The work of an English lecturer from the University of Chichester will be reaching international audiences thanks to two projects.
Dr Benjamin Noys (Reader in English) has been invited to present a plenary at a conference on negativity and reflexivity at the Versus Laboratory in Maastricht in The Netherlands. He will be joining other leading philosophers between 10-12 September to reignite the debate about negativity in contemporary theory, something which has been widely contested in contemporary theory but that Dr Noys is keen to rehabilitate.
The invite to the conference in Maastricht is as a result of Dr Noys’ most recent publication, The Persistence of the Negative: A Critique of Contemporary Continental Theory, which will be published shortly by Edinburgh University Press.
In a separate project, an essay by Dr Noys on Werner Herzog’s documentary Grizzly Man has been translated into Polish and published in a leading Warsaw-based journal. The essay was originally published in the UK in 2007 and analyses the philosophical and political stakes of Herzog’s vision of nature. The essay is part of a wider series of works that Dr Noys has carried out on the cultural politics of the image, in particular in film and the graphic novel.
Dr Noys said: “It’s gratifying to see my work in contemporary theory being debated and recognised internationally, and to have the opportunity to contribute to discussions about the future of theory.”
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