Dr Rex Butler
Reader
BA(Hons), LLB, PhD (Sydney)
office: 624 Michie
phone: 3365 3055
r.butler@uq.edu.au
Author of:
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An Uncertain Smile (1996)
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Jean Baudrillard: Defence of the Real (1999)
- Slavoj Zizek: Live Theory (2005)
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A Secret History of Australian Art (2002)
Editor of:
- What is Appropriation? (1996)
- Radical Revisionism (2005)
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Slavoj Zizek: Interrogating the Real (with Scott Stephens) (2005)
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Slavoj Zizek: The Universal Exception (with Scott Stephens) (2006)
Research interests include Australian art and art criticism; contemporary art.
Current Research includes working on a history of "UnAustralian" art; life and work of Colin McCahon.
Recently completed editing a book of essays entitled 'Radical Revisionism' and 'The Universal Exception', a selection of essays by Slavoj Zizek.