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16Fast Violence, Revolutionary Violence: Black Lives Matter and the 2020 PandemicJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 17 (4): 495-499. 2020.The 2020 pandemic cannot be divorced from the problem, pace, and spectacle of race, both because of the racial rhetoric regarding the origins of the virus and because of the subsequent racial injustice in the distribution of healthcare. This paper adds the concept of fast violence to Rob Nixon’s “slow violence” to look at the intersection between the climate of the planet and the climate of racial injustice.
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11Is There Something Wrong With the Task of Thinking?Environmental Philosophy 17 (1): 39-58. 2020.One way to approach the widely acknowledged failure to act on climate change would be to turn to the philosophical tradition, going back to Kant at least, that diagnoses all the internal impediments to thinking. It is with Heidegger, however, that thinking is curiously divided between a disclosure of the world, and the world’s occlusion. Rather than pursue Heidegger’s project of destroying throught’s accretions and returning to the world I will argue that it is the very concept of ‘thinking’ in …Read more
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611 Extinguishing Ability: How We Became Postextinction PersonsIn Matthias Fritsch, Philippe Lynes & David Wood (eds.), Eco-Deconstruction: Derrida and Environmental Philosophy, Fordham University Press. pp. 261-276. 2018.
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34A cut in relationalityAngelaki 24 (3): 175-195. 2019.One of the ways in which one might chart the force of various forms of posthuman thought is to mark a reversal in the ways we think about relationality. Rather than distinct Cartesian subje...
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41Slavery and the Trumpocene: It's Not the End of the WorldOxford Literary Review 41 (1): 40-50. 2019.There is something more catastrophic than the end of the world, especially when ‘world’ is understood as the horizon of meaning and expectation that has composed the West. If the Anthropocene is th...
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8Specters of Non-Marxist Life: An Epoch of ExtinctionJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 43 (2): 117-130. 2012.
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7Time Travels: Feminism, Nature Power, by Elizabeth GroszJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 39 (3): 331-333. 2008.
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11The Nick of Time: Politics, Evolution, and the Untimely, by Elizabeth GroszJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 39 (3): 331-333. 2008.
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15The Memory of Thought: An Essay on Heidegger and Adorno, by Alexander Garcia DuttmannJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 35 (2): 218-219. 2004.
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16Pragmatic RightsLaw and Critique 26 (2): 155-171. 2015.In this essay I explore competing senses and tensions of the relation between the etymology of ta pragmata and praxis, with specific attention paid to Heidegger’s theorization of modernity. In so doing I question the relation between rights and persons, and whether there might not be a new way of thinking about rights that does not presuppose or privilege the agency of personhood. Pragmatic rights would not assume the liberal values of self-determination that underpin personhood, and would enabl…Read more
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25The Play of the World: The End, the Great Outdoors, the Outside, Alterity and the RealDerrida Today 9 (1): 21-35. 2016.Both in his earliest debates with thinkers such as Foucault and Levinas, and in later critiques of political immediacy, Derrida invoked the inescapable burden of a necessary but impossible universalism. By raising the stakes so high it would seem that deconstruction generates hyperbolic conceptions of ethics and justice, but also precludes any form of day to day political positivity. In this essay I pursue the seemingly less ‘ethical’ conception of play in Derrida's work to argue for a multiple …Read more
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40‘A Grandiose Time of Coexistence’: Stratigraphy of the AnthropoceneDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 10 (4): 440-454. 2016.Using Deleuze and Guattari's concept of stratigraphy, it is possible to open the question of the limits and range of the Anthropocene. Geological stratification has enabled a view of time and the earth that has opened new horizons, but this mode of stratification is one among others. Other stratifications are possible, not only those that would be compossible with the story of the Anthropocene, but also incompossible stratifications, at odds with the history of man.
