Recent Publications - Dr. Gerry Coulter
Dr. Gerry Coulter
Department of Sociology
I. Books
Jean Baudrillard: From the Ocean to the Desert – The Poetics of Radicality. Intertheory Press, [December 15, 2012] USA (An Academic Press of Cultural theory, Fiction and Criticism). Publisher’s page: http://intertheory.org/gerrycoulter.htm. [ISBN: 978-0-9789902-4-4].
(Accepted and forthcoming). Art In / After Poststructuralism: Surviving Baudrillard’s Challenge. Intertheory Press. Expected publication in 2014.
II. Recent Selected Publications (since 2009) and Conference Papers (since 2001)
“Orbital Space”. An 800 word entry in The Virilio Dictionary. John Armitage (Editor). Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming June 2013.
“Theory”. A 1000 word entry in The Virilio Dictionary. John Armitage (Editor). Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming June 2013.
“Alexander McQueen and Jean Baudrillard: ‘The Pleasure of Fashion’”. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 10, Number 1 (January 2012): www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-10_1/v10-1-coulter.html
“An Examination of the Limits Placed on Men by Patriarchy”. In Lesley Biggs, Susan Gingell and Pamela Downe [Editors, 2011] Gendered Intersections: An Introduction to Women’s And Gender Studies [2nd Edition]. Halifax: Fernwood Press. ISBN: 9781552664131.
“Helen Frankenthaler – Safest When at Risk” (Obituary). International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 9, Number 2 (July 2012): www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-9_2/v9-2-coulterhelen.html
“Lucien Freud – Against the Grain” (Obituary). International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 9, Number 1 (January 2012): www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-9_1/v9-1-coulterfreud.html
“Marcel Duchamp Is Smiling – Objects and Concepts In Virtual Times”. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 9, Number 1 (January, 2012): www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-9_1/v9-1-coulterconcept.html
“Jackson Pollock and the Death Dance of the Avant Garde”. An essay for Choreograph.net (December 5, 2011): choreograph.net/articles/raw-thinking-jackson-polock-and-the-death-dance-of-the-avant-garde
“Baudrillard and Marx: Productivist Ideology and the Future of the Left”. In Fast Capitalism Journal, Volume 8, Number 2 (2011): www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/8_2/Coulter28_2.html
“Jean Baudrillard: The Poetic and Literary Philosopher” in Sebastian Husch (Editor): Philosophy and Literature and the Crisis of Metaphysics”. Würzburg, Germany: Königshausen and Neuman (2011).
“Jean Baudrillard in the 21st Century (and after)”. In Fast Capitalism Journal, Volume 8, Number 2 (2011): www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/8_2/Coulter18_2.html
“Between the Real and the Imagined: Tadeo Ando’s Adaptations and Extensions of Modernism” in Euro Art (On-line) Magazine, Number 14 (Spring, 2011): www.euroartmagazine.com/new/
“The Impossible Clone”. A short essay for Noema Lab. July 30, 2011): www.noemalab.org/sections/ideas/ideas)_articles/coulter_impossible_clone.html.
