Professor Ian Buchanan
Overview
Position:
Professor of Critical and Cultural Theory
Email:
BuchananI@cf.ac.uk Telephone: +44(0)29 208 75619
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74502
Extension: 75619
Location: Humanities Building, Colum Drive, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU.
Research Group
Cultural Criticism (Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory)
Postgraduate Students
Over the years I have supervised a range of MA and PhD projects on such topics as ‘Hotels in Film and Literature’, ‘Günter Grass’s political novels’, ‘The Philosophy of the Everyday Life’, and ‘Orlan’s Corporeal Art’.
Research Interests
My research interests are quite varied, but centre on the attempt to ‘understand’ or at least find the means of articulating what is peculiar about the everyday. In this vein, I have written on topics as diverse as film, literature, popular music, reality tv, and more recently war. I apply a range of theoretical frameworks in my research, but I find I’m primarily interested in the work of Gilles Deleuze, Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek, largely because of the way they fuse Marxism and psychoanalysis with a range of other theoretical discourses in an energetic bid to account for contemporary politics and culture.
Selected Publications
Books
Books
(under contract) Literary Theory Today, Polity
2010 Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory, OUP
2008 Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Continuum.
2006 Fredric Jameson: Live Theory, Continuum.
2000 Deleuzism: A Metacommentary, Duke University Press and Edinburgh University Press.
2000 Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist, Sage.
Edited Books (Published)
2008 (with Patricia MacCormack) Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis and Cinema, Continuum.
2008 (with Nicholas Thoburn) Deleuze and Politics, Edinburgh University Press.
2007 Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism, Duke University Press
2006 (with Adrian Parr) Deleuze and the Contemporary World, Edinburgh University Press.
2006 (with Caren Irr) On Fredric Jameson, SUNY Press.
2005 (with Gregg Lambert) Deleuze and Space, Edinburgh University Press.
2004 (with Marcel Swiboda) Deleuze and Music, Edinburgh University Press.
2000 (with John Marks) Deleuze and Literature, Edinburgh University Press.
2000 (with Claire Colebrook) Deleuze and Feminist Theory, Edinburgh University Press.
1999 A Deleuzian Century? (reissue of South Atlantic Quarterly 96:3), Duke University Press.
1999 (with Ruth Barcan) Imagining Australian Space UWA Press.
Video Papers
Ian Buchanan “Practical Deleuzism”
Ian Buchanan “Deleuze’s ‘Life’ Sentences”
Ian Buchanan “Deleuze and The Birds”
Ian Buchanan, "Deleuze's Inspirations"
Publications
Books
(under contract) Literary Theory Today, Polity
2010 Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory, OUP
2008 Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Continuum.
2006 Fredric Jameson: Live Theory, Continuum.
2000 Deleuzism: A Metacommentary, Duke University Press and Edinburgh University Press.
2000 Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist, Sage.
Edited Books
2008 (with Patricia MacCormack) Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis and Cinema, Continuum.
2008 (with Nicholas Thoburn) Deleuze and Politics, Edinburgh University Press.
2007 Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism, Duke University Press
2006 (with Adrian Parr) Deleuze and the Contemporary World, Edinburgh University Press.
2006 (with Caren Irr) On Fredric Jameson, SUNY Press.
2005 (with Gregg Lambert) Deleuze and Space, Edinburgh University Press.
2004 (with Marcel Swiboda) Deleuze and Music, Edinburgh University Press.
2000 (with John Marks) Deleuze and Literature, Edinburgh University Press.
2000 (with Claire Colebrook) Deleuze and Feminist Theory, Edinburgh University Press.
1999 A Deleuzian Century? (reissue of South Atlantic Quarterly 96:3), Duke University Press.
1999 (with Ruth Barcan) Imagining Australian Space UWA Press.
Guest Edited Journals
Guest Editor (with Jeffrey Di Leo) for Symploke (vol 11: 1-2 2003) a special issue on Literary Theory.
Guest Editor for South Atlantic Quarterly (vol 100:2 2001), a special issue on Michel de Certeau.
Guest Editor for Paragraph (vol 22:2 1999), a special issue on Michel de Certeau.
Guest Editor for Social Semiotics (vol 7:2 1997), a special issue on Gilles Deleuze.
Guest Editor for South Atlantic Quarterly (vol 96:3 1997), a special issue on Gilles Deleuze.
Guest Editor for Social Semiotics (vol 6:1 1996), a special issue on Michel de Certeau.
Biography
I am the founding editor of Deleuze Studies, a new journal sponsored by the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory and published by Edinburgh University. I am also the series editor of "Deleuze Connections". I have published widely on the work of Deleuze, de Certeau and Jameson.
I teach the following undergraduate courses in Cultural Criticism: Popular Fiction, Middlebrow Fiction, Psychoanalysis and Culture, and Everyday life.