The University of Western Ontario
Faculty Member, Faculty of Information and Media Studies (FIMS)
Assistant Professor
Thesis Title: Oncontology: Plateau 1001
About
Kane X. Faucher is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Information and Media Studies' Media, Information and Technoculture program. He maintains both an academic and literary practice. At present, his methodological approach is inter- or cross-disciplinary in scope with a strong emphasis on continental philosophy (especially Deleuze), medieval studies, media studies, and rhetoric. In the literary capacity, he has several poems, short fiction, essays, and a few novels to his credit - mostly in the tradition of Borges, Celine, Beckett, Gass, Pynchon, Artaud, Pound, and Miller. Although apparently not so germane to a traditional sustained critical focus in scholarship, he prefers to adopt a more eclectic approach as the best means to tackle the manifold perspectives on any given research subject.
He is currently engaged in editing a full length manuscript on the metaphysics of cancer (oncontology), as well as planning a full research endeavour on the abject (membra abjecta) in contemporary visual art, literature, and the history of philosophy, and a tentative project on "rhizomedia". He has developed a theory of poetics entitled "lysicology" where decomposition is itself a composition, extending code poetry into the realm of decay.
Kane currently or has taught courses on propaganda and social networking, and has planned courses on museum culture and digital publishing.
Associate Editor of The Poster: The Journal of Visual Rhetoric in the Public Sphere, and The Semiotic Review of Books.
Contact Information
http://kanexfaucher.weebly.com/
