Gavin Young Philosophy
I'm a young, aspiring philosophy professor who enjoys teaching and explicating exciting and novel concepts in the realm of philosophy and literature!
My specialties are in postmodern philosophy and literature, phenomenology, pragmatism, postcolonial studies, gender theory, and affect theory. Thinkers of interest include Joyce, Deleuze & Guattari, Foucault, Nietzsche, Burroughs, and Pynchon.
I am particularly invested in the study of James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" as a postmodern text. With the Wake as centerpiece, I am curious how notions of performativity, textual materiality, rhythm, gesture, form, and the dynamics of the reading experience shape the way we interpret texts and thereby interface with our world.
Thinking About Finnegans Wake Philosophically with Deleuze | "Two Regimes of Madness"
Stop Policing Literary Taste! | Towards a Democracy of Literary Spaces
My MASSIVE Junior Year Personal Reading List | Joyce Studies, Poststructuralism, and Literary Theory
Kinky Joyce: Friend or Foe in Finnegans Wake? | Desire and the Reader-Writer Relationship
Werner Hamacher "95 Theses on Philology" | Deconstruction and Radical Philology
Sandra Bartky "On Psychological Oppression" | Autonomy in the Shackles of Patriarchy
A Defense of Obscure Literature | Finnegans Wake and Unreadability
Rhythm in Finnegans Wake: Boulez, Zones of Intensity, and Alliterative Resistance
James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake": A Selected Recitation | Audiobook with Text
10,000 Subscribers Q&A!
Discussing William Burroughs' "The Place of Dead Roads" with Matthew Brown
An Intro to Genetic Criticism | Studying the Text as Contingent Artifact
Jean Michel Rabaté "'Alphybettyformed verbage': the shape of sounds and letters in Finnegans Wake"
Dissemination: Derrida and Finnegans Wake's L(e/i)tters
Finnegans Wake: A Philosophy of Rumor | Sociality, Signification, and Différance
Why All Knowledge is Political | Foucault and Joyce on Power and Epistemology
Is "Unintelligible" Literature Even Worth Your Time? | Answering a Common Question
"Soft morning, city!" | Reciting the Final Monologue of Finnegans Wake
How to Study Finnegans Wake | An In-Depth Secondary Literature Guide
An (Updated) Bookshelf Tour of a Philosophy and Literature Student!
Reidentifying in Thomas Pynchon's "Crying of Lot 49" and Kathy Acker's "Empire of the Senseless"
Accents and "Orthophonetics" in Finnegans Wake | Experiments at the Limits of Speech and Reading
Giambattista Vico, "The New Science" | A Philosophy of the History of Human Ideas and Institutions
Marilyn M Cooper, "The Ecology of Writing" | Communication as Community Process
Shari Benstock, "The Letter of the Law" | Finnegans Wake, Deconstruction, and Meta-Textuality
Bataille's "Story of the Eye" | Anti-Utilitarianism, Excess, and Absurd Obscenities
Joyce's Citational Grafting: Deconstructing Context and Method in Finnegans Wake II.2
Jean Grimshaw's "Autonomy and Identity in Feminist Thinking"| Theory of the Non-Unitary Self
You Are Fragmented and That's Okay | Postmodernism and Productive Fragmentation
Walter Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"