Duane Rousselle

Duane Rousselle (born April 28, 1982) is a Lacanian psychoanalyst[1] and professor of sociology.[2] His work makes interventions into several academic fields including Social Movement Studies, Lacanian Psychoanalysis, Cultural Sociology, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Anarchist Studies, and Aesthetics. His work attempts to introduce an alternative to scholarly discourses that aim to produce consistent and coherent bodies of knowledge (e.g., "University Discourse"). It also offers a counterpoint to what Jacques Lacan has called "capitalist discourse."

Duane Rousselle
Duane Rousselle in Mumbai, 2020
BornApril 28, 1982
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of New Brunswick, Trent University, European Graduate School
Home townMiramichi, New Brunswick (Canada)
AwardsGovernor General of Canada Gold Medal, Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick Medal
Scientific career
FieldsPsychoanalysis, Sociological Theory
Academic advisorsSlavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Davide Panagia
InfluencesJacques Lacan, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Jacques-Alain Miller

He helped to contribute to the emergence of a new field of scholarly investigation known as "post-anarchism." He founded and edits the journal Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies.[3]

Biography

Duane was born in Miramichi, New Brunswick to Catholic parents. He attended the New Brunswick Community College and graduated with a diploma in Electronic Game Design.[4][5] After participating in a hunger strike for admittance, he was accepted as a Sociology Major at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. During this first year of his university education, he experienced devastating poverty, sleeping on park benches. He received numerous prestigious awards, including the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick silver medal for excellence in scholarship.[6][7]

He went on to complete a Master's degree in Sociology from the University of New Brunswick before joining the PhD program in Cultural Studies from Trent University,[8] Peterborough (Ontario, Canada). During his time in Peterborough, Ontario, he became a Freemason.[9] He was awarded the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal for his research into clinical psychoanalysis and continental philosophy.[10]

He studied also at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland,[11] working as an assistant for Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou.

In 2016, Duane raised more than $100,000 to help rebuild a mosque that was attacked in a hate crime in Peterborough, Ontario.[12][13] His efforts received international attention and he was invited for a private meeting with the Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau.[14] This was the subject of a documentary film by Matthew Hayes, The Masjid.[15][16] Duane received several death threats at this time and went into hiding.[17]

Duane converted to Islam in order to marry his partner.[18] This relationship was documented by Colin Boyd Shafer in his documentary photo exhibit Interlove Project.[19][20] Duane is no longer married.

In 2019, Duane moved to Mumbai, India.

Sociological Theory

Duane Rousselle describes his approach to sociological theory in the following way:

"Why, then, do I intend to avoid coherent introductions, sustained overviews, and/or consistent bodies of knowledge? When knowledge is the agent of a discourse -- that is, when, from the place of knowledge, there is an interrogation of that which has not yet been interrogated or not yet known -- we can be sure we are within what Jacques Lacan named the 'university discourse.' [...] Many sociologists will be disappointed [...] because [this work] aims to frustrate the demand for a consistent body of knowledge. The academic sociologist might therefore inquire into the lack of comprehensiveness or into the various exclusions or lack of detail concerning several major early American sociologists [...] Or perhaps the academic sociologist might expose an inadequacy in the various summaries of the work of George Herbert Mead, Talcott Parsons, C. Wright Mills, Erving Goffman, Charles Horton Cooley, or even, why not, Jacques Lacan. Similarly, an academic reader might protest that this text does not extensively delineate or explicate the various [...] schools of sociological thought such as conflict theory, structural-functionalism, systems theory, symbolic interactionism, applied sociology, and so on. My claim is that these demands demonstrate something important about the discourse from which the American sociologist is inevitably trained to speak."[21]

By contrast, Rousselle's work draws a distinction between 'analytic discourse' and 'university discourse':

"[T]he former is aimed at making an intervention into another discourse by engaging with its foundational presuppositions, and the latter intends only to increase the scope of its own knowledge (which is fundamentally built around an unacknowledged and latent presupposition."[22]

Books
  • Post-Anarchism: A Reader (Pluto Books)[23]
  • After Post-Anarchism (Repartee Books/LBC)[24]
  • Lacanian Realism: Political and Clinical Psychoanalysis (Bloomsbury Books)[25]
  • Jacques Lacan and American Sociology: Be Wary of the Image (Palgrave)[26]
  • Gender, Sexuality, and Subjectivity: A Lacanian Perspective on Identity, Language and Queer Theory (Routledge)
  • On Love: Psychoanalysis, Religion, and Society (forthcoming)

Chapters
  • “Jacques Lacan,” Palgrave Encyclopedia of the Possible[27] (Vlad Glaveanu, Ed.). Palgrave MacMillan. 2019.
  • “Imaginary, Symbolic, Real,” The Zizek Dictionary[28] (Rex Butler, ed.). New York, NY: AcumenPublishing. pp. 213–6. 2014.
  • “Preface,” Post-Anarchism: A Reader[29] (Sureyya Evren, Duane Rousselle, eds.). London: Pluto Press.pp. vii-ix. 2011.

