Selected publications

Books and edited collections

Collapse Without Salvation: Critical Theory and the Crisis of Contemporary Capitalism, London and New York: Continuum, forthcoming in 2013.

States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios, Farnham and London: Ashgate, forthcoming in 2013 (co-edited with Fabio Vighi and Slavoj Zizek).

The Lost Decade: The 1950s in European History, Politics, Society and Culture, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011 (co-edited with Claire Gorrara and Kevin Passmore), ISBN (10): 1-4438-2583-2.

Žižek’s Notion of Ideology Critique in Context, special issue of the International Journal of Žižek Studies, vol. 4 (2010), no 1, (co-edited with Fabio Vighi), ISSN 1751 8229.

Europe in the 1950s, special issue of New Readings, vol. 9, October 2008 (co-edited with Claire Gorrara), ISSN 1359-7485.

Žižek Beyond Foucault, London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 (co-authored with Fabio Vighi), ISBN-10: 0230001513.

Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007 (co-edited with Fabio Vighi), ISBN-10: 1847182356.

Writing History: Theory and Practice, London and New York: Hodder Arnold, 2003 (co-edited with Stefan Berger and Kevin Passmore), ISBN-10: 0340761776 (hb) and 10: 0340761768 (pb); 2nd extended and revised edition, London: Bloomsbury, 2010, ISBN-10: 0340975156.

Das Erfahrnis der Ordnung, Frankfurt am Main, 1999, ISBN 3-86137-855-8

Journal articles and book chapters

‘The Matrix Cannot Be Reloaded’, in States of Crisis and Post-Capitalist Scenarios, co-edited with Fabio Vighi and Slavoj Zizek, London: Ashgate, forthcoming in 2013 (with Fabio Vighi).

‘Quo Vadis Marx? East German Historiography Revisited’, in Claire Gorrara et al., eds., The Lost Decade: The 1950s in European History, Politics, Society and Culture, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, pp. 37-62, ISBN (10): 1-4438-2583-2.

‘A Subject that Matters: Žižek’s Ideology Critique Today’, in International Journal of Žižek Studies, vol. 4 (2010), no 1, (with Fabio Vighi), ISSN 1751 8229.

‘The Challenge of Power in Žižek and Foucault’, in Journal of European Psychoanalysis, no. 26/27 (2010), pp. 35-67 (with Fabio Vighi), ISBN: 9788896732014.

'From Subject to Politics: The Žižekan Field Today’, in Subjectivity, vol. 3 (2010), no 1, pp. 31-52, (with Fabio Vighi), ISSN: 1755-6341.

‘Pathological Attachments: Slavoj Žižek on anti-Capitalism and Liberal Democracy’, in Rethinking Marxism, vol. 21 (2009), no. 2, pp. 290-297, (with Fabio Vighi), ISSN 0893-5696.

‘Žižek versus Foucault’, in Fabio Vighi et al., eds., Did Somebody Say Ideology? On Slavoj Žižek and Consequences, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007, pp. 146-178, ISBN-10: 1847182356.

‘Ideology Critique or Discourse Analysis? Žižek against Foucault’, in European Journal of Political Theory, 6 (2007), no. 2, pp. 158-176 (with Fabio Vighi), ISSN 1474-8851.

‘Resistant and Radical Agency: Traversing Foucault with Slavoj Žižek’, in Journal for Lacanian Studies, 4 (2006), no. 2, pp. 110-133 (with Fabio Vighi), ISSN 1477-3635.

‘United States of Europe or Free Trade Zone? No Thanks! Slavoj Žižek on the Future of Europe’, in European Journal for Social Theory, 9 (2006), no. 3, pp. 337-355 (with Fabio Vighi), ISSN 1368-4310.

‘Beyond Liberal Democracy: Slavoj Žižek and the Politics of Ideology Critique’, in New Formations, 3 (Summer 2006), pp. 53-62 (with Fabio Vighi), ISSN 0950-2378.

‘The New Scientificity in Historical Writing around 1800’, in Stefan Berger et al., eds., Writing History: Theory and Practice, London and New York, Hodder Arnold, 2003, pp. 3-23, ISBN-10: 0340761768.

‘History in the Academy' in Patrick Major and Jonathan Osmond, eds., The Workers’ and Peasants’ State: Communism and Society in East Germany, 1945-1971, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2002, pp. 262-279, ISBN 0-7190-6288-8.

‘Politischer Umbruch und Geschichtswissenschaft in Deutschland’, in Geschichte und Gesellschaft: Zeitschrift für Historische Sozialwissenschaft, 22 (1996), pp. 90-97, ISSN 0340-613 X

‘Historische Mission des Proletariats? Der Sozialismus, die Fundamentalkrise abendlaendischer Zivilisation und der klassische Klassenkampf: Auf zum allerletzten Gefecht!’, in Hans-Heinz Holz et al., eds., Politische Theorien des Marxismus im Wandel historischer Entwicklungen, Bonn: Pahl Rugenstein Nachfolger, 1991, pp. 149-61, ISBN 3-89144-119-3.

Recent popular writing

‘Capitalism as a Religion of Self-Destruction’, in Planet: The Welsh Internationalist, no. 206, May 2012, pp. 112-118. ISSN 0048-4288

'Economic Collapse without Salvation?' in The Exception Magazine, (Maine, US), 22 September 2011,

‘Slavoj Žižek’s Bartleby Politics and the Economic Crisis’, in The Exception Magazine, (Maine, US), 19 February 2009, (with Fabio Vighi)

Selected papers

‘History and excess’, annual conference of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society: Ethics in an Age of Diminishing Distance – The Clash of Difference, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 24-26 October 2008

‘The conceptualization of surplus in Foucault and Žižek’, annual conference of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis (AESA): Surplus/Excess, University of California, Riverside, 4-5 April 2008

‘The sublime object of East German historiography’, conference The Lost Decade: The 1950s in European History, Society, Economy and Culture, Cardiff University, 11-13 July 2007

‘Žižek vs Foucault’, conference Did Somebody Say Ideology? Slavoj Žižek in a Post-Ideological Universe, Cardiff University, 15-16 September 2006

‘From historicism to historicity’, 6th European Social Science History conference, University of Amsterdam, 24-29 March 2006