Selected publications

Books and edited collections

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.

The Lost Decade: The 1950s in European History, Society and Culture, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010 forthcoming (co-edited with Claire Gorrara and Kevin Passmore).

Journal articles and book chapters

‘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.

'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: Objectivity and Partisanship in the Marxist Historiography of the German Democratic Republic’, 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.

‘Marx what Marx? East German Historiography Revisited’, in Claire Gorrara et al., eds., The Lost Decade: The 1950s in European History, Society, Economy and Culture, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010 forthcoming.

‘The Challenge of Power in Žižek and Foucault’, in Journal of European Psychoanalysis, vol. 30 (2010), no 1 (with Fabio Vighi, forthcoming).

Recent popular writing

‘Slavoj Žižek’s Bartleby Politics and the Economic Crisis’, in The Exception Magazine, (Maine, US), 19 February 2009, http://exceptionmag.com/politics/perspectives/000365/ slavoj-%C5%BEi%C5%BEeks-bartleby-politics-and-stimulus (with Fabio Vighi)

Recent 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