whoa. this guy is too much. is it just cinematique, or does anyone else out there suspect this whole excercise in academic obfuscation is total baloney? just wondering:

from uc davis website:

Nathan Brown

Assistant Professor
Department of English
Program in Critical Theory

264 Voorhies
Davis, CA

Email: ntbrown@ucdavis.edu

Phone: (510) 520-2882

Biography:

Ph.D., UCLA, 2008

M.A., Queen's University, 2002
B.A., Queen's University, 2001

Nathan Brown's research and teaching focus on 20th and 21st century poetry and poetics, continental philosophy, and science/technology studies. He is currently at work on two book projects: The Limits of Fabrication: Materials Science and Materialist Poetics examines concepts of form and practices of fabrication in nanoscale materials science and contemporary materialist poetics, updating the context in which poetry might be considered a form of building. Absent Blue Wax (Rationalist Empiricism) considers the resurgence of rationalism in contemporary French philosophy in relation to various "radical empiricisms." The project includes specific engagements with the work of Descartes and Hume, Quentin Meillassoux, Alain Badiou, Louis Althusser, Gilles Deleuze, C.S. Peirce, and Alfred North Whitehead. Professor Brown also teaches courses in Science & Technology Studies and the Designated Emphasis Program in Critical Theory. He is the coordinator of Conjuncture - A Series of Symposia on 21st Century Philosophy, Politics, and Aesthetics.

Articles and Book Chapters

"The Technics of Prehension: On the Photography of Nicolas Baier," forthcoming in The New Whitehead, ed. Nicholas Gaskill and Adam Nocek (University of Minnesota Press).
"Red Years: Althusser's Lesson, Rancière's Error, and the Real Movement of History." Radical Philosophy 170 (Nov/Dec 2011). (download)
"The Speculative and the Specific: On Hallward and Meillassoux" in The Speculative Turn, Ed. Levi Bryant, Graham Harman, and Nick Srnicek (re:press, 2010): 142-163. (download)
"Absent Blue Wax (Rationalist Empiricism)." Qui Parle 19.1 (Fall/Winter 2010). (download)
"Objects that Matter: Olson, Bergvall, and the Poetics of Articulation." HOW2 3.3 (Winter 2010). (download)
"Immortality by Design." parallax 14.3 (August 2008), 4-20. (download)
"21st Century Materialism" in Pre-Specifics. Ed. Vera Bühlmann and Martin Wiedmer (JRP Ringier, 2008): 184-193.
"The Inorganic Open: Nanotechnology and Physical Being." Radical Philosophy. 144 (July/August 2007): 33-44. (download)
"Needle on the Real: Technoscience and Poetry at the Limits of Fabrication" in Nanoculture: Implications of the New Technoscience. Ed. N. Katherine Hayles (Intellect Books, 2004): 173-190.

Reviews, Interviews, Responses

"Next to Now," Review of Colin Milburn, Nanovision: Engineering the Future in Radical Philosophy 155 (May/June 2009): 57-59.
"To Live Without an Idea," Review of Martin Hägglund, Radical Atheism: Derrida and the Time of Life in Radical Philosophy 154 (March/April 2009): 51-53.
"Critical Pivot: The Substance of Thought," Conference Report. Radical Philosophy 150 (Jul/Aug, 2008): 71-72.
"The Function of Digital Poetry at the Present Time." Electronic Literature: New Horizons for the Literary (February 2008).
"The Politics of Error: An Interview with Shanxing Wang." Jacket 34 (October 2007)