Philosophy and Social and Cultural Analysis

University of Western Sydney, Australia

Senior Lecturer

Email: c.fleming@uws.edu.au

Qualifications

1999 Ph.D., Philosophy, University of Western Sydney, Australia

1994 B.A. B.Ed. (Hons), University of New South Wales, Australia

Publications (Selected)

1. Modern Conspiracy: The Importance of Being Paranoid (with Emma A. Jane). Bloomsbury: New York and London, 2014. (August 2014.)

2. "The Apocalypse will not be Televised.” In Mimesis, Media, and the Movies: Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines. Volume 2. Ed. with Scott Cowdell and Joel Hodge. Bloomsbury: New York and London, 2014.33-48

3. "’Revolution!' – The Rhetoric of Exclamation." Anthropoetics 19, no. 2 (Spring 2014). http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1902/1902Fleming.htm [with John O’Carroll]

4. Mimesis, Media, and the Movies: Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines. Volume 2. Ed. with Scott Cowdell and Joel Hodge. Bloomsbury: New York and London, 2014.
5. Derrida, Jacques.” In Jon R. McGee and Richard L. Warns (eds.) Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Volume 1. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 2013. 181-184.
6. “Girard, René”. In Jon R. McGee and Richard L. Warns (eds.) Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology. Volume 1. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage, 2013. 326-328.
7. “Introduction.” In Mimesis, Media, and the Movies: Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines. Volume 2. Ed. with Scott Cowdell and Joel Hodge. (Continuum: New York and London, 2013).
8. “Mimesis, Violence, and the Sacred.” In Mimesis, Media, and the Movies: Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines. Volume 2. Ed. with Scott Cowdell and Joel Hodge. (Continuum: New York and London, 2013).
9. “Revolution, Rupture, Rhetoric,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 38.1 (2012): 39-57.
10. Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines. Ed. with Scott Cowdell and Joel Hodge. Continuum: New York and London, 2012.
11. 'The Last Atheist.' in Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming and Joel Hodge (eds.) Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines. New York and London: Continuum, 2012. 227-250.
12. 'Introduction.' in Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming and Joel Hodge (eds.) Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines. New York and London: Continuum, 2012. 227-250.
13. 'Delusions of Agency: Kafka, Imprisonment, and Modern Victimhood' in A. Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris Vardoulakis (eds.) Freedom and Confinement in Modernity (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011) (ISBN 9780230113428) 29-48.
14. “The Dying of the Epic.” Anthropoetics 16.2 (Spring 2011). (With John O'Carroll.)
15. “The Art of the Hoax,” Parallax 57 (2010): 45-59 (with John O’Carroll).
16. “Scene, Not Herd. The Evanescent Underground.” Artlink 30.2 (2010): 21-23.
17. “Originary Economics and the Genesis of Advertising.” Anthropoetics XV.1 (2009) (with John O’Carroll).
18. “Is Nothing Sacred? Privatization and the Person.” Nebula 6.3 (2009): 100-120 (with John O’Carroll).
19. “A Modern Itinerary: Keynotes in the Search for Meaning,” Compass: A Review of Topical Theology 42.2 (2008): 19-24 (with John O’Carroll)
20. ‘What is the Human?’ in Adam Katz (ed.) The Originary Hypothesis: A Minimal Proposal for Humanistic Inquiry (Aurora, Colorado: Davies Publishing Group, 2007) (ISBN 9781888570366)
21. ‘Towards a New Cultural Studies’ Anthropoetics 13.1 (2007) (with John O’Carroll)
22. ‘God and Phenomenology’ Compass: A Review of Topical Theology 40.3 (2006): 36-42 (with John O’Carroll)
23. ‘Romanticism’ Anthropoetics 11.1 (2005) (with John O’Carroll)
24. ‘In Memoriam: Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)’ Anthropological Quarterly 78:1 (2005): 137-50 (Commissioned article)
25. René Girard: Violence and Mimesis (Cambridge: Polity Press / Blackwell, 2004).
26. 'Understanding Anti-Americanism' Anthropoetics 9:2 (2004) <http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0902/antiamerican.htm> (with John O'Carroll)
27. 'Notes on Generative Anthropology: Towards an Ethics of the Hypothesis,' Anthropoetics 8:2 (2003) (with John O'Carroll)
28. 'Dangerous Darwinism,' Public Understanding of Science, 11:3 (2002), pp. 259-271. (with Jane Goodall)
29. 'Mimesis and Violence - An Introduction to the Thought of René Girard.' Australian Religion Studies Review, 15:1 (Autumn 2002), pp. 57-72.
30. 'Performance as Guerilla Ontology: The Case of Stelarc.' Body and Society, 8:3 (2002), pp. 95-109
31. 'Mad or Just Acting? Insanity and Theatricalisation,' Griffith Law Review, 10:2 (2001), pp.279-293
32. 'Performance and Madness: Modes of Correction and the Theatrical Ruse.' Modern Drama, 44:4 (2001), pp. 383-97.