Prof Andrew Benjamin - Researcher Profile

Biography

I am a graduate of Universities in Australia, France and the UK. My predominate area of interest is philosophical aesthetics. With that domain the areas on which my work concentrates are painting and architecture.

Qualifications

DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Institution: Warwick University

Year awarded: 2005

Publications

Books

Benjamin, A., 2010, Of Jews and animals, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh.

Benjamin, A., 2010, Place, Commonality and Judgment. Continental Philosophy and the Ancient Greeks, Continuum International, New York United States.

Benjamin, A., 2010, Writing art and architecture, RE: Press, Melbourne.

Benjamin, A.E., 2006, Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance, Northwestern University Press, Evanston Illinois USA.

Benjamin, A.E., 2004, Disclosing Spaces: On Painting, Clinamen Press, Manchester UK.

Book Chapters

Benjamin, A.E., 2011, Anonymity and fear: Threatening within universality. Notes after Hegel's Philosophy of Right, in Terror and Form: Australian Yearbook of German Literary and Cultural Studies, eds Franz-Josef Deiters, Axel Fliethmann, Birgit Lang, Alison Lewis, Christiane Weller, Rombach Verlag, Berlin, pp. 171-189.

Benjamin, A., 2011, Benjamin and the Baroque: posing the question of historical time, in Rethinking the Baroque, eds Helen Hills, Ashgate, England, pp. 161-179.

Benjamin, A., 2011, Entry and distance: sublimity in landscape, in The Place of Landscape, eds Jeff Malpas, The MIT Press, United States, pp. 151-163.

Benjamin, A., 2011, Introduction: "Being on (the) line", in 2010 Open Agenda: Research Architecture, eds Anthony Burke and Rebecca Thomas, DAB Documents, Australia, pp. 12-15.

Benjamin, A., 2010, Knots and the place of experimentation: Minimaforms and architectural practice, in Enabling: the Work of Minimaforms, eds Stephen Spyropoulos and Theodore Spyropoulos, AA Publications, London United Kingdom, pp. 171-176.

Benjamin, A., 2010, Possible returns: deconstruction and the placing of Greek philosophy, in Derrida and Antiquity, eds Miriam Leonard, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 207-234.

Benjamin, A., 2010, Trauma within the walls: notes towards a philosophy of the city, in Post-Traumatic Urbanism, eds Adrian Lahoud, Charles Rice and Anthony Burke, Wiley, UK, pp. 24-31.

Benjamin, A.E., 2009, Framing pictures, transcending marks: Walter Benjamin's 'Paintings, or Signs and Marks', in Walter Benjamin and the Architecture of Modernity, eds Andrew Benjamin and Charles Rice, Re.press, Prahran Vic Australia, pp. 129-142.

Benjamin, A.E., 2009, Looking in tours, in Babel, Urs Engeler Verlag, Basel, Switzerland, pp. 34-40.

Benjamin, A.E., 2009, On abstraction: Notes on Mondrian and Hegel, in Paradoxes of Appearing: Essays on Art, Architecture and Philisophy, eds Michael Asgaard Anderson and Henrik Oxvig, Lars Muller Publications, Baden Switzerland, pp. 79-107.

Benjamin, A.E., 2008, A precursor: limiting the future, affirming particularity, in A Time for the Humanities: Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy, eds James J. Bono, Tim Dean and Ewa Plonowska Ziarek, Fordham University Press, New York NY United States, pp. 29-44.

Benjamin, A.E., 2008, Political Translations: Holderlin's Das Hochste, in Translation & the Classic: Identity as Change in the History of Culture, eds Alexandra Lianeri and Vanda Zajko, Oxford University Press, Oxford United Kingdom, pp. 63-82.

Benjamin, A.E., 2007, Between Materialism and Historicism. Semper's Ideales Museum for Metalletechnik. [Between materialism and historicism. Semper's practical arts in metals and hard metals], in Gottfried Semper: The Ideal Museum, eds Harry Francis Mallgrave, Schlebrugge.Editor, Vienna, pp. 13-17.

