Ian Buchanan (academic)

Ian Buchanan (born 1969) is an Australian public academic. He has published works on Michel de Certeau, Gilles Deleuze and Fredric Jameson.

Biography

Born in rural Western Australia, Buchanan grew up in the suburbs of Perth. He did his BA and PhD in the English and Comparative Literature program at Murdoch University, graduating in 1995. His PhD dissertation is entitled 'Heterology: Towards a Transcendental Empiricist Approach to Cultural Studies.'

Work

Buchanan edited special issues of the journals Social Semiotics (vol 7:2, 1997) and South Atlantic Quarterly (vol 93:3, 1997), the latter was subsequently reprinted as the book A Delusion Century?

Bibliography

Books

• Michel de Certau: Cultural Theorist (London: 2000, SAGE Publications) ISBN 0761958983
• Deleuze: A Metacommentary (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000) ISBN 0748610057
• Fredric Jameson: Live Theory (London & New York: Continuum, 2006) ISBN 082649109X
• Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus (London & New York: Continuum, 2008) ISBN 0826491499
• Assemblage Theory and Method: An Introduction and Guide (London & New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020) ISBN 1350015555
• The Incomplete Project of Schizoanalysis: Collected Essays on Deleuze and Guattari (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021) ISBN 1474487890