Dr. Ben Gook

Profile

Academic positionAssociate Professor, Senior Lecturer, Reader
Research fieldsSocial and Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology,Modern and Contemporary History
Keywordscrisis, psychoanalysis, affect, disaffection, discontent

Current contact address

CountryAustralia
CityMelbourne
InstitutionUniversity of Melbourne
InstituteSchool of Culture and Communication
Homepagehttps://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/148060-ben-gook

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Joseph VoglInstitut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2017

Programme(s)

2016Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2024Gook, Ben: Cult of the Archaic: The Swindle of Fascist Fulfilment. In: Australian Book Review, 2024, 11--12
2024Gook, Ben (ed.): Libidinal Economies of Crisis Times: The Psychic Life of Contemporary Capitalism. transcript Verlag, 2024
2024Cubitt, Seán and Gook, Ben: Posthumous Sound and the General Imagination. In: Cultural Politics, 20, 2024, 75--91
2023Gook, Ben and Cubitt, Seán: Apathy: Disaffection, Enthusiasm, Fanaticism. In: Critical Muslim, 47, 2023, 109--131
2023Cubitt, Seán and Duenas, Cristóbal Escobar and Gook, Ben: Yes/No: Referenda and Mandates. In: Social Text Online, 2023,
2022Gook, Ben and Hoens, Dominiek: Alienation. In: van der Plas, Christina Sotot and Juárez-Salazar, Edgar Miguel and Camarena, Carlos Gómez and Pávon-Cuéllar, David, The {Marx} through {Lacan} {Vocabulary}: {A} {Compass} for {Libidinal} and {Political} {Economies}. London: Routledge, 2022. 1--15
2022Schiermer, Bjørn and Gook, Ben and Cuzzocrea, Valentina: Collectivity and Youth Cultural Research. In: Schiermer, Bjørn and Gook, Ben and Cuzzocrea, Valentina, Youth {Collectivities}: {Cultures} and {Objects}. London: Routledge, 2022. 1--27
2022Gook, Ben: Review of Enthusiasm: Emotional Practices of Conviction in Modern Germany, written by Monique Scheer. In: Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 6, 2022, 373--375
2022Schiermer, Bjørn and Gook, Ben and Cuzzocrea, Valentina: Youth Collectivities: Cultures and Objects. London: Routledge, 2022
2021Cuzzocrea, Valentina and Gook, Ben and Schiermer, Bjørn: Bringing Together Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions: Processes, Practices and Theoretical Perspectives. In: Cuzzocrea, Valentina and Gook, Ben and Schiermer, Bjørn, Forms of {Collective} {Engagement} in {Youth} {Transitions}. Brill, 2021. 1--22
2021Gook, Ben: Merkel melancholia: Moving on from Merkelism?. In: Arena, 2021, 55--59
2020Gook, Ben and Žižek, Slavoj: Ideology isn’t in the Answer, it’s in the Question: An Interview with Slavoj Žižek. In: tripleC: Communication, Capitalism \& Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society, 18, 2020, 360--374
2019Schiermer, Bjørn and Gook, Ben: Neo-Tribes and The Subcultural Imagination. In: Youth and Globalization, 1, 2019, 187--192
2018Gook, Ben: Backdating German Neoliberalism: Ordoliberalism, the German Model and Economic Experiments in Eastern Germany after 1989. In: Journal of Sociology, 54, 2018, 33--48
2017Gook, Ben: Australian Postcolonial Trauma and Silences in Samson and Delilah. In: Hodgin, Nick and Thakkar, Amit, Scars and Wounds: Film and Legacies of Trauma. Springer, 2017. 169--194
2017Gook, Ben: Ecstatic Melancholic: Ambivalence, Electronic Music and Social Change around the Fall of the Berlin Wall. In: Emotions: History, Culture, Society, 1, 2017, 11--37
2017Gook, Ben: Nancy Fraser’s Zeitdiagnose: Capitalism after the Financial Crisis. In: Zeitschrift für Politische Theorie, 7, 2017, 260--264
2016Gook, Ben: Berlin and Detroit, An Alien Techno Alliance: Cultural Politics and Social Transformation after the Fall of the Wall. In: Limbus: Australisches Jahrbuch für germanistische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, 9, 2016, 171--204
2015Gook, Ben: Divided Subjects, Invisible Borders: Re-unified Germany after 1989. London: Rowman \& Littlefield International, 2015
2014Gook, Ben: Review Essay: Adorno Unframed. In: Studies in Social and Political Thought, 22, 2014, 87--97
2013Gook, Ben: Material and Montage: Something’s Always Left Over. In: Rabikowska, Marta, The {Everyday} of {Memory}: {Between} {Communism} and {Postcommunism}. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2013. 99--127
2012Gook, Ben: Material. In: Langford, Michelle, Directory of {World} {Cinema}: {Germany}. Bristol: Intellect, 2012.
2011Gook, Ben: Being There is Everything!. In: Memory Studies, 4, 2011, 13--22
2011Gook, Ben: Sonnenallee. In: Langford, Michelle, Directory of {World} {Cinema}: {Germany}. Bristol: Intellect, 2011. 295--297
2011Gook, Ben: The Berlin Wall. In: Langford, Michelle, Directory of {World} {Cinema}: {Germany}. Bristol: Intellect, 2011. 281--283
2008Gook, Ben: Really-Existing Nostalgia? Remembering East Germany in Film. In: Traffic, 10, 2008, 123--141
2006Gook, Ben: . . . With Ears for Landscape: Australian Soundscapes. In: Crossings, 11, 2006, (n.p., online)