Benjamin, A.E., 2006, Deconstruction, in The Routledge Companion to Critical Theory, eds Simon Malpas and Paul Wake, Routledge, Abingdon UK, pp. 81-90.

Benjamin, A.E., 2005, Boredom and distraction: the moods of modernity, in Walter Benjamin and History, eds Andrew Benjamin, Continuum International, London UK, pp. 156-170.

Benjamin, A.E., 2005, Spacing as the shared: Heraclitus, Pindar, Agamben, in Politics, Metaphysics and Death, eds Andrew Norris, Duke University Press, Durham USA, pp. 145-172.

Benjamin, A.E., 2005, The matter of a materialist philosophy of art: Bataille's Manet, in Formless: Ways in and Out of Form, eds Patrick Crowley and Paul Hegarty, Peter Lang, Oxford, pp. 193-214.

Benjamin, A.E., 2004, Benjamin's Modernity, in The Cambridge Companion to Walter Benjamin, eds David S Ferris, The Press Syndicate of the University of Cambridge, Cambridge UK, pp. 97-114.

Benjamin, A.E., 2004, Notes on the surfacing of walls: NOX, Kiesler, Semper, in NOX: Machining Architecture, eds Lars Spuybroek, Thames & Hudson Ltd, London UK, pp. 342-357.

Benjamin, A.E., 2004, Passing through deconstruction: architecture and the project of autonomy, in Architecture & Arts 1900/2004: A Century of Creative Projects, eds Germano Celant, Skira Editore S.p.A., Milan Italy, pp. 433-436.

Benjamin, A.E., 2004, Performing, Effecting Surfaces, in Armed Surfaces: Dagmar Richter Dr_D, eds Miriam Kelly, Black Dog Publishing, London UK, pp. 6-9.

Benjamin, A.E., 2003, Including transformation: notes on the art of the contemporary, in The New Aestheticism, eds John J Joughin and Simon Malpas, Manchester University Press, Manchester UK, pp. 208-217.

Benjamin, A.E., 2002, The absolute as translatability: working through Walter Benjamin on language, in Walter Benjamin and Romanticism, eds Beatrice Hanssen and Andrew Benjamin, Continuum, London UK, pp. 109-122.

Hanssen, B., Benjamin, A.E., 2002, Walter Benjamin's Critical Romanticism: an introduction, in Walter Benjamin and Romanticism, eds Beatrice Hanssen and Andrew Benjamin, Continuum, London UK, pp. 1-6.

Journal Articles

Benjamin, A., 2011, Endless touching: Herder and sculpture, Aisthesis [E], vol 1, Associazione Culturale Seminario Permanente di Estetica (S P E S), Italy, pp. 73-92.

Benjamin, A., 2011, Morality, law and the place of critique: Walter Benjamin's the meaning of time in the moral world, Critical Horizons [P], vol 12, issue 3, Equinox Publishing Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 281-301.

Benjamin, A., 2011, Of Mirrors, Column [P], vol 8, Artspace, Australia, pp. 94-98.

Benjamin, A., 2011, On the image of painting, Research In Phenomenology [P], vol 41, issue 2, Brill, Netherlands, pp. 181-205.

Benjamin, A., 2010, Colouring philosophy: Appel, Lyotard and Art's work, Critical Horizons [P], vol 11, issue 3, Equinox Publishing Ltd., United Kingdom, pp. 379-395.

Benjamin, A., 2010, What, in truth, is photography? Notes after Kracauer, Oxford Literary Review [P], vol 32, issue 2, Edinburgh University Press, United Kingdom, pp. 189-201.

Benjamin, A.E., 2009, Of force, Parallax [P], vol 15, issue 2, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 1-3.

Benjamin, A.E., 2008, Another naming, a living animal: Blanchot's community, SubStance. A Review of Theory and Literary Criticism, vol 37, issue 3, University of Wisconsin Press, United States, pp. 207-227.

Benjamin, A.E., 2008, Experimentation as a defence of literature: Zola's le Roman experimental, Australian Journal of French Studies, vol 45, issue 1, Monash University, Clayton Vic Australia, pp. 59-72.

