Justin Clemens gained his PhD from the University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on psychoanalysis, contemporary European philosophy, and literature. Recent books include The Mundiad and, with Dom Pettman, Avoiding the Subject (Amsterdam UP 2004). He is co-recipient of a large ARC grant with Russell Grigg on "Psychoanalysis and Science." He is currently Secretary of the Lacan Circle of Melbourne, and art critic for the Australian magazine The Monthly.