Articles
  • “Islamic Ethics: ‘We Must Come to Common Terms,"[30] The Philosophical Salon: London Review of Books. [Article has been translated into Arabic at "Mouminoun Without Borders,”[31] one of the most popular Arabic-speaking think -tanks]
  • “The Little objet a of Anarchist Philosophy,”[32] Continental Thought & Theory. Vol 3. No. 1. pp. 285–96.(2019)
  • “Love Must Be Reinvented,”[33] (translated work for Alain Badiou).Theory & Event. Vol. 22., No. 4. (2019)
  • “Lacanian Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century,”[34] Psychoanalytic Discourse. No. 5. (2018)
  • “A Portrait of Baudelaire as a ‘Man of Genius:’ Ordinary Psychosis within the Age of Modernity.”[35] Psychoanalysis Lacan. Volume 3. (2017)
  • “Reconsidering the Newest Social Movements from the Perspective of Lacanian Sociology,”[36] Anarchist Studies. Vol. 25, No. 2: 26-45. (2017)
  • “Numbers & Things: A Contribution to Number Theory within Lacanian Psychoanalytic Theory,” S: Journal of the Circle for Lacanian Ideology Critique. Special Issue: “Capitalism and Psychoanalysis” (John Holland, Ed.). Vol. 8: 141-72. (2016)
  • “Obsession & Politics: A Contribution to Lacanian Political Psychoanalysis,”[37] Psychoanalysis,Culture & Society. Vol. 21, No. 4: 348-67. (2016)
  • “On the Difference Between Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy,"[38] by Jean-Gérard Bursztein. Psychoanalytic Discourse / Discours Psychoanalytique (PSYAD). Vol. 1, No. 2: 75-6. (2016)
  • “Against Understanding: Cases and Commentary in a Lacanian Key, by Bruce Fink” The Psychoanalytic Review. Vol. 102, No. 4: 602-4. (2015).
  • “Demanding the Impossible,”[39] Information, Communication and Society. Vol. 17, No. 10: 1304-5. (2014)
  • “On the Names of the Father,” Interstitial: A Journal of Modern Culture and Events. (January) Unpaginated. (2014)
  • “The Triumph of Religion,"[40] Interstitial: A Journal of Modern Culture and Events. (December) Unpaginated. (2013)
  • “The New Hysterical Question,” Umbr(a): A Journal of the Unconscious. Special Issue on the Psychoanalytic Object (Joan Copjec, Chris Sylvester, Eds.): 71-88. (2013)
  • “Post-Anarchism and Its Critics” (Duane Rousselle & Saul Newman), Anarchist Studies. Vol. 21,No. 2: 74-96. (2013)
  • “Max Stirner’s Post-Post-Anarchism,”[41] Journal for the Study of Radicalism. Vol. 7, No. 1: 157-65. (2013)
  • “Georges Bataille’s Post-Anarchism,”[42] Journal of Political Ideologies. Vol. 17, No. 3: 235-57. (2012)
  • “Torn from Ghostly Hands, The Object’s Property,”[43] In Media Res. Special Issue: “Anti-Intellectual Property” (Kris Coffield, Ed.). Vol. 9, No. 17. unpaginated (2012)
  • “Postmodern Pollution,”[44] C-Theory: Theory, Technology, and Culture. Vol. 35, No. 1-2. Unpaginated. (2012)
  • “What Comes After Post-Anarchism?”[45] Continental Journal. Vol. 2, No. 2: 152-154. (2012)
  • “Scruples: Rules of Play: A Lacanian Detournement of Scrabble”[46] International Journal of Zizek Studies. Vol. 6, No. 3., Unpaginated. (2012)
  • “Symptom or Sinthome?,"[47] International Journal of Zizek Studies. Vol. 4, No. 1. Unpaginated. Non-Refereed & Popular Press (2010)

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  33. Badiou, Alain; Rousselle, Duane (January 24, 2019). "Love Must be Reinvented". Theory & Event. 22 (1): 6–17. ISSN 1092-311X.
  34. Rousselle, Duane (May 19, 2019). "Lacanian Psychoanalysis in the Twenty-First Century". Psychoanalytic Discourse. 4 (1): 94–103.
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  44. Rouselle, Duane (June 5, 2012). "Postmodern Pollution". CTheory: 6/5/2012. ISSN 1190-9153.
  45. Rousselle, Duane (January 8, 2012). "What Comes After Post-Anarchism?". Continent. 2 (2). ISSN 2159-9920.
  46. Rousselle, Duane (April 20, 2016). "Scruples, Rules of Play: A Lacanian Détournement of Scrabble". International Journal of Žižek Studies. 6 (3).
  47. Rousselle, Duane (March 18, 2016). "Symptom or Sinthome? A critical review of Burnout and intersubjectivity: A psychoanalytical study from a Lacanian perspective". International Journal of Žižek Studies. 4 (1).
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