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22Humanities on Demand and the Demands on the Humanities: Between Technological and Lived TimeStudies in Philosophy and Education 43 (2): 143-160. 2024.The digital humanities have developed in concert with online systems that increase the accessibility and speed of learning. Whereas previously students were immersed in the fluidity of campus life, they have become suspended and drawn-into various streams and currents of digital pedagogy, which articulate new forms of epistemological movement, often operating at speeds outside the lived time and rhythm of human thought. When assessing learning technologies, we have to consider the degree to whic…Read more
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4Plato and Plotinus on Mysticism, Epistemology, and Ethics (review)Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2018.
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13Standing-out and Fitting-in: The Acoustic-Space of Extemporised SpeechJournal of Intercultural Studies 6 (43): 758-772. 2022.An explicit feature of the World Health Organisation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been to ensure that naming conventions, both for the disease itself and for the variants of its underlying virus, should not have a stigmatising effect on any one population or region. An implicit feature of this undertaking is the recognition that the relation between ‘what is said’ and ‘what is heard’ involves an ongoing and even generative tension that cannot be mapped following a defined set of coord…Read more
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7On Ephemeral StructuresIn Wahida Khandker & Tim Flanagan (eds.), Contemporary Perspectives on Architectural Organicism: The Limits of Self-Generation, Routledge. pp. 206-225. 2023.This chapter proposes an extension of Georges Canguilhem's historical analysis toward contemporary concepts of milieu as flexible and dissipative territories, and as "adaptive landscapes" of living organisms such as the monarch butterfly and common swift. The chapter deploys and develops an understanding of certain vital processes in Canguilhem's account of milieu, by charting the experience to be found in various migration landscapes which cannot be understood independently of their taking plac…Read more
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11The Baroque: A Term of ArtTerms: Ciha Journal of Art History. 2023.The spiritual torsion and material complexity so characteristic of Baroque aesthetics is something that extends to (or perhaps, better, issues from) the intension of the term itself. This much is evident in the sense that, since the twentieth century, various projects have proposed such notions as a medical-baroque, a postcolonial-baroque, and a digital-baroque. Beyond any given object of analysis, then, in this way the Baroque adduces the concepts by which any inquiry into objects might take pl…Read more
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8The Thought of History in Benjamin and DeleuzeIn Jeffrey A. Bell & Claire Colebrook (eds.), Deleuze and History, Deleuze Connections. pp. 103-120. 2009.
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18An Enduring Audience: Jankélévitch and PlotinusIn Marguerite La Caze & Magdalena Żółkoś (eds.), Contemporary Perspectives on Vladimir Jankélévitch: On What Cannot Be Touched, Lexington Books. pp. 57-73. 2019.
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35Talking Like a Plant: Testimony and Justice (For the Humans to Come)Angelaki 27 (2): 85-99. 2022.Following the work of Barbara Cassin, this paper proposes to examine certain ways of speaking that Aristotle described as not so much human as plant-like [homoioi phutôi] and to consider whether these non-human ways of speaking might yet adduce forms of discourse that serve to model how central principles of justice can be thought. The paper does this by drawing upon Cassin’s extensive engagement with Sophistry in the classical world together with her concerted interest in the activities of the …Read more
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17Baroque Naturalism in Benjamin and Deleuze: The Art of Least DistancesSpringer Verlag. 2021.This book, itself a study of two books on the Baroque, proposes a pair of related theses: one interpretive, the other argumentative. The first, enveloped in the second, holds that the significance of allegory Gilles Deleuze recognized in Walter Benjamin’s 1928 monograph on seventeenth century drama is itself attested in key aspects of Kantian, Leibnizian, and Platonic philosophy. The second, enveloping the first, is a literalist claim about predication itself – namely, that the aesthetics of ag…Read more
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1Free and Indeterminate Accord of 'The New Harmony': The Significance of Benjamin's Study of the Baroque for DeleuzeIn Sjoerd van Tuinen & Niamh McDonnell (eds.), Deleuze and The fold: a critical reader, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.
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56The Dictionaries in Which We Learn to ThinkDeleuze and Guatarri Studies 9 (3): 301-317. 2015.Taking its title from the discussion of a ‘new Meno’ to be found in Difference and Repetition, through an examination of the link between learning and thinking set out across Deleuze's work this paper charts the important sense in which philosophical thought is characterised by an apprenticeship. The claim is that just as certain aesthetic and biological processes involve inscrutable and non-resembling elements that cannot be known in advance, the experience of learning is one oriented by unfors…Read more
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Aesthetics |
Continental Philosophy |
Process Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
History of Western Philosophy |
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
Immanuel Kant |
Translation |