About the MSCP Affiliates
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Martin Black completed a Ph.D. on Plato at Boston University in 2009. He has published articles on Plato’s Symposium, the crisis of modernity, and self-knowledge, and edited two volumes of Stanley Rosen’s essays on ancient and modern philosophy for publication in 2011. He teaches ancient philosophy, political theory, and ancient Greek at Suffolk University, which is for some reason located in Boston, in the US. |
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Andy Blunden's interest lies in using the Marxist psychology of Lev Vygotsky to appropriate Hegel's philosophy, particularly the Logic, as a foundation for social theory. His book An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity was pubished by Brill in April 2010. Andy has given courses in Hegel and Marx at MSCP Winter Schools and is Secretary of the Marxists Internet Archive http://www.marxists.org. Website: http://home.mira.net/~andy/ |
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Gilles Bouche is a doctoral candidate at the University of Melbourne. His philosophical education has taken him from Luxembourg and Berlin to Melbourne and Pittsburgh and from Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche to Brandom. It will take him from Brandom to Hegel. Gilles has taught two courses for the MSCP, "Brandom and the Continental Tradition" with Andrew Montin in 2008 and "Brandom's Linguistic Rationalism" in 2011. Currently, he is working on a dissertation which he thinks of as half commentary on, half reconstruction of the major part of Brandom's work. |
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Dr Justin Clemens's research focuses upon the relation of the subject to its discourses, to poetry and art, mathematics, love and politics. He has published extensively on such contemporary thinkers as Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Jacques Lacan, and Jacqueline Rose, as well as on Spinoza, Kant and Nietzsche. He teaches at the University of Melbourne. |
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A member of the MSCP from 2007 to 2009, Gareth Davies studied philosophy and comparative literature at Monash University, where his interests included Nietzsche, modernism, the origins of creativity and the psychoanalytic death drive. Since leaving the world of academic philosophy he has found himself working variously as an art technologist, graphic designer, and logistician; he is now an analyst of rhizomatic datasets relating to public transport and a postgraduate student of communication design. His current projects include a typographic reinterpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and occasional diversions into new media. |
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Joanne Faulkner is an ARC Research Fellow at UNSW. |
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Dr Maurita Harney is an Honorary Senior Fellow in Philosophy at the University of Melbourne. She has taught philosophy at the ANU, where she convened Australia’s first phenomenology conference in 1976, and at the University of Melbourne, and Swinburne University. Her current interests include phenomenology and neuroscience, embodied cognition and biosemiotics. http://unimelb.academia.edu/MauritaHarney |
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Mark Hewson studied and taught literature and philosophy in Australia, the U.S., France and Germany. He has a book forthcoming entitled Blanchot and Literary Criticism (Continuum 2011). He has given courses at the MSCP on “Blumenberg’s Legitimacy of the Modern Age” (2009) and “Maurice Blanchot: Literature and the Ambiguity of the Negative” (2010). Other principal interests include German idealism, aesthetics, Heidegger and phenomenology, Levinas, Bataille, modern poetry, modern literature and theories of modernity.
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Connal Parsley publishes and teaches in jurisprudence, critical legal theory and political philosophy. He is a doctoral candidate at the Melbourne Law School, writing a jurisprudence of the person through a consideration of the intersection between concepts of image and law in the writing of Giorgio Agamben. He is currently translating Roberto Esposito's 1988 Categories of the Impolitical, and he is co-convenor of New Natures, an ongoing lecture series on the theme "law, life, nature." |
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Jon Roffe was the original convenor of the MSCP and has been a long-time lecturer. He is the co-editor of Understanding Derrida (Continuum) and Deleuze's Philosophical Lineage (EUP). His work concerns twentieth century and contemporary French philosophy, and he has published on range of figures in this context, including Badiou, Deleuze, Merleau-Ponty and Meillassoux. |
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David Sweeney has taught and tutored Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Melbourne for a number of years. He taught a course on Jacob Klein at the 2011 MSCP Summer School |
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Prof. Ian Weeks taught two courses on Medieval Philosophy for the MSCP in 2008-09. |
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Prof. James Williams's interests are in contemporary French philosophy (Deleuze, Lyotard, Foucault, Kristeva, Derrida, Badiou, Postmodernism and Poststructuralism) and in aesthetics, political philosophy, metaphysics and the history of philosophy (Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Nietzsche and Whitehead). He taught a course on Gilles Deleuze's The Logic of Sense in the MSCP Summer School 2009.
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