Background
Anthony Elliott was born in 1964 in Australia. He is a son of Keith and Jean Elliott.
University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
Anthony Elliott holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Melbourne.
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Anthony Elliott holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Cambridge University.
(This book is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in w...)
This book is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in which a dialogue between the Frankfurt School, the Lacanian tradition and post-Lacanian developments in critical and feminist theory is developed. Considering afresh the relations between self and society, Elliot argues for the importance of imagination and the unconscious in understanding issues about the self and self-identity, ideology and power, sexual difference and gender.
https://www.amazon.com/Social-Psychoanalysis-Transition-Anthony-Elliott/dp/1853434469/?tag=2022091-20
1992
(Anthony Elliott presents a comprehensive introduction to ...)
Anthony Elliott presents a comprehensive introduction to psychoanalytic theory and its applications in the social sciences and humanities in this new and fully revised second edition of Psychoanalytic Theory. Elliott provides lucid interpretations of key psychoanalytic theorists such as Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Lacan, Deleuze, Kristeva, and Zizek.
https://www.amazon.com/Psychoanalytic-Theory-Introduction-Studies-Borders/dp/0822330180/?tag=2022091-20
1994
(During the last decade and a half, there have been dramat...)
During the last decade and a half, there have been dramatic changes in psychoanalytic theory, as well as in cultural, social and political theory. Psychoanalysis in Contexts examines these changes and explores the relationship between psychoanalysis and theory. The volume brings together leading scholars and practitioners in psychoanalysis to develop a unique rethinking of the relations between subjectivity and intersubjectivity, sexual difference and gender power, and unconscious desire and political change. Psychoanalysis in Contexts creates a dialogue between different psychoanalytic approaches to the study of subjectivity, social action, and modern societies. It will be essential reading for everyone interested in the future direction of psychoanalytic and cultural theory.
https://www.amazon.com/Psychoanalysis-Context-between-Theory-Culture-ebook/dp/B000FBFCN4/?tag=2022091-20
1995
(Analyzing changing experiences of selfhood, desire, inter...)
Analyzing changing experiences of selfhood, desire, interpersonal relations, culture and globalization, the author develops a novel account of postmodernity that supplants current understandings of "fragmented selves." Subject to Ourselves includes a diverse set of case studies, including the power of fantasy in military violence and war, the debate over sexual seduction in psychoanalysis, and the cultural uses of media and new information technologies. The book will be essential reading for students and professionals of social and political theory, psychoanalytic studies, psychology, and cultural studies, as well as those with an interest in the modernity/postmodernity debate.
https://www.amazon.com/Subject-Ourselves-Psychoanalysis-Postmodernity-1996-03-23/dp/B01K0PSS4E/?tag=2022091-20
1996
(The intersection of intersubjectivity, modernity, and glo...)
The intersection of intersubjectivity, modernity, and globalization are central to Paolini's analysis of postcolonialism and the status of the Third World in the contemporary free-market economy. He questions dominant notions of identity and subjectivity in the social sciences in this post-modern reflection on international relations in the late 20th century by investigating the subjective and institutional changes of individual life and collective experience in an age of globalization.
https://www.amazon.com/Navigating-Modernity-Postcolonialism-International-Perspectives/dp/155587875X/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social Theory provid...)
The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social Theory provides a comprehensive and exciting introduction to the major developments, debates, and schools of thought in social theory today.
https://www.amazon.com/Blackwell-Reader-Contemporary-Social-Theory/dp/0631206507/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(Freud 2000 is a bold defense of the relevance and importa...)
Freud 2000 is a bold defense of the relevance and importance of Freud to contemporary culture, offering a highly readable and lucid application of Freudian concepts to current theoretical issues in the social sciences and the humanities. Issues addressed include the impact of Freud on our understandings of identity and sexuality; the relationship between psychoanalysis and feminism; problems of epistemology and method; the analysis of political violence and international relations; the temporal and spatial constitution of social practices; the coherence of law and jurisprudence; the interpretation of biography and autobiography; and the dynamics of modernity and postmodernism.
https://www.amazon.com/Freud-2000-Author-published-September/dp/B00XTATGLW/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(Loss and mourning loom over John Lennon's life and legacy...)
