Benoit Dillet

(He/Him)

Benoit Dillet is a Senior Lecturer in politics in Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies (PoLIS) at the University of Bath, UK. Previously, he was Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) in Freiburg, Germany and a Lecturer in Politics at the Loughborough University (in 2015).

His work focuses on the politics of technology, how digital technologies condition political agency as well as political speech. He also has an interest in contemporary French politics of the Left. He has published in numerous academic journals: Politics, Political Studies Review, boundary 2, Cultural Politics and Cultural Critique.

He is the author of The Political Space of Art: The Dardenne Brothers, Arundhati Roy, Ai Weiwei and Burial (with Tara Puri) and the forthcoming Transition Imaginaries: historical experience, affective politics and decolonial technology (with Sophia Hatzisavvidou).

Experience

  • –present
    Senior Lecturer, Politics, Languages & International Studies, University of Bath

Publications

  • 2022
    Beyond technofix: Thinking with Epimetheus in the anthropocene, Contemporary Political Theory
  • 2022
    The Missing Politics of Restitution: Answering Esposito's Triptych of Political Ontology, Cultural Critique
  • 2022
    Speaking to algorithms? Rhetorical political analysis as technological analysis, Politics
  • 2017
    Philosophising by Accident: Interviews with Élie During, Edinburgh University Press
  • 2017
    What is poststructuralism?, Political Studies Review
  • 2017
    For a critique of noology, parallax
  • 2017
    Proletarianization, Deproletarianization, and the Rise of the Amateur, boundary 2
  • 2016
    Geopower: A strato-analysis of the Anthropocene, la deleuziana
  • 2016
    Noology and Technics, London Journal of Critical Thought
  • 2016
    The Political Space of Art, Rowman and Littlefield
  • 2015
    We haven't seen anything yet… accelerationism and decelerationism under austerity, Cultural Politics
  • 2013
    The Edinburgh Companion to Poststructuralism, Edinburgh University Press
  • 2013
    Technologiques: la pharmacie de Bernard Stiegler, Cécile Defaut
  • 2013
    What is called thinking?: When Deleuze walks along Heideggerian Paths, Deleuze Studies

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