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    Rewriting the Constitution: A Critique of ‘Postphenomenology’
    Philosophy and Technology 28 (4): 533-551. 2015.
    This paper builds a three-part argument in favour of a more transcendentally focused form of ‘postphenomenology’ than is currently practised in philosophy of technology. It does so by problematising two key terms, ‘constitution’ and ‘postphenomenology’, then by arguing in favour of a ‘transcendental empiricist’ approach that draws on the work of Foucault, Derrida, and, in particular, Deleuze. Part one examines ‘constitution’, as it moves from the context of Husserl’s phenomenology to Ihde and Ve…Read more
  •  43
    Beyond Bartleby and Bad Faith: Thinking Critically with Sartre and Deleuze
    Deleuze and Guatarri Studies 7 (1): 83-105. 2013.
    This essay argues that important critical and political perspective can be gained on Deleuze's famous essay, ‘Bartleby; or, The Formula’ by viewing it as an attempt to move beyond the Sartrean framework of ‘bad faith’. The argument comprises four sections. In section one, I contextualise Deleuze's essay in terms of contrasting readings of Bartleby, from a prior account by Georges Perec, to contemporary accounts indebted to Deleuze, from Hardt and Negri's Empire to Gisèle Berkman's recent L'Effet…Read more
  •  42
    The Internet as Idea
    Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 19 (3): 381-410. 2015.
    This article has two related aims: to examine how the Internet might be rendered an object of coherent philosophical consideration and critique, and to contribute to divesting the term “transcendental” of the negative connotations it carries in contemporary philosophy of technology. To realise them, it refers to Kant’s transcendental approach. The key argument is that Kant’s “transcendental idealism” is one example of a more general and potentially thoroughgoing “transcendental” approach focused…Read more
  •  37
    On Technological Ground: The Art of Torsten Lauschmann
    Evental Aesthetics 4 (2): 138-170. 2015.
    This essay considers the relationship between the work of contemporary artist Torsten Lauschmann and themes in a growing area of research: philosophy of technology. Themes considered include relations between technology and contemporary urban dwelling, technology and the “everyday,” and Heidegger’s problematic but canonical understanding of technology not as a set of “mere means” but as a “way of revealing.” I argue that Lauschmann’s art renders these themes relevant for our increasingly technol…Read more
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    This article is an attempt to engage the Badiouian image of Deleuze’s thought at its most dogmatic. I develop a close reading of Badiou’s controversial work, Deleuze: The Clamor of Being. I argue that this text is counter-productive insofar as it obscures problems that Deleuze and Badiou share, in favour of emphasizing divergences in their solutions to them. As part of an attempt to engage these shared problems, the article focuses on the problem of ‘universal singularity’, arguing in favour of …Read more
  •  28
    Deleuze's Ethics Of Reading
    Angelaki 12 (3): 35-55. 2007.
    In Deleuze: The Clamor of Being, Alain Badiou sets up a “commonly believed” image of Deleuzian philosophy as “a conceptual critique of totalitarianisms,” concerned, above all, “with the respect and...
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    This essay develops three key claims made in my 2018 book, Exceptional Technologies. Part one argues for ‘trivialising the transcendental’, to remove stigmas attached to the word ‘transcendental’ in philosophy in general and philosophy of technology in particular. Part two outlines the concept of ‘exceptional technologies’. These are artefacts and practices that show up as limit cases for our received pictures of what constitutes a ‘technology’ and that force us to reassess the conditions for th…Read more
  •  10
    Contingency and plasticity in everyday technologies (edited book)
    Rowman & Littlefield. 2022.
    This book theorises technology and its host of social, material, and epistemic transformation techniques, tools, and methods as indeterminate through sixteen methodologically diverse contributions from media philosophy, art and architectural theory, mathematics, computer science, and anthropology scholars.
  •  10
    Reimagining AI: Introduction
    with Natasha Lushetich, Tina Röck, Edzia Carvalho, Kenny Lewis, and Gabriele Schweikert
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 9 (2): 87-99. 2022.
    The expression “AI” has become as commonplace as “computer.” While many people have a relatively clear idea of what an AI system or a computer does or can do, fewer have an idea of how precisely th...
  •  8
    The Internet as Idea
    Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 19 (3): 381-410. 2015.
    This article has two related aims: to examine how the Internet might be rendered an object of coherent philosophical consideration and critique, and to contribute to divesting the term “transcendental” of the negative connotations it carries in contemporary philosophy of technology. To realise them, it refers to Kant’s transcendental approach. The key argument is that Kant’s “transcendental idealism” is one example of a more general and potentially thoroughgoing “transcendental” approach focused…Read more
  •  7
    Stiegler’s Rigour: Metaphors for a Critical Continental Philosophy of Technology
    Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 8 (1): 37-54. 2021.
    This essay claims that Stiegler’s sense of metaphor gives his work an overlooked rigour. Part one argues that La Faute d’Epiméthée’s key claim opens an e...
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    Necessity, Entailment, Shared Agonism
    Foundations of Science 27 (4): 1317-1325. 2022.
    This short paper offers a series of responses to Jochem Zwier and Timothy Barker’s comments on my extended paper ‘Taking Exception: Philosophy of Technology as a Multidimensional Problem Space.’ Part one responds to questions concerning the modality of the renewed understanding of the theme of the transcendental that was argued for in my initial paper: I argue for the deep _contingency_ of such a move, against any sense that it is _necessary._ Part two takes this consideration of modality furthe…Read more
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    Introduction : Picturing technology -- A sense of the transcendental -- The blank page -- Embodiment conditions -- Three exceptional technologies -- Which way to turn? -- Conclusion : Exceptional technologies, not technological exceptionalism.