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| '''Brian Willems''' is an American academic and writer who contributed the essay "When the Non-Human Knows Its Own Death" to ''[[Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There]]'' (Blackwell Publishing, 2008).<ref group="external" name="wiley_eberl_bsgphilosophy_willems_toc">{{cite web|url=https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Battlestar+Galactica+and+Philosophy:+Knowledge+Here+Begins+Out+There-p-9781405178143#:~:text=Brian%20Willems%2C%20When%20the%20Non-Human|title=Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There|publisher=Wiley|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref> Born in Minnesota,<ref group="external" name="lesfugitives_willems_born_minnesota">{{cite web|url=https://www.lesfugitives.com/brian-willems#:~:text=born%20in%20Minnesota|title=Brian Willems|publisher=Les Fugitives|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref> he teaches literature and film theory at the [[w:University of Split|University of Split]] in Croatia, where he holds the rank of Associate Professor, and completed his doctorate in Media and Communication at the [[w:European Graduate School|European Graduate School]] in Saas-Fee, Switzerland.<ref group="external" name="routledge_willems_shamruins_assocprof">{{cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/Sham-Ruins-A-Users-Guide/Willems/p/book/9781032081359#:~:text=Brian%20Willems%20is%20Associate%20Professor%20of%20Literature%20and%20Film%20Theory%20at%20the%20University%20of%20Split|title=Sham Ruins: A User's Guide|publisher=Routledge|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref><ref group="external" name="abebooks_willems_facticity_doctorate">{{cite web|url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780982530979/Facticity-Poverty-Clones-Kazuo-Ishiguros-0982530978/plp#:~:text=He%20holds%20a%20doctorate%20in%20Media%20and%20Communication%20from%20the%20European%20Graduate%20School|title=Facticity, Poverty and Clones: On Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go|publisher=AbeBooks|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref> | | '''Brian Willems''' contributed the essay "When the Non-Human Knows Its Own Death" to ''[[Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There]]''. |
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| == Academic career ==
| | He is currently the Assistant Professor of Literature at the [[w:University of Split|University of Split, Croatia]] and a [[w:Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] candidate at the [[w:European Graduate School|European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland]].<ref>{{cite_web|url=http://forums.scifi.com/index.php?act=attach&type=post&id=8469|title=There Are Only Twenty-Two Cylon Contributors|date=|accessdate=14 February 2008|last=|first=|format=|language=English}}</ref> |
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| The essay Willems contributed to the ''[[Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There|BSG philosophy volume]]'', edited by [[w:Jason T. Eberl|Jason T. Eberl]], appears in Part II of the collection ("I, Cylon: Are Toasters People, Too?") on pages 87–98, at the time of publication Willems was completing his doctorate at the European Graduate School.<ref group="external" name="philpapers_eberl_bsgphilosophy_willems_pages">{{cite web|url=https://philpapers.org/rec/EBEBGA-5#:~:text=(pages%2087--98)Brian%20Willems|title=Jason T. Eberl (ed.), Battlestar Galactica and Philosophy: Knowledge Here Begins Out There|publisher=PhilPapers|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref>
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| | *[http://www.angelfire.com/cantina/brianwillems/01.html Official site] |
| His first book, ''Hopkins and Heidegger'' (Continuum, 2009), examined cross-sections between the poetry of [[w:Gerard Manley Hopkins|Gerard Manley Hopkins]] and the philosophy of [[w:Martin Heidegger|Martin Heidegger]], focused on Hopkins' concepts of inscape and instress in relation to Heidegger's accounts of appropriation (''Ereignis'') and the fourfold (''das Geviert'').<ref group="external" name="amazon_willems_hopkinsheidegger_description">{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/Hopkins-Heidegger-Continuum-Literary-Studies/dp/1441123105#:~:text=Willems%20examines%20a%20number%20of%20cross-sections%20between%20the%20poetry%20and%20thought%20of%20Hopkins|title=Hopkins and Heidegger|publisher=Amazon|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref> His 2010 monograph ''Facticity, Poverty and Clones: On Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go'' (Atropos Press) was the first book-length study of [[w:Kazuo Ishiguro|Kazuo Ishiguro's]] 2005 novel, reading its treatment of clone characters through continental philosophy to argue for a reconception of ontological difference between human and non-human subjects.<ref group="external" name="abebooks_willems_facticity_description">{{cite web|url=https://www.abebooks.co.uk/9780982530979/Facticity-Poverty-Clones-Kazuo-Ishiguros-0982530978/plp#:~:text=first%20book-length%20study%20of%20the%20influential%20novel|title=Facticity, Poverty and Clones: On Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go|publisher=AbeBooks|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref> He also co-edited ''The First Ten Years of English Studies in Split'' (Split University, 2011).<ref group="external" name="abebooks_willems_specrealismSF_coedit">{{cite web|url=https://www.abebooks.com/9781474422697/Speculative-Realism-Science-Fiction-Willems-1474422691/plp#:~:text=co-editor%20of%20The%20First%20Ten%20Years%20of%20English%20Studies%20in%20Split|title=Speculative Realism and Science Fiction|publisher=AbeBooks|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref>