Loss and mourning loom over John Lennon's life and legacy. Since his tragic death in 1980, he has embodied our culture's feelings of loss; he has become an object of mourning, of fantasy, of desire. Lennon himself created an aesthetic vocabulary for dealing with loss, pain, and loneliness that is unparalleled in modern times. His personal crises reflect core dimensions of modern social experience, in particular transformations affecting sexuality, masculinity, identity, and fatherhood. In this provocative account, Anthony Elliott places Lennon's life and career in its social context, examining the ways the ex-Beatle has come to symbolize an entire culture's struggle to mourn. Elliott interweaves broad-ranging discussions of celebrity, pop music, politics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism with in-depth analyses of Lennon's life and art. Elliott explores the complex, contradictory role of love in Lennon's life, with a particular focus on the themes of guilt and grief, sexuality and desire. He gives careful attention to Lennon's personal relationships - from his marriage to Cynthia Powell to his extraordinary romance with Yoko Ono. Elliott also offers a fresh consideration of Lennon's commitment to radical politics and world peace; a detailed account of his withdrawal from public life and his time as a house-husband in the late 1970s; and an examination of the postmodern, hi-tech "reunion" of The Beatles in 1994, in which John Lennon magically returned from the dead for the recording of "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love."
https://www.amazon.com/Mourning-John-Lennon-Anthony-Elliott/dp/0520215494/?tag=2022091-20
1999
(Has psychoanalysis become postmodern? How are the various...)
Has psychoanalysis become postmodern? How are the various schools of psychoanalysis being altered by postmodernism? What role does psychoanalysis have to play in the cultural debate in postmodern times? Psychoanalysis at its Limits offers a stimulating account of the complex and contradictory nature of psychoanalysis in the postmodern age. It presents a history and critique of the concept of postmodernism throughout contemporary psychoanalytic thought. As such it is a critical survey of the complex relations between desire, selfhood and culture.
https://www.amazon.com/Psychoanalysis-Limits-Navigating-Post-modern-Turn/dp/1853434655/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(This comprehensive book provides an indispensable introdu...)
This comprehensive book provides an indispensable introduction to the most significant figures in contemporary social theory. Grounded strongly in the European tradition, the profiles include Michel Foucault, J[um]urgen Habermas, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Zygmunt Bauman, Martin Heidegger, Frederic Jameson, Richard Rorty, Nancy Chodorow, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Luce Irigaray, and Donna Haraway. In guiding students through the key figures in an accessible and authoritative fashion, the book provides detailed accounts of the development of the work of major social theorists and charts the relationship between different traditions of social, cultural and political thought.
https://www.amazon.com/Profiles-Contemporary-Anthony-1-May-2001-Paperback/dp/B013ILA1T2/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(Anthony Elliott provides a scintillating introduction to ...)
Anthony Elliott provides a scintillating introduction to the major accounts of the self from symbolic interactionism and psychoanalysis to post-feminism and postmodernism. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to take account of more recent theoretical developments, and a new chapter has been added on individualization which focuses on how the self becomes an agent of ‘do-it-yourself’ autobiographical reconstruction in an age of intensive globalization.
https://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Self-Anthony-Elliott-2007-12-17/dp/B01FIW30MO/?tag=2022091-20
2001
(In this compelling book, Anthony Elliott traces the rise ...)
