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Dr. Scott Wilson

Reader in Cultural Theory

Personal website

Current Teaching

Courses:

CULT 222: Disco, Punk and the Politics of Jouissance (BA Popular Music and Cultural Studies)

CULT 925: Enjoyment, Technology, Consumption (MA Media and Cultural Studies)

Research Interests

For commentaries on my current research interests (amusia, audio unconscious, black metal, Satanforladt)see:

http://scottwilson-amusia.blogspot.com

Selected Books:

The Audio Unconscious (forthcoming)

The Order of Joy: Beyond the Cultural Politics of Enjoyment, New York: SUNY Press, 2008. http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61618

Great Satan's rage: American negativity and rap/metal in the age of supercapitalism, Manchester University Press, 2008.

http://www.amazon.com/Great-Satans-Rage-Negativity-Supercapitalism/dp/0719074630/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208440172&sr=1-1

Cultural Materialism, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995

(with Fred Botting):

Bataille. London: Palgrave, 2001

The Tarantinian Ethics. Sage, 2001

The Bataille Reader, Blackwell, 1998

Bataille: A Critical Reader, Blackwell, 1998.

Please also check out:

The Journal for Cultural Research (Taylor and Francis)

(I am co-editor with Mick Dillon)

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/rcuvauth.asp

Potential Doctoral Proposals

Critical and cultural theory (particularly Bataille, psychoanalysis, Deleuze)

popular music

film and literature

contemporary Chinese art

I have successfully supervised past PhD students in the following areas, among others:

• Oscar Wilde and 19th century consumption
• American non-foundationalist philosophy
• The General Economy of Discourse in Alexandre Kojève, Georges Bataille and Jacques Lacan
• Representations of the Provisional IRA in contemporary film and fiction
• The Metaphor of the Virus
• The commodification of Englishness in contemporary film and fiction
• New Taiwanese Cinema
• Shakespeare and Renaissance visual art
• Ocularcentric (Re)vision: Fucking, Looking and Blinding
• MADDness, Psychoanalysis, Literature

Current PhD students are completing theses in:

Contemporary Chinese Art

Leo Strauss and the End of Modernity

Associated Keywords: Amusia, Black metal, Contemporary Chinese art, Critical theory, Cultural theory, Death metal, Deleuze, Disco, Doom, Freud, Georges Bataille, Lacanian psychoanalysis , Literary theory, Popular Music, Punk, Schizoanalysis, Shakespeare

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