Levi Bryant
Levi Bryant | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | Contemporary philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental philosophy Speculative realism (onticology) |
| Institutions | Board member of The New Centre for Research & Practice |
| Main interests | Metaphysics |
| Notable ideas | Object-oriented ontology, onticology, regime of attraction, local manifestation, virtual proper being, wilderness ontology |
Levi Bryant, born Paul Reginald Bryant, is a professor of philosophy at Collin College in the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area.
Bryant has written extensively about post-structural and cultural theory, including the work of Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Rancière, and Slavoj Žižek. His blog, Larval Subjects, was founded in 2006 and had over 2 million hits as of September 2011.
In addition to working as a professor, Bryant has also served as a Lacanian psychoanalyst. While not formally trained as a Lacanian psychoanalyst, Bryant practices psychoanalysis in the state of Texas, which does not require licensure for practicing psychoanalysis.