[6][7] After participating in a hunger strike for admittance, he was accepted as a Sociology Major at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.

He received numerous prestigious awards, including the Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick silver medal for excellence in scholarship.

[11] He was awarded the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal for his research into clinical psychoanalysis and continental philosophy.

[12] He studied also at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland,[13] working as an assistant for Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou.

[14][15] His efforts received international attention and he was invited for a private meeting with the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

[24] Rousselle taught psychology and sociology at a university in Tyumen, Siberia, but fled to Kazakhstan with his fiancée and their daughter following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

He has argued that post-anarchism allowed anarchists to reflect upon their own presuppositions and to discover problems with theories of revolutionary and insurrection.

"[29] One of Duane's key theories is that there has been a rise in the logic of 'particular affirmations' of enjoyment after what Slavoj Zizek and others referred to as the decline of symbolic efficiency.

[30] This logic has developed out of close readings of the late teachings of Jacques Lacan and the seminars of Jacques-Alain Miller.

[34] In recent work, Duane has argued that theories of the death drive within Freudo-Marxism have led to misleading characterizations of the concept of negativity.