Bruno
Bosteels, Associate Professor of Spanish. PhD in Romance Languages
and Literatures from the University of Pennsylvania (1995; MA 1992),
AB in Romance Philology from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Belgium (1989). Before coming to Cornell, he held positions as an
assistant professor at Harvard University and at Columbia University.
He is the author of Badiou o el recomienzo del materialismo dialéctico (2007), Badiou and Politics (2009) and Marx and Freud in Latin America (expected 2010). He is currently preparing a manuscript entitled, After Borges: Literature
and Antiphilosophy. He is also the translator of several books by Alain Badiou: Theory of the Subject (Continuum, 2009), Can Politics Be Thought? followed by An Obscure
Disaster: On the End of the Truth of State, and What Is Antiphilosophy?
Essays on Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Lacan (both for Duke University
Press). He is the author of dozens of articles on modern Latin
American literature and culture, and on contemporary European philosophy
and political theory. His research interests further include the
crossovers between art, literature, theory, and cartography; the
radical movements of the 1960s and 1970s; decadence, dandyism, and
anarchy at the turn between the 19th and 20th centuries; the communist hypothesis; cultural
studies and critical theory; and the reception of Marx and Freud
in Latin America. He currently serves as the general editor of diacritics.
PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Badiou o el recomienzo del materialismo dialéctico (Santiago de Chile: Palinodia, 2007).
Badiou and Politics (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009).
Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Religion, and Psychoanalysis in the Age of Terror (New York: Columbia University Press, expected 2010).
After Borges: Literature and Antiphilosophy (in preparation).
Editions:
Los nuevos sujetos de la política. Special issue of Metapolítica 8.36 (July-August 2004). Essays and contributions by Alain Badiou, Jean Franco, Jacques Rancière, Slavoj Žižek, Josefina Ludmer, John Kraniauskas, Alain Touraine, and Raúl J. Cerdeiras. Electronic version includes additional contributions by Alberto Moreiras, Gareth Williams, John Beverley, and Peter Hallward. Available on the Web: http://www.metapolitica.com.mx/36/dosscompleto.htm
What Is Antiphilosophy? Writings on Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Lacan, by Alain Badiou. Edited, translated, and with an Introduction by Bruno Bosteels. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.
Marx y los marxismos en América Latina. Ed. Bruno Bosteels. Santiago de Chile: ARCIS/diacritics, in preparation.
Marx and Marxisms in Latin America. Special issue of diacritics: A Review of Contemporary Criticism (2009)
Translations of Books:
Theory of the Subject (Théorie du sujet), by Alain Badiou. London: Continuum, 2009.
Rhapsody for the Theatre: A Short Philosophical Treatise (Rhapsodie pour le théâtre. Court traité philosophique), by Alain Badiou. Theatre Survey: The Journal of the American Society for Theatre Research 49.2 (2008): 187-238.
Can Politics Be Thought? (Peut-on penser la politique?) followed by Of An Obscure Disaster: On The End of the Truth of the State (D’un désastre obscur: Sur la fin de la vérité d’Etat), by Alain Badiou. Durham: Duke University Press, 2009.
What Is Antiphilosophy?
Writings on Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Lacan, by Alain Badiou. Durham: Duke University
Press, 2009.
With Thomas Harrison, The Secularization of Philosophy (Etica dell'interpretazione), by Gianni Vattimo. Atlantic Highlands: Humanities Books, under contract.
Articles:
"Badiou and Hegel." Badiou: Key Concepts. Ed. Justin Clemens and A. J. Barlett. London: Acumen, 2010.
"Archi-politics, Meta-politics, Para-politics." Rancière: Key Concepts. Ed. Jean-Philippe Deranty. London: Acumen, 2009.
"Hegel in America." Religion, Politics, and the Dialectic: Hegel and the Opening of the Infinite. Ed. Clayton Crockett, Creston Davis, and Slavoj Zizek. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
"L'acte de Zizek." Revue Internationale de Philosophie (in preparation).
"From Potentiality to Inexistence: Politics as the Art of the Impossible." Potentialities. Ed. Jan Voelker. Zürich and Berlin: Diaphanes, forthcoming.
"Untiming Decadence across the Atlantic." MLQ (in preparation for 2009).
"Metapolitics" and "Event." Encyclopedia of Political Theory. Ed Mark Bevir. New York: Routledge, under contract.
"Radical Antiphilosophy." Radical Philosophy? Ed. Peter Klepec. Special isue of Filozofski Vestnik (2008).
"El comunismo invariante o la acumulación de la crítica." Crítica de la acumulación. Ed. Oscar Cabezas and Alessandro Fornazzari (Santiago de Chile: LOM, forthcoming).
" Mímesis y economía política." Mímesis y política. Ed. Willy Thayer and Federico Galende (Santiago de Chile: ARCIS, in preparation).
"Untiming Decadence in Latin America." PMLA (forthcoming).
"Pour une nouvelle théorie du sujet: Continuités et discontinuités." Autour de Logiques des mondes d’Alain Badiou. Ed. David Rabouin (forthcoming).
"Are There Any Saints Left? León Rozitchner as a Reader of Saint Augustine." Cities of Men, Cities of God: Augustine and Late Secularism. Ed. Leo Russ. Special issue of Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture & Politics 19-20 (2008): 7-22.
"The Melancholy Left: Specters of 1968 in Mexico and Beyond." (1968) Episodes of Culture in Contest. Ed. Cathy Crane and Nicholas Muellner. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008.
"Mexico 1968: The Revolution of Shame." Radical Philosophy 149 (2008).
"Art, Politics, History: Notes on Badiou and Rancière." Inästhetik 0 (2008).
"Force of NonLaw: Alain Badiou’s Theory of Justice." Law and Event. Special issue of Cardozo Law Review 29.5 (2008): 1905-1926.
"For a New Poetics of the Site." Traversing Geographies: New Poetics of Space. Special issue of Working Papers 2.2 (2008).
"Afterword: Being, Thinking, Acting, or, On the Uses and Disadvantages of Ontology for Politics." A Leftist Ontology. Ed. Carsten Strathausen. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
"Rancière’s Leftism, or, Politics and Its Discontents." Jacques Rancière: Politics, History, Aesthetics. Ed. Phil Watts and Gabriel Rockhill. Durham: Duke University Press, under contract.
"Breve teoría del sujeto en Borges." In memoriam Jorge Luis Borges. Ed. Rafael Olea Franco. Mexico City: Colegio de México, 2008. 265-291.
"Thinking the Event: Alain Badiou." The History of Continental Philosophy. General editor Alan D. Schrift. Vol. 8: Emerging Trends in Continental Philosophy. Ed. Todd May (2009).
"Between Freud and a Naked Woman: Notes on Sabina Berman’s Dora." Psychoanalysis North and South. Ed. Federico Finchelstein. Special issue of E.I.A.L.: Estudios Interdisciplinarios de América latina y el Caribe 18.1 (2007): 41-61.
"Marxismo y melodrama: Reflexiones sobre Los errores de José Revueltas." El terreno de los días: Homenaje a José Revueltas. Ed. Francisco Ramírez and Martín Oyata. México: Porrúa, 2007. 121-146.
"Manual de conjuradores: Borges o la colectividad imposible." Jorge Luis Borges: políticas de la literatura. Ed. Juan Pablo Dabove. Pittsburgh: Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoamericana, 2007.
"The Ethical Superstition." The Ethics of Latin American Literary Criticism: Reading Otherwise. Ed. Erin Graff Zivin. New York: Palgrave, 2007. 10-23.
"The Truth Is In the Making: Borges and Pragmatism." The Romanic Review 98.2-3 (2007): 135-151.
"La leçon de Rancière: On a raison de se mésentendre ou malaise dans la politique." La philosophie déplacée: Autour de Jacques Rancière. Ed. Laurence Cornu and Patrice Vermeren. Lyon: Editions Horlieux, 2006. 49-70. Available on-line: http://semimarx.free.fr/article.php3?id_article=106
"Borges as Antiphilosopher." Borges escritor del siglo XXI. Ed. Silvia N. Barei and Christina Karageourgou-Bastea. Special issue of Vanderbilt e-Journal of Luso-Hispanic Studies 3 (2006): 23-31.
"Generiek communisme: Over metapolitiek en onverschillige gelijkheid." Het uur van de waarheid: Alain Badiou revolutionair denker. Ed. Richard de Brabander. Kampen: Ten Have, 2006. 83-100.
"Siting the Event: Gego, Modernity, and the Cartographic Turn." Gego 1957-1988: Thinking the Line. Ed. Nadja Rottner and Peter Weibel. Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2006. 21-36.
"For Lack of Politics: Theses on the Political Philosophy of Radical Democracy." Theory@Buffalo 10(2005): 54-80.
"Alain Badiou’s Theory of the Subject: The Recommencement of Dialectical Materialism." Lacan: His Silent Partners. Ed. Slavoj Zizek (London: Verso, 2006). 115-168.
"Una arqueología del porvenir: Acto, memoria, dialéctica." La Palabra y el Hombre: Revista de la Universidad Veracruzana 134 (2005): 161-171.
"Literatura, economía, política (fragmentos)." La crítica: revistas literarias, académicas y culturales. Special issue of Revista de Crítica Cultural 31 (2005): 18-23.
"Can Change Be Thought? A Dialogue with Alain Badiou." Alain Badiou: Philosophy And Its Conditions. Ed. Gabriel Riera (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2005). 237-261. Published in Spanish in Argentina as “Posmaoísmo: Un diálogo con Alain Badiou.” Acontecimiento: Revista para pensar la política 24-25 (2003): 45-78; and, partially, in Chile as “Fidelidad, militancia y verdad: Un diálogo con Alain Badiou.” Extremoccidente 2 (2003): 2-9. Full version in French published as “Peut-on penser le nouveau en situation.” Situations de la philosophie. Special issue of Failles 2 (2006): 62-93. German translation published in Inaesthetik 0 (2008).
"The Speculative Left." Thinking Politically. Ed. Alberto Moreiras. Special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 104:4 (2005): 751-767. Published in Spanish as “Más allá del izquierdismo especulativo.” Acontecimiento: Revista para pensar la política 29-30 (2005).
"Nonplaces: An Anecdoted Topography of Contemporary French Theory." New Coordinates: Spatial Mappings, National Trajectories. Ed. Bob Davidson and Joan Ramon Resina. Special issue of diacritics 33.3-4 (2003).
"Post-Maoism: Badiou and Politics." Alain Badiou and Cultural Revolution. Special issue of positions: east asia culture critique 13.3 (2005): 576-634.
"Kritiek van de zuivere linkse rede." Politieke concepten herdenken/Het politieke herdacht. Ed. Tammy Lynn Castelein and Bram Ieven. Special issue of Ethiek en Maatschappij 8.1 (2005): 84-97.
“Theses on Antagonism, Hybridity, and the Subaltern in Latin America.” Latin American Subaltern Studies Revisited. Ed. Gustavo Verdesio. Special issue of Dispositio/n: American Journal of Cultural Histories and Theories 25: 52 (2005): 147-158.
"Badiou without Zizek." The Philosophy of Alain Badiou. Ed. Matthew Wilkens. Special issue of Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture & Politics 17 (2005): 223-246.
"Economía literaria y economía general." Encuentro de la literatura argentina con el discurso crítico. XII Congreso Nacional de Literatura Argentina. Ed. Marcela Arpes and Nora Ricaud. Río Gallegos: Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral, 2005). 11-27.
"The Obscure Subject: Sovereignty and Geopolitics in Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth." World Orders: Confronting Carl Schmitt’s The Nomos of the Earth. Ed. William Rasch. South Atlantic Quarterly 104:2 (2005): 295-305.
"On the Subject of the Dialectic." Think Again: Alain Badiou and the Future of Philosophy. Ed. Peter Hallward (London: Continuum, 2004). 150-164.
"Een kwestie van communisme: Filosofie en politiek bij Alain Badiou." Dossier “Alain Badiou.” Yang 1 (2004): 33-40.
"Hegel in Mexico: Memory and Alienation in the Posthumous Writings by José Revueltas." Memory and Nation in Contemporary Mexico. Ed. Ryan F. Long and José Villalobos. Special issue of South Central Review: The Journal of the South Central Modern Language Association 21.3 (2004): 46-69.
"Logics of Antagonism: In the Margins of Alain Badiou’s 'The Flux and the Party.'" Immanence, Transcendence, and Utopia. Ed. Marta Hernández Salván and Juan Carlos Rodríguez. Special issue of Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture & Politics 15/16 (2004): 93-107.
"Mexico City Through the Lens of Violence and Utopia." Cityscapes. Latin America and Beyond. Special issue of ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America 2 (2003): 69-70.
"Del complot al potlatch: Política, economía, cultura." Neoliberalismo, fabulaciones y complot. Special issue of Revista de Crítica Cultural 26 (2003): 39-45.
(with Peter Hallward) "Beyond Formalisation: An Interview with Alain Badiou." The One or the Other: French Philosophy Today. Ed. Peter Hallward. Special issue of Angelaki 8.2 (2003): 111-137. Pirate French version available on the Web: http://ciepfc.rhapsodyk.net/article.php3?id_article=48. Partial Dutch translation “Aan gene zijde van formalisatie: Alain Badiou in gesprek met Peter Hallward en Bruno Bosteels. Het uur van de waarheid: Alain Badiou revolutionair denker. Ed. Richard de Brabander. Kampen: Ten Have, 2006. 121-137.
"Guillermo Kuitca: El arte de la teoría." Four in One: Richard Deacon, Guillermo Kuitca, Bruce Nauman, Thomas Struth (3 abril-17 mayo 2003). Madrid: Distrito Cuatro Galería de Arte, 2003. 20-31. (English translation “Guillermo Kuitca: The Art of Theory,” 57-62).
"In the Shadow of Mao: Ricardo Piglia’s 'Homenaje a Roberto Arlt.'" Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies 12.2 (2003): 229-259.
"El fin de la eternidad: En torno al pragmatismo de Jorge Luis Borges." In Federico García Lorca et Cetera. Ed. Nicole Delbecque, Nadie Lie, and Brigitte Adriaensen (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2003). 435-444.
" Vérité et forçage: Badiou avec Heidegger et Lacan." Alain Badiou: Penser le Multiple. Ed. Charles Ramond (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2002). 259-293.
"La comunidad indebida: Lenguaje y utopía en El gran derrapador de Jorge Santiago Perednik." In Jorge Santiago Perednik, El gran derrapador (Buenos Aires: La Bohemia, 2002). 79-93.
“Manifiesto para el ciudadano global. Una lectura crítica del tratado de Hardt y Negri, a la luz del convulsionado clima argentino.” Suplemento Cultura y Nación. Clarín (March 23, 2002): 4.
Reproduced on the Web:
http://old.clarin.com/suplementos/cultura/2002/03/23/
http://www.rebelion.org/sociales/bosteels010702.htm
"Alain Badiou’s Theory of the Subject: The Recommencement of Dialectical Materialism? Part II." In Foucault: Madness/Sexuality/Biopolitics. Special issue of PLI: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy 13 (2002): 173-208.
"Alain Badiou’s Theory of the Subject: Part I. The Recommencement of Dialectical Materialism?" What Is Materialism? Special issue of PLI: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy 12 (2001): 200-229.
"From Text to Territory: Félix Guattari's Cartographies of the Unconscious." In Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture. Eds. Kevin Jon Heller and Eleanor Kaufman (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998). 145-174. Reprinted in Deleuze and Guattari: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers. Ed. Gary Genosko (New York: Routledge, 2001). 881-910.
" Más allá de Ariel y Calibán: Notas para una crítica de la razón cultural." Delmira Agustini y el modernismo: Nuevas propuestas de género. Ed. Tina Escaja (Rosario: Beatriz Viterbo, 2000). 78-106.
"Por una falta de política: Tesis sobre la filosofía de la democracia radical." Acontecimiento: Revista para pensar la política 17 (1999): 63-89. Reprinted under the title “Democracia radical: Tesis sobre la filosofía del radicalismo democrático.” Los nuevos adjetivos de la democracia. Special issue of Metapolítica 18 (2001): 96-115. Pirate copy reproduced on the Web: http://www.antroposmoderno.com/antro-articulo.php?id_articulo=187
"Travesías del fantasma: Pequeña metapolítica del 68 en México." Metapolítica: Revista Trimestral de Teoría y Ciencia de la Política 12 (1999): 733-768.
"La ideología borgeana." Acontecimiento: Revista para pensar la política 14 (1997): 51-92. Reprinted, in an abridged version, in Territorios intelectuales: Pensamiento y Cultura en América Latina. Ed. Javier Lasarte Valcarcel (Caracas: La Nave Va, 2001). 359-382.
"'Así habló Próspero': La eficacia de la ideología en el modernismo hispanoamericano." Culturas en rotación: Modernidad y Posmodernidad en América Latina. Special issue of Torre de Papel 8:3 (1997): 43-108.
"A Misreading of Maps: The Politics of Cartography in Marxism and Poststructuralism." Signs of Change: Premodern, Modern, Postmodern. Ed. Stephen Barker (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996). 109-138.
(With Loris Mirella and Peter Schilling) "The Politics of Totality in Magic Realism." Challenging Boundaries: Global Flows, Territorial Identities. Eds. Michael Shapiro and Hayward R. Alker (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996). 111-133.
"Borges hacia una lectura espacial." LA CHISPA '95: Selected Proceedings. Ed. Claire J. Paolini (New Orleans: Tulane University, 1995). 49-58.
"From Text to Diagram: Towards a Semiotics of Cultural Cartography." Semiotics '94. Ed. C. W. Spinks (New York: Peter Lang, 1995). 347-359.
"Monstrosity and the Postmodern: Michel Foucault's Approach to Jorge Luis Borges." Literature and Society: Centers and Margins. Ed. José García, Betina Kaplan, Carlos Lechner, et al. (New York: Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University, 1994). 9-20.
"Nadie nos vio desembarcar en la unánime noche: Análisis textual y transtextual de 'Las ruinas circulares.'" In Inés Malinow, Saúl Yurkievich, et al., Homenaje a Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). Jornada del 21 de marzo de 1987. Leuven: Aleph, 1989. 65-99.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
The Cartographic Turn: Mapping Art, Literature and Critical Theory Since 1950
The Radical Left in the 1960s and 1970s
Decadence, Dandyism and Anarchy at the Turn of the Century (1880-1910)
Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
Contemporary Philosophy: Thinking the Event
Theories of the Subject
The Thought of Alain Badiou
Marx and Freud in Latin America
Legacies of Jorge Luis Borges
RECENT COURSES
After Borges: Literature, Politics, and the Aesthetic Act
Cultural Politics of 1968 in Paris and Mexico City
Readings in Latin American Literatures
Critical Theories: Marx and Freud in Latin America
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