Claire Colebrook
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 461463 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Claire Colebrook |
| NOMBRES | Claire |
| APELLIDO | Colebrook |
| FIRMA | COLEBROOK C |
| AFILIACIONES | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 101 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 368 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1994 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
The Counter-Oceanic Sea
Geophilosophy round table
Anthropocene Objects
The Anthropocene has intensified the post-Romantic and anti-Cartesian sense that Nature is not a thing, the planet is not a commodity, and that human life is ecologically intertwined with various other-than-human beings. There are, however, two distinct ways in which one might think about moving beyond the Earth as a commodity. Various theoretical movements have sought to think of all life and matter as vibrant. Despite first appearances this is …
Happiness
The opposite of happiness is not unhappiness but disindividuation. Bersani's reading of Freud and his identification of sexuality at odds with the happiness of liberal society also provides a nascent account of neoliberalism's capture of queer sex
Deleuze after Afro-pessimism
Humanist Posthumanism, Becoming-Woman and the Powers of the ‘Faux’
Feminist and post-colonial theorists have embraced Deleuze and Guattari’s terminology of becoming-woman and nomadism, and have done so despite criticisms that these terms appropriate the struggles of real women and stateless persons. The force of the real has become especially acute in the twenty-first century in the wake of neoliberal mobilisations of feminism as yet one more marketing tool. Rather than repeat the criticism that identity politic…
Geophilosophy as the end of philosophy
The Immanent Infinite
Is it possible to think an ecology beyond finitude? There might appear to be an opposition between the mathematical and rational concept of the infinite versus the fragile, interdependent, and single living system that is the Earth. Our current Anthropocenic predicament would seem to force us to recognize that there is only one—now transformed—ecology, with no outside, no exit, and no lifeboats. Despite postapocalyptic fantasies of planetary migr…
No man is an island
In their article on Anthropocene islands, Chandler and Pugh explore the rich relationship between the politics of islands and the grand scale of the Anthropocene. In their complex account of the Anthropocene’s grand scale and the island’s transformative complexity, they stress the intricate relationality generated from the encounter among multiple spaces on the globe, none of which is master of the whole. In this commentary, I add the thought of …
The Personal and the Political
There is one understanding of feminism that has both the end of the world and its redemption at its heart. This world is unjust and must be otherwise. Yet if one thinks of feminism as radically oth
Philosophy and Post-structuralist Theory
Fast Violence, Revolutionary Violence
Extinction, Deterritorialisation and End Times
Have we reached what Alexander Galloway dismissively refers to as ‘peak Deleuze’? In this essay, I argue that the arrival at end times – with the sense of mass extinction and philosophy's exhaustion – is indeed a moment of ‘peak Deleuze’, but that this gesture of exhaustion is already implicit in A Thousand Plateaus. Recognising the limits and seduction of a text is never as easy as it seems; every attempt to break up with Deleuze and Guattari, t…
Difference and Repetition in the Age of #MeToo and the Trumpocene
Fire, Flood and Pestilence as the Condition for the Possibility of the Human
Understanding Deleuze
'The best introduction to Deleuze, and to the collective writings of Deleuze and Guattari, available yet! Claire Colebrook has produced a truly accessible pathway into the labyrinthine enchantments offered for contemporary thought by Deleuzianism, making concepts clear, showing their political and theoretical complexity, elaborating their social and artistic relevance. A wonderful, lucid opening onto the new worlds of Deleuze.'Elizabeth Grosz, Ru…
Only an Animal Can Save Us
Deleuze and Gender
Unlike other philosophers whose work can be applied to questions of sex and gender, Deleuze's philosophy was motivated by the problem of desire and difference. Over the last three decades, feminist theory, gender theory and queer theory have been revolutionised and rejuvenated by Deleuze's provocation to consider sexual difference beyond the paradigm of the Oedipal family and Western humanism. In this volume, a series of prominent critical theori…
Slavery and the Trumpocene
