I am Alireza Fakhrkonandeh, a second-year PhD. candidate at Warwick University. I did my BA in English Literature at Isfahan University and graduated from it as the top student. I got the 2^nd rank in National Entrance Examinations and entered Tehran University for my MA studies. I got my MA in English literature from Tehran University from which I graduated once more as the top student. My MA thesis included a critical analysis of Howard Barker's The Castle and Women Beware Women in the light of seducto-somatic ethics (predicated on Nietzsche, Foucault, Butler's relevant theories of morality and corporeality), Baudrillard’s theory of seduction and feminist stylistics, focusing on the seducto-corporeal strategies that can be adopted and the implementation of which can occasion the disruption of the phallogocentric discourse.

In my PhD thesis I purport to approach and explore Barker’s corpus (theoretical, poetic and dramatic) interweaving philosophical speculation and critical analysis. The title of my thesis is "Theatre of Aporias: Death as a Aporetic Space for the Aesthetics of the Body/Self and Ethics of the Other/Event". I have developed and advanced two theories which have emerged out of my own philosophical readings of Barker's works; I have designated the first one "Aporetics of Death" and the other, "Con/Tactile Aesth/Ethics".

My supervisors are Prof. Thomas Docherty and Prof. Anthony Howard. Furthermore, I benefit from having the ensuing readers for the relevant chapters of my PhD thesis: Prof. Daniel Katz , Prof. David Ian Rabey and Prof. Leslie Hill.

I am the sole authorized academic transIator of Howard Barker's works (from English into Persian) and have also translated some other plays by Sara Kane, Terry Johnson and Tom Stoppard. I have also written numerous critical articles (in English and Persian) on his plays and his book on death. I have written a book on the linguistic, aesthetic and philosophical aspects of death and silence drawing on works of Blanchot, Heidegger, Bataille, Agamben, Levinas, Wittgenstein, Beckett, Derrida and Lyotard. I have also published a collection of my poems and proposed a new trend in Iranian poetry called Chaos Poetry.

 

English Articles:

1."J. Alfred Prufrock: a Sham Rock Shattered to Pieces: A Schizoanalytic Reading of the Poem"

2. "Blunt Cu/Kant Theory: The Corpus of the Castle Un/Done"

3. "The Efflorescence of the Third Skin in the Torsions of Pain"

4. "Aporia in Arcadia"

5. "Acousmatic Voice as a Chiasmatic Space"

 

Translations:

1.Victory (by Howard Barker): Cheshmeh Pubs.

2. Scenes from an Execution (by Howard Barker): Farda Pubs.

3. No End of Blame (by Howard Barker): Gaame No and Farda Pubs.

4. Pity in History (by Howard Barker): Porsesh Pubs.

5. Death, the One and the Art of Theatre (by Howard Barker): Gaame No Pubs.

6. Aporias (by Jacques Derrida): Markaz Pubs.

7. The World of Perception (by Merleau-Ponty)

8. Judith (by Howard Barker)

9. Arcadia (by Tom Stoppard)

10. Blasted (by Sarah Kane)

11. Arguments for a Theatre (by Howard Barker)

12. Blok/Eko (by Howard Barker)

13. The Castle (by Howard Barker)

14. The Eyes of the Skin (Juhanne Pallasma)

15. Psychosis 4:48 (by Sarah Kane)

16. Hysteria (by Terry Johnson)

 

Authored Works:

The Lip-prints of Death on the Photo: Essays on the Philosophy of Death

 

Poetry:

These Who Are Lying Asleep under Your Skin

 

Persian Articles:

1. "Chaos Poetry"

2. "Bent Lines, Battered Bodies"

3. "Black Contains Infinite Colors"

 

 

Alireza Fakhrkonandeh

A dot Fakhrkonandeh at warwick dot ac dot uk