Jason Barker
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United Kingdom
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theorist of contemporary French philosophy
French philosophy
French philosophy, here taken to mean philosophy in the French language, has been extremely diverse and has influenced Western philosophy as a whole for centuries, from the medieval scholasticism of Peter Abelard, through the founding of modern philosophy by René Descartes, to 20th century...
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Most notable for his translation
Translation
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and introductions to the philosophy
Philosophy
Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
of Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou
Alain Badiou is a French philosopher, professor at European Graduate School, formerly chair of Philosophy at the École Normale Supérieure . Along with Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek, Badiou is a prominent figure in an anti-postmodern strand of continental philosophy...
, Barker draws on an eclectic range of influences, from Neoplatonism
Neoplatonism
Neoplatonism , is the modern term for a school of religious and mystical philosophy that took shape in the 3rd century AD, based on the teachings of Plato and earlier Platonists, with its earliest contributor believed to be Plotinus, and his teacher Ammonius Saccas...
to Lacanian psychoanalysis.
Writing in both the English
English language
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and French
French language
French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
languages, Barker’s work explores the theoretical frontiers of post-Marxism
Post-Marxism
Post-Marxism has two related, but different uses: the socio-economic circumstances of Eastern Europe, especially in the ex-soviet republics after the Soviet Union's end; and the extrapolations of the philosophers and social theorists basing their postulations upon Karl Marx's writings and Marxism...
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Marx Reloaded
Barker is the writerWriter
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, director
Film director
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and producer
Film producer
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of the 2011 partly animated documentary film
Documentary film
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Marx Reloaded
Marx Reloaded
Marx Reloaded is a 2011 German documentary film written and directed by the British writer and theorist Jason Barker. Featuring interviews with several well-known philosophers, the film aims to examine the relevance of Karl Marx's ideas in relation to the global economic and financial crisis of...
, which considers the relevance of Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Karl Heinrich Marx was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His ideas played a significant role in the development of social science and the socialist political movement...
's ideas in the aftermath of the global economic and financial crisis of 2008—09. The film
Film
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includes interviews with several philosophers including Michael Hardt
Michael Hardt
Michael Hardt is an American literary theorist and political philosopher perhaps best known for Empire, written with Antonio Negri and published in 2000...
, Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri
Antonio Negri is an Italian Marxist sociologist and political philosopher.Negri is best-known for his co-authorship of Empire, and secondarily for his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in his hometown university...
, Nina Power
Nina Power
Nina Power is a British philosopher, writer, journalist and academic. She is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University. She is the co-editor of Alain Badiou's On Samuel Beckett and his Political Writings....
, Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière
Jacques Rancière is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at European Graduate School in Saas-Fee...
, Alberto Toscano
Alberto Toscano
Alberto Toscano is a cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher and translator best known to the English-speaking world for his translations of the work of Alain Badiou, including Badiou’s The Century and Logics of Worlds...
and Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek is a Slovenian philosopher, critical theorist working in the traditions of Hegelianism, Marxism and Lacanian psychoanalysis. He has made contributions to political theory, film theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis....
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As translator
- Alain Badiou, Metapolitics, trans. and with an introduction by Jason Barker (London: Verso, 2005).
Articles
- “The Topology of Revolution” in Communication and Cognition (1/2, 2003), ISBN 0378-0880.
- “Topography and Structure” in Polygraph (17, 2005), ISBN 1533-9793.
- ”Nous, Les Sans-Marxisme” in Gilles GreletGilles GreletGilles Grelet is a French theorist and former student of the French philosopher François Laruelle. He is the author of books and pamphlets which develop the main tenets of Laruellean non-philosophy....
(ed.), Théorie-rébellion: Un Ultimatum (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2005). - ”Nothing Personal: From the State to the Master”, Prelom (8, 2006), ISBN 1451-1304.
- “De L’Etat au Maître: Badiou et le post-marxisme” in Besana et Feltham (eds.), Ecrits Autour de la Pensée d’Alain Badiou (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2006).
- “Wherefore Art Thou Philosophy? Badiou without Badiou” in Indigo. Global Humanities Magazine Vol. 6 (Busan, South Korea: Indigo Publishing, 2011).
Filmography
- Marx ReloadedMarx ReloadedMarx Reloaded is a 2011 German documentary film written and directed by the British writer and theorist Jason Barker. Featuring interviews with several well-known philosophers, the film aims to examine the relevance of Karl Marx's ideas in relation to the global economic and financial crisis of...
. A Film by Jason Barker. Germany / UK: 2010. Medea Film - Irene Höfer / Films NoirsFilms NoirsFilms Noirs is a British film and television production company specializing in animation. Co-founded by the British theorist Jason Barker, the company co-produced the documentary film Marx Reloaded, which was broadcast on Arte on 11 April 2011....
/ ZDFZDFZweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...
/ ArteArteArte is a Franco-German TV network. It is a European culture channel and aims to promote quality programming especially in areas of culture and the arts...
; 52 Minutes.
External links
- Online review of Barker's Alain Badiou: A Critical Introduction
- "Principles of Equality: On Alain Badiou's Manifesto for Philosophy, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, and Ethics. An Essay on the Understanding of Evil" in Historical Materialism (12.1, 2004) Barker's review of Badiou's books
- "To Have Done with the Other" Online article at Ghent University
- Interview in New Left Project