Rate My Professor James Dutton

Dutton’s research centres on literary theory, with a focus on Proust’s À la recherche du temps perdu to explore the potentialities of writing. He investigates how these concepts apply to contemporary culture, particularly the prevalence of information—distinct from knowledge, which engages the body, languages, the unconscious, and subjectivity—and phenomena such as automatic society, algorithmic governance through social media, drive-oriented marketing, and populist politics that foster alienation. He promotes a university grounded in care, dialogue, and inventive knowledge production amid automation. Key publications include DEAD WRITE: mourning proust's signature in Angelaki (2018), Objective Breathing: Peter Sloterdijk’s Atmospheric Mediation in Cultural Politics (2022), Techniques of the Human in Proust, via Houellebecq in CLCWeb (2022), Politics Is a Language Google Will Never Know (2024), A Future Happening: The Man Without Qualities (2025), and reading Bernard Stiegler to reinvent athletic gesture (2025).