Devin Zane Shaw received his PhD (2009) from the University of Ottawa, where he currently teaches as a sessional professor in the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Visual Arts. His current research focuses on Marxism, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Rancière.
Selected Publications:
Books:
- Freedom and Nature in Schelling's Philosophy of Art. Continuum, 2010. (Available here).
- “Cartesian Egalitarianism: From Poullain de la Barre to Rancière” in Phaenex 7.1 (Spring 2012: forthcoming).
- “The Nothingness of Equality: The ‘Sartrean Existentialism’ of Jacques Rancière,” in Sartre Studies International, vol. 18, no. 1 (August 2012: forthcoming).
- “Alain Badiou” in Figure u pokretu. Savremena zapadna estetika, filozofija i teorija umetnosti. Ed. Miško Šuvaković and Aleš Erjavec (Belgrade: Atoča, 2009), 645-657 (Translated into Serbian).
- “Inaesthetics and Truth: the Debate between Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière,” in Filozofski vestnik, vol. 28, no. 2 (2007), 183-199 (Available here).
- “The Absence of Evidence is Not the Evidence of Absence: The State of Exception and Biopolitics,” in Radical Philosophy Today 4: Philosophy Against Empire. Ed. Harry van der Linden and Tony Smith (Charlottesville, Virginia: Philosophy Documentation Center, 2006), 123-138.
Book Reviews Online:
- "Bernard Stiegler, For a New Critique of Political Economy," in Symposium (Forthcoming): available here.
- "Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Literature," in Marx and Philosophy Review of Books (29 June 2011): available here.
- "Alain Badiou, Briefings on Existence," in Gnosis, Vol. 8, no. 2 (2007), 48-53 (Available here).
- "Walter Benjamin, On Hashish," in De Philosophia, Vol. 19, no. 2 (2006), 124 (Reprinted here).
- "Guy Debord, Panegyric," in De Philosophia Volume 19, no. 1 (2005), 50-51 (Reprinted here).
- "The Step Outside: The Act, Democracy, and Its Discontents" (A review of Zizek's Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle), in Critical Sense, Volume 8, no. 1 (Spring 2005),145-153 (Available here).
Upcoming and Recent Presentations:
- With Sean Moreland, "'Urged by Schelling': Schelling's Philosophy of Art and Poe's Critical and Fictional Practice," Modern Language Association, 8 January 2012 (See here).
- "Pure Contingencies: A Critique of Markus Gabriel’s Formal Ontology,” The Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 7 October 2011.
- “Dialectical Models: Reading the Phenomenology of Spirit in the Aftermath of Schelling’s Philosophy of Art,” Plenary address to ‘In the Aftermath of German Idealism,’ Bergische Universität Wuppertal, 13 May 2011.
- "The Being and Nothingness of Equality: Sartre’s Influence on Rancière," North American Sartre Society, TELUQ, April 28, 2011 (See here)
- “Spinoza versus Schmitt: The Politics of Theology and the Theology of Politics," Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture Conference, SUNY Binghamton, March 26, 2011 (See here).
- "Equality and Differentiating Totality: Reading Marx after Rancière" for the Society for Social and Political Philosophy's Rountable on Marx's Capital, Volume 1, at Texas A & M, February 25, 2011 (See here).
- “Paradigmatic Violence or Messianic Violence: A Critique of Agamben,” Radical Philosophy Association Meeting, University of Oregon, 13 November 2010 (See here).
- “Benjamin, Sorel, and the Critique of Violence,” California State University Stanislaus Colloquium Series, 29 October 2010.
- “Cartesian Reversals: Badiou and Heidegger on Mathematics and Modernity,” The Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, 2 June 2010.
- “Walter Benjamin: The Time of Historical Opportunity,” The Canadian Philosophical Association Meeting, Concordia University, Montréal, 1 June 2010.
- “Is Deleuze a Spinozist? A Theological-Political Critique,” University of Toledo, 26 March 2010.
