Professor Benjamin Noys

Professor of Critical Theory

About

Benjamin Noys is Professor of Critical Theory and coordinator of the MA English Literature.

His research focuses on critical and literary theory, with particular interest in the avant-garde, film, and the cultural politics of theory.

Research

Professor Noys’ research interests include:

Critical theory
Literary theory
Psychoanalysis
American literature
Film
The avant-garde
Art and art practice
Modern and contemporary poetry
Cultural politics.

He is External Affiliate of the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought, Goldsmiths, University of London, contributing editor of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, a member of the advisory editorial board of聽Film-Philosophy, and a corresponding editor of聽Historical Materialism.

He is currently completing a book on contemporary politics and developing a future project on neurosis.

Teaching

Professor Noys teaches on the following undergraduate modules:

ENL 103 Strategies for Reading
ENL 108 Critical Perspectives
ENL 218 Postcolonial Readings
ENL 324 Psychoanalysis and Culture

He is also the Coordinator for the MA English Literature courses, and teaches on:

MAEN01 Literature in the Present Moment
MAEN03 Visions of the Real
MAEN04 Activating Research

He is also the coordinator for the MA dissertations.

PhD Supervision

Professor Noys is a qualified PhD Supervisor with successful supervisions on the visual and textual politics of pornography and the archiving of digital art.

He is looking to supervise in the areas of contemporary critical and cultural theory, film, psychoanalysis, the avant-garde, and the intersections of literature and theory.

Key Publications

His recent work includes the books The Persistence of the Negative (Edinburgh University Press 2010) and Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism (Zero Books 2014), both dealing with the state of contemporary theory.

Recent and forthcoming articles and chapters include 鈥楬appy like Neurotics: Roland Barthes, Ben Lerner, and the Neurosis of Writing鈥�, College Literature 45.1 (2018), 鈥楳atter against Materialism: Bruno Latour and the Turn to Objects鈥�, in Theory Matters: The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies Today (2016), and pieces on drones, libidinal economy, intoxication and accelerationism, the ontologies of life, American literature, and the philosophy of art.

Selected publications

Malign Velocities: Accelerationism and Capitalism (Zero Books, 2014)
The Persistence of the Negative (Edinburgh University Press, 2010)
The Culture of Death (Berg 2005)
Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction (Pluto 2000)

Qualifications

BSc (Brunel University)
MA (Sussex University)
DPhil (Sussex University)

Research Output

Articles

Noys, B. (2024) South Atlantic Quarterly, 123 (2). pp. 343-362. ISSN 0038-2876

Noys, B. (2022) South Atlantic Quarterly, 121 (4). pp. 675-691. ISSN 0038-2876

Noys, B. (2021) Historical Materialism, 29 (1). pp. 134-150. ISSN 1569-206X

Noys, B. (2020) The Coils of the Serpent, 6. pp. 61-67. ISSN 2510-3059 5-qucosa2-728549

Noys, B. (2020) Australian Humanities Review (66). ISSN 1325-8338

Noys, B. (2019) Mediations, 33 (1-2). pp. 159-166. ISSN 1942-2458

Noys, B. (2019) CounterText, 5 (1). pp. 1-18. ISSN 2056-4406

Noys, B. (2019) Third Text, 32 (6). pp. 586-592. ISSN 0952-8822

Noys, B. (2018) Historical Materialism, 26 (1). pp. 165-174. ISSN 1569-206X

Noys, B. (2018) Problemi, 2 (2). pp. 279-296. ISSN 0555-2419

Noys, B. (2018) College Literature, 45 (2). pp. 222-245. ISSN 1542-4286

Noys, B. (2017) Journal for Cultural Research, 21 (4). pp. 295-308. ISSN 1479-7585

Noys, B. (2016) the minnesota review, 2016 (87). ISSN 0026-5667

Noys, B. (2016) Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, 49 (2). pp. 231-253. ISSN 0016-6928

Noys, B. (2015) CounterText, 1 (2). pp. 169-185. ISSN 2056-4406

Noys, B. (2015) Culture Machine, 16. pp. 1-22. ISSN 1465-4121

Noys, B. (2014) Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 19 (1). pp. 171-185. ISSN 0969-725X

Noys, B. (2013) Grey Room, 52. pp. 94-107. ISSN 1526-3819

Noys, B. (2013) Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, 10 (2). pp. 83-92. ISSN 1857- 8616

Noys, B. (2012) International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 9 (3). ISSN 1705-6411

Noys, B., Lemm, V., Vatter, M. and Chirolla, G.et al (2012) Revista de Estudios Sociales, 43. pp. 166-173. ISSN 1900-5180

Noys, B. (2012) Stasis, 1. pp. 140-155. 9785943801730

Noys, B. (2011) Fata Morgana, 13.

