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    Creativity, Group Pedagogy and Social Action: A departure from Gough
    Educational Philosophy and Theory 40 (2): 330-345. 2008.
    The following paper continues discussions within this journal about how the work of Delueze and Guattari can inform radical pedagogy. Building primarily on Noel Gough's 2004 paper, we take up the challenge to move towards a more creative form of ‘becoming cyborg’ in our teaching. In contrast to work that has focused on Deleuzian theories of the rhizome, we deploy Guattari's work on institutional schizoanalysis to explore the role of group creativity in radical pedagogy. The institutional therapi…Read more
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    This article argues that attempts by philosophy to think emotions as embodied is caught between the necessity of thinking them as a subjective first-person dimension of experience on the one hand and as an objective biological determination on the other. Philosophy has tended to view these two dimensions, qualitative and quantitative, respectively, as either in a parallelism with each other or alternatively has dispensed with either one or the other. This article draws on Georges Canguilhem’s bi…Read more
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    Metaphor in Biosemiotics and Deconstruction
    Oxford Literary Review 45 (2): 229-250. 2024.
    This article stages a critical-philosophical encounter between Derridean deconstruction and Peircean biosemiotic theory focussing on the role and status of metaphor within each. It argues that the biosemiotic understanding of metaphor as a structuring principle informing the sign-activity of living organisms and processes offers an alternative understanding of a generalised metaphoricity of life as such and an account of what might be called biological text, textuality or even, biosemiotic inter…Read more
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    The image of philosophy -- The relational universe -- Generic science -- Thinking bodies.
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    Sovereignty and Community
    In Tilottama Rajan & Daniel Whistler (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of German Idealism and Poststructuralism, Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 429-446. 2023.
    This chapter traces French readings of Hegel in the wake of World War II exploring how philosophers understood Hegel’s system as retroactively tainted by historical events and as ‘totalitarian’ and how they affirmed the impossibility of sovereign subjectivity and identity in both philosophical thinking and political projects in response to this understanding.
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    Stiegler and Technics
    with Gerald Moore, Christopher Johnson, Michael Lewis, Serge Trottein, and Patrick Crogan
    Critical Connections. 2013.
    These 17 essays covers all aspects of Bernard Stiegler's work, from poststructuralism, anthropology and psychoanalysis to his work on the politics of memory, 'libidinal economy', technoscience and aesthetics, keeping a focus on his key theory of technics throughout. Stiegler brings together key concepts from Plato, Freud, Derrida and Simondon to argue that the human is 'invented' through technics rather than a product of purely biological evolution. Stiegler is a thinker at the forefront of our …Read more
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    Narrative Voice, Heteropoiesis, and the Outside
    In Vojtěch Kolman & Tereza Matějčková (eds.), Perspectives on the Self: Reflexivity in the Humanities, De Gruyter. pp. 153-174. 2021.
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    Keith Reader's brief, unfinished article ‘Freeze Peach’ situates contemporary controversies surrounding free speech in relation to material and economic concerns. Ian James's response draws attention to the way Keith does this by bringing together four key figures of late twentieth-century philosophy and theory: Louis Althusser, Jean-François Lyotard, Terry Eagleton and Stanley Fish. Ian argues that the conjugation of Marx-inspired theory with thinkers associated with the postmodern would have a…Read more
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    13. The Production of the Present
    In John Armitage & Ryan Bishop (eds.), Virilio and Visual Culture, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 227-241. 2013.
  • 4. Technics and Cerebrality
    In Christina Howells & Gerald Moore (eds.), Stiegler and Technics, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 69-84. 2013.
  • 18 Pierre Klossowski
    In Jon Roffe & Graham Jones (eds.), Deleuze’s Philosophical Lineage, Edinburgh University Press. pp. 339-355. 2009.
  • Incarnation and Infinity
    In Alena Alexandrova, Aukje van Rooden, Laurens ten Kate & Ignaas Devisch (eds.), Re-Treating Religion: Deconstructing Christianity with Jean-Luc Nancy, Fordham University Press. pp. 246-260. 2012.