Benjamin, A.E., 2008, Indefinite play and 'The Name of Man', Derrida Today, vol 1, issue 1, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh United Kingdom, pp. 1-18.

Benjamin, A.E., 2008, Particularity and exceptions: on Jews and animals, South Atlantic Quarterly, vol 107, issue 1, Duke University Press, United States, pp. 71-87.

Benjamin, A.E., 2007, Perception, judgment and individuation: towards a metaphysics of particularity, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, vol 15, issue 4, Routledge, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 481-500.

Benjamin, A.E., 2007, Repositioning architectural theory: towards an ontology of techniques, Architectural Theory Review, vol 12, issue 2, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 173-180.

Benjamin, A.E., 2007, What if the other were an animal? Hegel on Jews, animals and disease, Critical Horizons: Journal of Social and Critical Theory, vol 8, issue 1, Acumen Publishing Ltd, United Kingdom, pp. 61-77.

Benjamin, A.E., 2006, Surface effects: Borromini, semper, loos, The Journal of Architecture, vol 11, issue 1, pp. 1-35.

Benjamin, A.E., 2006, The illusion of the future, Arena Journal, vol 25-26, issue 25-26, Arena Publications Association, North Carlton Vic Australia, pp. 193-204.

Benjamin, A.E., 2005, Porosity at the edge: working through Walter Benjamin's "Naples", Architectural Theory Review, vol 10, issue 1, University of Sydney, Department of Architecture, Planning and Allied Arts, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 33-43.

Benjamin, A.E., 2005, Raving Sibyls, signifying gods: noise and sense in Heraclitus fragments 92 and 93, Culture, Theory & Critique, vol 46, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 75-90.

Benjamin, A.E., 2004, Placing speaking: notes on the first stasimon of Sophocles' Antigone, Angelaki: Journal of theTheoretical Humanities, vol 9, issue 2, Routledge, UK, pp. 55-66.

Benjamin, A.E., 2004, The appearance of modern architecture, Architectural Theory Review, vol 9, issue 1, The Faculty of Architecture, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 36-44.

Benjamin, A.E., 2003, Being Roman now: the time of fashion: a commentary on Walter Benjamin's 'Theses on the Philosophy of History' XIV, Thesis Eleven, vol 75, Sage Publications Ltd, UK, pp. 39-53.

Benjamin, A.E., 2003, Judging terrorism, Parallax, vol 9, issue 1, Routledge Journals, Abingdon UK, pp. 3-13.

Benjamin, A.E., 2003, Lines and colours: Cezanne's abstraction and richter's figures, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, vol 8, issue 1, Routledge, UK, pp. 27-41.

Benjamin, A.E., 2003, Now still absent: Eisenman's memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe, Architectural Theory Review, vol 8, issue 1, University of Sydney, Department of Architecture, Planning and Allied Arts, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 57-62.

Benjamin, A., 2002, Refugees, cosmopolitanism and the place of citizenship, Architectural Theory Review, vol 7, issue 2, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 101-116.

Benjamin, A., 2002, The 'place' of cosmopolitan architecture, Architectural Theory Review, vol 7, issue 1, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney, Sydney NSW Australia, pp. 26-36.

Conference Proceedings

Benjamin, A.E., 2009, The body as a dynamic entity. Architecture as a spatial opportunity. Cincema as the collapse of body and space, SEAM2009: Spacial Phrases, 7 September 2009 to 20 September 2009, Critical Path, Rushcutters Bay NSW, Australia, p. 1.

Benjamin, A.E., 2003, The style of architecture, The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century, 28 March 2003 to 29 march 2003, The Monacelli Press Inc., New York USA, pp. 44-45.

Other

Benjamin, A.E., 2006, Placing philosophy: Heidegger's hut, Prologue in monograph Heidegger's Hut, MIT Press, Massachussetts USA.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

'Un-Australian English': Cosmopolitanism and the Australian Aesthetic.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Hawke, J (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Aesthetics in contemporary European philosophy - the movement of music in philosophy.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Empty Fables: Jacques Ranciere and Narrative.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Jacques Tati _ Aesthetics, Modernity and an Everyday Bodily Experience Architecture and the City..

