Colebrook, Claire

Bio Sketch

Claire Colebrook is an Australian-born philosopher and theorist (Penn State), whose work spans deconstruction, Deleuze and feminist theory, visual culture, and the philosophy of the everyday. She writes on the politics and metaphysics of "life" and on sexual difference, and is a key figure in Geoffrey's the everyday research area (alongside de Certeau, Lefebvre, Felski).

Key Works

• "The Politics and Potential of Everyday Life" (2002, New Literary History) — the concept of the everyday and its two traditions; tactics and the "refusal of life."

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Everyday Life

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Colebrook matters to Geoffrey's the everyday research area: her deconstruction of the normative "life" within theories of the everyday — against both dialectical (Lefebvre, Heller) and immanent (Hardt & Negri) readings — sharpens the theoretical framing of everyday resistance (de Certeau's tactics) that Geoffrey applies to ordinary dwellers and users.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• The Politics and Potential of Everyday Life
• The Practice of Everyday Life