Professor Philip Armstrong has published widely in the area of contemporary visual arts and culture, as well as essays on contemporary political theory. Publications include Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political (U of Minnesota P, 2009), Jean-Luc Nancy, Politique et au-delà: Entretien with Jason Smith (Galilée, 2011), and (with Laura Lisbon and Stephen Melville) As Painting: Division and Displacement (MIT Press and Wexner Center, 2001). Translations include Jean-Luc Nancy’s The Disavowed Community and The Pleasure in Drawing, as well as the collected writings of Michel Parmentier.

Works in Progress

Precarity’s Prayers: Theses on Hope and Abandonment

Buccal Intimacies

Books and Edited Volumes

Co-edited with Christian Bonnefoi and Bernard Moninot, “Exposer,” Cahiers de l’Agart 1 (2017).

Co-edited with Jae Emerling, “A Tribute to Donald Preziosi,” Journal of Art Historiography 15 (December, 2016).

Co-edited with Laura Lisbon, “Conversations with Hantaï: Didi-Huberman, Damisch, Rouan, Nancy,” Journal of Contemporary Painting 1:2 (2015).

with Jean-Luc Nancy and Jason Smith, La politique et au-delà: Entretien avec Philip Armstrong et Jason E. Smith (Galilée, 2011).

Reticulations: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Networks of the Political (University of Minnesota Press, 2009)

with Nina Berman, Kimani Njogu, and Mbugua Wa-Mungai, eds., “Disability, Culture and Human Rights: The Nairobi Workshop,” Disability Studies Quarterly 29, 4 (Fall 2009).

with Laura Lisbon and Stephen Melville, As Painting: Division and Displacement (MIT Press and Wexner Center for the Arts, 2001).

Selected Translations

Michel Parmentier, collected writings in Guy Massaux, ed., Michel Parmentier, December 1965—November 20, 1999: A Retrospective (Paris and New York: Éditions Loevenbruck and Galerie Ortuzar, 2019).

Jean-Luc Nancy, The Disavowed Community (New York: Fordham University Press, 2016)

(with Jason Smith) “Politics and Beyond: An Interview with Jean-Luc Nancy” in Diacritics 43:4 (2015).

Jean-Luc Nancy, Intoxication (New York: Fordham University Press, 2015)

Jean-Luc Nancy, The Pleasure in Drawing (New York: Fordham University Press, 2013)

Selected Publications

“Buccal Exscriptions: Ann Hamilton’s face to face Photographs” in Parallax 27:1 (“Jean-Luc Nancy: Poetics, Politics, & Erotics of Exscription”) (forthcoming)

"Notes on Abandonment" in Ritu Vij, Tahseen Kazi, and Elisa Wynne-Hughes, eds., Precarity and International Relations (London: Palgrave, 2020), pp. 37-61. 

“Das Verfängnis et l’être-avec: les enchevêtrements de Heidegger,” trans. Olivier Huot-Beaulieu in Jean-Luc Nancy and Elisabeth Rigal, eds., Lire Être et temps (Mauvezin: TER, 2020), pp. 57-81

“Michel Parmentier: Between Refusal and the Abandonment of Painting” in Guy Massaux, ed., Michel Parmentier, December 1965—November 20, 1999: A Retrospective (Paris and New York: Éditions Loevenbruck, 2019), pp. 96-100.

“Exposition: Some Preliminary Theses/Exposition: quelques thèses préliminaires” in “Exposer,” Cahiers de l’Agart (2017)

“Networks-Trames-Redes,” in Reflexiones Marginales 34 (2016)

“Precarity’s Prayers,” in “Emergent Precarities and Lateral Aesthetics,” The Minnesota Review 85 (2015)

“Precarity/Abandonment” in Nancy and the Political, ed. Sanja Dejanovic (Edinburgh: Edinburgh   University Press, 2015).

“Gloss (à partir de quelques photos de Ann Hamilton),” in “Toucher des yeux. Nouvelles poétiques de l’ekphrasis,” Études Françaises 51:2 (2015)

“Toward a Politics of A-filiation,” in “Legacies for the Future: William V. Spanos,” boundary 2 42:1 (2015)

“In Fraternity’s Wake: Nancy, Derrida, and Algerian Independence” in Diacritics 42:2 (2015)

“Impossibilities: Painting Between Jean-François Lyotard and Philippe Lacoue- Labarthe,” in Anaël Lejeune, Olivier Mignon, and Raphaël Pirenne, eds., French Theory and American Art (Berlin: Sternberg and (SIC): Brussels, 2013)

“Entre détresse et dénouement/Between Distress and Denouement,” trans Marine van Hoof in François Rouan: Découpe/Modèle 1965-2009 (Paris: Éditions Liénart and Galerie Jean Fournier, 2011)

 “From Appearance to Exposure,” in “Jean-Luc Nancy and the Sense of the Visual,” Journal of Visual Culture 9:1 (2010).

“Beyond (Human) Rights?” in “Disability, Culture and Human Rights: The Nairobi Workshop,” Disability Studies Quarterly 29, 4 (Fall 2009).

“‘Waiting for Tear Gas’: Sekula in Seattle,” in Enculturation: A Journal of Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture 6.2 (Summer 2009).

“¿Una epistemologia de los Estudios visuales?  Recepciones de Deleuze y Guattari,” in ed. José Luis Brea, Estudios visuales: La epistemologia de la visualidad en la era de la globalización (Madrid, Akal, 2005)

“Filets,” La Part de l’Œil 20 (2005).

 “Série(s) et apories: La peinture après le minimalism," La Part de l'Œil 17/18 (2001).

 “Introduction” to Christian Bonnefoi, Ecrits sur l'art 1974-1984 (Brussels: La Part de L'Œil, 1997)

Collaborative Research Projects

with Franco Barchiesi, Mat Coleman, Shannon Winnubst, “Precarity and Social Contract” Working Group, Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, OSU (2012-14)

with Lisa Florman and Laura Lisbon, “The Emergence of the Tableau,” Research and Creative Activity in the Arts and Humanities Grant, OSU (2012-14)