Jay Murphy
Ph.D. Student
Contact Information
Centre for Modern Thought
School of Language & Literature
University of Aberdeen
Email: r01tjm7@abdn.ac.uk
Profile
Jay Murphy is the author of the screenplay Vesco, based on the bestselling book by Arthur Herzog, that was a finalist for the 2006 Sundance Screenwriting Lab, as well as Amor Fati and the fictional screenplays Camouflage and Commitment. As a writer and critic living in New York City he has contributed to Parkett, Contemporary, Metropolis, Art in America, Frieze, and many other journals and was a correspondent for Contemporanea. His essays have appeared in The Progressive, In These Times, and other forums. He edited the anthology For Palestine (New York/London: Writers & Readers Publishing, 1993), described by the Sunday Times of London as a “powerful mixture of statistics, literature and journalism...Considered reactions to Operation Desert Storm are provocative and revealing;” poet-pundit Peter Lamborn Wilson opined that it suggested what an “ideal intifada” might look like. He is also at work on a critical biography of the late filmmaker Emile de Antonio (The Art of Disorder) and a novel (privilege), from which excerpts were adapted as a multi-media site and later featured in the 2002 Sundance Online Film Festival. He has also published experimental writing in various literary venues, including the 1995 anthology Degenerative Prose (F2Collective/Black Ice Books), and has written on figures such as Derrida and Artaud, Deleuze, Sartre and Adorno for journals of philosophy and culture. For many years he edited the alternative literary/arts journal Red Bass, a one-time Project Censored nomination which Father Daniel Berrigan at one point claimed “redeems whatever is salvageable in Florida.” His Red Bass interviews with figures such as John Cage, William Burroughs, Kathy Acker, Emile de Antonio, Fredric Jameson and Edward Said were all anthologized or republished. His work with artist Carolee Schneemann led to the 2002 collection of her work by MIT Press. His grants have included an Editor's Literature grant from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Critic's Fellowship from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. He can be found online at soulcity.
The working title of his dissertation at the Centre is "Understanding Artaud: Artaud, Media Theory and the War of the 'Virtual'."
Some of his available publications are:
