Dr. Jason E. Smith
Assistant Professor
Graduate Studies in Art
Art Center College of Design

Education

2006      Ph.D., Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine

1997      M. A., Department of Comparative Literature, University of California, Irvine

1995      B. A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Highest Honors)

Current Book Projects

Styles of Negation: The Films of Guy Debord. A study of the films of Guy Debord.

Changing the World: Between History and Politics. With Alain Badiou, Nathan Brown and Kenneth Reinhard

Books Published

with Jean-Luc Nancy and Philip Armstrong. Le politique et au-delà (Paris: Galilée, 2011)

Editions

(editor with Introduction) Between Hegel and Spinoza: A Volume of Critical Essays, ed. Hasana Sharp and Jason E. Smith (New York: Continuum, 2012)

(editor with Introduction) Vittorio Morfino, Plural Temporality: Transindividuality and the Aleatory, ed. Jason E. Smith (Brill Academic Publishers, 2011)

(contributing editor) Everything Is In Everything: Jacques Rancière between Intellectual Emancipation and Aesthetic Education, ed. Jason E. Smith and Annette Weisser (Pasadena: Art Center Graduate Press/JRP, 2011).

Books Translated

(co-translator) Tiqqun, Introduction to Civil War, tr. Alexander Galloway and Jason E. Smith (Los Angeles: Semiotext[e], 2010).

(co-translator with Introduction) Jean-Luc Nancy, Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative, tr. Jason Smith and Steven Miller (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2002).

Introductions to Books

“Communism and Ontology, Today,” in Vittorio Morfino, Plural Temporality: Transindividuality and the Aleatory, ed. Jason E. Smith (Brill Academic Publishers, 2012)

with Hasana Sharp. “Introduction,” Between Hegel and Spinoza: A Volume of Critical Essays, ed. Hasana Sharp and Jason E. Smith (New York: Continuum, 2012).

“Soul on Strike,” in Franco “Bifo” Berardi, The Soul at Work: From Alienation to Autonomy (Los Angeles: Semiotext[e], 2009), 9-21.

“Nancy’s Hegel, the State, and Us,” in Jean-Luc Nancy, Hegel: The Restlessness of the Negative, tr. Jason Smith and Steven Miller (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2002), ix-xxix.

Journal Editions

(Proposed, Contributing Editor) Grey Room, “The Films of Guy Debord: A Special Issue”

Book Chapters

(forthcoming) “The Common and Wealth: Jean-Luc Nancy’s Theory of Value,” in Jean-Luc Nancy: The Praxis of Sense, ed. Sanja Dejanovic

“The Master in His Place: Jacques Rancière and the Politics of the Will,” in Everything Is In Everything: Jacques Rancière between Intellectual Emancipation and Aesthetic Education, ed. Jason E. Smith and Annette Weisser (Pasadena: Art Center Graduate Press/JRP, 2011), 89-100.

“Nancy, Justice and the Idea of Communism,” in Jean-Luc Nancy: Justice, Legality and World, ed. B.C. Hutchens (London: Continuum, 2012).

“Strategy and the Passions: Debord’s Ruses,” in Beyond Potentialities? Politics between the Possible and the Impossible, ed. Mark Potolcnik, Frank Ruda and Jan Voelker (Zurich: Diaphanes, 2011), 167-80.

“Securities and Exchanges,” in Walead Beshty: Selected Correspondance 2001-2009 (Bologna: Damiani, 2010), 9-15.

“Everyday Abstraction,” in Words without Pictures, ed. Alexandra Klein (Aperture/LACMA, 2010), 335-39.

“Letting the Animal Go (Outside of Being),” in Diana Thater: gorillagorillagorilla, ed. Peter Pakesch (Walther König, 2009), 78-92.

“Jacques Derrida, ‘Crypto-Communist’?,” in Critical Companion to Contemporary Marxism, ed. Jacques Bidet and Stathis Kouvelakis, (Brill Academic Publishers, 2008), 625-45.

Encyclopedia and Dictionary Entries

“Animal,” “Community,” “Democracy,” and “Power,” in The Nancy Dictionary, ed. B.C. Hutchens (Continuum, Forthcoming).

“Pierre Macherey” in Die franzosische Philosophie im 20. Jahrhundert. Ein Handbuch, ed. Thomas Bedorf (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2008).

Articles in Scholarly Periodicals

(under consideration) “Guy Debord’s Styles of Negation,” in Grey Room

“A Taste for Life (On Some Suicides in Deleuze and Spinoza),” Parrhesia, no. 10 (2010): 75-85.

http://www.parrhesiajournal.org/parrhesia10/parrhesia10_smith.pdf

“The Politics of Incivility: Autonomia and Tiqqun,” Minnesota Review 75 (Fall 2010): 119-32.

“To Have Done with Critique: On Alain Badiou’s Affirmative Inaesthetics,” Texte zur Kunst 72 (December 2008): 136-40.

“Politica Povera,” Oltrecorrente, Rivista di filosofia, no. 8 (febbraio 2004), pp. 155-164.

