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Niall Lucy
Niall Lucy (11 November 1956 – 5 June 2014) was an Australian writer and scholar best known for his work in deconstruction.
Niall Lucy served as a professor in the School of Media, Culture & Creative Arts at Curtin University, and a former Head of the School of Arts (1998–2003) at Murdoch University. In 1997, he was a visiting scholar in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He worked mainly in the fields of deconstruction, literary theory and cultural criticism.
His latter work (much of it collaborative) brought a deconstructive approach to contemporary Australian events and figures. Niall Lucy was one of the original grantees for the Australian Research Grant exploring "Why is there no Noongar Wikipedia". There being no direct or near translation of the English-language computer term User, the community decided that contributors would be identified as "Niall", honoring his life's work of sharing knowledge.
Lucy gained a BA and MA (English) from the University of Western Australia, and a PhD (English) from the University of Sydney.
In Postmodern Literary Theory: An Introduction (1997), Lucy identifies postmodernism as a continuation (albeit not by conscious or deliberate means) of romanticism, especially in the form of ideas associated with the Jena romantics in Germany in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. His discussion is influenced by the work of French philosophers Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy. Lucy argues that postmodernism should be distinguished from poststructuralism, and especially from deconstruction as associated with the work of Jacques Derrida.[citation needed]
Lucy's work is notable for its sense of humour, and for taking popular culture no less seriously than philosophy. The increasing tendency in his later work towards a philosophical engagement with contemporary events is strongly informed by Derrida's Specters of Marx and the idea of democracy-to-come, which is the linchpin of Lucy's account of the importance of deconstruction in A Derrida Dictionary (2004).
Much of Lucy's recent work has been collaborative, and directly concerned with contemporary Australian cultural events and figures. His book with Steve Mickler, The War on Democracy: Conservative Opinion in the Australian Press (2006), pits a hard-left Derridean concept of democracy against what the authors argue are the "undemocratic" interests represented in the work of several prominent Australian media commentators (whom they refer to collectively as "Team Australia"), including Miranda Devine, Gerard Henderson, Janet Albrechtsen and Andrew Bolt. The book was shortlisted for the Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing at the 2008 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.[citation needed]
Among other recent works, Lucy's co-edited collection (with Chris Coughran), Vagabond Holes (2009), is a tribute to his idol, David McComb, lead singer and songwriter for Australian rock band The Triffids, which defies the conventions of a rock biography in its deconstruction of the notion of an autonomous self or identity. Contributors include Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, John Kinsella, DBC Pierre, and Lucy's own adopted sister, Judith.[citation needed]
Niall Lucy
Niall Lucy (11 November 1956 – 5 June 2014) was an Australian writer and scholar best known for his work in deconstruction.
Niall Lucy served as a professor in the School of Media, Culture & Creative Arts at Curtin University, and a former Head of the School of Arts (1998–2003) at Murdoch University. In 1997, he was a visiting scholar in the School of English, Communication and Philosophy at the University of Wales, Cardiff. He worked mainly in the fields of deconstruction, literary theory and cultural criticism.
His latter work (much of it collaborative) brought a deconstructive approach to contemporary Australian events and figures. Niall Lucy was one of the original grantees for the Australian Research Grant exploring "Why is there no Noongar Wikipedia". There being no direct or near translation of the English-language computer term User, the community decided that contributors would be identified as "Niall", honoring his life's work of sharing knowledge.
Lucy gained a BA and MA (English) from the University of Western Australia, and a PhD (English) from the University of Sydney.
In Postmodern Literary Theory: An Introduction (1997), Lucy identifies postmodernism as a continuation (albeit not by conscious or deliberate means) of romanticism, especially in the form of ideas associated with the Jena romantics in Germany in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. His discussion is influenced by the work of French philosophers Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy. Lucy argues that postmodernism should be distinguished from poststructuralism, and especially from deconstruction as associated with the work of Jacques Derrida.[citation needed]
Lucy's work is notable for its sense of humour, and for taking popular culture no less seriously than philosophy. The increasing tendency in his later work towards a philosophical engagement with contemporary events is strongly informed by Derrida's Specters of Marx and the idea of democracy-to-come, which is the linchpin of Lucy's account of the importance of deconstruction in A Derrida Dictionary (2004).
Much of Lucy's recent work has been collaborative, and directly concerned with contemporary Australian cultural events and figures. His book with Steve Mickler, The War on Democracy: Conservative Opinion in the Australian Press (2006), pits a hard-left Derridean concept of democracy against what the authors argue are the "undemocratic" interests represented in the work of several prominent Australian media commentators (whom they refer to collectively as "Team Australia"), including Miranda Devine, Gerard Henderson, Janet Albrechtsen and Andrew Bolt. The book was shortlisted for the Gleebooks Prize for Critical Writing at the 2008 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards.[citation needed]
Among other recent works, Lucy's co-edited collection (with Chris Coughran), Vagabond Holes (2009), is a tribute to his idol, David McComb, lead singer and songwriter for Australian rock band The Triffids, which defies the conventions of a rock biography in its deconstruction of the notion of an autonomous self or identity. Contributors include Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, John Kinsella, DBC Pierre, and Lucy's own adopted sister, Judith.[citation needed]