There is something more catastrophic than the end of the world, especially when ‘world’ is understood as the horizon of meaning and expectation that has composed the West. If the Anthropocene is the geological period marking the point at which the earth as a living system has been altered by ‘anthropos,’ the Trumpocene marks the twenty-first-century recognition that the destruction of the planet has occurred by way of racial violence, slavery and…
All life is artificial life
In this essay I want to explore a series of claims regarding life, situating this discussion within the scholarly context of a series of turns to life (that now might be thought of as ‘Life 2.0’1)
A Cut in Relationality
One of the ways in which one might chart the force of various forms of posthuman thought is to mark a reversal in the ways we think about relationality. Rather than distinct Cartesian subjects or a world of essences and self-present things we can now think in terms of one complex life that enters into relations in order for seemingly stable subjects and objects to emerge. In this essay I argue that a moral and normative conception of relationalit…
Gilles Deleuze
Perhaps the best way to approach the relationship between Deleuze and Agamben is to adopt a method from Deleuze and Guattari’s late philosophy: the conceptual persona.1 Here philosophical proper names do not stand for biographies or persons but for orientations or maps of thinking. Descartes, for example, enables a whole tradition of Cartesian dualism, even for those who neither read nor reference his work. There are some occasions when Agamben’s…
Escaping Meaning, Escaping Music
Research Article| July 01 2018 Escaping Meaning, Escaping Music Claire Colebrook Claire Colebrook Penn State University, University Park Claire Colebrook is Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women’s and Gender Studies at Penn State University. She has written books and articles on the work of Gilles Deleuze, literary history, gender theory, queer theory, and visual culture. Her most recent book is Twilight of the Anthropocen…
Introduction
Posthumous Life
Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent turns toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Qu
Death of the PostHuman
Death of the PostHuman undertakes a series of critical encounters with the legacy of what had come to be known as 'theory,' and its contemporary supposedly post-human aftermath. There can be no redemptive post-human future in which the myopia and anthropocentrism of the species finds an exit and manages to emerge with ecology and life. At the same time, what has come to be known as the human - despite its normative intensity - can provide neither…
From Radical Representations to Corporeal Becomings
Contrasting the work of Genevieve Lloyd, Elizabeth Grosz, and Moira Gatens with the poststrueturalist philosophy of Judith Butler, this paper identifies a distinctive “Australian” feminism. It argues that while Butler remains trapped by the matter/representation binary, the Spinozist turn in Lloyd and Gatens, and Grosz's work on Bergson and Deleuze, are attempts to think corporeality
Sex After Life
Sex After Life aims to consider the various ways in which the concept of life has provided normative and moralizing ballast for queer, feminist and critical theories. Arguing against a notion of the queer as counter-normative, Sex After Life appeals to the concept of life as a philosophical problem. Life is neither a material ground nor a generative principle, but can nevertheless offer itself for new forms of problem formation that exceed the al…
A Cut in Relationality
One of the ways in which one might chart the force of various forms of posthuman thought is to mark a reversal in the ways we think about relationality. Rather than distinct Cartesian subjects or a world of essences and self-present things we can now think in terms of one complex life that enters into relations in order for seemingly stable subjects and objects to emerge. In this essay I argue that a moral and normative conception of relationalit…
What Is This Thing Called Education
Education exposes a conundrum that extends well beyond government policy and beyond those working in education as a designated discipline. If education is nothing more than a human science or the achievement of satisfactory outcomes by way of testing, then education has no future. Education is the manufacture of docile subjects and (as Bernard Stiegler has argued) it will do little more than short-circuit attention. Stiegler does, however, point …
Not Symbiosis, Not Now
