publications
‘The Cruel Optimism of Contact Improvisation: Dancing In-between Neoliberal Subjectivation and Practices of Commoning’, Maska (2024, accepted for review).
‘Breathing Difference: Queer Relationality and Nonviolent Affect in Contact Improvisation’, Performance Research, 29.3 (2024, forthcoming).
Book Review of Elsa Dorlin, Self-Defense: A Philosophy of Violence, Radical Philosophy (in preparation).
Book Review of Surviving the Future: Abolitionist Queer Strategies, ed. by Scott Branson, Raven Hudson, and Bry Reed, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books (in preparation).
'On Racialised and Gendered Violence in the Name of Nature', Birkbeck Climate Action Network Blog (2023).
Book Review of Marcelo Tari, There is No Unhappy Revolution: The Communism of Destitution, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books (2022).
’Contingent Contagions’, Radical Philosophy, 210 (Summer 2021), 97-100.
’Mindfulness for Radicals’, New Formations, 102 (2021), 126-128.
Book Review of Thomas Docherty, Literature and Capital, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books (2020).
’In a Critical Condition’, in The Idea of the Avant Garde – And What It Means Today, ed. by Marc James Léger (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014), pp. 273-276.
selected presentations
‘Wetlands Know No Genders, Know No Nations: For an Ecofeminism Beyond Borders’
Paul Mellon Centre Symposium: Resist, Persist: Gender, Climate and Colonialism, Barbican Centre (December, 2023)
It is commonly known, and often caricatured, that certain pacifist, spiritual and maternal tendencies within liberal ecofeminism obfuscate neocolonial regimes of power, whilst also perpetuating cisnormative, and at times trans-exclusive, presuppositions of womanhood. What if we were to think of an ecofeminism beyond the border of the gender binary, beyond the unproblematised distinction between nature and culture, beyond the imaginary of the landed borders of the nation-state, and beyond ecofeminism’s myopic construction of its own epistemic borders?
‘Pan-World Living’, Imagining Radically Different Futures: The Dialectic of Sex and Feminist Utopias Today, City of Women Festival, Ljubljana (2019).
‘See It. Say It. Sorted’, Reading the Enemies, MayDay Rooms (2018).
This paper invites an ethical reflection on contemporary critical approaches in the humanities and their relationship to epistemic violence and intellectual intimacy. While foregrounding the material and institutional constraints placed upon us as young scholars to read, cite and name our enemies, I also wish to propose a reading that itself does violence to the hostility invoked by ‘See It, Say It, Sorted’. (The full abstract and paper can be downloaded here.)
‘Disabling the Fire Alarm: For a Benjaminian Chronopolitics of Self-determination and/in Contingency’, London Conference in Critical Thought (2017).
While acknowledging the centrality of kairós in Benjamin’s philosophical conception of history, in this paper I shift the parameters of the discussion and suggest a new means of conceptualising the relationship between chronos and kairós – and between historical continuity and rupture, and self-determination and contingency. Through attending to the historicity of quotidian time, and its constitutive relationship to the exceptional time of Jetztzeit, this paper sketches a chronopolitics against romanticised conceptions of revolutionary rupture and against Benjamin’s flirtation with Schmittian sovereignty, in a mode of being-in-history itself politically urgent for our own post-2016 predicament. (The full abstract and paper can be downloaded here.)‘A Singular Avant-Garde: Reflections on Comparativism and the Chronopolitics of ‘Cultural Area Studies’, Uneven & Combined Development: Modernity and Modernism, FAHACS, University of Leeds (2017).
This paper engages with the question of uneven and combined development through a discussion of the theoretical problem-category of ‘the avant-garde’. Occupying a liminal position between sociological field, periodising category, and artistic genre, the category of the avant-garde articulates some of the key problems that underpin ongoing debates on the singular character of modernity, while also highlighting the contested epistemological terrain of what may be termed ‘cultural area studies’. (The full abstract and paper can be downloaded here.)