Dr Paul Hegarty


	Dr. Paul Hegarty

I studied Languages, Economics and Politics at what was then Kingston Polytechnic for my first degree, including a year at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques at Bordeaux. I then took a master's degree in Critical Theory at the University of Nottingham, which I followed up with a PhD thesis on Jean Baudrillard, Georges Bataille and photography. I came to UCC in October 1996, and have taught courses on cultural studies (including a Visual Culture course I started in 1997), philosophy, politics, feminism in France, the Enlightenment, Music and Culture, twentieth-century art, as well as literary seminars on transgression, the City, writing and sexuality, Paris. My research and teaching are defined by the analysis and application of the ideas of 'Theory', as can be seen below.
I am currently working on a book on Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois and the Philosophy of Science (with Gary Genosko). This research, or at least the initial work, has been assisted by the Irish Research Council of the Humanities and Social Science's Project Grant.
I am also working on a book on 'noise music', which will draw together research I have done over the last few years on noise, ideas of noise, and the place of noise in music. I am also what is termed a 'practitioner' of noise music (I wouldn't see myself as a musician, and many would agree…), and have performed and recorded in two groups: Safe, Working with Children. I have also had audio and audiovisual installations in group shows.

PUBLICATIONS

Books
Georges Bataille (London: Sage, 2000)
Jean Baudrillard (London and New York: Continuum, 2004)
Formless: Ways in and out of Form (ed. Patrick Crowley and Paul Hegarty) (in press, Bern and Oxford: Peter Lang, 2004)
Dennis Cooper: Writing at the Edge (ed. Paul Hegarty and Danny Kennedy) (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, submission August 2007)
Noise/Music (New York: Continuum, 2007)

Journal Editing
Culture Theory Critique special edition: Noise (with Greg Hainge) (in press, Spring 2005)
Culturemachine special edition: Recordings (with Gary Genosko), March 2007

Articles
'Mondrian, Paris, New York' Over Here, summer 1997, special edition: Visualising the City, 79-91 (reprinted in Plinth 1 (2000) - (online journal)
'Doubling Legitimacy: Reading Rousseau's Contrat social after Pateman's Sexual Contract, French Studies LIII (3) (July 1999), 292-306
'(transparaître): an antimonumental of Paris', Nottingham French Studies 39 (1): Errances urbaines (Spring 2000), 39-51
'Bataille, Conceiving Death', Paragraph 23 (2) (July 2000), 173-90
'Full With Noise: Theory and Noise Music (Merzbow)', ctheory (online journal, peer-reviewed) (posted Dec 2001), 9000 words
'Undelivered: Community/Violence/Awaiting in Bataille and Benjamin', Economy and Society 32 (1): special edition The College of Sociology (2003), 101-18
'Formal Insistence', The Semiotic Review of Books 13.2 (2003), 6-9 (6000 words)
'The Time of the Modern: From Paris to New York', Nottingham French Studies 44 (3) (Autumn 2005), 83-93
'Evolution Goes Awry', The Semiotic Review of Books 15.1 (2005), 4-7 (4000 words)
'Heidegger, Quality, Excellence: The Currency of Teaching', Parallax 40 (July 2006), 99-111
'Weakness and Noise', The Semiotic Review of Books 17.1 (2007),1-5 (6000 words)