In this compelling book, Anthony Elliott traces the rise of psychoanalysis from the Frankfurt School to postmodernism. Examining how pathbreaking theorists such as Adorno, Marcuse, Lacan and Lyotard have deployed psychoanalysis to politicise issues such as desire, sexuality, repression and identity, Elliott assesses the gains and losses arising from this appropriation of psychoanalysis in social theory and cultural studies. Moving from the impact of the Culture Wars and recent Freud-bashing to contemporary debates in social theory, feminism and postmodernism, Elliott argues for a new alliance between sociological and psychoanalytic perspectives.
https://www.amazon.com/Social-Theory-Since-Freud-Imaginaries-ebook/dp/B000OT89PK
2004
(Corporate networking, compulsive consumerism, plastic sur...)
Corporate networking, compulsive consumerism, plastic surgery, therapeutic tribulations, instant identity makeovers and reality TV: welcome to life in our increasingly individualized world. In this dazzling book, Anthony Elliott and Charles Lemert explore the culture of the ‘new individualism’ generated by global capitalism and develop a major new perspective on people’s emotional experiences of globalization. The New Individualism offers fascinating, but disturbing, accounts of people struggling to cope with a new individualism reshaping the world today. There is Larry, a high-tech executive "emotionally wrecked by success"; there is Ruth, a married woman in her late fifties, typing real-time erotica in cyberspace; there is Norman, a recovering drug addict infected with HIV, reinventing himself by accepting the deadly worlds for what they are; and Caoimhe and Annie, two little girls only beginning to explore the disorientating effects of the new individualism. This book powerfully cuts against the grain of current orthodoxies that view globalization as corrosive of private life. Elliott and Lemert argue that today’s worlds are not only risky but deadly. Yet there is hope, the authors contend, beyond the complexities.
https://www.amazon.com/New-Individualism-Emotional-Globalization-REVISED/dp/0415351510/?tag=2022091-20
2005
(From London to New York, Madrid to Melbourne, Singapore t...)
From London to New York, Madrid to Melbourne, Singapore to Tehran, the demand for cosmetic surgery is soaring. Botox injections, collagen fillers, breast implants, microdermabrasion, mini face-lifts: extreme reinvention is all the rage. For better or worse, ours is the era of cosmetic surgical culture. In this captivating book, which draws upon research conducted in Europe, America, and Australasia, social commentator Anthony Elliott investigates the rise and rise of cosmetic surgery, lucidly reviewing recent developments in celebrity culture and the consumer industries, which many argue are responsible for the popularity of cosmetic and surgical forms of extreme reinvention. Yet it is not just cultural forces advancing the makeover industries: Elliott shows that cosmetic surgical culture has become increasingly global in our own time as a result of major institutional changes dominating public life in Western societies. He provocatively argues that personal vulnerabilities have reached the point where people turn to surgical culture in an effort to reinvent themselves and improve their life prospects.
https://www.amazon.com/Making-Cut-Cosmetic-Surgery-Transforming-ebook/dp/B0056HQTJI/?tag=2022091-20
2008
(How should we understand the personal and social impacts ...)
How should we understand the personal and social impacts of complex mobility systems? Can lifestyles based around intensive travel, transport and tourism be maintained in the 21st century? What possibility post-carbon lifestyles? In this provocative study of "life on the move", Anthony Elliott and John Urry explore how complex mobility systems are transforming everyday, ordinary lives. The authors develop their arguments through an analysis of various sectors of mobile lives: networks, new digital technologies, consumerism, the lifestyles of ‘globals’, and intimate relationships at-a-distance. Elliott and Urry introduce a range of new concepts – miniaturized mobilities, affect storage, network capital, meetingness, neighbourhood lives, portable personhood, ambient place, globals – to capture the specific ways in which mobility systems intersect with mobile lives. This book represents a novel approach in "post-carbon" social theory. It will be essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, postgraduates and teachers in sociology, social theory, politics, geography, international relations, cultural studies, and economics and business studies.
https://www.amazon.com/Mobile-Lives-International-Library-Sociology-ebook/dp/B003PJ7B2I/?tag=2022091-20
2010
("Society" is one of the most frequently used words in pub...)
