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83Jean Baudrillard: the defence of the realSage Publications. 1999.`The first and only book to explore, at once, the field of my work and its limits, with both the intimacy and distance required: doubling and shadowing. It gives me great pleasure to find something that, beyond commentary, sees what I see and at the same time what I am unable to see' - Jean Baudrillard Baudrillard is a controversial figure. His work tends to fascinate and infuriate readers in equal numbers. Yet there is no doubting his importance to the key debates in culture and theory of the l…Read more
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44Less Than Nothing is More Than Something (Part 1)International Journal of Žižek Studies 8 (1). 2014.
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35Abbas Kiarostami: the shock of the realAngelaki 17 (4): 61-76. 2012.This essay begins by offering a reading of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy, in which we are unable to decide whether or not the couple we see there is married. But rather than coming down ourselves on one side or another, we ask why it is that their love for each other might be expressed only through their game-playing. And we follow this confusion between the real and the artificial throughout Kiarostami's career – from the “lie” that structures social reality in Where is th…Read more
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24Marcus Pound, Žižek: A (Very) Critical Introduction. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 30 (4): 296-297. 2010.
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19William Rothman's VertigoFilm-Philosophy 18 (1): 35-49. 2014.This article examines William Rothman’s recent essay on Vertigo , ‘Scottie’s Dream, Judy’s Plan, Madeleine’s Revenge’, and particularly his suggestion that in a crucial scene towards the end of the film the character Judy deliberately puts on jewellery in order that Scottie becomes aware that she was the actress who played Madeleine. We look at why Rothman was previously unable to see this in the film, why Judy is unable directly to tell Scottie and why for Rothman a deep truth of the film is th…Read more
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18The Žižek Dictionary (edited book)Routledge. 2013.Slavoj Žižek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings – across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion – always engage and provoke. The power of his ideas, the breadth of his references, his capacity for playfulness and confrontation, his willingness to change his mind and his refusal fundamentally to alter his argument – all have worked to build an extraordinary international readership as well as to elicit…Read more
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14Time after timeHistory of European Ideas 40 (1): 1-13. 2014.This essay is an analysis of a series of writings by the Australian intellectual historian Ian Hunter on the subject of 'theory'. It examines the methodological issues raised by attempting to write a history of theory. The essay particularly seeks to analyse the various aporias at stake in Hunter's project: between the empirical and the transcendental, between history and the event, and between theory and 'empirical' history
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14It is Never a Decision to Choose Between This and That: A Response to HerwitzFilm-Philosophy 6 (3). 2002.Daniel Herwitz 'The Defence of Extreme Realities' _Film-Philosophy_, vol. 6 no. 45, November 2002
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13"A Divided Self and a Doubled World": On Stanley Cavell's PerfectionismSubstance 50 (2): 156-172. 2021.ARRAY
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10Review Essay: On the "Subject" of ZizekInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 10 (3). 2016.‘On the “Subject” of Žižek’ is a three-part review essay looking at two recent texts on Žižek’s political interventions: Sean Homer’s Slavoj Žižek and Radical Politics, which takes up Žižek’s writings on the Balkan Wars, and Adam’s Kotsko’s series of web posts on Žižek on the refugee “crisis” in Europe. As well, it examines Zizek’s 2016 book on Islamic terrorism and the same “crisis”, Against the Double Blackmail: Refugees, Terror and Other Troubles with the Neighbours. Through a close reading o…Read more
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10The Three Lacanian Registers of Musical PerformanceInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 11 (3). 2017.Of course, music performance has a long “artisanal” history. After all, the training of musicians to perform has been the mainstay of academies and conservatoria for centuries. But the discipline of music performance as part of an academic musicology is a much more recent invention. We argue that it arises some time in the 1960s, when scholars could begin to write comparative histories of performance and think difference choices as to performance style. Against the now sterile authentic/non-auth…Read more
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8Stanley Cavell and the arts: philosophy and popular cultureBloomsbury Academic. 2021.In the late 1990s, Rosalind Krauss, one of the principal theorists of post-modernism in the arts, began using the term "post-medium" in her work. It was a nod to the American "ordinary language" philosopher Stanley Cavell, who had been thinking through a concept of medium in art for 30 years. Today with the decline of post-modernism, Stanley Cavell has emerged as one of the most important figures for thinking again about the visual arts, film and theatre. Stanley Cavell and the Arts looks at Cav…Read more
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5The Žižek Dictionary (edited book)Routledge. 2013.Slavoj Žižek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings – across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion – always engage and provoke. The power of his ideas, the breadth of his references, his capacity for playfulness and confrontation, his willingness to change his mind and his refusal fundamentally to alter his argument – all have worked to build an extraordinary international readership as well as to elicit…Read more
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2The Zizek Dictionary (edited book)Acumen Publishing. 2013.Slavoj Zizek is the most popular and discussed philosopher in the world today. His prolific writings - across philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, film, music and religion - always engage and provoke. The power of his ideas, the breadth of his references, his capacity for playfulness and confrontation, his willingness to change his mind and his refusal fundamentally to alter his argument - all have worked to build an extraordinary international readership as well as to elicit…Read more
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1Paul Bowman and Richard Stamp, eds. The Truth of Žižek (review)Philosophy in Review 28 (6): 394-396. 2008.
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When one becomes two: the ending of CatfishIn Sheila Kunkle (ed.), Cinematic cuts: theorizing film endings, Suny Press. 2016.
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Thought Is Grievance: On Žižek’s ParallaxInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 4 (1). 2010.'Thought is Grievance: On Zizek's Parallax' explores the relationship between the concept of "parallax" Slavoj Zizek has recently developed and the largely unthematised notion of "grievance" that can been seen throughout Zizek's work, but particularly from The Ticklish Subject on. What is the connection between parallax and grievance? Why is parallax always associated with grievance, and why is grievance for its part a form of parallax? The essay takes these questions up as a preliminary to elab…Read more
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Stanley CavellIn Felicity Colman (ed.), Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers, Acumen Publishing. pp. 145-153. 2009.
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Geoff Boucher, Jason Glynos and Matthew Sharpe, eds. Traversing the Fantasy: Critical Responses to Slavoj Žižek (review)Philosophy in Review 27 396-398. 2007.
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