Chapters in Books
'Residue - Margin - Other: Noise as Ethics of Excess', Argos 2003 (Brussels: Argos Press, 2003), 76-87
'Jean Baudrillard', in Jon Simons (ed.), Contemporary Critical Thinkers (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2004), 201-17
'Supposing the Impossibility of Sound, and of Silence, of Voice: Bataille, Agamben and the Holocaust', in Andrew Norris (ed.), Politics, Metaphysics, Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer (in press: Duke University Press, 2004), 302-46
'Georges Bataille', in George Ritzer (ed.), Encyclopedia of Social Theory (in press, London: Sage, 2004)
'Full With Noise: Theory and Noise Music (Merzbow), in Arthur and Marilouise Kroker (eds.), Life in the Wires: A CTHEORY Reader (Victoria: New World Perspectives, 2004), 86-98
(with Patrick Crowley), 'Introduction', 'Formless 1: Groundless Interpretations'; Formless 2: Within and Between: Literature and Formless'; 'Formless 3: The Interminable Detour of Form: Art and Formless', in Crowley and Hegarty (eds.), Formless: Ways in and out of Form, 8-14; 15-24; 100-7; 180-7 respectively
'As Above, So Below: Informe/Abject/Sublime', in Andrew Hussey and Malcolm Pollard (eds.), The Beast at Heaven's Gate: Georges Bataille and the Art of Transgression (Amsterdam and Atlanta: Rodopi, 2005), 73-80
'From Noise to Sound to Music and Back', in Soundworks '04 (Cork: Art Trail, 2005) (unpaginated)
'Le Dernier des sens', in Gilles Grelet (ed.), Nous, les sans-philosophie (Paris: Harmattan, 2005), 94-7
'Derrida, Agamben and the Near-dead Body', in Gert Hofmann (ed.), Figures of Law (Tübingen and Brussels: A. Francke Verlag, 2007), 47-61

Online Articles
'Full With Noise: Theory and Noise Music (Merzbow)', ctheory.net (posted Dec 2001), 9000 words
'Jean Baudrillard' (March 2005)
'Georges Bataille' (March 2005)
'Simulacra' (May 2005) all for Literary Encyclopedia (www.litencyc.com)

Encyclopedia Articles
'Georges Bataille'; 'Jean Baudrillard'; 'William Burroughs'; 'Mary Cassatt'; 'Jean Dubuffet'; 'Brion Gysin'; 'Niki de Saint Phalle'; 'Edgard Varèse', all in Bill Marshall (ed.), France and the Americas: Culture, History and Politics (Oxford and Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2005)

Articles/Chapters Translated
'Residu - marge - ander: noise als de ethiek van het excessieve', Argos 2003, 204-15

Papers Recorded and available on the Internet
'Bataille, Agamben and the Holocaust', http:/theorizing.org/archives/

Translations
Georges Bataille, 'Architecture'
Georges Bataille, 'Abattoir'
Georges Bataille, 'Museum'
all in Neal Leach (ed.), Rethinking Architecture (London: Routledge, 1997), 21; 22; 22-3 respectively
Jean Baudrillard, 'Social Practice and Technique'
Jean Baudrillard, 'Review of Lefebvre's Position"contre les technocrats, both in Gary Genosko (ed.), The Uncollected Baudrillard (London: Sage, 2001), 45-51; 52-5 respectively

Exhbition Catalogue Articles
'History of Industrial Music', for Body Without Organs (Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, July 1999)
'Alex Walsh, Familiars' (Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, September 2001)
Ten reviews for 'Exit Cork' project, Cork2005
'The Imitation of Myth', Blake and Sons: Alternative Lifestyles and Mysticism in Contemporary Art (Cork: Lewis Glucksman Gallery, 2006), 39-47

Thesis
Jean Baudrillard and Symbolic Violence: Simulation and (the) Exchange with Georges Bataille (University of Nottingham, PhD in French and Critical Theory, February 1997)

Conferences Organised
'Space in Literature and Film', University College Cork (UCC), April 1998
'Rethinking the Avant-garde', Leicester de Montfort and Phoenix Arts Centre, October 1998 (art and academic event)
'Apocalypse', UCC, April 1999
'Le Travail de l'informe: Functions of Formless', UCC, June 2002
'Pupils of the University', UCC, May 2004
'Georges Bataille, Roger Caillois and the Philosophy of Science', UCC, December 2004
'On: Dennis Cooper' (art and academic event), Granary, April 2006

