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16GenderPalgrave-Macmillan. 2003.This book offers a clear introductory overview of the concept of gender. It places gender in its historical contexts and traces its development from the Enlightenment to the present, before moving on to the evolution of the concept of gender from within the various stances of feminist criticism, and recent developments in queer theory and post-feminism. Close analysis of key literary texts, including Frankenstein , Paradise Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream , shows how specific styles of litera…Read more
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151Derrida, Deleuze and Haptic AestheticsDerrida Today 2 (1): 22-43. 2009.In On Touching Derrida locates Jean-Luc Nancy (and, briefly, Gilles Deleuze) within a tradition of haptic ethics and aesthetics that runs from Aristotle to the present. In his early work on Husserl, Derrida had already claimed that phenomenology's commitment to the genesis of sense and the sensible is at one and the same time a commitment to pure and rigorous philosophy at the same time as it threatens to over-turn the primacy of conceptuality and cognition.Whereas Nancy (and those other figures…Read more
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89Understanding DeleuzeAllen & Unwin. 2002.An accessible introduction to the contemporary thought of Deleuze. It makes concepts clear, showing their political and theoretical complexity, elaborating their social and artistic relevance. Australian author (previously at Monash University) now living in Edinburgh.
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56Archiviolithic: The Anthropocene and the Hetero-ArchiveDerrida Today 7 (1): 21-43. 2014.This essay explores three deconstructive concepts – archive, anthropocene, and auto-affection – across two registers. The first is the register of what counts as readability in general, beyond reading in its narrow and actualized sense.. The second register applies to Derrida today, and what it means to read the corpus of a philosopher and how that corpus is governed by proper names. I want to suggest that the way we approach proper names in philosophy and theory is part of a broader problem of …Read more
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21The Future-To-Come: Derrida and the Ethics of HistoricityPhilosophy Today 42 (4): 347-360. 1998.
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38Feminism and Autonomy: The Crisis of the Self-Authoring SubjectBody and Society 3 (2): 21-41. 1997.
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16Deleuze and gender (edited book)Edinburgh. 2008.A unique new study which extends Deleuze's already radical philosophy into ideas of the post-human, truth, reading, sexual difference and gender politics.
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118The Secret of TheoryDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 4 (3): 287-300. 2010.This article focuses on the concept of the secret in Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy, with specific attention to the related concepts of becoming-woman and literature. It contrasts Deleuze and Guattari's immanent mode of reading with oedipal theories of the text and hermeneutics. Whereas Deleuze and Guattari argue for the positivity of the secret, where there is content that is not disclosed and that therefore creates lines of perception and interpretation, the oedipal mode of reading regards …Read more
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87Irigaray demonstrates that metaphysics depends upon the specific negation and exclusion of the female body. Readings of Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman tend to highlight the status of this excluded materiality: is there an essential female body which precedes negation or is the feminine only an effect of exclusion? I approach Irigaray's work by way of another question: is it possible to move beyond a feminist critique of metaphysics and towards a feminist philosophy?
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The art of the futureIn Alexandre Lefebvre & Melanie Allison White (eds.), Bergson, Politics, and Religion, Duke University Press. 2012.
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Legal theory after DeleuzeIn Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook & Patrick Hanafin (eds.), Deleuze and law: forensic futures, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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73Gilles DeleuzeRoutledge. 2002.One of the twentieth-century's most exciting and challenging intellectuals, Gilles Deleuze's writings covered literature, art, psychoanalysis, philosophy, genetics, film and social theory. This book not only introduces Deleuze's ideas, it also demonstrates the ways in which his work can provide new readings of literary texts. This guide goes on to cover his work in various fields, his theory of literature and his overarching project of a new concept of becoming.
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Dynamic potentiality: the body that stands aloneIn Elena Tzelepis & Athena Athanasiou (eds.), Rewriting Difference: Luce Irigaray and "the Greeks", State University of New York Press. 2010.
