Dr. Audronė Žukauskaitė

Is Chief Researcher (since 2011) at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. Her recent publications include the monographs From Biopolitics to Biophilosophy (2016, in Lithuanian) and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Philosophy: The Logic of Multiplicity (2011, in Lithuanian). She also co-edited (with S. E. Wilmer) Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010; Deleuze and Beckett, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; and Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies, New York, London: Routledge, 2016, 2018 and Life in the Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023).

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3295-3020

PHD: in 1997 defended PhD dissertation “The Crisis of the Metaphysics of Subjectivity: M. Heidegger, E. Levinas, J. Derrida".

Research Interests: contemporary philosophy, Deleuze and Guattari‘s philosophy, biopolitics, biophilosophy, posthumanism.

E-mail: zukauskaite.audrone@gmail.com

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

Monographs:

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Organism-Oriented Ontology. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023. ISBN 9781399510547

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Nuo biopolitikos iki biofilosofijos, Vilnius: Kitos knygos, 2016, 310 p., ISBN 9786094272455.

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Gilles’io Deleuze’o ir Felixo Guattari filosofija: daugialypumo logika, Vilnius: Baltos lankos, 2011, 268 p., ISBN 9789955235057.

Edited books:

S. E. Wilmer, Audronė Žukauskaitė (eds). Life in the Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2023, 312 p., ISBN 9781399505277

S. E. Wilmer, Audronė Žukauskaitė (eds). Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies, New York: Routledge, 2016, 2018, 306 p., ISBN 9781138789487.

S. E. Wilmer, Audronė Žukauskaitė (eds), Deleuze and Beckett, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 253 p., ISBN 9781137481139.

S. E. Wilmer, Audronė Žukauskaitė (eds), Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, 444 p., ISBN 9780199559213.

Articles, book chapters:

Žukauskaitė, Audronė. “Forms of Life: Simondon, Ruyer, Malabou”, in: S. E. Wilmer, Audronė Žukauskaitė (eds). Life in the Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene. Edinburgh University Press, 2023, pp. 261-279.

Žukauskaitė, Audronė. “Sympoiesis, Autopoiesis and Immunity: How to Coexist with Nonhuman Others”, Text Matters, No. 12, 2022, pp. 380-396. https://doi.org/10.18778/2083-2931.12.23

Žukauskaitė, Audronė. “Planetary Assemblages: From Organic to Inorganic and Beyond”, in: Machinic Assemblages of Desire: Deleuze and Artistic Research 3, eds. Paulo de Assis and Paolo Guidici. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2021, p. 297-308. ISBN 9789462702547 eISBN 9789461663603 http://doi.org/10.11116/9789461663603

Žukauskaitė, Audronė. “Other Minds: Ruyer, Damasio, and Malabou”, in: Shared Habitats: A Cultural Inquiry into Living Spaces and Their Inhabitants, eds. Ursula Damm and Mindaugas Gapševičius. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2021, p. 271-292. ISBN 9783837656473 http://doi.org/10.14361/9783839456477

Žukauskaitė, Audronė. “Bendroji organologija: tarp organizmo ir mašinos”, Athena: filosofijos studijos, Nr. 16, sud. Kęstas Kirtiklis, 2021, p. 52-68. ISSN 1822-5047 https://doi.org/10.53631/Athena.2021.16.4

Žukauskaitė, A. “Gaia Theory: Between Autopoiesis and Sympoiesis”, Problemos: mokslo darbai, no. 98, 2020, p. 141-153.  DOI: https://doi.org/10.15388/Problemos.98.13

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Multiplicity as a Life: Deleuze, Ruyer, Simondon, Deleuze and the Art of Multiplicities, eds. R. Predzpelski and S. E. Wilmer, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020 p. 35-49.

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Producing ‘bare life’ in the Anthropo-scene, Nordic Theatre Studies, Audronė, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2020, p. 27-43. DOI: https://doi.org/10.7146/nts.v32i1.120406

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Interspecies Sonification: Deleuze, Ruyer, and Bioart, Aberrant Nuptials: Deleuze and Artistic Research, eds. Paulo de Assis and Paolo Giudici. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2019, p. 421-428, ISBN-10: 9462702020, ISBN-13: 978-9462702028.

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Hybrids, Chimeras, Aberrant Nuptials: New Modes of Cohabitation in Bioart, Nordic Theatre Studies, Vol. 31, No. 1, 2019, p. 22–37, ISSN 2002-3898 (online), ISSN 0904-6380 (print). – https://tidsskrift.dk/nts/article/view/113000/161687, https://doi.org/10.7146/nts.v31i1.113000

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Nuogos gyvybės produkavimas antropoceno scenoje [Producing ‘bare life’ in the anthropo-scene], Athena: filosofijos studijos, Nr. 14, edited by Audronė Žukauskaitė, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2019, p. 63–78, ISSN 1822-5047, e-ISSN 2538–7294. – https://www.athena.lt/files/pdf/14/Athene_C_197.pdf

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, The Deleuzian Notion of Becoming-Imperceptible and Postfeminist Strategies, Deleuze and the Schizoanalysis of Feminism, Eds. Jane Sholtz and Cheri Lynne Carr, London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019, p. 41–55.

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Deleuze, Ruyer, and Musical Morphogenesis, Of Essence and Context: Between Music and Philosophy, Eds. Rūta Stanevičiūtė, Nick Zangwill, Rima Pavilionienė. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2019, p. 97–108.

