RACHEL FRASER
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​essays

Do we have a duty to read women writers?
New Statesman. Summer 2021.
  • I consider what might be ethically and politically objectionable about male dominance in the art world. 

Epistemic FOMO
Cambridge Humanities Review. Winter 2020. 
  • I review two books about conspiracy theories: `Conspiracy Theories’, by Quassim Cassam, and `A Lot of People Are Saying’ by Russ Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblaum. 

Illness as Fantasy.
The Point. Summer 2020. 
  • I write about coronavirus, metaphor, and Susan Sontag. [link]

The Erotics of ASMR.

The Oxonian Review. Spring 2020. [link]
  • I write about ASMR videos, porn, the philosophy of sex, and Sianne Ngai. 

​Rape Fantasies.

 The Point. Winter 2020. [link]
  • I discuss the place of trauma in contemporary feminism, the history of the rape crisis movement, and the difficulties of representation.​

Animal Citizens, Animal Workers. 

   The New Inquiry. Autumn 2017. [link] ​
  • I sketch the prospects for a politics of animal labour.


​reviews

Creaturely Purpose.
Cambridge Humanities Review. Summer 2021. [link]
  • I review two books about cats.

Scents and Sensibility.


Times Literary Supplement. May 2020.  [link]
  • I review A. S. Barwich’s Smellosophy.

Rules of a Diatribe.

Times Literary Supplement. May 2019. [link]
  • ​I review Mary Kate McGowan's Just Words.       ​

A Terrible Beauty.

The Oxonian Review. February 2019. [link]
  • I review Heather Widdows' Perfect Me: Beauty as an ethical ideal. 

An Ingenious Way to Live. 

The Cambridge Humanities Review. [link]
  • I review Elizabeth Barnes' The Minority Body. 

Consumer vs Citizen.

The Oxonian Review. [link]
  • I review Juliet Jacquet's  Is Shame Necessary? ​​​

No One Ever Tried To Save Me From The Restaurant Industry.

The Oxonian Review.  [link]
  • I review ​Melissa Girl Grant's Playing The Whore​
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interviews

You just won't understand!
The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk.
  • I discuss standpoint epistemology.


Can’t get Netflix? You may be suffering an aesthetic injustice.
The Irish Times.  Spring 2018.
  • I discuss aesthetics and political theory.
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