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Biography

Stuart Murray was appointed to Ryerson’s Faculty of Arts in 2006 after completing a 2-year SSHRC postdoctoral fellowship in Philosophy at the University of Toronto. Fascinated with the construction of human subjectivity, he explores the links between rhetoric, politics, and ethics. His current research focuses on “Posthuman Life: Subjects and Technologies after Humanism,” and includes research on biomedical ethics and the rhetoric of suicide terrorism.  He has won teaching awards at the University of Toronto and at Berkeley.

Research Interest

Rhetorical Theory; Critical Theory, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism; Psychoanalyic Thought; Phenomenology; Social & Political Philosophy; Culture & Technology; Ethics.

Selected Publications

• “Thanatopolitics: On the Use of Death for Mobilizing Political Life,” (on the politics of the suicide bomber), Polygraph: An International Journal of Politics and Culture, vol. 18 (2006): 191–215
• “Deconstructing the Evidence-Based Discourse in Health Sciences: Truth, Power, and Fascism,” co-authored with Dave Holmes, Amélie Perron, and Geneviève Rail, International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare, vol. 4, no. 3 (2006): 180–86
• “The Body of Free Speech: Risk and the Rhetorical Practice of Parrhesia,” Subject Matters: A Journal of Communications and the Self, vol. 2, no. 2 (2006): 59–72
• “The Rhetorics of Life and Multitude in Michel Foucault and Paolo Virno,” CTheory, 13 September 2005, <http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=479>
• “Post-textual Ethics: Foucault’s Rhetorical Will,” in Textual Ethos Studies: Or, Locating Ethics, Vol. 26, Critical Studies: Critical Theory, Literature & Culture, eds. Anna Fåhraeus and AnnKatrin Jonsson (Rodopi Press, 2005): 101–16