Chris Fleming

Chris Fleming is Associate Professor in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University, where he is also a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre. He is the author of the acclaimed memoir On Drugs (Giramondo:2019) and has written widely on literature, philosophy, and culture. His most recent academic book is Modern Conspiracy: The Importance of Being Paranoid (New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2014) (with Emma A. Jane).

Works By Chris Fleming

What’s Your Philosophy?
I take it as self-evident that meta-memoir must be avoided at almost all costs – and, correlatively, that my pass here is the word ‘almost’.
17 July. 2022
Never A Luxury
To the panicked masses running through the street, soot on their faces, smouldering koalas clawing feebly at depleted human breasts, embers hanging in the air like a jury’s verdict, we say ‘It’s going to be ok. We’ve brought criticism with us, som...
1 Aug. 2021
Theoretical Cool
At first blush, what all this tends to suggest, at the very least, is that trends in the humanities are underdetermined by the rational adequacy of the theories at the centre of them. But to say – as I did above – that intellectual fashion reflect...
6 Feb. 2019
Neat and Tidy: The New Magic
'Tidiness isn’t just about how things might be or currently are – it’s about how things should be.'
7 Feb. 2017
On Drugs, Part II
‘The addiction supplied me with a whole way of looking at the world – indeed, of being in the world: of suspicion, protection against the threat of embarrassment, pervasive guilt, the rigorous practices of prevarication: strategic concealment and
22 Sept. 2015
On Drugs, Part I
‘These were, of course, not the only kinds of codes in operation, codes which – like many tacit social rules, one would learn about only when violated. The more time I spent at dealers’ houses, the more I learned that there was a hierarchy of drug...
11 Sept. 2015

Works Featuring Chris Fleming

This is your brain.This is your brain on drugs.
Fleming deploys an intelligence that does not seek to draw a firm line between a before and an after; instead, the confessor is borne on the question of drugs and what they mean, rather than born again after drugs have been left behind.
3 Dec. 2019

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Chris Fleming

Works By Chris Fleming

What’s Your Philosophy?

Never A Luxury

Theoretical Cool

Neat and Tidy: The New Magic

On Drugs, Part II

On Drugs, Part I

Works Featuring Chris Fleming

This is your brain.This is your brain on drugs.