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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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13Incorporeality: The ghostly body of metaphysicsBody and Society 6 (2): 25--44. 2000.For the past two decades, the issue of the body and essentialism has dominated feminist theory. In general, it is assumed that the body has been devalued and repressed by the Western metaphysical tradition. In this article, I make two claims to the contrary. First, as poststructuralist theory has tirelessly demonstrated, Western thought has continually tried to ground thought in some foundational substance, such as the body. Second, the most provocative, fruitful and radical aspects of recent fe…Read more
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33From 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 poststrueturalist 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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12Destroying cosmopolitanism for the sake of the cosmosIn Rosi Braidotti, Patrick Hanafin & Bolette Blaagaard (eds.), After cosmopolitanism, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, a Glasshouse Book. pp. 166. 2012.
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14Ethics, Positivity, and Gender: Foucault, Aristotle, and the Care of the SelfPhilosophy Today 42 (4): 347-360. 1998.
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75Modernism without Women: The Refusal of Becoming-Woman (and Post-Feminism)Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 7 (4): 427-455. 2013.Just as becoming-woman is a divided concept, looking back to a seemingly redemptive figure of the feminine beyond rigid being, but also forward to a positive annihilation of fixed genders, so modernism was also a doubled movement. But modernism was a pulverisation of ‘the’ subject for the sake of a plural and multiplying point of view, and like ‘becoming-woman’, should be read as a defiant and affirmative refusal
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159How can we tell the dancer from the dance?: The subject of dance and the subject of philosophyTopoi 24 (1): 5-14. 2004.One of the most important aspects of Gilles Deleuzes philosophy is his criticism of the traditional concept of praxis. In Aristotelian philosophy praxis is properly oriented towards some end, and in the case of human action the ends of praxis are oriented towards the agents good life. Human goods are, for both Aristotle and contemporary neo-Aristotelians, determined by the potentials of human life such as rationality, communality, and speech. Deleuzes account of action, by contrast, liberates mo…Read more
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27Ethics, Positivity, and Gender: Foucault, Aristotle, and the Care of the SelfPhilosophy Today 42 (1): 40-52. 1998.
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1The Real and the Phantom of HappinessJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 35 (3): 246-260. 2004.(2004). The Real and the Phantom of Happiness. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 35, Phenomenology and French Thought, pp. 246-260.
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78Deleuze: a guide for the perplexedContinuum. 2006.Cinema, thought and time -- Deleuze's cinema books -- Technology -- Essences -- Space and time -- Bergson, time, and life -- The movement-image -- The history of time and space and the history of cinema -- The movement-image and semiotics -- Styles of sign -- The whole of movement -- Image and life -- Becoming-inhuman, becoming imperceptible -- The deduction of the movement-image -- Art and time -- Destruction of the sensory motor apparatus and the spiritual automaton -- Time and money -- Art an…Read more
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38Review of Gregg Lambert, Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (3). 2008.
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26Book review: Dorothea Olkowski. Resistance, flight, creation: Feminist enactments of French philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell university press, 2000 (review)Hypatia 20 (1): 217-220. 2005.
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11Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts (edited book)Routledge. 2014.Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts presents a broad overview and engagement with the full range of Derrida's work - from the early phenomenological thinking to his preoccupations with key themes, such as technology, psychoanalysis, friendship, Marxism, racism and sexism, to his ethico-political writings and his deconstruction of democracy. Presenting both an examination of the key concepts central to his thinking and a broader study of how that thinking shifted over a lifetime, the book offers the re…Read more
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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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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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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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21The Future-To-Come: Derrida and the Ethics of HistoricityPhilosophy Today 42 (4): 347-360. 1998.
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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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38Feminism and Autonomy: The Crisis of the Self-Authoring SubjectBody and Society 3 (2): 21-41. 1997.
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115The 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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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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The art of the futureIn Alexandre Lefebvre & Melanie Allison White (eds.), Bergson, Politics, and Religion, Duke University Press. 2012.
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85Irigaray 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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Legal theory after DeleuzeIn Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook & Patrick Hanafin (eds.), Deleuze and law: forensic futures, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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71Gilles 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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