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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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33A 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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15Pragmatic 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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23Sex 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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25Ethics, 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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36Feminism and Autonomy: The Crisis of the Self-Authoring SubjectBody and Society 3 (2): 21-41. 1997.
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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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105The Secret of TheoryDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 4 (3): 287-300. 2010.This article focuses on the concept of the secret in Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy, with specific attention to the related concepts of becoming-woman and literature. It contrasts Deleuze and Guattari's immanent mode of reading with oedipal theories of the text and hermeneutics. Whereas Deleuze and Guattari argue for the positivity of the secret, where there is content that is not disclosed and that therefore creates lines of perception and interpretation, the oedipal mode of reading regards …Read more
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85Irigaray demonstrates that metaphysics depends upon the specific negation and exclusion of the female body. Readings of Irigaray's Speculum of the Other Woman tend to highlight the status of this excluded materiality: is there an essential female body which precedes negation or is the feminine only an effect of exclusion? I approach Irigaray's work by way of another question: is it possible to move beyond a feminist critique of metaphysics and towards a feminist philosophy?
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The art of the futureIn Alexandre Lefebvre & Melanie Allison White (eds.), Bergson, Politics, and Religion, Duke University Press. 2012.
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Legal theory after DeleuzeIn Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook & Patrick Hanafin (eds.), Deleuze and law: forensic futures, Palgrave-macmillan. 2009.
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70Gilles DeleuzeRoutledge. 2002.One of the twentieth-century's most exciting and challenging intellectuals, Gilles Deleuze's writings covered literature, art, psychoanalysis, philosophy, genetics, film and social theory. This book not only introduces Deleuze's ideas, it also demonstrates the ways in which his work can provide new readings of literary texts. This guide goes on to cover his work in various fields, his theory of literature and his overarching project of a new concept of becoming.
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Dynamic potentiality: the body that stands aloneIn Elena Tzelepis & Athena Athanasiou (eds.), Rewriting Difference: Luce Irigaray and "the Greeks", State University of New York Press. 2010.
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20th Century Philosophy |
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