Dr Alexander Ling

 


Biography


Dr Alex Ling is Research Lecturer in Communication and Media Studies in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts. His principal research interests are in film theory and the intersections between art, science and philosophy, with especial focus on the work of Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière and Gilles Deleuze. He is the author of Badiou and Cinema (Edinburgh UP, 2011) and co-editor and translator (with A. J. Bartlett) of Alain Badiou’s Mathematics of the Transcendental (Continuum, forthcoming).

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Areas of Research / Teaching Expertise


Film Theory and History; Contemporary Continental Philosophy; Critical Theory; Mathematics and Logic; Psychoanalysis; Visual Art and Culture


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Awards and Recognition


2010, Chancellor’s Prize for Excellence in the PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne
2010, Graduate Research Excellence Award, University of Melbourne
2010, Honorary Fellow, University of Melbourne
2005, Fred Knight Research Scholarship
2005, Australian Postgraduate Award
2005, RG Wilson Scholarship
2004, Dean’s Award, University of Melbourne
2004, Commonwealth Scholarship
2003, Dean’s Award, University of Melbourne
2002, Dean’s Award, University of Melbourne
2002, Edward Stevens Exhibition in English Language and Literature
2001, Dean’s Award, University of Melbourne

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Selected Publications


Books:


Ling, A., 2012 (forthcoming), Badiou Reframed: Reading Key Thinkers for the Arts, London: I.B. Tauris.

Ling, A., 2011, Badiou and Cinema, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press [ISBN 978 0 7486 4113 0].

 

Edited Books:


Badiou, Alain, 2012 (forthcoming), Mathematics of the Transendental, ed. & trans. Alex Ling & A J. Bartlett, London: Continuum.

 

Book Chapters:


Ling, A., & Bartlett, A J., 2012 (forthcoming), ‘The Categorial Imperative’, Mathematics of the Transendental, ed. & trans. Alex Ling & A. J. Bartlett, London: Continuum.

Ling, A., 2010, ‘Ontology’, in Bartlett, A. J., & Clemens, J. (eds), Alain Badiou: Key Concepts, Acumen: Chesham, pp. 48–58 [ISBN 978 1 84465 230 3].

Ling, A., 2006, ‘Can Cinema Be Thought?: Alain Badiou and the Artistic Condition’, in Ashton, P., Bartlett, A. J., & Clemens, J. (eds), The Praxis of Alain Badiou, Melbourne: re.press, pp. 291–305 [ISBN 978 0 98030 520 3].

 

Refereed Journal Articles, Translations and Reviews:


Ling, A., 2012 (In Press), ‘Parentheses in Time: Last Year in Marienbad as Amorous Event’, Screening the Past, no. 33.

Ling, A., 2012 (In Press), ‘An Inessential Art?: Badiou, Cinema and Philosophy’, MonoKL, no. 12–13.

Ling, A., 2010, ‘Fiftieth Anniversary Issue of Screen edited by Annette Kuhn (opens in a new window)’, Senses of Cinema, no. 55

Ling, A., 2009, ‘The New Face of Political Cinema: Commitment in French Film Since 1995 by Martin O’Shaughnessy’(opens in a new window), Senses of Cinema, no. 53. Badiou, A., 2009, ‘Cinema as a Democratic Emblem’, Parrhesia, trans. Ling, A., & Mondon, M., no. 6, pp. 1–6.

Ling, A., 2007, ‘Alain Badiou, The Century’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 150–152.

Ling, A., 2006, ‘Can Cinema Be Thought?: Alain Badiou and the Artistic Condition’, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 263–276.

Ling, A., 2006, ‘Keeping the Faith: On Being Good and How Not to be Evil’, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 2, no. 1, 2006, pp. 259–264.

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