions: Angels or Cannibals, Between Coetzee and Defoe"
Kieran Brown
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction (2024)
This article reexamines the relationship between J.M. Coetzee's Foe and Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. View Here
Inflationary Modernities: Literature, Culture and Economy after 1789
Kieran Brown & Wayne Stables (editors)
Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming)
Collecting 10 chapters from different authors, this book examines inflation from various perspectives outside neo-classical economics.
"Mark of Shame: On the Surface of the Weimar Hyperinflation"
Kieran Brown
In Inflationary Modernities (forthcoming)
This chapter theorises the links between the experience of shame and inflation during the Weimar hyperinflation.
Selected Conferences and Talks (2025)
"Uprising Marks: Walter Benjamin, Inflation and Bare Life"
Money Talks: Futures for the Economics Humanities (2025)
University of Edinburgh
Link Here"Holy Nomads: Gillian Rose, Edgar Allan Poe"
Broken Middles panel at ACLA (2025)
University of Toronto
"Mark of Shame: On the Surface of the Weimar Hyperinflation"
London Modernism Seminar (2025)
Institute of English Studies (KCL; Queen Mary; North Eastern UL; Royal Holloway UL)
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