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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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25Book 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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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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24Extinction, Deterritorialisation and End Times: Peak DeleuzeDeleuze and Guattari Studies 14 (3): 327-348. 2020.Have we reached what Alexander Galloway dismissively refers to as ‘peak Deleuze’? In this essay, I argue that the arrival at end times – with the sense of mass extinction and philosophy's exhaustion – is indeed a moment of ‘peak Deleuze’, but that this gesture of exhaustion is already implicit in A Thousand Plateaus. Recognising the limits and seduction of a text is never as easy as it seems; every attempt to break up with Deleuze and Guattari, though necessary, is fraught with a whole series of…Read more
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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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23Humanist Posthumanism, Becoming-Woman and the Powers of the ‘Faux’Deleuze and Guattari Studies 16 (3): 379-401. 2022.Feminist and post-colonial theorists have embraced Deleuze and Guattari’s terminology of becoming-woman and nomadism, and have done so despite criticisms that these terms appropriate the struggles of real women and stateless persons. The force of the real has become especially acute in the twenty-first century in the wake of neoliberal mobilisations of feminism as yet one more marketing tool. Rather than repeat the criticism that identity politics deflects attention from real political struggles…Read more
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21The Future-To-Come: Derrida and the Ethics of HistoricityPhilosophy Today 42 (4): 347-360. 1998.
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20Ethics and Representationprovides a critique and overview of contemporary post-structuralist theory. Exploring the Kantian and phenomenological background of Derrida, Deleuze, Foucault, and Irigaray, this book raises some key questions and issues in critical theory. These questions are looked at from a number of angles including the notion of point of view and perspective, the critique of anthropologism from Kant to Deleuze, and the relation between representation and modernity. This is an origi…Read more
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19The Neuro-Image: A Deleuzian Film-Philosophy of Digital Screen Culture (review)Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 8 (1): 147-152. 2014.
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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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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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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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16Deleuze and gender (edited book)Edinburgh. 2008.A unique new study which extends Deleuze's already radical philosophy into ideas of the post-human, truth, reading, sexual difference and gender politics.
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15Deconstructing COVID TimeJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 20 (4): 675-683. 2023.This essay explores the problem of trust and truth in states of emergency. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s theory of biopolitics and his objections to political managerialism I argue that the real problem exposed by the pandemic was not a lack of trust in authority but an unscientific and uncritical attachment to expertise.
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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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14Ethics, Positivity, and Gender: Foucault, Aristotle, and the Care of the SelfPhilosophy Today 42 (4): 347-360. 1998.
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13AgambenPolity. 2015.Giorgio Agamben emerged in the twenty-first century as one of the most important theorists in the continental tradition. Until recently, 'continental' philosophy has been tied either to the German tradition of phenomenology or to French post-structuralist concerns with the conditions of language and textuality. Agamben draws upon and departs from both these lines of thought by directing his entire corpus to the problem of life political life, human life, animal life and the life of art. Influenc…Read more
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13Incorporeality: The ghostly body of metaphysicsBody and Society 6 (2): 25--44. 2000.For the past two decades, the issue of the body and essentialism has dominated feminist theory. In general, it is assumed that the body has been devalued and repressed by the Western metaphysical tradition. In this article, I make two claims to the contrary. First, as poststructuralist theory has tirelessly demonstrated, Western thought has continually tried to ground thought in some foundational substance, such as the body. Second, the most provocative, fruitful and radical aspects of recent fe…Read more
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12Chapter 1 Time and Autopoiesis: The Organism Has No FutureIn Laura Guillaume & Joe Hughes (eds.), Deleuze and the Body, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 9-28. 2011.
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12Destroying cosmopolitanism for the sake of the cosmosIn Rosi Braidotti, Patrick Hanafin & Bolette Blaagaard (eds.), After cosmopolitanism, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, a Glasshouse Book. pp. 166. 2012.
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12Deleuze and law: forensic futures (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2009.This collection shows how Deleuze's ideas have influenced current thinking in legal philosophy. In particular, it explores the relations between law and life, addressing topics that are contested and controversial -- war, the right to life, genetic science, and security.
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12Introduction: Anthropocene Feminisms: Rethinking the UnthinkablephiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 5 (2): 167-178. 2015.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:IntroductionAnthropocene Feminisms: Rethinking the UnthinkableClaire Colebrook and Jami WeinsteinIn her recent lecture on the Anthropocene (to which she adds the Capitalocene and the Chthulucene), Donna Haraway expresses some alarm that after two major insights into what counts as thinkable, it was “anthropos” that became the term for the post-Holocene (Haraway 2014). Haraway declares, with emphasis, that it is “literally unthinkable…Read more
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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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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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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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20th Century Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |