Louis Armand (writer)

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Louis Armand (born, 1972) is a writer, visual artist and critical theorist. Born in Sydney, he has lived in Prague since 1994 where he is director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory at the Department of Anglophone Literatures and Culture, Charles University. He is a graduate of the University of New England, Australia, where he served in 1993 as president of the campus student association, UNESA and contributed to an array of literary publications including Infernal Cinders : An Assemblage of Contemporary Writings, which he co-edited with Alan R. Roughley.

Works

His poems have appeared in Meanjin, Agenda, The Age, Stand, Poetry Review, Verse and Sulfur, as well as The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry (ed. John Kinsella 2008), Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets (eds. Michael Brennan and Peter Minter, 2000), and The Best Australian Poems (ed. Peter Rose, 2008). He is author of five volumes of poetry and a number of chapbooks including: Land Partition (2001), Inexorable Weather (2001), Malice in Underland (2003) and Strange Attractors (2003). The Garden, a work of experimental fiction was published in 2001.

Armand’s work has been described as “Avant-garde in the most literal sense, […] best appreciated by readers prepared to abandon the baggage of identity-driven poetry and systematically naturalist prose."[1] In 1997 he received the Max Harris prize for poetry at the Penola Festival (Adelaide) and in 2000 he was awarded the Nassau Review Prize (New York). His screenplay Clair Obscur won honourable mention at the 2009 Trieste Film Festival. In 2004 he founded the Prague International Poetry Festival;[2] in 2009 he co-organised (with David Vichnar) a Micro-Festival Poetry Series in Prague and Brno.[3]

His critical and theoretical work has been published in journals such as Ctheory, Triquarterly and Culture Machine. His most recent books include, Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture (2008), Event States: Discourse, Time, Mediality (2007) and Contemporary Poetics (2007). He is a member of the editorial board of Rhizomes: Studies in Cultural Knowledge and founding editor (1994) of the online journal HJS (Hypermedia Joyce Studies). He is editor of VLAK magazine.

Publications

Criticism

Hidden Agendas Unreported Poetics ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Charles Univ., 2010.

Hypermedia Joyce eds. David Vichnar & Louis Armand. Prague: Charles Univ., 2010.

The Return of Kral Majales Prague's International Literary Renaissance 1990–2010 An Anthology ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Charles Univ., 2010.

Techne: James Joyce, Hypertext & Technology. Prague: Karolinum/Charles University Press, 2003.

Incendiary Devices: Discourses of the Other. Prague: Karolinum/Charles University Press, 2005/6.

Literate Technologies: Language, Cognition, Technicity. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.

Event States: Discourse, Time, Mediality. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007.

Solicitations: Essays on Criticism & Culture. (First edition 2005) Expanded and revised edition, Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2008.

Night Joyce of a Thousand Tiers. Petr Škrabánek: Studies in Finnegans Wake. Eds. Louis Armand & Ondrej Pilny. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2002.

Avant-Post. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.

JoyceMedia: James Joyce, Genetics and Hypermedia. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2004.

Mind Factory. Ed. Louis Armand. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2005.

Giacomo Joyce: Envoys of the Other. Eds. Louis Armand & Clare Wallace. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006. (2nd edition)

Technicity. Eds. Louis Armand and Arthur Bradley. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006.

Contemporary Poetics. Ed. Louis Armand. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2007.

Language Systems: After Prague Structuralism. Ed. Louis Armand with Pavel Černovsky. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2007.

Poetry

Seances. Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 1998.

The Viconian Paramour. New York: x-poezie, 1998.

Erosions. Sydney: Vagabond Press, 1999. (chapbook)

Anatomy Lessons. New York: x-poezie, 1999. (chapbook)

Land Partition. Melbourne: Textbase Publications, 2001.

Base Materialism. New York: x-poezie, 2001. (chapbook)

Inexorable Weather. Todmorden, Lancs. (UK): Arc Publications, 2001.

Malice in Underland. Melbourne: Textbase, 2003.

Strange Attractors. Cambridge: Salt Publications, 2003.

Picture Primitive. NY: Antigen, 2006.

Letters from Ausland Sydney: Vagabond, 2011.

Fiction

The Garden. Cambridge: Salt, 2001.

Menudo. NY: Antigen, 2006.

Exhibitions

Galerie Artnatur (1999) Solo

Galerie Gambit (2002) Solo

Southern: 10 Contemporary Australian Artists, Home Gallery (2004) co-curator

Art Prague (2006)

Hunger Gallery (2010) Solo

References

  1. ↑ Bridie McCarthy, "Cosmopoetics: ‘Dimensions Unknown’” review of Strange Attractors in Jacket 31(2006)
  2. ↑ Prague International Poetry Festival 2004
  3. ↑ Micro-Festival Poetry Series 2009

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