"Society" is one of the most frequently used words in public life; it is also a foundational term in the social sciences. In our own time, however, the idea has never been so much in dispute and so little understood. For some critics, society is simply too consensual for a world of intensive discord. For others, the idea of ‘society' is oppressive - the very notion, so some argue, is dismissive of the infinite social differences that shape global realities. In this erudite and original book, two of the world's leading social theorists focus on unraveling the different meanings of society as a way of introducing the reader to contemporary debates in social theory. The authors argue provocatively that all ideas of society can be assigned to one of three analytical categories, or some combination of these - structure, solidarity or creation - and develop a fresh characterization of the nature of the social as a means of understanding global transformations.
https://www.amazon.com/Society-Anthony-Elliott-2012-04-23/dp/B01FIZP4MU/?tag=2022091-20
2012
(In this insightful and provocative book, Anthony Elliott ...)
In this insightful and provocative book, Anthony Elliott examines "reinvention" as a key buzzword of our times. Through a wide-ranging and impassioned assessment, Elliott reviews the new global forms of reinvention – from reinvention gurus to business reinvention, from personal makeovers to corporate rebrandings. In doing so, he undertakes a serious if often amusing consideration of contemporary reinvention practices, including super-fast weight-loss diets, celebrity makeovers, body augmentations, speed dating, online relationship therapies, organizational restructurings, business downsizings, and many more. This absorbing book is an ideal introduction to the topic of reinvention for students and general readers alike. Reinvention offers a provocative and radical reflection on an issue (sometimes treated as trivial in the public sphere) that is increasingly politically urgent in terms of its personal, social and environmental consequences.
https://www.amazon.com/Reinvention-Shortcuts-Anthony-Elliott-2013-01-17/dp/B01FIZ2YSC/?tag=2022091-20
2013
(Identity Troubles documents various contemporary mutation...)
Identity Troubles documents various contemporary mutations of identity – from robotics to biomedicine, from cosmetic surgery to digital lives – and considers their broader social, cultural and political consequences. Elliott offers a synthesis of the key conceptual innovations in identity studies in the context of recent social theory. He critically examines accounts of "individualization", "reflexivity", "liquidization" and "new maladies of the soul" – situating these in wider social and historical contexts, and drawing out critical themes. He follows with a series of chapters looking at how what is truly new in contemporary life is having profound consequences for identities, both private and public. This book will be essential reading for undergraduate students in sociology, cultural studies, political science, and human geography. It offers the first comprehensive overview of identity studies in the interdisciplinary field of social theory.
https://www.amazon.com/Identity-Troubles-introduction-Anthony-2015-10-28/dp/B01JXT41KI/?tag=2022091-20
2015
(Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies offers a remarkab...)
Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies offers a remarkably clear overview of the analysis of celebrity in the social sciences and humanities, and in so doing seeks to develop a new agenda for celebrity studies. The key theories of celebrity, ranging from classical sociological accounts to critical theory, and from media studies to postmodern approaches, are drawn together and critically appraised. There are substantive chapters looking at fame, renown, and celebrity in terms of the media industries, pop music, the makeover industries, soap stars, fans, and fandom as well as the rise of non-Western forms of celebrity. The Handbook also explores in detail the institutional aspects of celebrity, and especially new forms of mediated action and interaction. From Web 3.0 to social media, the culture of celebrity is fast redefining the public political sphere.
https://www.amazon.com/Routledge-Handbook-Celebrity-International-Handbooks-ebook/dp/B07B8FLVPD/?tag=2022091-20
2018
(In this ground-breaking book, Cambridge-trained sociologi...)
