Goldsmiths - University of London

Saul Newman BA, Hons, PhD

Wikipedia reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Newman
Interview with Saul Newman: http://community.livejournal.com/siyahi/
Saul Newman's personal homepage: http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/saulnewman/
I want change: http://www.luuonline.com/iwantchange.php
Talk by Saul Newman on Postanarchism http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzZn5uvd1-8

Biographical Information

I joined the Department in 2006. Before this I have taught and conducted postdoctoral research in Australia at the following institutions (since 1997): University of Western Australia, Curtin University, Edith Cowan University and Macquarie University

Areas of supervision

Research interests

My research interests are at the intersections between poststructuralism and contemporary political and social theory. I am interested in theories of power and ideology, the construction of political identities, radical politics, and post-Marxist and post-anarchist theory. Recently, I have written on radical politics in the time of globalisation, as well as the implications of the 'war on terrorism'.

Selected publications

Books:
- From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power,
(Lexington Books, 2001)
- Power and Politics in Poststructuralist Thought: New Theories of the Political. (Routledge, 2005).
- Bakunin’Den Laca’a (Turkish translation) (Ayrinti, 2006).
- Unstable Universalities: Postmodernity and Radical Politics (Manchester University Press, 2007)
- Politics Most Unusual: Violence, Sovereignty and Democracy in the War on terror (with Michael Levine and Damian Cox) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008)
- The Politics of Postanarchism (Edinburgh University Press, 2009)

Chapters in edited books:
2003: ‘Poststructuralism and Universality’, Liveable Communities. Ed., Janice Haswell and Diana McCallum. (Black Swan Press)
2004: ‘La Political Del Post-Anarchismo.’ Antisofia3: Viaggio Nella Modernita, ed., Ubaldo Fadini, Paolo Ferri, Tiziana Villani. (Mimesis: Milan)
2005: ‘Anarchism and the Politics of Ressentiment’, I Am Not A Man, I Am Dynamite: Nietzsche and Anarchism, ed., John Moore (Autonomedia).
2006: ‘Does Power Have a Place? Hegemony, Antagonism and Radical Politics’, Hegemony and Power, ed., Mark Haugaard and Howard Lentner (Lexington Books).
2007: ‘Terrible Terror: Security, Violence and Democracy in the “War on Terrorism”’ (with Michael Levine), Interrogating the War on Terror ed., Deborah Staines, (Cambridge Scholars Press).
2008: ‘Politics in the Age of Control’, Deleuze and New Technologies, ed., David Savat and Mark Poster, (Edinburgh University Press).
2008: ‘Anarchism, Utopia and the Future of Radical Politics’, Anarchism and Utopianism, ed., Ruth Kinna and Laurence Davis (Manchester University Press)
2008: ‘Imprisoning Politics: The Logic of Security and the Undermining of Democracy’, The Day that Changed Everything?: A Disciplinary Series of Edited Volumes on the Impact of 9/11, Vol. 1, ed., Matt Morgan (Palgrave Macmillan)
2008: ‘Die Politik des Postanarchismus’, Neuer Anarchismus in Den USA, ed., Gabriel Kuhn, Munster: Unrast.

Refereed journal articles:
2000: ‘Universalism/Particularism: Towards a Poststructuralist Politics of Universality’, New Formations, 41.
2000: ‘Anarchism and the Politics of Ressentiment’, Theory and Event, Vol. 4.3.
2001: ‘Derrida and the Deconstruction of Authority’, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol. 27/3.
2001: 'For Collective Social Action: Towards a Postmodern Theory of Collective Identity', Philosophy and Social Action, Vol. 27/1.
2001: ‘War on the State: Deleuze and Stirner’s Anarchism’, Anarchist Studies, Vol. 9/2.
2001: ‘Foucault and the Limits of Power’, International Journal of Political Studies (RIEP) Vol. 3/1.
2001: ‘Spectres of Stirner: a Contemporary Critique of Ideology’, Journal of Political Ideologies, Vol. 6/3.
2002: ‘Strategie etiche contro il domino’, Libertaria, Vol. 4/1.
2002: ‘Max Stirner and the Politics of Post-Humanism’, Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 1/2.
2002: ‘Politics of the Ego: Stirner’s Critique of Liberalism’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol. 5/3 (Autumn).
2003: ‘Stirner and Foucault: Towards a Post-Kantian Freedom, Postmodern  Culture Vol. 13/2.
2003: ‘Spectres of the Uncanny: the ‘return of the repressed’ in politics,’ Telos 124
Summer  2002.
2003: ‘Empiricism, Pluralism and Politics in Stirner and Deleuze’, Idealistic Studies Vol. 33/1.
2004: ‘The Place of Power in Political Discourse’, International Political Science Review Vol. 25/2.
2004: ‘New Reflections on the Theory of Power: a Lacanian Perspective’, Contemporary Political Theory Vol. 3/2.
2004: ‘Anarchism, Marxism and the Bonapartist State’ Anarchist Studies. Vol. 12/1.
2004: ‘Interrogating the Master: Lacan and Radical Politics’, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. Vol. 9.
2004: ‘Terror, Sovereignty and Law: On the Politics of Violence.’ German Law Journal 5/5
2005: ‘Stirner e Foucault: em direcao a uma liberdade pos-kantiana’, Verve. Vol. 7.
2006: ‘War, Politics, Race: Reflections on Violence in the ‘War on Terror’ (with Michael Levine). Theoria, 110 (August)
2006: ‘Sacred Cows and The Changing Face of Discourse on Terrorism: Cranking it Up a Notch’ (with Michael Levine) International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 10/4.
2007: ‘Anarchism, Poststructuralism and the Future of Radical Politics’, SubStance #13 Vol. 36/2.
2008: ‘Connolly’s Democratic Pluralism and the Question of State Sovereignty’, The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, Vol. 10.

Teaching

I teach Level 1 'Ideas, Ideologies, Conflict'; Level 2 'Modern Political Theory'; Level 3 'Discourse, Power, Politics'; and MA 'Continental Political Theory

Research Supervision

My area of research expertise and supervision experience is in Continental political theory, poststructuralism, post-Marxism, French thought, psychoanalytic theory, radical politics, critical approaches to the war on terror and political theory generally. I welcome MA and PhD applications in these areas.