Despite first appearances it is the early work of Derrida, less concerned with questions of ethics, politics and justice, that is most pertinent for the anthropocene era. Only an attention to what Derrida provisionally referred to as 'text,' has the capacity to take the environmental imagination beyond homely conceptions of the earth as a horizon of sense and human projects, allowing for the anthropocene's imagination of the human scarring of the…
Stratigraphic Time, Women's Time1
A Grandiose Time of Coexistence
Using Deleuze and Guattari's concept of stratigraphy, it is possible to open the question of the limits and range of the Anthropocene. Geological stratification has enabled a view of time and the earth that has opened new horizons, but this mode of stratification is one among others. Other stratifications are possible, not only those that would be compossible with the story of the Anthropocene (such as the histories of capital, empire and industr…
The Politics and Potential of Everyday Life
At first glance it might seem absurd to claim that the concept of everyday life could be tied to a specific politics—that the concept is in its very structure either revolutionary or conservative. Far from the concept being tied to a determined politics, it is difficult to imagine political contestation or difference without some concept of everyday life. Either we insist that everyday life is inauthentic, confused, or mystified 1 —requiring the …
What Is It Like to Be a Human
Rather than regarding the relation between humanity and animality as an important supplemental question when considering claims of personhood or ethical worth, this essay makes two claims that place the thresholds among species at the foundation of problems of ethical recognition. First, all modes of recognition presuppose a norm of human likeness and species solidarity; rather than expand this range of human inclusiveness (that relies on differe…
The Sense of Space
The Sense of Space: On the Specificity of Affect in Deleuze and Guattari Claire Colebrook Abstract While Deleuze is frequently critical of the spatialization of time, such that one of duration's effects-man-produces a homogenized and metric time, he is also concerned with the ways in which spatial milieux allow for the thought of time in general. Certain affects and images, including the face of Western man, create transcendent planes that organi…
Deleuze and History
Introduction, Claire Colebrook 1. Events, Becoming and History, Paul Patton 2. Of the Rise and Progress of Philosophical Concepts, Deleuze's Humean Historiography, Jeff Bell 3. Theory of Delay in Balibar, Freud, and Deleuze, Decalage, Nachtraglichkeit, Retard, Jay Lampert 4. Geohistory and hydro-bio-politics, John Protevi 5. The Thought of History in Benjamin & Deleuze, Tim Flanagan 6. The Cannibal Within, White Men and the Embodiment of Evolutio…
Interpreting understanding context
Memory studies and the Anthropocene
The essays gathered here are slightly revised versions of the position papers presented as part of the roundtable on “Memory Studies and the Anthropocene” at the MLA Convention in Philadelphia in January 2017. What sparked this roundtable is the increasing currency of the Anthropocene, on the one hand, and the observation that the field of memory studies has lately begun to grapple with its implications in earnest, on the other. The participants,…
Sex and the (Anthropocene) City
In this essay I explore three concepts: sex, the city, and the Anthropocene. I argue that the condition for the possibility of the city is the assemblage of sexual drives for the sake of relative stability, but that those same drives also exceed the city's self-preservative function. Further, I argue that the very conditions that further the city and that enable philosophical and scientific concepts to be formed (and that allow for the Anthropoce…
Introduction
IntroductionAnthropocene Feminisms: Rethinking the Unthinkable Claire Colebrook and Jami Weinstein In her recent lecture on the Anthropocene (to which she adds the Capitalocene and the Chthulucene), Donna Haraway expresses some alarm that after two major insights into what counts as thinkable, it was "anthropos" that became the term for the post-Holocene (Haraway 2014). Haraway declares, with emphasis, that it is "literally unthinkable" to work w…
Certeau and Foucault
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 2, Spring 2001
Incorporeality
For the past two decades, the issue of the body and essentialism has dominated feminist theory. In general, it is assumed that the body has been devalued and repressed by the Western metaphysical tradition. In this article, I make two claims to the contrary. First, as poststructuralist theory has tirelessly demonstrated, Western thought has continually tried to ground thought in some foundational substance, such as the body. Second, the most prov…
