Levi Bryant | |
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Nationality | American |
Era | Contemporary philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy Speculative realism (onticology) |
Institutions | Board member of The New Centre for Research & Practice[1] |
Main interests | Metaphysics |
Notable ideas | Object-oriented ontology, onticology, regime of attraction, local manifestation, virtual proper being, wilderness ontology |
Levi Bryant, born Paul Reginald Bryant, is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.[2]
Bryant has written extensively about post-structural and cultural theory, including the work of Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Rancière, and Slavoj Žižek. His blog, Larval Subjects, was founded in 2006 and had over 2 million hits as of September 2011.[3]
In addition to working as a professor, Bryant has also served as a Lacanian psychoanalyst.[4] While not formally trained as a Lacanian psychoanalyst, Bryant practices psychoanalysis in the state of Texas, which does not require licensure for practicing psychoanalysis.[5]