Clark Buckner
Clark Buckner works in San Francisco as an author, educator, and exhibition-maker. Along with exhibition catalogs and articles in both academic journals and popular magazines, his publications include Apropos of Nothing: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Coen Brothers and the co-authored collection, Styles of Piety: Practicing Philosophy After the Death of God. He teaches courses on critical theory, contemporary art, and curatorial practice at the San Francisco Art Institute. He has a PhD in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University.
Apropos of Nothing: Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and the Coen Brothers
The Coen Brothers’ films are rife with figures of absence. In The Big Lebowski, the Dude does nothing. He is put on the trail of a kidnapping that never took place, and pays the ransom to a gang of... (more)