Publications

Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy

Established in 2006, Parrhesia is dedicated to publishing the latest work on continental philosophy, along with new translations and interviews with contemporary thinkers. Parrhesia is a part of the Open Humanities Press, an international open access publishing collective whose mission is to make leading works of contemporary critical thought freely available worldwide.

Recent Member Publications

  • Justin Clemens, "The Age Demanded My Fellow Critics" Sydney Review of Books, 28 Feburary (2025).
  • Ben Gook, (ed.), Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times: The Psychic Life of Contemporary Capitalism. Bielefeld: Transcript, 2024.
  • Justin Clemens,  "Badiou: Politics, Beings and Events" Arena, 18:1 (2024).
  • Lucy Benjamin,  "The Sounds of the Slave: Hannah Arendt and the Silent Revolt of Refugees" Philosophy, Politics and Critique,  1:2 (2024): 237-255.
  • Jessica Marian, Elliot Patsoura, and Joseph Hughes, “The Work of Interpretation: Critique and the Review Form, 1947-1967" New Literary History, 55:1 (2024): 99-123.
  • Jessica Marian and Nick Robinson, "Professorial Autonomy, Casualisation, and Wage Theft in Australian Universities" Australian Humanities Review, 72:1 (2024): 78-88.
  • Joseph Hughes and Jessica Marian, "The Values of Critique" Australian Literary Studies, 38:2 (2023).
  • Lucy Benjamin, "Amor Terra: Rereading Arendt's Amor Mundi for a Planet in Crisis" Arendt Studies, 7:1 (2023): 59-78.
  • Kostas Axelos, The Game of the World. Trans. Justin Clemens and Hellmut Monz. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023.
  • Lynda Ng, "Civilisation Perilous: Resituating Coetzee's Barbarians and the West" Journal of Modern Literature 46:2 (2023): 97-113.
  • Tom Ford and Justin Clemens, Barron Field in New South Wales: The Poetics of Terra Nullius, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2023.
  • Elliot Patsoura, “Toward a Genealogy of Geoengineering: Erasmus Darwin and the Little Ice Age” in Eighteenth-Century Environmental Humanities, Jeremy Chow (Ed.), Lewisberg: Bucknell University Press, 2023, 23-37.
  • Lynda Ng, "Alexis Wright's Novel Activism" The Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel, Cambridge University Press, 2023, 178-193.
  • Andre Dao,  "Resisting the inevitable: human rights and the data societyLondon Review of International Law, 11:2 (2023): 315–348.
  • Lynda Ng, "Migrant Writing and the Invention of Australia" The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel, 2023, 662-678.
  • Ben Gook and Dominiek Hoens. “Alienation.” In The Marx through Lacan Vocabulary: A Compass for Libidinal and Political Economies, Christina Sotot van der Plas, Edgar Miguel Juárez-Salazar, Carlos Gómez Camarena, and David Pávon-Cuéllar (eds.), 1–15. London: Routledge, 2022.
  • Elizabeth Presa, ‘Theorem’, Mejia Gallery, Melbourne (October 2022).
  • Lynda Ng, "Alexis Wright's 'Vision Splendid': Aboriginal Economics, Climate Justice, and a Gaian World LiteratureCommonwealth Essays and Studies 44:2 (2022).
  • Gilbert Simondon, Imagination and Invention. Trans. Joe Hughes and Christophe Wall-Romana. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2022.
  • Justin Clemens and Joseph Hughes, “Not Nearly Wrong Enough: Epistemontology as an Analogical Re-fusion of Real Abstraction” Cultural Critique 112 (2021): 142-155.
  • Lisa Radford and Yhonnie Scarce, 'The Image is not Nothing (Concrete Archives)',  ACE Gallery, Adelaide (February-April 2021).
  • Joseph Hughes, “Between Heidegger and Blanchot: Death, Transcendence and the Origin of Ideas in Deleuze’s ‘Difference and Repetition’” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 52:3 (2021): 183-202.
  • Justin Clemens, “Space, Place, Materiality in Contemporary Australian Poetry” in New Directions in Contemporary Australian Poetry, Dan Disney and Matthew Hall (eds.). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021, pp. 145-157.
  • Lucy Benjamin, “Earthly Births: The Messianism of Natality in the Climate Crisis” Approaching Religion. 10.2 (2020): 73-91.
  • Lucy Benjamin, “Relational Ontologies in Cavarero, Butler and ArendtPhilosophy Today. 64.3 (2020): 671-689.