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Imuniteto samprata Jacques’o Derrida ir Roberto Esposito filosofijoje [The notion of immunity in the philosophies of Jacques Derrida and Roberto Esposito], Athena: filosofijos studijos, Nr. 13, edited by Denis Petrina, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2018, p. 81–95, ISSN 1822-5047, e-ISSN 2538–7294. – https://www.athena.lt/files/pdf/13/III-1.pdf

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Contemporary Feminist Art: Between Identity and Becoming-Imperceptible, Magma: Body and Words in Italian and Lithuanian Woman’s Art from 1965 to the Present, eds. Benedetta Carpi De Resmini and Laima Kreivyte. Macerata: Quodlibet, 2018, p. 123-143, ISBN 9788822901569.

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, G. Simondon’o ontogenezės teorija: tarp organizmo ir techninio objekto [G. Simondon’s Theory of Ontogenesis: Between Organism and Technical Object], Problemos: mokslo darbai, Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, T. 94, 2013, p. 84–98, ISSN 1392-1126, e-ISSN 2424-6158. – https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/11976/10580, https://doi.org/10.15388/Problemos.0.0.11992

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Deleuze, Simondon, and Beckett: From Being to Becoming, The Dark Precursor: Deleuze and Artistic Research, eds. Paulo de Assis and Paolo Giudici. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2017, pp. 272 – 278 (Orpheus Institute Series). – DOI:  10.2307/j.ctt21c4rxx.25

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Gyvūniškoji negalia: gyvūno klausimas Jacques’o Derrida filosofijoje [Animal impotentiality: the question of the animal in Jacques Derrida’s philosophy], Athena: ilosofijos studijos, Nr. 11, edited by Audronė Žukauskaitė, Vilnius: Lietuvos kultūros tyrimų institutas, 2016, p. 141–155, ISSN 1822-5047, e-ISSN 2538–7294. – https://www.athena.lt/files/pdf/13/III-1.pdf

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Immunity and Contagion as Two Modes of Biopolitics, Subjectivity, 2017, pp. 1–15, ISSN 1755-6341 (print), ISSN 1755-635X (online). – http://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41286-017-0028-8

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, From Biopolitics to Biophilosophy, or the Vanishing Subject of Biopolitics, Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies, eds. S. E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė, New York: Routledge, 2016, p. 74–91, ISBN 9781138789487.

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Nomadic Performativity and the Immanent Ethics of Life, Nordic Theatre Studies, vol. 27(1), 2015, p. 10–21, ISSN 0904-6380. – https://tidsskrift.dk/nts/article/view/24235

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Deleuze and Beckett Towards Becoming-Imperceptible, Deleuze and Beckett, eds. S. E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, p. 60–77, ISBN 9781137481139.

Žukauskaitė Audronė, Kas yra biopolitikos subjektas? Filosofija, humanizmas, gyvūniškumas Who is the Subject of Biopolitics? Philosophy, Humanism, and Animality], Problemos: mokslo darbai, Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, T. 86, 2014, p. 7–22,  ISSN 1392-1126, e-ISSN 2424-6158. – https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/3959/2749, https://doi.org/10.15388/Problemos.2014.0.3959

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Intensive Multiplicities in “A Thousand Plateaus”, Understanding Deleuze, Understanding Modernism, eds. Paul Ardoin, S. E. Gontarski, Laci Mattison, New York, London: Bloomsbury, 2014, p. 75–89, ISBN 9781623563493.

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, The Schizoanalysis of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, or the Political between Schizophrenia and Paranoia, Nationalism and the Body Politic: Psychoanalysis and the Rise of Ethnocntrism and Xenophobia, ed. Lene Auestad, London: Karnac Books, 2014, p. 109–125. – ISBN 9781780491028.

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, “The Post-subjective Body, Or Deleuze and Guattari Meet Romeo Castellucci”, Performance, Identity, and the Neo-Political Subject, Eds. Matthew Causey and Fintan Walsh. London, New York: Routledge, 2013, p. 101–116, ISBN 9780-415509657.

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Politics of Imperceptibility: Philosophy, Post-Feminism, and New Media Arts, Baltic Screen Media Review, vol. 1, 2013, p. 66–79, ISBN-10: 1780491026, ISBN-13: 978 1780491028. – http://publications.tlu.ee/index.php/bsmr/article/view/152

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Nuo biopolitikos prie biofilosofijos: M. Foucault, G. Agambenas, G. Deleuze’as [From Biopolitics to Biophilosophy: M. Foucault, G. Agamben, G. Deleuze ], Problemos: mokslo darbai, Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, T. 84, 2013, p. 84–98, ISSN 1392-1126, e-ISSN 2424-6158. – https://www.zurnalai.vu.lt/problemos/article/view/1776/1049, https://doi.org/10.15388/Problemos.2013.0.1776

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Potentiality as a Life: Deleuze, Agamben, Beckett, Deleuze Studies, vol. 6, no. 4, 2012, p. 628–637, ISSN 2398-9777 (print), ISSN 2398-9785 (online). – https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/dls.2012.0088

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Ethics between Particularity and Universality, Deleuze and Ethics, eds. Nathan Jun and Daniel W. Smith, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011, p. 188–206, ISBN-13: 978-074864116, ISBN-10: 0748641165.

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, Biopolitics: Antigone’s Claim, Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism, eds. S. E. Wilmer and Audronė Žukauskaitė, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, p. 67–81, ISBN 9780199559213.

Participation in Research projects:

Research project “Immunity and Contagion: Transformations of Biopolitics in the Time of Pandemic”, Research Council of Lithuania, 2021-2024 (Project Leader).

Research project “Posthumanist Theory: Objects, Problems, and Methodologies”, Research Council of Lithuania, 2017–2020 (Project Leader).

Research project “The Ethics of Immanence in Contemporary Philosophy”, Research Council of Lithuania, 2012–1014 (Project Leader).

Research project “Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze in the Context of Contemporary Art and Politics”, Research Council of Lithuania, 2010–2011 (Project Leader).