Noys, B. (2011) Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies, 4. pp. 45-60. ISSN 2040-8498

Noys, B. (2010) International Journal of Zizek Studies, 4 (4). ISSN 1751-8229

Noys, B. (2009) Third Text, 23 (4). pp. 383-392. ISSN 1475-5297

Noys, B. (2008) Anarchist Studies, 16 (2). pp. 107-120. ISSN 0967-3393

Noys, B. (2008) Theory, Culture & Society, 25 (5). pp. 104-122. ISSN 1460-3616

Noys, B. (2008) International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, 5 (1). ISSN 1705-6411

Noys, B. (2007) Journal of European Studies, 37 (4). pp. 391-406. ISSN 0047-2441

Noys, B. (2007) Film-Philosophy Journal, 11 (3). pp. 38-51. ISSN 1466-4615

Noys, B. (2007) Quarterly Review of Film and Video, 24 (5). pp. 395-402. ISSN 1050-9208

Noys, B. (2005) European Journal of Psychotherapy & Counselling, 7 (3). pp. 125-136. ISSN 1364-2537

Noys, B. (2005) Image & Narrative: Online Magazine of the Visual Narrative, 6 (2 (12)). ISSN 1780-678X

Noys, B. (2003) Communication & Cognition, 36 (1&2). pp. 31-44. ISSN 0378-0880

Noys, B. (2002) Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 7 (2). pp. 51-59. ISSN 0969-725X

Noys, B. (2002) Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, 6 (3). pp. 305-318. ISSN 1364-2529

Noys, B. (1998) Cultural Values, 2 (4). pp. 499-517. ISSN 1479-7585

Noys, B. (1997) Theory, Culture & Society, 14 (1). pp. 59-75. ISSN 1460-3616

Noys, B. (1995) Popular Music, 14 (3). pp. 321-331. ISSN 0261-1430

Book Sections

Noys, B. (2023) In: Reaction Formations: The Subject of Ethnonationalism. Berkley Forum in Humanities . Fordham University Press, New York, pp. 241-262. ISBN 9781531503147

Noys, B. (2022) In: Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, London, pp. 1-18. ISBN 9783030426811

Noys, B. (2020) In: The Object of Comedy: Philosophies and Performances. Performance philosophy . Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 145-162. ISBN 9783030277413

Noys, B. (2020) In: The Value of Critique: Exploring the Interrelations of Value, Critique, and Artistic Labour. University of Chicago Press: Campus Verlag, Chicago, IL, pp. 31-43. ISBN 9783593510101

Noys, B. (2018) In: History, Imperialism, Critique: New Essays in World Literature. Routledge, London, pp. 205-220. ISBN 9781138217508

Noys, B. (2018) In: The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, pp. 235-250. ISBN 9781107171411

Noys, B. (2017) In: Credo Credit Crisis. Rowman & Littlefield, London, pp. 169-184. ISBN 9781783483815

Noys, B. (2016) In: Theory Matters: The Place of Theory in Literary and Cultural Studies Today. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 81-93. ISBN 978-1-137-47427-8

Noys, B. (2016) In: Como se forma un sujeto politico? Universidad de Los Andes Press, Bogota, Columbia, pp. 199-212. ISBN 9789587743616

Noys, B. (2015) In: Literature and Intoxication: Writing, Politics and the Experience of Excess. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, pp. 185-201. ISBN 9781137487650

Noys, B. (2015) In: The Anomie of the Earth: Philosophy, Politics, and Autonomy in Europe and the Americas. Duke University Press, London, UK, pp. 174-191. ISBN 9780822359210

Noys, B. (2015) In: Repeating 沤i啪ek. Sic . Duke University Press, pp. 72-83. ISBN 9780822359050

Noys, B. (2015) In: Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature. Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 175-189. ISBN 9781472529633

Noys, B. (2014) In: (Mis)readings of Marx in Continental Philosophy. Palgrave, Basingstoke, pp. 195-210. ISBN 9781137352828

Noys, B. (2014) In: States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios. Ashgate, Farnham, pp. 73-85. ISBN 9781409461890

Noys, B. (2014) In: Cinema and Agamben: Ethics, Politics and the Moving Image. Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 89-101. ISBN 9781623561253

Noys, B. (2013) In: Violence and the Limits of Representation. Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke. ISBN 9781137296894

Noys, B. (2012) In: The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia. Directors' Cuts (Wallflower Press) . Columbia University Press, pp. 141-150. ISBN 9781906660307

Noys, B. (2011) In: Crime Cultures: Figuring Criminality in Fiction and Film. Continuum Literary Studies . Bloomsbury, London, UK, p. 36. ISBN 9780826432353

Noys, B. (2010) In: Hideous Gnosis: Black Metal Theory Symposium 1. Glossator: Black Metal Theory, Lexington, pp. 105-128. ISBN 9781450572163

Noys, B. (1998) In: Les Lieux Interdits: Transgression and French Literature. Hull Academic Press, pp. 307-323. ISBN 9780859586726

Conference or Workshop Items

Noys, B. (2013) In: Accelerationism 鈥� A Symposium on Tendencies in Capitalism, 14 Dec 2013, Berlin. (Unpublished)

Noys, B. (2013) In: Brute Symposium, 3 May 2013, Centre for Creative Collaboration, London. (Unpublished)

Noys, B. (2013) In: The White Ribbon, Screening and Discussion, 15 April 2013, University of Sussex. (Unpublished)

Noys, B. (2012) In: Historical Materialism Ninth Annual Conference, 8-11 Nov 2012, SOAS, London. (Unpublished)

Noys, B. (2011) In: Spaces of capital, moments of struggle: Historical Materialism Eighth Annual Conference, 10-13 Nov 2011, SOAS, London. (Submitted)

Noys, B. (2011) In: New Directions in Critical Theory symposium, 鈥楧angerous Ideas: Rethinking the Politics of Critique鈥�, 11 Oct 2011, University of Brighton. (Unpublished)