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Education

BA Manitoba, MA Western, PhD Toronto

Teaching Fields

History of Political Thought (Antiquity, Modernity, Postmodernity), Critical Theories (Structuralism and Post-structuralism), Utopia, Nietzsche's Political Thought

Research Interests

Nietzsche Studies, Post-structuralism and Contemporary French Political Theory (Bataille, Foucault, Deleuze, Badiou, Stiegler, Rancière), Political Ideologies (Anarchism, Fascism, Synarchism), Critical Pedagogy, Theories of Subjectivity

Events

The Nietzsche Workshop @ Western was held May 12, 2009, UWO. For more information visit the workshop website.

Publications

Selected Publications

2009 Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, "When 'Peak' and 'Abyss' Become One: Amor Fati or The Politics of Metamorphosis" in From the Rim of the Pit: Forays into Existence, forthcoming.

2009 Nandita Biswas Mellamphy and Dan Mellamphy, "'What's the Matter with Materialism? Walter Benjamin and the New 'Janitocracy'", Janus Head: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature, Continental Philosophy, Phenomenological Psychology, and the Arts, Issue 11.1, February.

2008 Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, "Corporealizing Thought: Retranslating the Eternal Return Back Into Politics" in Nietzsche, Power, Politics, ed. Herman Siemens and Vasti Roodt (Germany:Walter de Gruyter Press, 2008), 701-24.

2008 Nandita Biswas Mellamphy and Dan Mellamphy, "Paulitics" in Symposium: The Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy (special issue on Alain Badiou's work), volume 12.2, 127-47.

2008 Nandita Biswas Mellamphy and Dan Mellamphy, "'The Play's the Thing: Mathematization as Dramatization" in Paideusis: The Journal of the Canadian Philosophy of Education Society, vol. 17, no. 1, pp. 35-44.

2005 Nandita Biswas Mellamphy and Dan Mellamphy. "In Descent Proposal: Pathologies of Embodiment in Nietzsche, Kafka, and Foucault". Foucault Studies, Issue 3, November 2005, 27-48.

In Progress

Book manuscript entitled Nietzsche and Metamorphosis: The Political Physiology of Eternal Return, forthcoming.

English translation of Gilbert Simondon's Du mode d'existence des objects techniques (with E.N. Mellamphy and Dan Mellamphy).

Selected Paper Presentations

“Nietzsche’s Experimental Ontology: A Political Physiology of Individuation”. Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life. Institute for Humanities, Diego Portales University, Santiago de Chile, forthcoming November 2-4, 2009.

"Political, Anti-Political, Ueberpolitical: The Three Stigmata of Friedrich Nietzsche", plenary session of The Nietzsche Workshop @ Western 2009, May 12, 2009, The University of Western Ontario.

Invited presentation Roundtable event with Bernard Stiegler, “Trans-individuation, Technology, Politics”, New French Thought conference, Department of Philosophy, Villanova University, April 3-4, 2009.

“Supermodels and Supermen: Nietzsche’s Sartor Resartus”, Speaker series of the Northwest Atlantic Nietzsche Association and the Department of Political Science University of Massachusetts (Amherst), October 24, 2008.

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