Matt Lee
Lecturer in Philosophy
Tel: 020 83318958
Email: m.j.lee@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 326
Office hours
Monday 1 - 2pm
Profile
I was awarded my PhD in Philosophy from Sussex University in 2005 and joined the Philosophy Group at Greenwich University as a part-time lecturer in the same year. My doctoral work was on Gilles Deleuze and had the long-winded title of 'Oceanic Ontology, Resistant Thought and the Problematic: Gilles Deleuze and Transcendental Philosophy'. My research interests continue to be in the realm of transcendental thought and focus on developing a materialism that isn’t reductive or naïve. I am working on transcendental arguments and structures, in particular trying to understand and articulate the concept of a ‘transcendental empiricism’. I also have an interest in philosophy of mind, Wittgensteinian semantics and Quinian holism as well as a developing interest in Robert Brandom's 'normative pragmatics'. I am currently co-ordinating an initiative of the Philosophy Group called 'Volcanic Lines – deleuzian research group'.
As well as my work as a philosopher I practise as an independent film-maker and experiment with and carry out research into contemporary poetic, erotic and magical-shamanic practices. I am writing a book, tentatively entitled “Practical Metaphysics”, that attempts to give a philosophical account of such practises derived from Deleuze’s account of ‘becoming’. I maintain a philosophy blog called Notebookeleven where I discuss my ongoing research.
I teach on a range of course including 'Introduction to Philosophy' (level 1), 'Existentialism and Phenomenology' (level 2), 'Fundamental Texts of Philosophy' (level 3) and 'Modern Philosophy: Deleuze' (MA level).
Publications
Articles: Peer-reviewed
“Memories of a sorcerer: notes on Gilles Deleuze-Felix Guattari, Austin Osman Spare and Anomalous Sorceries”; in The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, Issue 1, 2003.
Articles: Non-peer reviewed
“Rhizomatic#1” (a documentary film), in Actual/Virtual, journal of Deleuze Studies at MMU ERI.
“What is chaos majik?”, in Razorsmile journal, Issue 2, May 2003.
“Hearing touches: towards a philosophy of sound” (with Ben Rumble); Razorsmile journal, Issue 1, October 2002 .
“Aporregma#1”; (under pseudonym of ‘Keyman’), Razorsmile journal, Issue 1, October 2002.
“Marxism and morality: methods and values”; New Interventions journal, Oct/Nov 1994
Reviews
James Williams: “Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition: a critical introduction and guide”; Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 55 Number 221, October 2005.
William E. Connolly: “Neuropolitics”; Metapsychology Review, February 2005
Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey, ed.s: “Wittgenstein, theory and the arts”; Film and Philosophy Salon, vol. 9 no. 2, January 2005.
M.Greenberg, S.S.Shergill, G.Szmukler and D.Tantam : “Narratives in psychiatry", Metapsychology Review, February 2004.
Jean-Luc Nancy; trans. C.Surprenant: “The speculative remark (one of Hegel’s bons mots)”; Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques, Vol.XXIII, No.2, April 2003.
David Sudnow:“Ways of the hand - a rewritten account”; Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume 3, no.3, December 2002.
Review of the“L and B Review” for Film and Philosophy Salon, Volume 6 No. 41, November 2002.
Greg Bottoms: “Angelhead: A Memoir”; Metapsychology Review, Jan 2002
E.Fuller Torrey: “Surviving schizophrenia - A Manual for Families Consumers and Providers, Third Edition”; Metapsychology Review, Dec 200.
Eva Brann: “The ways of Naysaying - No, Not, Nothing and Non-being”; Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques, Vol XXI, No.6, Dec. 2001
Ken Steele and Clare Berman: “The day the voices stopped”; Metapsychology Review, Aug 2001.
John Modrow: “How to become a schizophrenic - the case against biological psychiatry (2nd. Edition)”; Metapsychology Review, March 2001.
Dr Thomas Szasz: “Insanity - the idea and its consequences”; Metapsychology Review, Nov 2000.
Gilles Deleuze:“Negotiations”; Film and Philosophy Salon, Volume 2 No.38, October 1998.
Andrew Dobson: “Jean Paul Sartre and the politics of reason: a theory of history”; Canadian Philosophical Reviews/Revue Canadienne de Comptes rendus en Philosophie, Vol XVI, No.6, Dec. 1995