Feminist ethics and historicism
Slavery and the Trumpocene
There is something more catastrophic than the end of the world, especially when ‘world’ is understood as the horizon of meaning and expectation that has composed the West. If the Anthropocene is the geological period marking the point at which the earth as a living system has been altered by ‘anthropos,’ the Trumpocene marks the twenty-first-century recognition that the destruction of the planet has occurred by way of racial violence, slavery and…
A Globe of One's Own
A Globe of One's Own:In Praise of the Flat Earth Claire Colebrook (bio) Today's questions of climate and climate ethics, with attendant concerns for the sustainability and viability of this life of ours on earth, present a new imaginary for political questions. It was only in the late twentieth century, with the advent of picturing the earth from space, with the possibility of nuclear annihilation of earthly life, and the speed of new media allow…
The Sonorous, the Haptic and the Intensive
In a recent discussion of his work, the Australian composer David Chesworth described his Melbourne-based sound installation 'Proximities' as an example of 'disturbed space'. (1) Conceived by Chesworth and his collaborator Sonia Leber as 'a sonic corridor of human voices', 'Proximities' is a soundscape built up from the artists' recordings of the singing voices of people from fifty-three Commonwealth nations now living in Australia. The work is s…
Questioning Representation
There are two ways in which postmodernity has been defined, or defines itself, as an event of representation. On the one hand, there is the approach usually associated with cultural studies, post-colonial theory, postmodern theory and literary theory. On this account of post-modernism--an account more often described by its detractors than put forward by any actual proponents--there is nothing outside representation. Truth, the real, legitimation…
Is sexual difference a probelem
Most of the discussions of sexual difference within feminist theory have focussed on the work of Luce Irigaray, for whom sexual difference is read through the problem of ontological difference. But Irigaray's work is often set alongside or supplemented by Derrida's use of différance. The work of Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, Drusilla Cornell and Elizabeth Grosz? accordingly? has until recently negotiated the question of sexual difference through…
Feminism and Autonomy
Sensual Angels and Exteriority
One of the central problems which vexes both feminist theory and postcolonial criticism today is the problem of alterity, or the other
Feminist ethics and historicism
Interpreting understanding context
Feminist Philosophy and the Philosophy of Feminism
Irigaray demonstrates that metaphysics depends upon the specific negation and exclusion of the female body. Readings of Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman tend to highlight the status of this excluded materiality: is there an essential female body which precedes negation or is the feminine only an effect of exclusion? I approach Irigaray's work by way of another question: is it possible to move beyond a feminist critique of metaphysics and to…
Is sexual difference a probelem
Most of the discussions of sexual difference within feminist theory have focussed on the work of Luce Irigaray, for whom sexual difference is read through the problem of ontological difference. But Irigaray's work is often set alongside or supplemented by Derrida's use of différance. The work of Judith Butler, Rosi Braidotti, Drusilla Cornell and Elizabeth Grosz? accordingly? has until recently negotiated the question of sexual difference through…
Feminist Philosophy and the Philosophy of Feminism
Irigaray demonstrates that metaphysics depends upon the specific negation and exclusion of the female body. Readings of Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman tend to highlight the status of this excluded materiality: is there an essential female body which precedes negation or is the feminine only an effect of exclusion? I approach Irigaray's work by way of another question: is it possible to move beyond a feminist critique of metaphysics and to…
The Trope of Economy and Representational Thinking
Analyse de la pensee economique definie comme le parangon de la modernite chez Heidegger, Derrida et Irigaray. Examinant le rapport entre la metaphore economique et la double question de la representation et de la subjectivite dans le cadre de la metaphysique heideggerienne, l'A. montre que Derrida utilise le trope de l'economie au sein d'un paradigme structuraliste du langage pour rejeter la definition de la philosophie comme systeme de metaphor…