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37Cixous and DerridaAngelaki 13 (2). 2008.The relationship between friendship and theory is neither accidental nor essential. In many ways we might define theory as an attempt to break with the seduction of friendship and, in so doing, est...
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19The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture (review)Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 8 (1): 147-152. 2014.
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37On the uses and abuses of repetitionAngelaki 14 (1). 2009.This Article does not have an abstract
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125From radical representations to corporeal becomings: The feminist philosophy of Lloyd, Grosz, and GatensHypatia 15 (2): 76-93. 2000.: Contrasting the work of Genevieve Lloyd, Elizabeth Grosz, and Moira Gatens with the poststructuralist philosophy of Judith Butler, this paper identifies a distinctive "Australian" feminism. It argues that while Butler remains trapped by the matter/representation binary, the Spinozist turn in Lloyd and Gatens, and Grosz's work on Bergson and Deleuze, are attempts to think corporeality
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101Deleuze and the Meaning of LifeContinuum. 2010.Introduction: The problem of vitalism : active/passive -- Brain, system, model : the affective turn -- Vitalism and theoria -- Inorganic art -- Inorganic vitalism -- The vital order after theory -- On becoming -- Living systems, extended minds, gaia -- Conclusion.
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2The Trope of Economy and Representational Thinking: Heidegger, Derrida and IrigarayJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 28 (2): 178-191. 1997.
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13AgambenPolity. 2015.Giorgio Agamben emerged in the twenty-first century as one of the most important theorists in the continental tradition. Until recently, 'continental' philosophy has been tied either to the German tradition of phenomenology or to French post-structuralist concerns with the conditions of language and textuality. Agamben draws upon and departs from both these lines of thought by directing his entire corpus to the problem of life political life, human life, animal life and the life of art. Influenc…Read more
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27The becoming-photographic of cinemaPhilosophy of Photography 6 (1): 5-24. 2015.Both Gilles Deleuze and Bernard Stiegler have sought a renewal of life, perception and philosophy by way of the radical temporality of cinema. In doing so they have, in part, contributed to a long-standing moralism in philosophy that defines itself against the still or photographic image. Rather than see photography as a fragment of a flow of time, and therefore as on its way to becoming cinematic, I argue that the photograph that is cut off from the flow of time provides a more provocative and …Read more
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100Matter Without BodiesDerrida Today 4 (1): 1-20. 2011.Materialism is at once the most general of concepts, capable of gesturing to anything that seems either foundational or physicalist, and yet is also one of the most rhetorical of gestures: operating as a way of reducing, criticising or ‘‘exorcising’’ forms of idealism and ideology. Derrida's early, supposedly ‘‘textualist’’ works appear to endorse a materiality of the letter (including syntax, grammar, trace and writing) while the later works focus on matter as split between that which is posite…Read more
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Graphematics, politics and ironyIn Martin McQuillan (ed.), The politics of deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the other of philosophy, Pluto Press. pp. 192--211. 2007.
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21Ethics and Representationprovides a critique and overview of contemporary post-structuralist theory. Exploring the Kantian and phenomenological background of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, and Irigaray, this book raises some key questions and issues in critical theory. These questions are looked at from a number of angles including the notion of point of view and perspective, the critique of anthropologism from Kant to Deleuze, and the relation between representation and modernity. This is an origi…Read more
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70Creative evolution and the creation of manSouthern Journal of Philosophy 48 (s1): 109-132. 2010.This paper argues that Darwin's theory of evolution offers two modes of understanding the relation between life and human knowledge. On the one hand, Darwin can be included within a general turn to “life,” in which human self-knowledge is part of a general unfolding of increasing awareness and anthropological reflexivity; life creates an organism, man, capable of discerning the logic of organic existence. On the other hand, Darwin offers the possibility of understanding life beyond the self-main…Read more
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2Time Travels: Feminism, Nature Power, by Elizabeth Grosz (review)Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 39 (3): 331-333. 2008.
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University Park, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Areas of Interest
20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |