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 currently preparing two book manuscripts, After Borges: Literature
and Antiphilosophy and Badiou and Politics (forthcoming from Duke University Press). He is also translating and introducing two
books by Badiou: 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; cultural
studies and critical theory; and the reception of Marx and Freud
in Latin America.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Badiou and Politics (Durham: Duke University Press, forthcoming).
After Borges: Literature and Antiphilosophy (in preparation).
Articles:
“Out of Site: Gego, Uneven Modernity, and the Limits of Freedom.” Thinking the Line: Gego. Ed. Nadja Rottner and Peter Weibel (2006).
“Truth and Terror: Politics, Psychoanalysis and Religion in the Philosophy of León Rozitchner.” Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies (in preparation).
“Nothing is Everything: Elements for a Renewal of the Materialist Dialectic.” The Nothing(ness)/Le rien/das Nichts. Ed. Alenka Zupančič. Special issue of Filozofski vestnik (2005).
“Literatura, economía, política (fragmentos).” La crítica: revistas literarias, académicas y culturales. Special issue of Revista de Crítica Cultural 31 (2005): 18-23.
“The Speculative Left.” Thinking Politically. Ed. Alberto Moreiras. Special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (2005).
“Una arqueología del porvenir: Acto, memoria, dialéctica.” Ed. Philippe Cheron. Special issue of La Palabra y el Hombre (2005).
“Alain Badiou’s Theory of the Subject: The Recommencement of Dialectical Materialism.” Lacan: His Silent Partners. Ed. Slavoj Zizek. London: Verso, forthcoming.
“Can Change Be Thought? A Dialogue with Alain Badiou.”
Alain Badiou: Philosophy Under Conditions. Ed. Gabriel Riera (Albany:
State University of New York Press, 2005). 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.
“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.
“Theses on Antagonism, Hybridity, and the Subaltern in Latin
America.” Latin American Subaltern Studies Revisited. Special issue edited by Gustavo Verdesio. Dispositio/Disposition 25: 52 (2005): 147-158.
“Badiou without Žižek.” The Philosophy of Alain Badiou. Ed. Matthew Wilkens. Special issue of Polygraph: An International Journal of Culture & Politics 17 (2005): 223-246.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“Non-Places: An Anecdoted Topography of Recent Critical Theory.” Special issue edited by Bob Davidson and Joan Ramon Resina. Diacritics (in preparation).
“Post-Maoism: Badiou and Politics.” positions: east asia culture critique 13.3 (2005).
“El comunismo invariante o la acumulación de la crítica.” Crítica de la acumulación. Ed. Oscar Cabezas and Alessandro Fornazzari (Santiago de Chile: LOM, forthcoming).
“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.
“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.” Yang 1 (2004): 31-39.
(with Peter Hallward) “Beyond Formalization: An Interview
with Alain Badiou.” The One or the Other: French Philosophy
Today. Special issue of Angelaki 8.2 (2003): 111-137.
“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.
“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.
“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.
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“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.
“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.
“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.
“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.
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“Travesías del fantasma: Pequeña metapolítica
del 68 en México.” Metapolítica: Revista Trimestral
de Teoría y Ciencia de la Política 12 (1999): 733-768.
“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.
“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.
“From Text to Diagram: Towards a Semiotics of Cultural Cartography.” Semiotics '94. Ed. C. W. Spinks (New York: Peter Lang, 1995). 347-359.
“Borges hacia una lectura espacial.” LA CHISPA '95:
Selected Proceedings. Ed. Claire J. Paolini (New Orleans: Tulane
University, 1995). 49-58.
“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.
“Literatuur
in tijden van cholera.” Veto (March 1988): 8-9. (“Literature
in Times of Cholera”).
Translations:
Can Politics Be Thought? (Peut-on penser la politique?) followed by Of An Obscure Disaster: The End of the Truth of State (D’un désastre obscur: Sur la fin de la vérité d’Etat), by Alain Badiou (Durham: Duke University Press, in preparation)
What Is Antiphilosophy? Essays on Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Lacan, by Alain Badiou (Durham: Duke University Press, in preparation)
Edition:
Los nuevos sujetos de la política. Ed. Bruno Bosteels. 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
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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