Essays

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Nietzsche: The First Cybernetician?

On Nietzsche contra Heidegger's reading, via the vocabulary of second-order cybernetics.

Rousseau contra Thoreau — Vicious Circle, Legislator, and the Care of the Self

Reading Rousseau from Thoreau's perspective on society, nature, and the mode of individual existence.

The End of Order, the Order of Ends — Civil Society, Eschatology, Cybernetics

Hegel and Tocqueville on civil society, and the cybernetic supplement to their teleological visions of history.

Theology After Ontotheology — Givenness and Its Vicissitude

Heidegger, Marion, and the question of God after the critique of onto-theology.

What is a World? — The Antinomy of Arendt's Work

On Arendt's political thought, the world as appearing-space, and the tension between natality and plurality.

The Crisis of European Sciences and Immanent Ethics

Husserl, Maimonides, and Deleuze on the foundations of a naturalized ethics.

Adam Smith and the Demands of Political Economy

Polanyi's reading of Smith, and whether the attribution of laissez-faire liberalism is justified.

Spinoza: Practical Philosophies? — On the Third Kind of Knowledge and Ethics

On Spinoza's closing propositions in the Ethics and what it means for the mind to exist sub specie aeternitatis.

Art of Resistance

Rancière, Foucault, and the politics of sensibility — on the rhetoric of dissensus and the Zero-COVID protests.

Indexicality and Contingency

On the Many-Worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics and the case for a non-global determinism.

Ontology as Immanent Thinking

Deleuze's transcendental empiricism situated against Longuenesse's reading of Kant's three syntheses of time.

Potentiality, Positive and Negative

Agamben's concept of potentiality between Aristotle and Heidegger, and the structure of the possible.

Sophie as Metaphor

Derrida's De la grammatologie and the figure of Sophie in Rousseau's Émile — supplement, inscription, and the constitution of the subject.

Stories Overtold Again

Historical materialism and the dialectic of theory and action — Nietzsche, Foucault, Benjamin, and Rancière on the time after history.

Spectres of Heidegger — Eschatology and the Dusk of Haunting

Heidegger's history of Being read against Derrida's hauntology — on eschatology, repetition, and the spectre that refuses to depart.

What Must a Deleuzian Learn to Count to Four?

The four syntheses of Anti-Oedipus and the question of structure, genesis, and the body without organs.