Vita
Eric Alliez is Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University London. He wrote his doctoral thesis under the supervision of Gilles Deleuze at the University of Paris VIII. He was the Directeur de programme at the Collège International de Philosophie (1984 –1986 and 1992 – 1998), Chair of Aesthetics at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna (2000 – 2003) and, in 2002 – 2003, Directeur de recherche associé at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Eric Alliez worked as a visiting professor in Rio de Janeiro, Warwick, Vienna, London, and Karlsruhe. He is a member of the editorial committee of the journal Multitudes and editor of the works of Gabriel Tarde.
Dated from 2010
Fields of research
Philosophy and visual arts: beyond/after image; modern philosophy and modern art, contemporary philosophy and contemporary art; studies on Deleuze and Guattari: from Biophilosophy to Biopolitics; constructivism in contemporary philosophy: Deleuze/Guattari versus Badiou and Rancière; Politics of the Multitude: between Italian Marxism and French contemporary philosophy of difference; history of time and political ontology of capitalism.
Publications
with Jean-Clet Martin: L’Œil-Cerveau. Histoires de la peinture moderne, Paris: Vrin 2007.
with Jean-Claude Bonne: La Pensée-Matisse, Paris: Le Passage/Adam Biro 2005.
with Elisabeth von Samsonow (eds.): Biographien des organlosen Körpers, Wien: Turia + Kant 2003.
ed.: Œuvres de Gabriel Tarde, Le Plessis-Robinson: Institut Synthélabo, 1999 – .
Les Temps capitaux, Tome 2, La Capitale du temps, vol. 1, Paris: Cerf 1999.
with Gerhart Schröder u.a. (eds.): Metamorphosen der Zeit, München: Wilhelm Fink Verlag 1999.
Deleuze. Philosophie virtuelle (In Memoriam), Paris: Synthélabo 1996.
De l’impossibilité de la phénoménologie. Sur la philosophie française contemporaine, Paris: Vrin 1995.
La Signature du monde, ou qu’est-ce que la philosophie de Deleuze et Guattari?, Paris: Cerf 1993.
Les Temps capitaux, Tome 1, Récits de la conquête du temps (preface by Gilles Deleuze), Paris: Cerf 1991 (English translation: Capital Times, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996).