Feminism and Autonomy
Ethics, Positivity, and Gender
In his preface to Anti-Oedipus, Michel Foucault argues that the art of Deleuze and Guattari's work lies in its formulation of new questions: Questions that are less concerned with why this or that than with how to proceed (xii). Foucault also describes Anti-Oedipus as a book of precisely because it acts as, and concems itself with, art: Ars erotica, ars theoretica, ars politica (xii). This three-fold connection between art, erotics and the polis …
The Haunted Flesh
New Literary Histories
Part 1 Rethinking literary history: Michel Foucault - archaeology, genealogy and power culture and interpretation - anthropology, ethnography and understanding Pierre Bourdieu - habitus, representation and symbolic exchange Michel de Certeau - oppositional practices and heterologies. Part 2 Cultural materialism and new historicism: Raymond Williams and cultural materialism ideology and hegemony - Althusser, Macherey and Gramsci contemporary cultu…
From Radical Representations to Corporeal Becomings
Contrasting the work of Genevieve Lloyd, Elizabeth Grosz, and Moira Gatens with the poststrueturalist philosophy of Judith Butler, this paper identifies a distinctive “Australian” feminism. It argues that while Butler remains trapped by the matter/representation binary, the Spinozist turn in Lloyd and Gatens, and Grosz's work on Bergson and Deleuze, are attempts to think corporeality.
From Radical Representations to Corporeal Becomings
Contrasting the work of Genevieve Lloyd, Elizabeth Grosz, and Moira Gatens with the poststrueturalist philosophy of Judith Butler, this paper identifies a distinctive “Australian” feminism. It argues that while Butler remains trapped by the matter/representation binary, the Spinozist turn in Lloyd and Gatens, and Grosz's work on Bergson and Deleuze, are attempts to think corporeality
Incorporeality
For the past two decades, the issue of the body and essentialism has dominated feminist theory. In general, it is assumed that the body has been devalued and repressed by the Western metaphysical tradition. In this article, I make two claims to the contrary. First, as poststructuralist theory has tirelessly demonstrated, Western thought has continually tried to ground thought in some foundational substance, such as the body. Second, the most prov…
Questioning Representation
There are two ways in which postmodernity has been defined, or defines itself, as an event of representation. On the one hand, there is the approach usually associated with cultural studies, post-colonial theory, postmodern theory and literary theory. On this account of post-modernism--an account more often described by its detractors than put forward by any actual proponents--there is nothing outside representation. Truth, the real, legitimation…
The New Jerusalem and the New International
Passive Synthesis and Life
Certeau and Foucault
The South Atlantic Quarterly - Volume 100, Number 2, Spring 2001
Gilles Deleuze
Gilles Deleuze
One of the twentieth-century's most exciting and challenging intellectuals, Gilles Deleuze's writings covered literature, art, psychoanalysis, philosophy, genetics, film and social theory. This book not only introduces Deleuze's ideas, it also demonstrates the ways in which his work can provide new readings of literary texts. This guide goes on to cover his work in various fields, his theory of literature and his overarching project of a new conc…
Understanding Deleuze
An accessible introduction to the contemporary thought of Deleuze. It makes concepts clear, showing their political and theoretical complexity, elaborating their social and artistic relevance. Australian author (previously at Monash University) now living in Edinburgh
The Politics and Potential of Everyday Life
At first glance it might seem absurd to claim that the concept of everyday life could be tied to a specific politics—that the concept is in its very structure either revolutionary or conservative. Far from the concept being tied to a determined politics, it is difficult to imagine political contestation or difference without some concept of everyday life. Either we insist that everyday life is inauthentic, confused, or mystified 1 —requiring the …
Gender
Why has Western thought been so persistent in its organisation of human bodies, and other categories, in terms of the binary opposition male and female? Is gender nothing more than an ideology, or doe
Postmodernism is a humanism
The Memory of Thought
(2004). The Memory of Thought: An Essay on Heidegger and Adorno, by Alexander Garcia Duttmann. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 35, Heidegger and Husserl, pp. 218-219
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