Oliver Feltham

Oliver Feltham has signed a contract with Continuum Books for his upcoming monograph entitled: An Anatomy of Failure: philosophy and political action. In October he gave a seminar at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht on Sovereign Action in Hobbes’ Leviathan and the limit cases of rebellion, religious dissent, and the primitive church. The last chapter of his Alain Badiou: Live Theory has been translated and published in the Finnish journal Nuori Voima . He has submitted a chapter on Alain Badiou’s concept of philosophy to the new anthology Key Concepts: Alain Badiou (Acumen, forthcoming).

Oliver Feltham has been at AUP since 2004. He became full-time in 2006 teaching in the Comparative Literature Department, the Philosophy Program, and Global Communications. Previously he taught English, literature, theatre, and creative writing at various Parisian universities and the bilingual section of Ecole Massillon. In 2000, he completed his doctoral thesis at Deakin University, Melbourne on the ontological distinction between praxis and work in ancient and modern philosophy based on research conducted in Paris.

Within the Philosophy Program he teaches courses in modern European philosophy with a special focus on the relationship between politics, metaphysics, and aesthetics. He also teaches transversal courses which interrogate philosophy from the viewpoint of particular social practices such as urban development or theatre.

His research interests include psychoanalysis, Marxism, critical theory, and the history of metaphysics. His translation of Alain Badiou’s Being and Event appeared in 2006 with Continuum Books. He recently edited and contributed to an anthology of essays on Badiou’s work Ecrits autour de la pensée d’Alain Badiou for Harmattan. He is currently working on an introduction to Badiou’s philosophy for Continuum.

Editions

Alain Badiou, Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy, O.Feltham & J.Clemens ed. & trans., (London: Continuum, 2003).

O.Feltham & B.Besana (ed.), Alain Badiou: de l’ontologie à la politique (Paris: Harmattan, forthcoming).

Translations

Badiou, Alain, Being and Event, (London: Continuum, 2005). [L’être et l’événement (Paris: Seuil, 1988)].

Alain Badiou, “Psychoanalysis and Philosophy”, Analysis no.9, (Melbourne: 2000), p.1-8.

Jean-Claude Milner, “The doctrine on science”, Umbr(a) Science and Truth Issue (Buffalo: 2000), p.33-63.

Articles

“An Explosive Genealogy: theatre, philosophy and the art of presentation”, Cosmos and History: The Praxis of Alain Badiou, 2007 (forthcoming).

“On changing appearances in Badiou and Lacan”, Umbr(a) 2007 issue (forthcoming).

“Enjoy your stay: Structural Change in Seminar XVII”, Reading Seminar XVII, eds. R.Grigg & J.Clemens, (Durham NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 179-194.

“The Open Laboratory: a position paper on the Humanities”, Scissors and Tooth (AUP journal), Summer 2006.

“Forget subversion, link up the generic: on art’s passage to politics”, AS Media Journal (Antwerp, 2005).

“And being and event and...: Philosophy and its nominations”, Polygraph 17: The Philosophy of Alain Badiou, (Durham,2005) p.27-40.

“Enjoy Your Stay: Structural Change in Seminar XVII”, Reading Seminar XVII, J.Clemens & R.Grigg eds., (Durham: Duke University Press, 2005).

“La philosophie, pourrait-elle désocialiser le monde?” in Théorie-rebellion: un ultimatum, G.Grelet ed., (Paris: Harmattan, 2005).

“Singularity happening in politics: the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Canberra 1972”, Communication and Cognition, Vol. 37 No. 1, 2004.

“Sovereignty: Ontology and Psychoanalysis”, Analysis no.9, (Melbourne: 2000).

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