Justin Clemens


Justin Clemens is an Australian academic known for his work on Alain Badiou, psychoanalysis, European philosophy, and contemporary Australian art and literature. He is also a published poet.

Biography

Clemens studied at the University of Melbourne, gaining his PhD on "Institution, aesthetics, nihilism: the Romanticism of contemporary theory" in 1999.
He then lectured in Psychoanalytic Studies at Deakin University, before moving to the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne in the late 2000s where he is Senior Lecturer.
Clemens is art critic for the Australian magazine The Monthly. He has a daughter.

Scholarly contributions

In his extensive published work, he writes on psychoanalysis, contemporary European philosophy, and literature. Clemens has also published poetry and prose fiction.
He was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2023.

Selected bibliography

Translated books and articles
  • Badiou, Alain, "On a Contemporary Usage of Frege", trans. Justin Clemens and Sam Gillespie, UMBR, no. 1, 2000, pp. 99–115.
  • Infinite Thought: Truth and the Return to Philosophy. Translated and edited by Justin Clemens & Oliver Feltham, : ;
Creative works
Authored books
  • The Romanticism of Contemporary Theory: Institutions, Aesthetics, Nihilism.
  • Avoiding the Subject: Media, Culture and the Object.
  • Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy
Co-authored books
  • Lacan, Deleuze, Badiou. A.J. Bartlett, Justin Clemens, Jon Roffe,
Edited collections and books