  • Justin Clemens, “Morbus Anglicus; or, Pandemic, Panic, PandaemoniumCrisis & Critique 7.3 (2020): 40-60.
  • Danny Butt, How Artistic Research Ends. Melbourne: Surpllus. RUPC #7, 2020
  • Yhonnie Scarce and Lisa Radford, The Image is not nothing (Concrete Archives)A+A Online (2020).
  • Joseph Hughes, “Between Heidegger and Blanchot: Death, Transcendence and the Origin of Ideas in Deleuze’s Difference and RepetitionJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology (2020): 1-19.
  • Justin Clemens, “Contraversy in the Nursery; or, A Brace of Basterds” Journal of Continental Philosophy 1.2 (2020): 232-243.
  • Joseph Hughes, “The greatest deception: fiction, falsity and manifestation in Spinoza’s Metaphysical Thoughts” Intellectual History Review 30:3 (2020): 363-385.
  • Danny Butt, “Ethics and the Infrastructure of Artistic Research: Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument” in The Meeting of Aesthetics and Ethics in the Academy: Challenges for Creative Practice Researchers in Higher Education, Kate MacNeill and Barbara Bolt (eds.), London: Routledge, 2019, 25–37.
  • Joseph Hughes, “Scenes of Post-War French ThoughtAngelaki 24:6 (2019): 22-40.
  • Joseph Hughes, “Formal Destruction: The Art of the Fugue in Destroy, She Said” Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique 12 (2019): 42-66.
  • Lucy Benjamin, “Reorienting the Gaze: Hearing Sex in Cinema” Mai: Journal of Feminism and Visual Culture 2 (2018).
  • Joseph Hughes, “The Cold Quietness of the Stars: Proof, Rhetoric and the Authority of Reason in the Ethics” in Spinoza’s Authority Volume I: Resistance and Power in Ethics, A Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris Vardoulakis (eds.), London/New York: Bloomsbury, 2018, 113-134.
  • Danny Butt, Artistic Research in the Future Academy. Bristol/Chicago, Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press, 2017.
  • A. J. Bartlett and Justin Clemens (eds.), What is Education? Edinburgh University Press, 2017.
  • Elliot Patsoura and Thomas Sutherland, “Michel Foucault, Friedrich Kittler, and the interminable half-life of ‘so-called man’” Angelaki 22:4 (2017): 49-68.
  • Danny Butt, and Rachel O’Reilly, “Infrastructures of Autonomy on the Professional Frontier: ‘Art and the Boycott of/as Art’.” Journal of Aesthetics and Protest 10 (2017): Online.
  • Ben Gook, “Australian Postcolonial Trauma and Silences in Samson and Delilah.” In Scars and Wounds: Film and Legacies of Trauma, Nick Hodgin and Amit Thakkar (eds.), Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, 169–94.
  • Ben Gook, “Ecstatic Melancholic: Ambivalence, Electronic Music and Social Change around the Fall of the Berlin Wall.” Emotions: History, Culture, Society 1:2 (2017): 11–37.
  • Danny Butt, and Local Time, “Colonial Hospitality: Rethinking Curatorial and Artistic Responsibility.” Journal for Artistic Research 10 (May 2016): Online.
  • Danny Butt, Scott McQuire, and Nikos Papastergiadis, “Platforms and Public Participation.” Continuum Journal Of Media & Cultural Studies 30:6 (2016): 734–43.
  • Danny Butt, “Double-Bound: Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization.” RUPC Working Papers Series, no. 1 (2015): 1–14.
  • Joseph Hughes, “Ground, Transcendence and Method in Deleuze’s Fichte” in At the Edges of Thought: Deleuze and Post-Kantian Philosophy, C. Lundy and D. Voss (eds.), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015, 146-167.
  • Joseph Hughes, “The Schizoanalysis of Literature: Austen, Behn and the Scene of Desire” in The Schizoanalysis of Literature, Tim Matts and Aidan Tynan (eds.). Edinburgh University Press, 2015, 63-81.
  • Jessica Marian, “Styling against Absolute Knowledge in Derrida’s GlasParrhesia 24 (2015): 217-238.
  • Elliot Patsoura and Thomas Sutherland, “Human-in-the-last-instance? The Concept of ‘Man’ between Foucault and Laruelle” Parrhesia 24 (2015): 285-311.
  • Ben Gook, Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders: Re-Unified Germany after 1989. London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015.
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Elizabeth Presa, ‘Golden Skin,’ from theorem exhibition, Meija Gallery, October 2022