Justin Clemens

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Justin Clemens

European philosophy, and contemporary Australian art and literature. He is also a published poet
.

Background

Clemens studied at the

contemporary theory
" in 1999.

He then lectured in Psychoanalytic Studies at Deakin University, before moving to the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne in the late 2000s[1] where he is Senior Lecturer.

Clemens is art critic for the Australian magazine The Monthly.[2] He has a daughter.

Scholarly contributions

In his extensive published work, he writes on psychoanalysis, contemporary European philosophy, and

prose fiction
.

He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2023.[3]

Selected bibliography

Translated books and articles
  • Badiou, Alain, "On a Contemporary Usage of Frege", trans. Justin Clemens and Sam Gillespie, UMBR(a), no. 1, 2000, pp. 99–115.
  • Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy. Translated and edited by Justin Clemens & (hardcover)
Creative works
Authored books
  • The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory: Institutions, Aesthetics, Nihilism. (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2003)
  • Avoiding the Subject: Media, Culture and the Object. (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2004)
  • Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming May 2013)
Co-authored books
  • Lacan, Deleuze, Badiou. A.J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens, Jon Roffe, (Edinburgh University Press, 2014)
Edited collections and books
  • Jaques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII. Clemens & R. Grigg (eds.), (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006).
  • The Praxis of Alain Badiou. Paul Ashton, A. J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens (eds.), (Melbourne: re.press, 2006).
  • The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life. Edited with Nicholas Heron and Alex Murray. (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, hardback: 2008; paperback: 2011).
  • Badiou: Key Concepts. Bartlett & Clemens (eds.), (London: Acumen, 2010). Contributions from various Badiou scholars and translators including, along with Clemens and Bartlett, Bruno Bosteels, Ray Brassier, Oliver Feltham, Z.L. Fraser, Sigi Jottkandt, Nina Power, and Alberto Toscano
  • The Jacqueline Rose Reader. Edited by Clemens & Ben Naparstek (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011)

References

  1. ^ "Melbourne Writer's Festival 2010 Author Page". Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 27 November 2010.
  2. ^ Publisher's Author Page at Black, Inc.
  3. ^ "Fellow Profile – Justin Clemens". Australian Academy of the Humanities. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  4. ^ Jason Barker and Justin Clemens "Justine & Jacquie and their adventures on the other side (an excerpt)", Meanjin, Winter 2023.

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