Associate Professor Chris Fleming

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Humanities (Arts)

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Biography

Dr Chris Fleming is currently Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and Member of the Writing and Society Research Centre. He has taught and conducted research at numerous universities in Australia and overseas, including the University of New South Wales, Sydney University, the University of Technology, and has been Visiting Fellow in French and Francophone Studies at UCLA and in the School of Romance Languages at Stanford University. He has written widely on issues of culture, philosophy, and religion, has worked as a French translator, and is the author or editor of ten books, including René Girard: Violence and Mimesis (London and New York: Polity, 2004), Modern Conspiracy: The Importance of Being Paranoid (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2014) (co-authored with Emma A. Jane), and On Drugs (Sydney: Giramondo, 2019). His work has appeared in journals such as Philosophy and Social Criticism, Body & Society, and Modern Drama, he has also written popular pieces for outlets such as The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Guardian, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. His fiction and poetry have appeared in places such as Westerly, Sunspot, and The Saturday Paper. His translations include works by Simone Weil, Simone deBeauvoir, and René Girard, including the first volume of René Girard's correspondence (Bloomsbury, 2016).

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Qualifications

PhD University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury
BA University of New South Wales
BEd University of New South Wales

Awards

Hawkesbury Postgraduate Award 1995-06-14
Australian Postgraduate Award 1994-11-01
Island Nonfiction Prize 2022 (Shortlist) 2022-07-14

Interests

Cultural Theory
Imitation
Philosophy of Language
Philosophy of Science
Violence
Epistemology
Ethics

Organisational Unit (School / Division)

Humanities (Arts)

Contact

Email:	C.Fleming@westernsydney.edu.au
Phone:	(02) 9772 6413
Mobile:
Location:	1.G.40 Bankstown

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Teaching

Previous Teaching Areas

100846 Analytical Reading and Writing, 2014
100960 Contemporary Society, 2017
101010 What is the Human?, 2016
101010 What is the Human?, 2023
101881 Philosophy and the Good Life, 2015
101881 Philosophy and the Good Life, 2017
102410 Digital Cultures, 2023
PHIL1006 Introduction to Philosophy, 2019
SS216A What is the Human?, 2014

Publications

Books

Bubbio, P. and Fleming, C. (2019), 'Mimetic Theory and Film', : Bloomsbury 9781501334832.
Fleming, C. (2019), 'On Drugs', : Giramondo 9781925818048.
Cowdell, S., Fleming, C., Hodge, J. and Osborn, C. (2018), 'Does Religion Cause Violence?: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Religion in the Modern World', : Bloomsbury Academic 9781501333835.
Cowdell, S., Fleming, C., Hodge, J. and Moosbrugger, M. (2016), 'Rene Girard and Raymund Schwager: Correspondence 1974-1991', : Bloomsbury Academic 9781501320477.
Cowdell, S., Fleming, C. and Hodge, J. (2015), 'Violence, Desire, and the Sacred, Volume 2, Mimesis, Movies, and Media', : Bloomsbury Academic 9781628924640.
Jane, E. and Fleming, C. (2014), 'Modern Conspiracy: The Importance of Being Paranoid', : Bloomsbury Academic 9781623560911.
Cowdell, S., Fleming, C. and Hodge, J. (2014), 'Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Volume 2, Rene Girard and Sacrifice in Life, Love, and Literature', : Bloomsbury Academic 9781623563066.
Cowdell, S., Fleming, C. and Hodge, J. (2012), 'Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Volume 1, Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines', : Continuum International Publishing Group 9781441194015.
Fleming, C. (2004), 'Rene Girard: Violence and Mimesis', : Polity 0745629482.