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24Sex and the (Anthropocene) CityTheory, Culture and Society 34 (2-3): 39-60. 2017.In this essay I explore three concepts: sex, the city, and the Anthropocene. I argue that the condition for the possibility of the city is the assemblage of sexual drives for the sake of relative stability, but that those same drives also exceed the city's self-preservative function. Further, I argue that the very conditions that further the city and that enable philosophical and scientific concepts to be formed rely upon a geological politics that enables new ways of thinking about what counts …Read more
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26Ethics, Positivity, and Gender: Foucault, Aristotle, and the Care of the SelfPhilosophy Today 42 (1): 40-52. 1998.
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23Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology After the End of the World (review)philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 5 (2): 309-314. 2015.
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159How can we tell the dancer from the dance?: The subject of dance and the subject of philosophyTopoi 24 (1): 5-14. 2004.One of the most important aspects of Gilles Deleuzes philosophy is his criticism of the traditional concept of praxis. In Aristotelian philosophy praxis is properly oriented towards some end, and in the case of human action the ends of praxis are oriented towards the agents good life. Human goods are, for both Aristotle and contemporary neo-Aristotelians, determined by the potentials of human life such as rationality, communality, and speech. Deleuzes account of action, by contrast, liberates mo…Read more
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27Ethics, Positivity, and Gender: Foucault, Aristotle, and the Care of the SelfPhilosophy Today 42 (1): 40-52. 1998.
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78Deleuze: a guide for the perplexedContinuum. 2006.Cinema, thought and time -- Deleuze's cinema books -- Technology -- Essences -- Space and time -- Bergson, time, and life -- The movement-image -- The history of time and space and the history of cinema -- The movement-image and semiotics -- Styles of sign -- The whole of movement -- Image and life -- Becoming-inhuman, becoming imperceptible -- The deduction of the movement-image -- Art and time -- Destruction of the sensory motor apparatus and the spiritual automaton -- Time and money -- Art an…Read more
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1The Real and the Phantom of HappinessJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 35 (3): 246-260. 2004.(2004). The Real and the Phantom of Happiness. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology: Vol. 35, Phenomenology and French Thought, pp. 246-260.
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26Book review: Dorothea Olkowski. Resistance, flight, creation: Feminist enactments of French philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell university press, 2000 (review)Hypatia 20 (1): 217-220. 2005.
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38Review of Gregg Lambert, Who's Afraid of Deleuze and Guattari? (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (3). 2008.
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11Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts (edited book)Routledge. 2014.Jacques Derrida: Key Concepts presents a broad overview and engagement with the full range of Derrida's work - from the early phenomenological thinking to his preoccupations with key themes, such as technology, psychoanalysis, friendship, Marxism, racism and sexism, to his ethico-political writings and his deconstruction of democracy. Presenting both an examination of the key concepts central to his thinking and a broader study of how that thinking shifted over a lifetime, the book offers the re…Read more
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16GenderPalgrave-Macmillan. 2003.This book offers a clear introductory overview of the concept of gender. It places gender in its historical contexts and traces its development from the Enlightenment to the present, before moving on to the evolution of the concept of gender from within the various stances of feminist criticism, and recent developments in queer theory and post-feminism. Close analysis of key literary texts, including Frankenstein , Paradise Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream , shows how specific styles of litera…Read more
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144Derrida, Deleuze and Haptic AestheticsDerrida Today 2 (1): 22-43. 2009.In On Touching Derrida locates Jean-Luc Nancy (and, briefly, Gilles Deleuze) within a tradition of haptic ethics and aesthetics that runs from Aristotle to the present. In his early work on Husserl, Derrida had already claimed that phenomenology's commitment to the genesis of sense and the sensible is at one and the same time a commitment to pure and rigorous philosophy at the same time as it threatens to over-turn the primacy of conceptuality and cognition.Whereas Nancy (and those other figures…Read more
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89Understanding DeleuzeAllen & Unwin. 2002.An accessible introduction to the contemporary thought of Deleuze. It makes concepts clear, showing their political and theoretical complexity, elaborating their social and artistic relevance. Australian author (previously at Monash University) now living in Edinburgh.
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