Ian Buchanan

10 February 2026
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Prof. Ian Buchanan

University of Walongong - Australia

Profile

Ian Buchanan is Professor of Critical Theory and Cultural Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia, and is internationally recognized as a leading authority on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. His academic reputation has been built through sustained and influential contributions to contemporary philosophy, most notably as the founding editor of the prestigious academic journal Deleuze and Guattari Studies, which has become a central forum for scholarship in this field.

Beyond his expertise in Deleuze and Guattari studies, Buchanan is a highly productive scholar and author of several seminal works, including A Dictionary of Critical Theory and Assemblage Theory and Method. He is particularly known for advancing Assemblage Theory as a practical research methodology, as well as for his ability to apply complex critical-theoretical frameworks to the analysis of contemporary social and cultural issues.

In 2025, Buchanan serves as a Professor Fellow at the Faculty of Education and Teacher Training (FITK), UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. In this role, he engages in academic and research collaboration with Dr. Fahriany, M.Pd., a faculty member of FITK UIN Jakarta. This collaboration is expected to strengthen UIN Jakarta’s international academic networks and to promote the integration of globally benchmarked scholarship and research.

Publication and Books

BOOKS

– Assemblage Theory and Affect (under contract)
– The Incomplete Project of Schizoanalysis
– Assemblage Theory and Method
– Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory (revised and expanded edition)
– Oxford Dictionary of Critical Theory (Translated into Korean)
– Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus
– Fredric Jameson: Live Theory
– Deleuzism: A Metacommentary
– Michel de Certeau: Cultural Theorist

Edited Books

– Deleuze, Guattari and India: Exploring a Post-Postcolonial Multiplicity
– Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Literature
– Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Visual Arts
– Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Cinema
– Deleuze and Politics
– Jameson on Jameson: Conversations on Cultural Marxism
– Deleuze and the Contemporary World
– On Fredric Jameson
– Deleuze and Space
– Deleuze and Music
– Deleuze and Literature
– Deleuze and Feminist Theory
– A Deleuzian Century? (reissue of South Atlantic Quarterly 96:3)
– Imagining Australian Space

Guest Edited Journals

– Symploke (vol 27:1-2, 2019), special issue on Blue Humanities
– Drain (13:1), special issue on Junk Ocean
– Symploke (vol 11:1-2, 2003), special issue on Literary Theory
– South Atlantic Quarterly (vol 100:2, 2001), special issue on Michel de Certeau
– Paragraph (vol 22:2, 1999), special issue on Michel de Certeau
– Social Semiotics (vol 7:2, 1997), special issue on Gilles Deleuze
– South Atlantic Quarterly (vol 96:3, 1997), special issue on Gilles Deleuze
– Social Semiotics (vol 6:1, 1996), special issue on Michel de Certeau

Chapters in Books

– The Ocean behind the Glass
– Biopolitics, Discipline and Governmentality
– Assemblages, Black Holes, and Territories
– Fear of Boredom
– Gilles Deleuze
– Change
– Unignorable Exteriors and Unnavigable Interiors
– September 17, 2011: Occupy without Counting
– The Structural Necessity of the Body without Organs
– Towards a Schizoanalytic Criticism
– Deleuze and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed
– The Ephemeral Coast: On the Edge of the Otherly Realm
– Schizoanalytic Modernism: The Case of Antonin Artaud
– Body without Organs
– Inventing Schizoanalysis
– The Clutter Assemblage
– Schizoanalysis: An Incomplete Project
– Deleuze and Race
– The Everyday is an Other
– Is a Schizoanalysis of Cinema Possible?
– The Spectacle of War: Security, Legitimacy and Profit Post-9/11
– Deleuze and the Internet
– Is Anti-Oedipus a May '68 book?
– Deleuze and his Sources
– Five Theses of Actually Existing Schizoanalysis
– Politics, Theory, Praxis
– Introduction (in Deleuze and Politics)
– Enjoying Reality TV
– Foreword (in Jameson on Jameson)
– Introduction (in Deleuze and the Contemporary World)
– Treatise on Militarism
– Practical Deleuzism and Postmodern Space
– Deleuze and Zizek
– Introduction (in On Jameson)
– National Allegory Today: A Return to Jameson
– Introduction: Deleuze and Space
– Space in the Age of Non-place
– Schizophrenic Utopianism
– Introduction: Deleuze and Music
– Introduction: Deleuze and Literature