Research Awards
2003 Faculty of Arts, UCC 'Le travail de l'informe' conference and edited volume €1500
2004 IRCHSS 'Georges Bataille and the Philosophy of Science' project €5000
2004 Faculty of Arts, UCC, 'Pupils of the University' confernece €1300
2005-6 Faculty of Arts Research Award, 'Noise Music' book €10 000
2006 Faculty of Arts, 'On: Dennis Cooper' conference/art event €1500
2006 English Dept, UCC, 'On: Dennis Cooper' €500

Conference Papers and Guest Lectures
(* indicates invitation)

*'Georges Bataille' (University of Nottingham, Critical Theory Lectures, November 1996)
'Baudrillard's Disappearing Reality' (UCC, Cork, February 1997)
'The Sovereign Corpse: Photography of Witkin and Serrano'. For Death and its Concepts (University of Leeds, March 1997)
'Living with Relativism: Stanley Fish and Pragmatic Ethics', for Reconstructing America (University of Birmingham, April 1997)
*'Jean Baudrillard' (University of Nottingham, Architecture and Critical Theory Lecture Series, April 1997)
'Sacrifice and Community: Performing the Impossible', for Community Workshop 2000 (UCC, April 1998)
*Panel Discussion on Performance Art (Crawford Art College, Cork, May 1998)
'As Above, So Below: Informe/Abject/Sublime', for La Bataille de Cent Ans - Cent Ans de Bataille (Fundaciò Antonio Tàpies, Barcelona, September 1998)
'The Time of the Avant-garde, the Space of Performance', for Rethinking the Avant-garde (Leicester de Montfort University, November 1998)
'Christian Boltanksi's Reliquaries', for Memory and Forgetting in Contemporary French Culture (UCD, Dublin, January 1999)
'To End With the Body With Dennis Cooper', for Apocalypse (UCC, April 1999)
*'Annihilation: Death not to Come', for Architecture and Sacrifice (University of bath, May 1999)
'étant de retour. être revenant: un siècle où la littérature n'a pas pu s'achever', for Un regard en arrière (Institute of Technology, Tallaght, January 2000)
*'To End With: The Body: On Viennese Actionism' (German Dept Research Seminar, Trinity College Dublin, January 2000)
'Painting It How It Is: Spectral Excess of the modernist City', for Sublime and the City (UCC, April 2000)
*'(not) there is (not) a beyond to (not) sacrifice: art and its impossibility in the wake of Bataille', for Georges Bataille: Community, Transgression and Excess (Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, May 2000)
*'Bataille, Agamben and the Holocaust' (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, April 2001)
'Into Immanence: Pierre Guyotat and the Dissolution of Literature', for French Studies (UCD, Dublin, July 2001)
'The Time of the Modern: From Paris to New York', for France and America: Culture and Society in the Twentieth Century (University of Southampton, July 2001)
'General Ecology of Sound', for Le Travail de l'informe: functions of formless (UCC, July 2002)
*'Was Noise the Future of Silence', for Cageday 4'33" (Crawford gallery, Cork,August 2002)
'Natural Sound and Human Existing', for European Philosophy and the Human Condition (UCC, September 2002)
*'What can you do with Noise?', for Soundlines (Cork Art Trail, December 2002)
'To Be the Capital of the West: From Paris to New York' (UCC, December 2002)
*'Accommodation of Noise', for Body/Space (University of Sheffield, April 2003)
'Culture/Noise', for Intercultural Spaces/RIA (Dublin City University, November 2003)
*'Voice as Noise', for Noisetheorynoise (University of Middlesex, March 8th 2004)
*'Chris Cunningham, Aphex Twin, Deleuze and Guattari' (UCC Arts Society, March 25th, 2004)
'What you can do with Noise', for soundwave (Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Apirl 8th 2004)
'Heidegger, Quality, Excellence: The Currency of Teaching', for The Pupils of the University (UCC, Apirl 30th, 2004)
*'Bataille and Unrecuperable Death' (Technoculture Lab, Lakehead University, Ontario, June 15th 2004)
*'Noise, Meaning and Mayhem' (Definitely Superior Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario, June 16th, 2004)
'Excess and Weakness', for Noisetheorynoise #2 (University of Middlesex, November 20th, 2004)
* 'Useless Life: Bataille, Technology and the Posthuman' (University of Victoria, British Columbia, November 23rd, 2004)
* 'Noise Music and the End of All Sound: Material for Weak Noise' for Music in the Wires (University of Victoria, November 25th, 2004)
'Useless Life: Bataille and Evolution' for Bataille, Caillois and the Philosophy of Science (University College Cork, December 4th, 2004)
*'The Art of Noise' (UCC Visual Arts Society, March 25th, 2005)
*'On Fire: The City's Accursed Share' for Architecture and its Metaphors (University College Dublin, April 23rd, 2005)
*'Derrida, Agamben and the near-dead body' for Figures of Law (University College Cork, June 10th, 2005)
*'Fate of the Animal: A Sacrificial Hyperbody', for Engaging Baudrillard (University of Swansea, September 5th, 2006)
*'Slow Stone: Caillois, Bataille and Terrestrial Transformation', for Roger Caillois: Between Art and Science' (University of Essex, March 30th, 2007)
*'Commemorate/Myth/Commemorate: Exhibiting a memory of Mythologies, for Mythologies at 50 (UCD, Dublin, April 20th, 2007)

