Jacques Rancière

  • How art can create a new future: Stephen Zepke, Sublime Art

    How art can create a new future: Stephen Zepke, Sublime Art

    I am delighted to report that Stephen Zepke’s Sublime Art is nearing publication, with the cover now being proofed. How art can create a new future Sublime art exceeds the present. It is an undetermined expression that in coming into being creates new universals, new modes of life and new coefficients of freedom. Stephen Zepke tracks

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  • My article on Jacques Rancière and the Death of the Author out in Philosophy and Literature

    I am delighted to be able to report that my article “Rewriting the Death of the Author: Rancièrian Reflections” is finally available in Philosophy and Literature. Abstract: For decades now, critics of the “death of the author” thesis have worked themselves up about a paradox that supposedly undermines Barthes’s and Foucault’s treatment of the theme:

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  • A table showing who is part of the new materialism, and an argument as to why it is not a “turn”

    I’m currently writing the introduction to The Human Remains, discussing the figure of the human in the new materialism. I thought I would share the table I drew up of all the thinkers identified as part of the new materialism in different monographs and collected volumes. I have excluded individual journal articles from the list

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  • Review of Rancière Now: Current Perspectives on Jacques Rancière

    My review of Rancière Now: Current Perspectives on Jacques Rancière has been published in French Studies. You can find the full text and PDF versions on the French Studies website.

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  • Update on current books: _The Human Remains_ and _Humanity After God_

    Since giving a brief sketch of my current research project in January 2014, the focus of The Human Remains has tightened and developed. I have moved the material on the imago dei motif out of this book and into a new project in which I want to look at eikon and mimesis, image and imitation,

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  • Current Research: The Human Remains

    I am currently working on a book provisionally entitled The Human Remains: French Philosophy in the Image of God. The first part of the book looks at the ways in which the imago dei motif is explicitly taken up in contemporary French thought. The second, longer part takes debates from the philosophical reception of the

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  • Thinking Equality Today: Badiou, Rancière, Nancy

    My article ‘Thinking Equality Today: Badiou, Rancière, Nancy’ has just been published in French Studies. You can click through to a PDF version from this page. The article is part of the project on humanism and anti-humanism I am working on at the moment. I argue that Badiou and Rancière both end up, despite themselves, with problematic understandings of

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  • Rewriting the Death of the Author with Jacques Rancière

    I was pleased to hear this week that a piece I’ve written on the death of the author has been accepted by Philosophy and Literature. The article is entitled ‘Rewriting the Death of the Author: Rancièrian Reflections’ and it re-thinks the death of the author in the light of Jacques Rancière’s little essay ‘Auteur mort ou

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