Articles and Chapters in Translation

– Notas acerca de la noción de control en Gilles Deleuze (Spanish)
– El problema de los estratos (Spanish)
– Nossas máquinas, nós mesmos (Portuguese)
– Unignorable Exteriors and Unnavigable Interiors (Korean)
– Esquizoanálise e Antonin Artaud (Portuguese)
– Esquizoanálisis: Un proyecto incompleto (Spanish)
– Macht und Maschine – Zur Production des Gesellschaftlichen im Anti-Ödipus (German)
– Ort und Raum. Eine Verhältnisbestimmung mit Michel de Certeau (German)
– At globalisere Deleuze og Guattari (Globalising Deleuze) (Danish)
– Deleuze yu Jameson: jingshenfenlie de wutuobangzhuyi he houxiandai kongjian de shenti (Deleuze and Jameson) (Chinese)

Articles in Refereed Journals

– Velomobilities: Cycling geographies and well-being
– Ungrievable lives and the ensemble of opinions
– New problems for assemblage thinking: materiality, governance and cycling in Sydney Australia
– The languishing bike: depleting capacities of cycling-bodies
– Critical antagonisms: cycling and territory
– Embodied spatial mobility (in)justice: Cycling refrains and pedalling geographies of men, masculinities, and love
– 1996: the OECD policy-making assemblage
– The reactivated bike: Self-reported cycling activity during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic in Australia
– Architecture and control society
– At the Mall with Fish
– Affect and Noise in the Society of Control
– Lively cities made in sound: A study of the sonic sensibilities of listening and hearing in Wollongong, New South Wales
– Must we Eat Fish? Ocean or Oubliette?
– Disappearance of Boredom
– Assemblage Theory, or, the Future of an Illusion
– Becoming Mountain
– Our Machines, Our Selves
– What must we do about Rubbish? Not our Element
– Assemblage Theory and its Discontents
– Schizoanalysis and Assemblage Theory
– Little Hans Assemblage
– The Little Hans Assemblage
– Symptomatology and Racial Politics
– February 13, 2008, or, the Baleful Enchantments of an Apology
– The Clutter Assemblage
– Deleuze and Ethics
– Deleuze and the Internet
– Is Anti-Oedipus a May '68 Book?
– Treatise on Militarism
– Deleuze's 'Life' Sentences
– Is a Schizoanalysis of Cinema Possible?
– Practical Deleuzism and Postmodern Space
– War in the Age of Unintelligent Government
– Deleuze and Non-place
– Renovating Reality TV
– Inevitable Fusion? King Kong and the Libeskind Spire
– National Allegory Today - The Return to Jameson
– The Utility of Empire
– August 26: Two or Three Things Australians Don't Seem to Want to Know About Asylum Seekers ...
– Reading Jameson Dogmatically
– What's Left of Theory?
– What is 'anti-globalisation'? I prefer not to say.
– Deleuze and Hitchcock: Schizoanalysis and The Birds
– Guest Editor's Introduction (South Atlantic Quarterly)
– Deleuze and American (Mythopoeic) Literature
– Deleuze's 'Immanent Historicism'
– Globalising Deleuze
– Enjoying Reality TV
– The End of Cinema?
– Unknotting Place and Space
– The Stylistic Inflection
– Guest Editor's Introduction (Paragraph)
– The Everyday is an Other
– Metacommentary on Utopia, or Jameson's Dialectic of Hope
– Misrecognition in Titanic
– The Problem of the Body in Deleuze and Guattari, or, What Can a Body Do?
– De Certeau and Cultural Studies
– Deleuze and Cultural Studies Introduction (South Atlantic Quarterly)
– Deleuze and Popular Music, or Why is There So Much 80s Music on the Radio Today?
– Deleuze and Popular Music (Australian Humanities Review)
– Guest Editor's Introduction (Social Semiotics)
– Heterophenomenology, or de Certeau's Theory of Space
– What is Heterology?
– Guest Editor's Introduction (Social Semiotics)
– Lefebvre and the Space of Everyday Life
– Extraordinary Spaces in Ordinary Places: De Certeau and the Space of Post-Colonialism
– Writing the Wrongs of History: De Certeau and Post Colonialism

