Jason Barker
British film director and philosopher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jason Barker (born 1971) is a British theorist of contemporary French philosophy, novelist, film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is a professor of cultural studies at Kyung Hee University in the Graduate School of British and American Language and Culture,[1] and visiting professor at the European Graduate School,[2] where he teaches in the Faculty of Media and Communication alongside Alain Badiou, Judith Butler, Jacques Rancière, Avital Ronell, Slavoj Žižek, and others.[3]
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Born | 1971 (age 52–53) London, England |
Occupation | Professor |
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Institutions | Kyung Hee University |
Main interests | Karl Marx, Alain Badiou, Jacques Lacan |
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Most notable for his translation and introductions to the philosophy of Alain Badiou, Barker draws on an eclectic range of influences including neoplatonism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and Marxism.[4] Writing in both the English and French languages, Barker has also contributed to debates in post-Marxism.[5]