Articles (Other)

“Minor Keys,” Artforum 47:2 (October 2008): 99-102.

“A New Geometry: Paolo Virno and Autonomia,” Artforum 46:6 (January 2008): 246-48.

“Bataille’s Joyous Apocalypse,” SOFT TARGETS 1:1 (May 2006): 113-20.

Exhibition Catalogues

“Hylden Surfacing,” in So Then There's That (Richard Telles, 2012)

“Giving Time to Time: Boetti and Italy’s ‘Creeping May’,” in Alighiero e Boetti: Game Plan, ed. Lynne Cooke, Mark Godfrey and Christian Rattemeyer (Museum of Modern Art, 2011).

“Mass and Ornament,” in Karthik Pandian: Beyond the Sun (Midway Contemporary, 2010): 7-9.

“The Hand is an Animal,” in James Hayward: Works, 1975-2007 (San Francisco, 2007).

Book Reviews

“Leftist Reason,” Radical Philosophy 171 (Jan/Feb 2012)

“The Courage to Hate: Noys’ The Persistence of the Negative,” Theory & Event, 14:2 (2011).

“Tumulting with Reason,” Radical Philosophy 159 (Jan/Feb 2010): 63-64.

[Book Review: Gil Anidjar, Semites: Race, Religion, Literature],” Modern Painters (November 2007): 105-106.

[Book Review: Jacques Ranciere, The Future of the Image],” Modern Painters (September 2007): 104-105.

[Book Review: Maximilien Robespierre, Virtue and Terror],” Modern Painters (March 2007):105-06.

“After Everyone Has Departed,” Rethinking Marxism, vol. 17, no. 2 (April 2005), pp. 166-175.

[Book Review: Henri Lefebvre’s Key Writings],” Philosophy in Review, vol. 24, no. 2 (April 2004).

Interviews

with Filippo Del Lucchese. “‘The Revolution Will Not Be an Explosion Somewhere Down the Road’: An Interview with Antonio Negri,” tr. Jason E. Smith, Grey Room 41 (Fall 2010), 6-23.

Published in French as “Produire le commun,” La Revue Internationale des Livres et des Idées 16 (mars-avril 2010): 32-39; reprinted in Penser à Gauche (Paris: Editions Amsterdam, 2011): 161-73.

Forthcoming in Italian (Verona: Ombre Corte/Uninomade, 2012) in a volume collecting recent interviews and articles of Antonio Negri.

with Filippo Del Lucchese. “‘We Need a Popular Discipline’: Contemporary Politics and the Crisis of the Negative,” interview with Alain Badiou, Critical Inquiry, Volume 34, no. 4 (Summer 2008): 645-59.

“Una ‘alleaza’ abramica contra il conflitto tra arabi e ebrei,” interview with Gil Anidjar, Il Manifesto, July 1, 2007, 12.

“La brutalità della violenza è segno di impotenza,” interview with Slavoj Zizek, Il Manifesto, April 10, 2007, 12. (English-language version of this interview: “Divine Violence and Liberated Territories: SOFT TARGETS talks with Slavoj Zizek,” softtargetsjournal.com)

“La singolarità irriducibile dell’azione commune,” interview with Alain Badiou, Il Manifesto, February 11, 2007, 12.

Translations of Articles (from French and Italian)

Jacques Rancière, “The Politics of Aesthetic Indetermination,” in Everything Is In Everything: Jacques Rancière between Intellectual Emancipation and Aesthetic Education, ed. Jason E. Smith and Annette Weisser (Pasadena: Art Center Graduate Press/JRP, 2011), 10-33.

Louis Althusser, “On Genesis,” Décalages 2:1 (2011).

Louis Althusser, “On the Cultural Revolution,” Décalages 1:1 (2010), 1-18.

Jean-Luc Nancy, “Nothing but the World: An Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy,” Rethinking Marxism, vol. 19, no. 4 (October 2007), pp. 521-35.

Vittorio Morfino, “Leibniz’s Ad Ethicam Manuscript,” Studia Leibnitiana, vol. 37, no. 1 (2007).

Vittorio Morfino, “An Althusserian Lexicon,” Borderlands 4:2 (2006).

http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol4no2_2005/morfino_lexicon.htm

“Spinoza: An Ontology of Relation?” by Vittorio Morfino, Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, vol. 27, no. 1 (2006), pp. 103-27.

Gérard Granel, “The Thirties are still before us,” Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal, vol. 25, no. 1 (2004), pp. 113-35.

Giorgio Agamben, “‘I am sure you are more pessimistic than I am’: An Interview with Giorgio Agamben,” Rethinking Marxism, vol. 16, no. 2  (April 2004), pp. 115-124.

Pierre Macherey, “Out of Melancholy,” Rethinking Marxism, vol. 16, no. 1 (January 2004), 7-17.

Translation (Fiction)

Jean-Jacques Schuhl, “Boots,” SOFT TARGETS 2.1 (2006).

 

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