Carol Sommer
  • A Response to the Novels of Iris Murdoch
  • Work
    • No Gift For Badinage (2020)
    • This Has Nothing To Do With Easter (2020)
    • Will The Iris Murdoch Please Stand Up? (2019 -
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    • The Sea, The Sea (2018)
    • An A-Z of Orientations (2016)
    • Reading As Art (2016)
    • From One To The Other (2014/2015)
    • Cosmic Order I (2014)
    • Transparency Series (2012)
    • Saints & Artists (2005)
  • Other Work
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                     @cartography_for_girls

                     Making a distinction between the image and the real is a key aspect of Iris Murdoch’s 20th century philosophy. Against the
                     backdrop of Web 2.0, where the depiction (and definition) of happiness and reality is ambiguous in ways more than metaphysical,
                     the philosophically loaded language of Murdoch's fictional women takes on a curious contemporary resonance - despite its dislocation.

                     Instagram offers both an alternative context and a contingent form through which to view the connection between twentieth century 
                     metaphysical thinking and contemporary social media profile construction.