Entries in Reference Works

– Vanishing Mediator
– Fredric Jameson
– Deleuze and Guattari
– Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari
– Gilles Deleuze
– Michel de Certeau (Concise Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology)
– Michel de Certeau (Encyclopedia of Social Theory)
– Marc Augé
– Deleuze and Guattari (The Johns Hopkins Guide)
– Heterology
– Jameson

Published Conference Proceedings

– Patient Space
– Hegemony and Saussure: Some Speculations

Review Articles

– Actually Existing Capitalism - D Henwood, After the New Economy
– Antinomies of Anti-Capitalism - L Featherstone, Students Against Sweatshops; C-t Wu, Privatising Culture. The Cultural Studies Review
– Three Serves of Zizek - S Zizek, On Belief; Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism?; The Fragile Absolute
– Symptom or Diagnosis? - G Agamben, Means Without Ends; P Virilio, Landscape of Events; S Buck-Morss, Dreamworld and Catastrophe
– Competing Modernisms - TJ Clark, Farewell to an Idea; J Crary, Suspension of Perception
– Non-Place: Space in the Age of Supermodernity
– Philosophy and Changing the World - Verena Andermatt Conley, Ecopolitics: The Environment in Poststructuralist Thought
– What is Abstraction - F Guattari, Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm
– Duel - J Baudrillard, The Gulf War Did Not Take Place
– Touring Bataille - C. Bailey Gill, Bataille: Writing the Sacred
– How Does One Read Deleuze? - M. Hardt, Gilles Deleuze: An Apprenticeship in Philosophy
– What am I to Fear? - B. Massumi (ed), The Politics of Everyday Fear
– Spatial Practice - H. Lefebvre, The Production of Space
– Postmodernism in the Nursery - J-F Lyotard, The Postmodern Explained to Children: Correspondence 1982-1985
– From Work to Textbook
– Not Your Everyday Marxist - H. Lefebvre, The Critique of Everyday Life
– World and Text - Barnes & Duncan (eds), 1992, Writing Worlds: Discourse, Text & Metaphor in the Representation of Landscape
– Reading the Writing on the Wall - J. Bushnell, Moscow Graffiti: Language and Subculture

Reviews

– Purcell, M. The Down-Deep Delight of Democracy
– Zizek, S. Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle
– Eating Out With (A) Differance - S. Melrose, Eating Out
– Investment Without Profit - A. Gould, To the Burning City
– Rigby, B. Popular Culture in Modern France: A Study of Cultural Discourse
– Massumi, B. A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia: Deviations from Deleuze and Guattari
– Bourdieu, P. & Coleman, J. Social Theory For A Changing Society
– Bourdieu, P. Language and Symbolic Power
– Deleuze, G. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (AUMLA)
– Deleuze, G. The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (SubStance)
– de Certeau, M. The Mystic Fable
– Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. What is Philosophy?
– Rodowick, D.N. Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine
– Marks, J. Gilles Deleuze: Vitalism and Multiplicity

Contact

📧 Email: ibuchana@uow.edu.au