Gregory Flaxman
Gregory Flaxman is an Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Director of Global Cinema Studies (GCS) at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Also an adjunct professor in the Department of Communication Studies, he is on the advisory board of the Program in Cultural Studies and is affiliated with the Department of American Studies.
Flaxman’s research broadly concerns the relationship between aesthetics and philosophy (especially with respect to film, literature, and fine art). More recently, he has dedicated particular attention to questions of biopolitics, the fate of affect theory, and American intellectual history.
The author of Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy (Minnesota, 2011) and the editor of The Brain is the Screen (Minnesota, 2000), he is currently finishing two books–one on cinema and philosophy, and another (with Robert Sinnerbrink and Lisa Trahair) on “cinematic thinking”–and writing a short monograph devoted to the history and concept of going “off the grid.”
Recent essays include a piece on William and Henry James (“A More Radical Empiricism”) and another on Deleuze, Kant, and Antonioni (“Eros is Sick”). Forthcoming work includes a catalogue piece on contemporary artists Elmgreen and Dragset; an chapter on Antonin Artaud’s film criticism (“This Is Your Brain on Cinema” for Film and/as Philosophy [Minnesota]); an article on cinema and affect (“Once More with Feeling: Cinesthesia and Ethics” for Substance [2015]); a piece on Kant and Hölderlin (“The Transcendental Line” for Deleuze Studies [2015]); and the preface to Anne Sauvagnargue’s new book on ecology, philosophy, and media, Artmachines (Edinburgh 2014).
Last spring, Flaxman was visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. Currently, Flaxman is studying Renaissance fine art and architecture as a Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow. Beginning in September, he will be a faculty fellow at the Humanities Research Center, Rice University.
Areas of Expertise
• Cinema: Film Theory; Genre Theory; Classical and Post-Classical American Cinema
• Literature: Twentieth Century American Literature; Postcolonial Theory; Narratology
• Theory: Continental Philosophy and Critical Theory; Art History and Aesthetics; Psychoanalysis
http://flaxman.web.unc.edu/
Flaxman’s research broadly concerns the relationship between aesthetics and philosophy (especially with respect to film, literature, and fine art). More recently, he has dedicated particular attention to questions of biopolitics, the fate of affect theory, and American intellectual history.
The author of Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy (Minnesota, 2011) and the editor of The Brain is the Screen (Minnesota, 2000), he is currently finishing two books–one on cinema and philosophy, and another (with Robert Sinnerbrink and Lisa Trahair) on “cinematic thinking”–and writing a short monograph devoted to the history and concept of going “off the grid.”
Recent essays include a piece on William and Henry James (“A More Radical Empiricism”) and another on Deleuze, Kant, and Antonioni (“Eros is Sick”). Forthcoming work includes a catalogue piece on contemporary artists Elmgreen and Dragset; an chapter on Antonin Artaud’s film criticism (“This Is Your Brain on Cinema” for Film and/as Philosophy [Minnesota]); an article on cinema and affect (“Once More with Feeling: Cinesthesia and Ethics” for Substance [2015]); a piece on Kant and Hölderlin (“The Transcendental Line” for Deleuze Studies [2015]); and the preface to Anne Sauvagnargue’s new book on ecology, philosophy, and media, Artmachines (Edinburgh 2014).
Last spring, Flaxman was visiting professor in the Department of Philosophy at Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. Currently, Flaxman is studying Renaissance fine art and architecture as a Andrew W. Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow. Beginning in September, he will be a faculty fellow at the Humanities Research Center, Rice University.
Areas of Expertise
• Cinema: Film Theory; Genre Theory; Classical and Post-Classical American Cinema
• Literature: Twentieth Century American Literature; Postcolonial Theory; Narratology
• Theory: Continental Philosophy and Critical Theory; Art History and Aesthetics; Psychoanalysis
http://flaxman.web.unc.edu/
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