In this ground-breaking book, Cambridge-trained sociologist Anthony Elliott argues that much of what passes for conventional wisdom about artificial intelligence is either ill-considered or plain wrong. The reason? The AI revolution is not so much about cyborgs and super-robots in the future, but rather massive changes in the here-and-now of everyday life. In The Culture of AI, Elliott explores how intelligent machines, advanced robotics, accelerating automation, big data and the Internet of Everything impact upon day-to-day life and contemporary societies. With remarkable clarity and insight, Elliott’s examination of the reordering of everyday life highlights the centrality of AI to everything we do – from receiving Amazon recommendations to requesting Uber, and from getting information from virtual personal assistants to talking with chatbots. The rise of intelligent machines transforms the global economy and threatens jobs, but equally there are other major challenges to contemporary societies – although these challenges are unfolding in complex and uneven ways across the globe. The Culture of AI explores technological innovations from industrial robots to softbots, and from self-driving cars to military drones – and along the way provides detailed treatments of: The history of AI and the advent of the digital universe; automated technology, jobs and employment; the self and private life in times of accelerating machine intelligence; AI and new forms of social interaction; automated vehicles and new warfare; and, the future of AI. Written by one of the world’s foremost social theorists, The Culture of AI is a major contribution to the field and a provocative reflection on one of the most urgent issues of our time. It will be essential reading to those working in a wide variety of disciplines including sociology, science and technology studies, politics, and cultural studies.
https://www.amazon.com/Culture-AI-Everyday-Digital-Revolution/dp/1138230057/?tag=2022091-20
2018
Anthony Elliott was born in 1964 in Australia. He is a son of Keith and Jean Elliott.
Anthony Elliott holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Melbourne and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Cambridge University.
From 1992 to 1995 Anthony Elliott was an Australian Research Council’s Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne. From 1995 to 2000 he was an Australian Research Council Senior Fellow at Monash University.
Currently, Anthony Elliott is a dean of external engagement at the University of South Australia, where he is based in the External Engagement and Strategic Projects Portfolio in Chancellery. He is also executive director of the Hawke EU Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of South Australia (UniSA), and research professor of sociology in the division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences.
Professor Elliott is also a global professor of sociology (visiting) in the Graduate School of Human Relations, Keio University, Japan and visiting professor of sociology at University College Dublin, Ireland. He was formerly director of the Hawke Research Institute at UniSA (2012-2016), and associate deputy vice-chancellor (Research) and head of the department of sociology at Flinders University (2006-2012).
He contributes to media worldwide: among others, he has recently been interviewed by the BBC World Service, The Sunday Times, ABC Radio National, The Australian, BBC Radio 4, GMTV Sunday, as well as European and North American radio and television networks.
(How should we understand the personal and social impacts ...)
2010(Has psychoanalysis become postmodern? How are the various...)
2000(Freud 2000 is a bold defense of the relevance and importa...)
1999(Analyzing changing experiences of selfhood, desire, inter...)
1996(Identity Troubles documents various contemporary mutation...)
2015(Routledge Handbook of Celebrity Studies offers a remarkab...)
2018(Anthony Elliott presents a comprehensive introduction to ...)
1994(This book is a benchmark critique of Freudian theory in w...)
1992(In this ground-breaking book, Cambridge-trained sociologi...)
2018(The intersection of intersubjectivity, modernity, and glo...)
1999(Corporate networking, compulsive consumerism, plastic sur...)
2005(The Blackwell Reader in Contemporary Social Theory provid...)
1999(Anthony Elliott provides a scintillating introduction to ...)
2001(During the last decade and a half, there have been dramat...)
1995(This comprehensive book provides an indispensable introdu...)
2000("Society" is one of the most frequently used words in pub...)
2012(In this compelling book, Anthony Elliott traces the rise ...)
2004(In this insightful and provocative book, Anthony Elliott ...)
2013(From London to New York, Madrid to Melbourne, Singapore t...)
2008(Loss and mourning loom over John Lennon's life and legacy...)
1999Anthony Elliott married Nicola Geraghty. They have a daughter, Caoimhe.