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. Buchanan claims to be the founding editor of the Deleuze Studies journal, as well as a number of book series dedicated to the work of Gilles Deleuze.

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, entitled, "Heterology: Towards a Transcendental Empiricist Approach to Cultural Studies" attempted to fuse the work of de Certeau and Deleuze for the purposes of doing cultural analysis.

Work

In 1996, Buchanan was appointed on a one-year contract at the Department of English at the University of Western Australia to teach critical theory. That year he convened the first major conference on Gilles Deleuze to be held in Australia, and one of the first anywhere in the world, and featured Fredric Jameson as keynote speaker. A selection of papers from this conference were edited by Buchanan as 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 Deleuzian Century?

In the summer of 2007 Buchanan organised the first "Deleuze Camp", a week-long summer school focusing exclusively on the work of Gilles Deleuze with instruction provided by Buchanan as well as Claire Colebrook, Gregg Lambert, Paul Patton and Dan Smith. The event was repeated in 2008 to coincide with the first international Deleuze Studies conference held to launch the journal of Deleuze Studies Buchanan founded in 2007.

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

Edited Books

• 2008 (with Patricia MacCormack) Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema, Continuum.
• 2008 (with Nicholas Thoburn) Deleuze and Politics, Edinburgh University Press.
• 2007 Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism, Duke University Press.
• 2006 (with Adrian Parr, PhD) Deleuze and the Contemporary World, Edinburgh University Press.
• 2006 (with Caren Irr) On Fredric Jameson, SUNY Press.
• 2005 (with Gregg Lambert) Deleuze and Space, Edinburgh University Press.
• 2004 (with Marcel Swiboda) Deleuze and Music, Edinburgh University Press.
• 2000 (with John Marks) Deleuze and Literature, Edinburgh University Press.
• 2000 (with Claire Colebrook) Deleuze and Feminist Theory, Edinburgh University Press.
• 1999 A Deleuzian Century? (reissue of South Atlantic Quarterly 96:3), Duke University Press.
• 1999 (with Ruth Barcan) Imagining Australian Space, UWA Press.

Guest Edited Journals

• Guest Editor (with Jeffrey R. Di Leo) for Symploke (vol 11: 1–2 2003) a special issue on Literary Theory.
• Guest Editor for South Atlantic Quarterly (vol 100:2 2001), a special issue on Michel de Certeau.
• Guest Editor for Paragraph (vol 22:2 1999), a special issue on Michel de Certeau.
• Guest Editor for Social Semiotics (vol 7:2 1997), a special issue on Gilles Deleuze.
• Guest Editor for South Atlantic Quarterly (vol 96:3 1997), a special issue on Gilles Deleuze.
• Guest Editor for Social Semiotics (vol 6:1 1996), a special issue on Michel de Certeau.