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Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius

Thomas H Ford, Justin Clemens

What does the first poetry in Australia, written by the Judge who declared the land terra nullius, tell us about the singular nature of colonialism here?

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A Foul Wind

Justin Clemens

A Foul Wind is a nautical term. Its a wind that blows you off-course and into misadventure. With a nod to Restoration drama and contemporary philosophy, this new collection of…

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Ernst Junger Philosophy Under Occupation

More than twenty years after Ernst Juenger's death in 1998, the controversial German writer's work continues to compel the attention of readers, critics, and scholars. In early 2019, Juenger's diaries…

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Minimal Domination

Clemens Justin

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The Pornographic Age

Alain Badiou (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)

Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems that characterize…

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Happiness

Alain Badiou (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)

‘All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness…or it’s not worth an hour of trouble’ claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy…

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Limericks, Philosophical and Literary

Justin Clemens

This book dares to descend into the maelstrom of mediocrity and to return, arms overflowing with mixed metaphors and mouldering microplastics

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Tomislav Nikolic Invocations of Consciousness

Justin Clemens

'There is a lot of libido in the works of Tomislav Nikolic. An excess of desire which throbs and pulsates - palpitates - like some disco night atmosphere full of…

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Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy

Justin Clemens

A radical reconstruction of how psychoanalysis operates and a renewed sense of its indispensable power. It shows how this impacts on the key concepts that continue to be misrepresented by…

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Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy

Justin Clemens

Justin Clemens examines psychoanalysis under the rubric of ‘antiphilosophy’ a practice that offers the strongest possible challenges to thought. Drawing on the work of Badiou, Freud, Lacan, Zizek and Agamben…

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Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain: A Biography

Justin Kaplan

Delves into the conflict between Clemens the man seeking success and Twain the man bound by morals.

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Marina Abramovic

Elizabeth Justin Clemens

In this major exhibition at Mona, the world famous grandmother of performance art takes you through a ‘private archaeology’ of her life’s work: from iconic early pieces to more recent…

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Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis: Reflections on Seminar XVII, sic vi

Major Lacanian theorists and practitioners provide an introduction to and critique of Jacques Lacan’s influential Seminar XVII

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What is Education?

A. J. Bartlett,Justin Clemens

This volume collects some of the foremost voices in contemporary thought to think through this question from their unique perspectives. Revealing the contentions and possibilities of a new engagement with…

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Black River

Justin Clemens

Plunges into a violent and surreal world from which the last traces of the gods have vanished. This book features such creatures as mouthers, pokers, the sucking lady, white curls…

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Labour and Other Poems

Astrid Lorange

This book is about relations and their ambiguous intimacies

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Performing Time

Performing Time explores our experience of time in dance and music, from the perspectives of both performers and audience, and informed by the most recent research in dance science, musicology…

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The Afterlives of Georges Perec

These 14 essays examine Georges Perec’s impact on architecture, art, design, media, electronic communications, computing and the everyday.

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The Afterlives of Georges Perec

Rowan Wilken

These 14 essays examine Georges Perec’s impact on architecture, art, design, media, electronic communications, computing and the everyday.

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The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory: Institution, Aesthetics, Nihilism

Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne, Australia),Professor Martin Stannard

The main contention of this book is that contemporary theory is still essentially Romantic. Despite protestations to the contrary and despite all attempts to elude or exceed the limits bequeathed…

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Alain Badiou: Key Concepts

A. J. Bartlett (Monash University, Australia),Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Alain Badiou is the world’s most influential living philosopher. Few contemporary thinkers display his breadth of argument and reference, or his ability to intervene in debates critical to both analytic…

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Alain Badiou: Key Concepts

A. J. Bartlett (Monash University, Australia),Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Alain Badiou is the world’s most influential living philosopher. Few contemporary thinkers display his breadth of argument and reference, or his ability to intervene in debates critical to both analytic…

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The Praxis of Alain Badiou

Takes up the challenge of explicating, extending and, in many places, criticizing Alain Badiou’s, one of France’s greatest living philosophers, stunningly original theses. Above all, the essays collected here put…

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The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life

This collection of essays seeks to explore Agamben’s work from philosophical and literary perspectives, thereby underpinning its place within larger debates in continental philosophy.

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The Work of Giorgio Agamben: Law, Literature, Life

This collection of essays, newly available in paperback, seeks to explore Agamben’s work from philosophical and literary perspectives, thereby underpinning its place within larger debates in continental philosophy.

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Lacan Deleuze Badiou

A. J. Bartlett,Justin Clemens,Jon Roffe

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Lacan Deleuze Badiou

A. J. Bartlett,Justin Clemens,Jon Roffe

The writings of Lacan, Deleuze and Badiou stand at the heart of contemporary thought. This book reconstructs a fundamental conceptual history of Badiou, Deleuze and Lacan’s influences and intellectual context…

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The Game of the World

Kostas Axelos

Inthisphilosophical treatment of play Kostas Axelos traces his thinking on the world deployed as play from Heraclitus through to the culmination of metaphysical philosophy with Nietzsche, Marx and Heidegger.

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Der Einfluss Philos Auf Die Alteste Christliche Exegese: Barnabas, Justin Und Clemens Von Alexandria (1908)

Paul Heinisch

""Der Einfluss Philos auf die ?????lteste christliche Exegese: Barnabas, Justin und Clemens von Alexandria"" ist ein Buch von Paul Heinisch, das im Jahr 1908 ver??????ffentlicht wurde. Das Buch untersucht den…

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Der Einfluss Philos Auf Die Alteste Christliche Exegese: Barnabas, Justin Und Clemens Von Alexandria (1908)

Paul Heinisch

Das Buch ""Der Einfluss Philos Auf Die Alteste Christliche Exegese: Barnabas, Justin Und Clemens Von Alexandria"" wurde von Heinisch, Paul im Jahr 1908 ver??????ffentlicht. Es besch?????ftigt sich mit dem Einfluss…

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Der Einfluss Philos Auf Die Alteste Christliche Exegese: Barnabas, Justin Und Clemens Von Alexandria (1908)

Paul Heinisch

Das Buch ""Der Einfluss Philos auf die ?????lteste christliche Exegese: Barnabas, Justin und Clemens von Alexandria"" von Heinisch, Paul wurde im Jahr 1908 ver??????ffentlicht. In diesem Werk untersucht der Autor…

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Happiness

Alain Badiou (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)

‘All philosophy is a metaphysics of happiness…or it’s not worth an hour of trouble’ claims Alain Badiou in this lively intervention into one of the most persistent themes in philosophy…

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The Pornographic Age

Alain Badiou (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)

Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems that characterize…

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Badiou and His Interlocutors: Lectures, Interviews and Responses

Alain Badiou (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)

This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre…

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Badiou and His Interlocutors: Lectures, Interviews and Responses

Alain Badiou (Ecole Normale Superieure, France)

This is a unique collection presenting work by Alain Badiou and commentaries on his philosophical theories. It includes three lectures by Badiou, on contemporary politics, the infinite, cinema and theatre…

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Shelley Lasica: WHEN I AM NOT THERE

Hannah Mathews (ed.)

The work of Shelley Lasica reveals a sustained exploration of dance, movement and the varying contexts in which they can occur. WHEN I AM NOT THERE has been produced to…

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Badiou and Hegel: Infinity, Dialectics, Subjectivity

This book collects the work of leading scholars on Alain Badiou and G.W.F. Hegel, creating a dialogue between, and a critical appraisal of, these two central figures in European philosophy.

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