University of Chichester

Dr Benjamin Noys

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Ben NoysContact Details

Tel: +44 (0) 1243 816405
Email: b.noys@chi.ac.uk

My research traverses the field of critical theory, and particularly its intersections with cultural production. Currently I am working on the question of negativity in contemporary theory, and particularly its implications for political practice. My future work is focused on temporality, forms of value, and the anthropology of the subject. I also have a critical interest in avant-garde aesthetics and the problem of transgression in art, theory, and cultural politics. I am a corresponding editor of Historical Materialism, and a member of the Editorial boards of Film-Philosophy and S. I also direct the Theory Research Group (http://theoryresearchgroup.blogspot.com/), an interdisciplinary group devoted to presenting work in contemporary theory, at the University of Chichester.

I am interested in supervising postgraduate work in the following areas: critical theory, particularly contemporary European thought (Agamben, Badiou, Negri, Zizek); Lacanian psychoanalysis; contemporary avant-garde and modernist fiction; anti-capitalist and anarchist politics, cinema; horror fiction; and the cultural politics of the image.

Selected Recent Publications

Books

Academic Monographs

The Persistence of the Negative The Culture of Death Georges Bataille

The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010)

The Culture of Death (London and New York: Berg, 2005)

George Bataille: A Critical Introduction (London and Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 2000)

Articles in refereed journals

2010 ‘Apocalypse, Tendency, Crisis’, Mute: Culture and Politics After the Net vol. 2 #15 (2010), http://www.metamute.org/en/content/apocalypse_tendency_crisis. MR Zine, 05.02.10, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/noys050210p.html.

2009 ‘Separacija in reverzibilnost: Agamben o podobi’ [‘Separation and Reversibility: Agamben on the Image’], trans. Rok Bencin (Slovenian), Filozofski Vestnik 30.1 (2009): 143-159.

2009 ‘‘Monumental Construction’: Badiou and the Politics of Aesthetics’, Third Text 23.4 (2009): 383-392.

2008 'Through a Glass Darkly: Alain Badiou's Critique of Anarchism', Anarchist Studies 16.2 (October 2008): 107-120.

2008 '"The End of the Monarchy of Sex": Sexuality and Contemporary Nihilism', Theory, Culture & Society 25.5 (September 2008): 107-125.

2008 'Horror Temporis', Collapse IV 'Concept Horror', ed. Robin MacKay (May 2008): 277-284.

2008 ‘Crimes of the Near Future: Baudrillard / Ballard’, International Journal of Baudrillard Studies 5.1 (January 2008).

http://www.ubishops.ca/BaudrillardStudies/vol5_1/v5-1-article8-Noys.html

2007 'La Libido reactionnaire?: the recent fiction of J. G. Ballard', Journal of European Studies 37.4 (2007): 391-406.

2007 'Antiphusis: Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man', Film-Philosophy 11.3 (November 2007): 38-51.

2007 'Destroy Cinema! Destroy Capital!: Guy Debord's The Society of the Spectacle (1973)', Quarterly Review of Film and Video 24.5 (2007): 395-402.

2005 'Tulse Luper Database: Peter Greenaway, the New Media Object and the Art of Exhaustion', Image and Narrative 12 (August 2005).

2004 'Gestural Cinema? Giorgio Agamben on Film', Film-Philosophy 8:22.

2003 'Badiou's Fidelities: Reading the Ethics', Communication & Cognition 36 (1-2) (2003): 31-44.

2002 'Time of Death', Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 7:2 (August 2002): 51-59.

2002 'Fascinating (British) Fascism: David Britton's Lord Horror', Rethinking History (Winter 2002): 305-318.

Edited issue of Journals

2007 (ed) (w/Hugo Frey) 'The New Reactionaries: Cultural Controversy in Context Part II', Journal of European Studies 37.4 (2007).

2007 (ed) 'Encore: Lacan and Film', Film-Philosophy 11.3 (Novemver 2007).

2007 (ed) (w/Hugo Frey) 'The New Reactionaries: Cultural Controversy in Context Part 1', Journal of European Studies 37.3 (2007).

2002 (ed) (w/Hugo Frey) 'History in the Graphic Novel', Rethinking History 6.3 (Winter 2002).

Review articles

2009 Review of Gregory Elliott, Ends in Sight (Pluto 2008), Historical Materialism 17.4 (2009): 157-163.

2009 ‘The Powers of the Negative’: Review of Sam Gillespie, The Mathematics of Novelty (re-press 2008), S: journal of the Jan Van Eyck circle for Lacanian ideology critique vol.2 (2009): 102-108.

http://www.lineofbeauty.org/index.php/s/article/viewFile/24/81

2009 Review of Yannis Stavrakakis, The Lacanian Left (SUNY 2007) and Ian Parker’s Revolution in Psychology (Pluto 2007), Historical Materialism 17.1 (2009): 183-190.

2005 ‘Encountering Badiou’: Review of ‘The Philosophy of Alain Badiou’, ed. Mathew Wilkins, Polygraph 17 (2005), Culture Machine (2005).

http://www.culturemachine.net/index.php/cm/article/view/187/168

2005 'Encountering Badiou', Culture Machine (2005).

2005 'A Review of Art Spiegelman's In the Shadow of No Towers', Rethinking History 9.2/3 (June/September 2005): 365-375.

2004 'Howls for Debord', Film-Philosophy 8.26 (2004).

2003 'The Provocations of Alain Badiou', Theory, Culture & Society 20.1 (February 2003): 123-132.

Research Interests

Critical theory (Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Modern European Philosophy - Agamben, Badiou); Film; Avant-Garde and modernist literature; J. G. Ballard; H. P. Lovecraft; anti-capitalist and anarchist political theory; the cultural politics of the image.

Teaching Interests

Critical theory, modern American literature; postcolonial theory and literature.