Supervisors:

Sadar, J (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(MASTER'S BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Memory: from phenomenology to science.

Supervisors:

Chadha, M (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Solitude and (In)finitute in the Writing of Maurice Blanchot & J.M. Coetzee..

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Kossew, S (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Towards a New Aesthetic Modernity.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Work and Non-Work: The Pursuit of Pleasure and the Practice of Freedom in Adorno and Foucault.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Completed Supervision

Student:

Bandt, A.

Program of Study:

Work to rule: rethinking Pashukanis, Marx and law. (PHD) 2008.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Joint), Milner, A (Joint-Co).

Student:

Bird, T.

Program of Study:

Art's relation to exteriority: the work of materiality in spatial practices. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Student:

Chen, J.

Program of Study:

An unheimlich ethos: thinking the ethics of finitude in the work of Heidegger, Arendt and Nancy. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Student:

Cooke, A.

Program of Study:

TIME TAKEN: THE PROBLEM OF FINITE GIVENNESS IN HUSSERL, HEIDEGGER, DERRIDA AND MARION. (PHD) 2004.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Student:

Danta, C.

Program of Study:

THE TRIAL OF TIME: FIGURING ABRAHAM IN KIERKEGAARD, KAFKA AND BLANCHOT. (PHD) 2004.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main).

Student:

Everingham, A.

Program of Study:

Form and Function in Legal Adjudication: Legal 'Meaning', Hermeneutics and Systems Theory. (Masters) 2007.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Philadelphoff-Puren, N (Associate).

Student:

Fitzgerald, M.

Program of Study:

On 'character:' the experience of human identity in early modernity. (PHD) 2010.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Milner, A (Associate).

Student:

Flenady, G.

Program of Study:

Politics of Propriety and Play: Derrida's Singularity and Ranciere's Equality. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Student:

Frederic, G.

Program of Study:

Philosophy, race, negritude: the ontology of blackness in Kant, Hegel, and Senghor. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Student:

Garrett, J.

Program of Study:

Plato's Heraclitus. (Masters) 2005.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Student:

Gray, L.

Program of Study:

God is love: interrupting violence, sacrifice, community and Christianity. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Mews, C (Associate).

Student:

Hanratty, N.

Program of Study:

Heidegger's Way With Equipment. (Masters) 2003.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main).

Student:

Kozminsky, O.

Program of Study:

The Ramifications of Testimony: Struggling for the Truth in Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption.. (Masters) 2012.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Fagenblat, M (Associate).

Student:

Mcdonald, B.

Program of Study:

Irreconcilable demands: friendship and the question of the political in Aristotle, Kant and Schmitt. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Ross, A (Associate).

Student:

Palmer, S.

Program of Study:

The Work of Signatures: Derrida & Nauman. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Student:

Perfect, T.

Program of Study:

Undecidability and alterity in the works of Jacques Derrida and J.M. Coetzee. (Masters) 2010.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Worth, C (Associate).

Student:

Ryan, C.

Program of Study:

Transformative Experiences: What is the practical status of Foucault's books of history?. (Masters) 2011.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Student:

Salzani, C.

Program of Study:

Constellations of reading: Walter Benjamin in figures of actuality. (PHD) 2007.

Supervisors:

Milner, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Student:

Stillwell, R.

Program of Study:

A deathly minor literature: Deleuze and Guattari's concept revised to redress a misunderstanding of Joyce. (Masters) 2008.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Joint-Co), Benjamin, A (Joint).

Student:

Torbett, R.

Program of Study:

The ambiguous pretence. (PHD) 2009.

Supervisors:

Ross, A (Main), Benjamin, A (Associate).

Student:

Vardoulakis, D.

Program of Study:

The Doppelganger: literary, critical and philosophical reflections. (PHD) 2006.

Supervisors:

Benjamin, A (Main), Veit, W (Associate).