“Jeanloup Sieff: Fragments From the Wreckage”. International Journal of Baudrillard Studies. Volume 8, Number 2 (July): www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol8_2/v8-2-coulter.html
“Discourse Dancing, After Realism”. An essay for Choreograph.net: choreograph.net/articles/raw-thinking-the-dance-of-discource-after-realism
“Globalization, Death, and the Fearful Extremist”. OVI Magazine (Finland). (January 20, 2011): www.ovimagazine.com/art/6742
“The Catastrophe of the Digital and the Fate of Photography” Kritikos: A Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text, and Image (January 2011): intertheory.org/catastrophe.htm
“J. D. Salinger” (Obituary). International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (On the Internet), Volume8, Number 1, January 2011: www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-8_1/v8-1-salinger.html
“Louise Bourgeois” (Obituary). International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (On the Internet), Volume 8, Number 1, January 2011: www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-8_1/v8-1-bourgeois.html
“Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon” (Obituary). International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (On the Internet), Volume 8, Number 1 (January 2011): www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-8_1/v8-1-jeanne-claude.html
“Ecclestone and F1”. OVI Magazine (Finland). October 27, 2010: www.ovimagazine.com/art/6411
“Simulation is not the Opposite of the Real”. A short essay for NOEMA: An International Journal of Technology and Culture [October 23, 2010: www.noemalab.org sections/ideas/ideas_articles/coulter_simulation_real.html
“The Persistence of Modernism In Hybridity: The Modernist House and Small Scale Public Building in the Early 21st Century”. In Euro Art (On-line) Magazine, Number 13, Fall 2010: euroartmagazine.com/new/
“Immanuel Wallerstein’s Seductive Fiction”. OVI Magazine (Finland). September 29, 2010: www.ovimagazine.com/art/6301
“Jean Baudrillard and Cinema: The Problems of Technology, Realism, and History”. In Film Philosophy, Volume 14, Number 2 (September): pages 6-20 (Jon Baldwin, Editor). Also available at: www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f-p/article/view/106/287
“Anish Kapoor’s Dance With Illusion”. Euro Art and Beyond (Online Magazine), Summer 2010: www.euroartmagazine.com/new/
Five entries in The Baudrillard Dictionary; [1000 words each]): “Art” pp. 20-22; “Language” pp. 111-112; “Poetic Resolution” pp. 157-159; “Reversibility” pp. 181-183; and “Writing” pp. 240-242. In Richard G. Smith (Editor). The Baudrillard Dictionary. Edinburgh and New York: University of Edinburgh Press and Columbia University Press (July 2010). ISBN: 9780748639212.
“Conquered Europe” OVI Magazine (Finland). April 30, 2010: www.ovimagazine.com/art/5734
“History As A Great Toy – The Lives of Others”. In the film journal Widescreen – Volume 1, Number 2, 2010: widescreenjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/33/50
“Olivier Mosset: Painting At The Limits of Critique”. In International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 7, Number 2 (July 2010): www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-7_2/v7-2-mosset.html
“Claude Levi-Strauss – An Ambient Metalanguage” (Obituary). In International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 7, Number 2 (July 2010): www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-7_2/v7-2-levistrauss.html
Exhibition Review. Futurism’s Ambivalent Present: A Review of the Tate Gallery’s Summer 2009 Exhibition. In Euro Art (And Beyond) Online Magazine, Winter 2010, Number 11: www.euroartmagazine.com/new/
“Launching and Sustaining a Scholarly Journal of the Internet: The International Journal of Baudrillard Studies”. In the Journal of Electronic Publishing (a University of Michigan Journal), Volume 13 Number 1, 2009: quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/ text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno= 3336451.0013.104.
“Form, Function, and Context: Frank Gehry” in Euro Art (And Beyond) Online Magazine, Winter 2010, Number 11: www.euroartmagazine.com/new/
“Wole Soyinka and ‘the Cesspit of Free Speech’”. OVI Magazine (Finland). February 20, 2010: www.ovimagazine.com/art/5459
“The Conspiracy of Art: Illustrated – A review of Hans Werner Holzwarth et. al., (2009). 100 Contemporary Artists. Köln: Taschen; and Anne Ellegood et. al. (2009). Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Contemporary Sculpture. London: Phaidon. In International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 7, Number 1 (January 2010): www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-7_1/v7-1-revessaycoulter.html
