Matthew Beaumont
Matthew Beaumont, a Professor of English Literature at University College London, is the author of several books for Verso, including Nightwalking: A Nocturnal History of London (2015), The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City (2020) and How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body (forthcoming, 2024). He is also the author of Lev Shestov: Philosopher of the Sleepless Night (2021). For Verso, he has co-authored The Task of the Critic: Terry Eagleton in Dialogue (2009) and co-edited Restless Cities (2010).
Related blog posts
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Intense Curiosity: Jameson's The Prison-House of Language
Fredric Jameson's Prison House of Language (1972) is inspiring, Matthew Beaumont writes, because of the author's 'intense curiosity' vis-a-vis the Russian Structuralists. For Jameson's 90th birthday, Beaumont revisits the text, which he describes as anomalous in the theorist's oeuvre. -
The muscles of the colonized
Matthew Beaumont explores Ernst Bloch’s theory that posture and gait are a reliable guide to one’s relative state of social alienation or disalienation.
