Jonathan Fardy, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor of Art
Office: Fine Arts, Building #11, Room 417
Education:
PhD, Theory and Criticism, University of Western Ontario
MA, Art History, Bowling Green State University
BA, Art, Framingham State College
Research:
My research investigates the aesthetic strategies that underwrite the constitution and argumentative structure of theories of art and politics from the 1960s to the present. My recent work has been particularly focused on the work of François Laruelle. A complete list of my publications can be found here: https://idahostate.academia.edu/JonathanFardy
Current Book Project:
Fardy, J. Works of Art: Experiments in Materialist Aesthetics
Published Books:
2023: Fardy, J. Ideology and Interpellation: Anti-Humanism to Non-Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic).
2022: Fardy, J. The Real is Radical: Marx after Laruelle (Bloomsbury Academic).
2020: Fardy, J. Laruelle and Art: The Aesthetics of Non-Philosophy (Bloomsbury Academic).
2020: Fardy, J. Althusser and Art (Zero Books).
2018: Fardy, J. Laruelle and Non-Photography (Palgrave Pivot).
Recent Articles:
2022: Fardy, J. "The Object of Non-Aesthetics," in The Object as a Process: Essays Situating Artistic Practice," eds. Stephen Shmidt-Wulffen and German A. Duarte (Transcript Verlag/Columbia University Press).
2021: Fardy, J. “Photographism in Althusser’s Theory of Ideology (Notes Toward a Non-Philosophical Investigation),” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities (26.6): 135-144.
Courses Taught:
- All levels of Art History