Griffith University

Department Member, School of Humanities

Adjunct Research Fellow

Socio-Legal Research Center

Thesis Title: The Phantasmatic Subject of Technology: Slavoj Žižek, Techne, and the Abyss (awarded 2009)

About

Dr Daniel Hourigan is an early career researcher who is interested in the contemporary human rights debates between post-Althusserian political philosophy, left-leaning legal theory, and Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis. In 2009 he completed a PhD entitled "The Phantasmatic Subject of Technology: Slavoj Žižek, Techne, and the Abyss" which, under examination, received high acclaim from Dr Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (Birkbeck School of Law, University of London) and Prof Ian Parker (Division of Psychology and Social Change, Manchester Metropolitan University). He has published and presented papers on a wide variety of themes and interdisciplinary topics including current European thought, philosophy and legal theory, law and popular culture, philosophy and cinema, and the critique of technology beyond Martin Heidegger. He is currently investigating the impasse between legal theory and European philosophy centered on the doctrines of human rights from a Lacanian perspective in an effort to counter-balance the increasingly popular return to the work of Michel Foucault.

He also teaches in a variety of areas for Griffith University including art theory, jurisprudence, philosophy, and media studies. And is a regular reviewer for Metapsychology Online Reviews, while also moonlighting as a food/wine reviewer for the News Corp and Fairfax.

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