Chapters in Books

Fleming, C. (2020), 'Illuminati', The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, SAGE Publications 9781473942202.
Fleming , C. (2020), 'Philosophy of religion', The SAGE Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Religion, SAGE Publications 9781473942202.
Fleming, C. and Bubbio, P. (2019), 'Introduction [Mimetic Theory and Film]', Mimetic Theory and Film, Bloomsbury Academic 9781501334832.
Fleming, C. (2017), 'Resurgent religious themes in contemporary film', The Palgrave Handbook of Mimetic Theory and Religion, Palgrave Macmillan 9781137552808.
Cowdell, S., Fleming, C. and Hodge, J. (2017), 'Rene Girard at a glance', Does Religion Cause Violence?: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Religion in the Modern World, Bloomsbury Academic 9781501333835.
Fleming, C. (2017), 'The end of politics?', Does Religion Cause Violence?: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Religion in the Modern World, Bloomsbury Academic 9781501333835.
Cowdell, S., Fleming, C., Hodge, J. and Osborn, C. (2017), 'Introduction', Does Religion Cause Violence?: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Religion in the Modern World, Bloomsbury Academic 9781501333835.
Cowdell, S., Fleming, C. and Hodge, J. (2017), 'Glossary of key Girardian terms', Does Religion Cause Violence?: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Violence and Religion in the Modern World, Bloomsbury 9781501333835.
Cowdell, S., Fleming, C., Hodge, J. and Moosbrugger, M. (2016), 'Editor's introduction', Rene Girard and Raymund Schwager: Correspondence 1974-1991, Bloomsbury Academic 9781501320477.
Fleming, C. (2015), 'The apocalypse will not be televised', Mimesis, Movies, and Media: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Volume 3, Bloomsbury Academic 9781628924640.
Fleming, C. (2014), 'Mimesis, violence, and the sacred : an overview of the thought of Rene Girard', Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Volume 2, Rene Girard and Sacrifice in Life, Love, and Literature, Bloomsbury Academic 9781623561963.
Fleming, C., Cowdell, S. and Hodge, J. (2014), 'Glossary of Key Girardian terms', Violence, Desire, and the Sacred. Volume 2, Rene Girard and Sacrifice in Life, Love, and Literature., Bloomsbury Academic 9781623561963.
Cowdell, S., Hodge, J. and Fleming, C. (2012), 'Introduction', Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines, Continuum 9781441194015.
Fleming, C. and O'Carroll, J. (2012), 'Nietzsche, the last atheist', Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines, Continuum International Publishing Group 9781441194015.
Fleming, C., Cowdell, S. and Hodge, J. (2012), 'Glossary of key Girardian terms', Violence, Desire and the Sacred: Girard's Mimetic Theory Across the Disciplines, Continuum 9781441194015.
Fleming, C. and O'Carroll, J. (2011), 'Delusions of agency : Kafka, imprisonment, and modern victimhood', Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages, Palgrave Macmillan 9780230113428.
Fleming, C. and O'Carroll, J. (2007), 'What is the Human', The Originary Hypothesis: A Minimal Proposal for Humanistic Inquiry, The Davies Publishing Group 9781888570366.