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| ''Shooting the Moon'' (Zero Books, 2015) applied methods from object-oriented philosophy to cinematic representations of lunar landings, mapping the different ways film constructs indirect access to objects.<ref group="external" name="zerobooks_willems_shootingmoon">{{cite web|url=https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/authors/brian-daniel-willems#:~:text=Shooting%20the%20Moon%20(Zero%20Books%2C%202015)|title=Brian Willems|publisher=Zer0 Books|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref> ''Speculative Realism and Science Fiction'' (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) placed science fiction by [[w:Cormac McCarthy|Cormac McCarthy]], [[w:Neil Gaiman|Neil Gaiman]], [[w:China Miéville|China Miéville]], and [[w:Kim Stanley Robinson|Kim Stanley Robinson]] alongside speculative materialist philosophers including [[w:Graham Harman|Graham Harman]], [[w:Quentin Meillassoux|Quentin Meillassoux]], and [[w:Jane Bennett (political theorist)|Jane Bennett]] to develop and test arguments against philosophical anthropocentrism.<ref group="external" name="oup_willems_specrealismSF_2017">{{cite web|url=https://academic.oup.com/edinburgh-scholarship-online/book/18222#:~:text=Brian%20Willems%20uses%20a%20range%20of%20science%20fiction%20literature%20that%20questions%20anthropomorphism|title=Speculative Realism and Science Fiction|publisher=Edinburgh Scholarship Online|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref> Zero Books also published his experimental novella ''Henry, Henry'' that year.<ref group="external" name="zerobooks_willems_henry_henry">{{cite web|url=https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/authors/brian-daniel-willems#:~:text=A%20piece%20of%20fiction%2C%20Henry%2C%20Henry%3A%20A%20Novella%2C%20was%20released%20by%20Zero%20Books%20in%202017|title=Brian Willems|publisher=Zer0 Books|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref>
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| ''Sham Ruins: A User's Guide'' (Routledge, 2022) traced the concept of the fake Gothic ruin from 18th-century English landscape gardens and extended it into a general principle for understanding objects that impose meaning where such meaning does not belong.<ref group="external" name="routledge_willems_shamruins_description">{{cite web|url=https://www.routledge.com/Sham-Ruins-A-Users-Guide/Willems/p/book/9781032081359#:~:text=sham%20ruins%20are%20about%20imposing%20new%20meaning%20where%20such%20meaning%20does%20not%20and%20should%20not%20exist|title=Sham Ruins: A User's Guide|publisher=Routledge|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref> In 2023 he co-edited ''Global Manifestos for the 21st Century'' (foreword by [[w:Yanis Varoufakis|Yanis Varoufakis]]) with Nicol Barria-Asenjo and [[w:Slavoj Žižek|Slavoj Žižek]].<ref group="external" name="lesfugitives_willems_manifestos_2023">{{cite web|url=https://www.lesfugitives.com/brian-willems#:~:text=Global%20Manifestos%20for%20the%2021st%20Century%2C%20with%20a%20foreword%20by%20Yanis%20Varoufakis|title=Brian Willems|publisher=Les Fugitives|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref> His first novel, ''The Surviving Cells'', was published by Les Fugitives in 2025.<ref group="external" name="lesfugitives_willems_survivingcells">{{cite web|url=https://www.lesfugitives.com/brian-willems#:~:text=The%20Surviving%20Cells%20is%20his%20first%20novel|title=Brian Willems|publisher=Les Fugitives|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref>
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| Willems translates from Croatian into English, including work by [[w:Jurica Pavičić|Jurica Pavičić]].<ref group="external" name="lesfugitives_willems_translation">{{cite web|url=https://www.lesfugitives.com/brian-willems#:~:text=He%20translates%20from%20Croatian%20into%20English%2C%20including%20work%20by%20Jurica%20Pavi%C4%8Di%C4%87|title=Brian Willems|publisher=Les Fugitives|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref> He has directed the Studia Mediterranea centre at the University of Split, guest lectured in the UK, USA, the Middle East, and continental Europe, and curated exhibitions of new media artists in Croatia and Slovenia.<ref group="external" name="lesfugitives_willems_career_activities">{{cite web|url=https://www.lesfugitives.com/brian-willems#:~:text=director%20of%20its%20Studia%20Mediterranea%20centre|title=Brian Willems|publisher=Les Fugitives|accessdate=9 June 2026}}</ref>
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