Adrian Johnston is an assistant professor in the department of philosophy at the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque and an assistant teaching analyst at the Emory Psychoanalytic Institute in Atlanta.
He is the author of Time Driven: Metapsychology and the Splitting of the Drive (Northwestern University Press, 2005), Zizek's Ontology: A Transcendental Materialist Theory of Subjectivity (Northwestern University Press, 2008), and Badiou, Zizek, and Political Transformations: The Cadence of Change (Northwestern University Press, 2009 [forthcoming]).
With Catherine Malabou, he is presently co-authoring a book on affects reconsidered at the intersection of psychoanalysis, neuroscience, and philosophy (tentatively entitled Auto-affection and Emotional Life: Psychoanalysis and Neurology). And, he is currently working on a project addressing forms of materialism ranging from historical and dialectical materialisms to such recent developments as speculative realism (tentatively entitled A Weak Nature Alone: Prolegomena to Any Future Materialism).
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