“A Master Builder in a Virtual Age”. A review of Barbara Isenberg’s Conversations with Frank Gehry. New York: Knopf, 2009. In International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 7, Number 1 (January 2010): www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-7_1/v7-1-brcoulter.html
“Andrew Wyeth – A Modern Painter Against the Ideology of Modernism” (Obituary). In International Journal of Baudrillard Studies, Volume 7, Number 1 (January 2010): www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-7_1/v7-1-wyeth.html
Exhibition Review. “‘Please …just make it go away!’ New York vs. Francis Bacon: A Review of the Centenary Exhibition at the Metropolitan in New York”. In Euro Art Online Magazine, Fall 2009, Number 10: Photography. www.euroartmagazine.com/new/
“Modernist Asylum Art and the Contemporary Consideration of Art”. In Kritikos: A Journal of Postmodern Cultural Sound, Text, and Image. Volume 6 (September-October, 2009): intertheory.org/asylum.htm
“Photography By Other Means: Gerhard Richter’s Challenge to the Real”. In Euro Art Online Magazine, Number 10: Photography (Fall 2009): www.euroartmagazine.com/new/
“A Body Moving In Space with Artistic Intent: The Dance of Joseph Beuys”. An essay for Choreograph.net. November 6, 2009: choreograph.net/articles/raw-thinking-a-body-moving-in-space-with-artistic-intent-the-dance-of-joseph-beuys
“Lisa Yuskavage”. Published by CTRL + P Journal of Contemporary Art (Philippines), Number 15, pages 23-27. This essay was also posted to the world-wide web on October 9, 2009:
www.ctrlp-artjournal.org/pdfs/CTRLP_Issue15.pdf
Interview [In Russian Translation]). “"‘Какой смысл философу верить в реальность?’ Беседа с Джерри Култером” (“‘What Does It Mean For A Philosopher to Believe in Reality?’ An Interview with Gerry Coulter”). Published in Russian in Khora: The Journal of Modern and Comparative Foreign Philosophy. Special issue devoted to the Eightieth Anniversary of the Birth of Jean Baudrillard. 2009, Volume 2:148-163. ISSN: 2070-805x. The interview was conducted by Dr. Alexandr Dyakov, Kursk State University, Russia, in November and December of 2009. Also available as a PDF document (in Russian) at: www.jkhora.nard.ru/2009-02-11.pdf [An English version of this interview appears in the International Journal of Baudrillard Studies (On the Internet) Volume 8, Number 1 (January, 2011): www.ubishops.ca/baudrillardstudies/vol-8_1/v8-1-dyakovcoulter.html]
[In Russian Translation]. “Удовольствие от письма” (“The Pleasure of Writing”). Published in Russian in Khora: The Journal of Modern and Comparative Foreign Philosophy. Special issue devoted to the Eightieth Anniversary of the Birth of Jean Baudrillard. 2009, Volume 2: 29-34. ISSN:
2070-805x. Also available as a PDF document (in Russian) at: www.jkhora.nard.ru/2009-02-02.pdf [English version available from the author upon request]
Chapter in exhibition Catalogue, English and Turkish). “From Artistic Energy to Digital Lassitude” in Ali Peksen, Ishan Derman and Can Soysal, Track 2008: Contemporary Visual Communications Design. Istanbul, Turkey: Bilgi University Press (January, 2009):10-18. [This chapter was published in English and in Turkish translation].
Exhibition and catalogue review. “Van Dongen in Barcelona”. Euro Art (Online) Magazine (Winter 2009): www.Euroartmagazine.com/news/
“Light-Art or Art-Lite?”. In Euro Art On-Line Magazine, Winter 2009: www.euroartmagazine.com/new/
Book Review. John Scott (Editor). Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists. New York and London: Routledge, 2008. Canadian Review of Sociology (April 22, 2009): www.csaa/CRSA/ BookReview/Reviews/2009REVIEWS/ 200904scott.htm
“The Poetry of Reversibility and The Other in The English Patient”, In Widescreen Journal. Volume 1, Number 1, April 2008: widescreenjournal.org/index.php/journal/article/view/15/14
Conference papers (since 2001)
Invited Keynote Speaker. Conference: Baudrillard and War. Swedish National Defence College, Stockholm, Sweden (forthcoming: October, 2013)
Jean Baudrillard – Philosophy’s Other”. An invited paper given at the Colloquium Traverses Baudrillard, Musée Quai Branly, Paris, France, September 19, 2010.
“Jean Baudrillard the Poetic and Literary Philosopher”. Presented to the International Conference on Philosophy and Literature, University of Pau and the Ardour, Pau, France, March 12, 2010.
Invited Colloquium: International Association for Philosophy and Literature: “Jean Baudrillard: Commemorating the Conspiracies of His Art”. Nicosia, Cyprus, June 5, 2007.
