Dr. Ben Gook

Profil

Derzeitige StellungProfessor W-2 und Äquivalente
FachgebietEthnologie und Europäische Ethnologie,Neuere und Neueste Geschichte (einschl. Europäische Geschichte der Neuzeit und Außereuropäische Geschichte)
Keywordscrisis, psychoanalysis, affect, disaffection, discontent

Aktuelle Kontaktadresse

LandAustralien
OrtMelbourne
Universität/InstitutionUniversity of Melbourne
Institut/AbteilungSchool of Culture and Communication
Websitehttps://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/profile/148060-ben-gook

Gastgeber*innen während der Förderung

Prof. Dr. Joseph VoglInstitut für deutsche Literatur, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin
Beginn der ersten Förderung01.10.2017

Programm(e)

2016Humboldt-Forschungsstipendien-Programm für Postdocs

Publikationen (Auswahl)

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)