Journal Articles

Fleming, C. (2023), 'Why did Slavoj Zizek become so popular?', Chronicle of Higher Education, vol March 27, 2023 .
Fleming, C. (2023), 'Time and catastrophe : a conversation with Jean-Pierre Dupuy', Journal of Continental Philosophy, vol 4, no 1-2 , pp 11 - 25.
Fleming, C. (2022), 'The unbearable triteness of being (Middle class)', The AutoEthnographer, vol 2, no 4 .
Fleming, C. (2022), 'What's your philosophy?', Sydney Review of Books, vol July 18, 2022 .
Fleming, C. (2022), 'The Protestant ethic and the spirit of speculativism', Derrida Today, vol 15, no 1 , pp 92 - 98.
Fleming, C. (2022), 'The human as a danger to itself : murder in the 180th degree', Anthropoetics, vol 28, no 1 .
Fleming, C. (2021), 'Never a luxury', Sydney Review of Books, vol August 2, 2021 .
Dennis, I. and Fleming, C. (2021), 'Dialogue : GA and politics : further thoughts on the victimary and other contemporary phenomena', Anthropoetics, vol 27, no 1 .
Fleming, C. and Ling, A. (2020), 'Introduction to the first issue', Journal of Continental Philosophy, vol 1, no 1 , pp 1 - 8.
Barbour, C., Bubbio, P., Fleming, C., Ling, A. and Schmidt, D. (2020), 'Journal of Continental Philosophy : editorial statement', Journal of Continental Philosophy, vol 1, no 1 .
Dunn, G. and Fleming, C. (2020), 'Foreword', Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence, vol 4, no 2 .
Fleming, C. (2020), 'The last of the hedgehogs', Los Angeles Review of Books, vol August 16, 2020 .
Fleming, C. (2019), 'Theoretical Cool', Sydney Review of Books, vol 7 February 2019 .
Fleming, C. (2019), 'The tyranny of trendy ideas', Chronicle of Higher Education, vol July 1, 2019 , pp 1 - 9.
Fleming, C. (2017), 'Neat and Tidy: The New Magic', Sydney Review of Books, .
Fleming, C. (2017), 'Signs of the times : the migration of catastrophe', Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture, vol 29, no 2 , pp 77 - 90.
Fleming, C. and O'Carroll, J. (2016), 'Paganism : promising promises and resentful results', Anthropoetics, vol 21, no 2 .
Fleming, C. and O'Carroll, J. (2014), '"Revolution!" : the rhetoric of exclamation', Anthropoetics, vol 19, no 2 .
Fleming, C. and O'Carroll, J. (2012), 'Revolution, rupture, rhetoric', Philosophy and Social Criticism, vol 38, no 1 , pp 39 - 57.
O'Carroll, J. and Fleming, C. (2011), 'The Dying of the Epic', Anthropoetics, vol 16, no 2 .
Fleming, C. and O'Carroll, J. (2010), 'The Art of the Hoax', Parallax, vol 16, no 4 , pp 45 - 59.
Fleming, C. (2010), 'Scene, not herd : the evanescent underground', Artlink: Australian Contemporary Art Quarterly, vol 30, no 2 , pp 23 - 25.
Fleming, C. and O'Carroll, J. (2009), 'Originary Economics and the Genesis of Advertising', Anthropoetics, vol 15, no 1 .
O'Carroll, J. and Fleming, C. (2009), 'Is Nothing Sacred? Privatization and the Person', Nebula, vol 6, no 3 , pp 100 - 120.
Fleming, C. and O'Carroll, J. (2008), 'A modern itinerary : keynotes in the search for meaning', Compass: A Review of Topical Theology, vol 42, no 2 , pp 19 - 24.
O'Carroll, J. and Fleming, C. (2007), 'Towards a New Cultural Studies', Anthropoetics, vol 13, no 1 .
O'Carroll, J. and Fleming, C. (2006), 'God and Phenomenology : Re-reading Jean-Luc Marion', Compass, vol 40, no 3 , pp 36 - 42.
Fleming, C. and O'Carroll, J. (2005), 'In memoriam: Jacques Derrida (1930-2004)', ANTHROPOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, vol 78, no 1 , pp 137 - 150.
Fleming, C. and O'Carroll, J. (2005), 'Romanticism', Anthropoetics, vol 11 .
Fleming, C. and O'Carroll, J. (2004), 'Understanding Anti-Americanism', Anthropoetics - The Journal of Generative Anthropology, vol 9, no 2 .
O'Carroll, J. and Fleming, C. (2003), 'Notes on Generative Anthropology: Towards an Ethics of the Hypothesis', Anthropoetics - The Journal of Generative Anthropology, vol 8, no 2 .
Fleming, C. (2002), 'Performance as Guerrilla Ontology: The Case of Stelarc', Body & Society, vol 8, no 3 , pp 95 - 109.
Fleming, C. (2002), 'Mimesis and Violence: An Introduction to the Work of Rene Girard', Australian Religion Studies Review, vol 15, no 1 , pp 57 - 72.
Fleming, C. (2002), 'Performance and Madness: Modes of Correction and the Theatrical Ruse (Note: This article actually appeared in 2003, but has as its date '2001'; because I did not register it during the previous year, I was told that I could submit it this round).', Modern Drama, vol 64, no 4 , pp 383 - 397.
Fleming, C. and Goodall, J. (2002), 'Dangerous Darwin', Public Understanding of Science, vol 11, no 3 , pp 259 - 271.
Fleming, C. (2001), 'Mad or Just Acting? Insanity and Theatricalisation', Griffith Law Review, vol 10, no 2 , pp 279 - 293.

Other Publications

2023, 'Our Story', Published Work
2022, 'Lessons', Published Work
2022, 'Eight Times a Day; Abrasions dans Nirvana; Casting Calls; Good or Shit; Fresh Corn', Published Work
2022, 'Comic Sans', Published Work
2022, 'Scratch Element', Published Work
2021, 'Limbs', Published Work
2021, 'Limbs', Published Work
2020, 'Lion', Published Work
2020, 'Lives Retold: Chris Fleming', Published Work
2020, 'Comic Sans', Published Work
2020, 'M', Published Work
2019, 'Show Your Working: Chris Fleming', Published Work
2019, 'I Was A Drug Addict For Nearly 20 years. There Was Nothing Dignified Or Cool About It', Published Work
2019, 'On Attempting To Deal With Addiction Through Books', Published Work
2018, 'Abdul and the Cauliflower', Published Work
2016, 'JNKMLE: An Arithmetically Inaccurate Internet Sonata in Four (Or So) Parts', Published Work
2015, 'On drugs. Part I', Published Work
2015, 'On drugs. Part II', Published Work

Dr Chris Fleming's research centers on questions of violence, human desire, and cultural order. He also writes and researches in fiction and creative non-fiction.