“Sustaining A Scholarly Journal on the Internet”. A paper presented at the Sixth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in Organizations, Monash University Centre, Prato, Tuscany, Italy (July, 2006).
“How Artists Have Changed the Art Museum in Contemporary Times” A paper presented at the Ethnographic Art Conference. Sorbonne, Paris, France, September 22, 2006.
“Scholarly Publishing on the World Wide Web: A View From The Inside” A paper presented at the Internet, Processing, Systems and Interdisciplinary Research (IPSI) Conference, Venice, Italy, October 12-15, 2006.
“Teaching Contemporary Theory Using Original Sources” A paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Atlanta, October 27, 2005
“Contemporary Art and Social Theory in Canada“. A paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Atlanta, October 26, 2005.
“The Quest For Authenticity in Inauthentic Times: Baudrillard and Sebald On Thought, Memory, Reality, and the Contingency of the Image”. A paper presented at the Conference: Sebald’s Use of Images, University College of Cork, Ireland, July 3, 2005.
“The Creative Aspects of Launching A Scholarly Journal on the Internet: The Case of IJBS”. A paper presented at IPSI- 2005 Conference in Carcassonne, France (April 2005).
“Launching A Scholarly Journal on the Internet: Practical, Technical, and Aesthetic Considerations”. A paper presented at IPSI-2005 Conference in S’Agaro, Spain (May 2005).
“The Art of Comparison: Baudrillard’s Radical Other and Contemporary Canadian Aboriginal Art”. A paper presented at The Art of Comparison: The Sixth Annual Meetings of the European Sociological Association in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, November 3, 2004.
“Baudrillard’s One Great Thought”. A paper presented at Annual Meetings of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Biloxi, Mississippi, October 21, 2004.
“Baudrillard and Radical Pedagogy After 9-11". A paper presented at Annual Meetings of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Biloxi, Mississippi, October 22, 2004.
“Baudrillard and the ‘Indians’”: A paper presented at Annual Meetings of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Biloxi, Mississippi, October 23, 2004.
“Postcolonial (First Nations) Art and Pedagogic Issues in Teaching Contemporary Theory”. A paper presented to the Annual Meetings of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. June 17, 2004.
“Intercultural Dialogue and Canada’s Other: The Art World’s of (First Nations) Postcoloniality”. A paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland (ACSI), University of Cork, Ireland, April 30, 2004.
“What Courage Really Means For Young Men In The Reappraisal of Masculinity”. A paper presented to the Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociology Association, San Francisco, CA., USA, April 15-18, 2004.
“In Praise of Enigmas and Uncertainty: Baudrillard’s Challenge to Postmodernity and Sociology”. A paper presented to the Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociology Association, San Francisco, CA., USA, April 15-18, 2004.
“Postmodernity Never Took Place: Jean Baudrillard’s Thought On An Empty
Term”. A paper presented to the Annual Meetings of the Mid-South Sociological Association, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, (November 5-8).
“The Role of Artists in Changing Art Museums in Central Canada Since the 1960s: Perspectives From Museum Directors, Curators, and Artists” A paper presented to “New Trends In The Sociology Of The Arts”: Joint Interim Meeting of the Sociology of Art Network of the European Sociological Association and the Sociology of Art Committee of the International Sociological Association (RC37). April 17, 2003. Ecole des Beaux Arts. Paris, France.
“Postcolonial Art and Otherness In Canada”. A paper presented to the Annual Meetings of French Association for Canadian Studies. Palais du Université, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, France, September 19, 2002.
The Role of the Artist In Changing the Art Museum: Perspectives from Curators and Museum Directors”. A paper presented to the Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociological Association, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Vancouver, British Columbia, April 18, 2002.
“The Changing Museum: Art Museums in Ontario and Quebec, 1970-2000". A paper presented to the Annual Meetings of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario. June 1, 2002.
“Curating in The Posthistorical Gallery: New Perspectives in Art and Curatorial Practice” A Paper presented to the Annual Meetings of the Pacific Sociology Association. San Francisco, California, March 31, 2001.
