Kieran Harrington Books

This book explores the application of corpus linguistics within the context of ethnographic research in a closed community. It delves into how linguistic data can reveal insights into social interactions, cultural practices, and identity formation among community members. By integrating quantitative and qualitative methodologies, the study highlights the significance of language in understanding the dynamics of closed social groups, offering a valuable perspective for researchers in both linguistics and anthropology.

In Feminism Against Progress, Mary Harrington argues that the industrial-era faith in progress is turning against all but a tiny elite of women. Women's liberation was less the result of human moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution. We've now left the industrial era for the age of AI, biotech and all-pervasive computing. As a result, technology is liberating us from natural limits and embodied sex differences. Although this shift benefits a small class of successful professional women, it also makes it easier to commodify women's bodies, human intimacy and female reproductive abilities. This is a stark warning against a dystopian future whereby poor women become little more than convenient sources of body parts to be harvested and wombs to be rented by the rich. Progress has now stopped benefiting the majority of women, and only a feminism that is sceptical of it can truly defend female interests in the 21st century.