Book Reviews
12, between 1996 and 2003, in French Studies, Modern and Contemporary France, Modern Language Review

Selected Performances/Installations

(the majority of these are as 'Safe')
2007 (march) Fred Zeppelins, Cork
2006 (oct), Firkin Crane, Cork
2006 (sept), Lazybird, Dublin
2006 (apr) 'On: Dennis Cooper', Granary, Cork
2006 (mar) EV+A, Limerick
2005 (dec) Fred Zeppelins, Cork
2005 (nov) 'Sonic Vigil', Cork
2005 (nov) 'Tulca', Galway
2005 (oct), Granary Theatre
2005 (sept-jan 2006) 'Bug City', Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba
2005 (june-july) Interim-projekte, Offenbach
2005 (april) Cruiscin Lan, Cork
2004 (nov) Biotech Institute, University of Victoria, Vancouver
2004 (aug) Galway Arts Centre
2004 (june) 'Soundworks 04' , Cork
2004 (june) defsup Gallery, Thunder Bay, Ontario
2004 (april) 'soundwave', Sirius Arts Centre
2003 (nov) 'art trail', Cork Arts Collective
2003 (nov) Lobby, Cork
2003 (july) 'Us Live', Guinness Storehouse, Dublin
2003 (june) Lobby, Cork
2003 (april) Lazybird, Dublin
2003 (february) 'Cosm', Triskel Arts Centre
Dec 2002-Jan 03 Crawford Open 'membrane' slide and studio piece
2002 sound performance, Cork Arts Trail
2002 sound performance, The Project, Dublin
2002 sound performance, Connolly's, Leap, Co. Cork
2002 'mutual' (group show) sound/video installation, Guinness Store House, Dublin
2002 'intermedia', sound performance, Triskel Arts Centre
2002 Second Earthing, experimental music/visuals event, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
2002 'din' (group show), Arthouse, Dublin
2001 Earthings, experimental music/visuals event, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
2001 noise performance, The Lobby, Cork
2001 sound/image installation, Real Arts project, Limerick (plus performance)
2000 Neither/For, sound performance, An Spailpin Fanach, Cork
2000 Noise performance, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
2000 live soundtrack to 'The Man With the Movie Camera', Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
1999 Body Without Organs, Temple Bar Galleries, Dublin

Albums
Safe + Danny McCarthy, The Air is Full (2002)
Safe, Origin of Species (2004)
Safe, The Singularity Lies in Your Future (2006) (mini-album)
Paul Hegarty, The Harvest (2005)
Co-curator of Grain (99 track compilation cd) (2003)

Last revised: 27/04/07
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Dr. Paul Hegarty