Louis Armand

LOUIS ARMAND is a Sydney-born writer, theorist and visual artist who lives in Prague. His poetry, essays and prose fiction have appeared in Meanjin, HEAT, Southerly, Poetry Australia and Poetry Review, and have been translated into Czech, Portuguese, Dutch, French, Chinese, German, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Arabic, Ukrainian and Polish. He has appeared in various anthologies, including Best Australian Poems, Calyx: 30 Contemporary Australian Poets and The Penguin Anthology of Australian Poetry. His poetry collections include Infantilisms (2024), DI/ODE (2023), A House for Hanne Darboven (2021), Monument (with John Kinsella; 2020), East Broadway Rundown (2015) and Indirect Objects (2014). His novels include Anizar (2024), Vampyr (2020), The Garden (2020), GlassHouse (2018), The Combinations (2016), Abacus (2015), Cairo (2014), Breakfast at Midnight (2012) and Clair Obscur (2011). His theoretical works include Feasts of Unril (2024), Entropology (2023), Videology (2015), Solicitations (2013), Event States (2007), Literate Technologies (2006), The Organ-Grinder’s Monkey: Culture after the Avantgarde (2013), Helixtrolysis (2014), Incendiary Devices (2001) and Techne (1997). He is the editor of Mind Factory (2005), Contemporary Poetics (2007), Avant-Post (2006), Hidden Agendas: Unreported Poetics (2010), Technicity (with Arthur Bradley; 2006) and City Primeval: New York, Berlin, Prague (with Robert Carrithers; 2017). He currently directs the Centre for Critical and Cultural Theory in the Philosophy Faculty of Charles University.