PUBLICATIONS
PRESENTATIONS
Presentations
The Philosophy of Reiner Schürmann
“Myth, Symbolism, and Natality in the Philosophy of Reiner Schürmann,” Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy,” 11/2024.
“‘Letting go all holds’: Schürmann, Arendt, and the An-archaeology of the Willing Subject,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), 9/2024.
Winner: Best Submission by a Junior Scholar
Ecology and the Philosophy of Place
“Constructing the Site of Politics,” Pacific Association for Continental Thought, 9/2023.
“Exile and Fragmentation,” Radical Philosophy Association Panel, American Philosophical Association (Central Division), 2/2021.
“Defensive Construction and the Place of Politics,” Radical Philosophy Association, 11/2021.
“Infrastructures of Passion: Fourier Today” International Society for the Study of Surrealism (co-authored with Hugh Farrell), 11/2021.
The New Politics of Place,” Radical Philosophy Association Panel, American Philosophical Association (Central Division), Chicago, 2/2020.
Understanding Neo-Fascism through Italian Political Philosophy
“Italian Philosophy in the Age of Mass Shootings,” SPEP, Toronto, 10/2023.
“The Continuation of War by Religious Means,” Society for Italian Philosophy, 6/2023.
“What is Fascist Accelerationism?”, Invited talk, University of Texas at Austin, 04/2023.
“Spiritual Luxury and Sacrificial Acceleration: Italian Philosophy and the Semiology of Fascism,” Radical Philosophy Association, 11/2022.
“From Wordless Language to the Construction of Worlds: Lessons from Furio Jesi’s Cultura di destra,” Society for Italian Philosophy, 6/2022.
Political Myth and the Phenomenology of Revolt
“Destitution, Interrupted: On Two forms of Capture,” Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, 11/2023.
“A Dance Without a Song: Furio Jesi and the Post-Mythological Festival,” Society for Italian Philosophy, 11/2021.
“From Insurrection to Destitution: Jesi, Agamben, and the Limits of Suspended Time,” Riot as a Global Political Concept, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina, 10/2018
“Ten Theses for a Post-Mythological Politics,” Invited talk, Transformations of Critical Theory, Northwestern University, 11/2017
“Furio Jesi and the Aporia of Insurrection,” Hospitality and its Other, Southern Illinois University, 10/2017.
“The Destituent Pledge,” The Big No, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 4/2017.
“What is an Oath?” Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Graduate Conference, DePaul University, 3/2017.
Populism and New Constructions of Political Subjectivity
“Is there a Revolutionary Use of Law? Fanon, Agamben, and Laclau on Insurrection and Civil War,” Closeness in Distance Colloquium, Indiana University, 3/2021.
“Reply to Onward Barbarians,” Invited talk, Roundtable on Endnotes, Crisis Party Working Group, Berlin, 02/2021.
“Elements of Destituent Power in France’s Yellow Vest Movement,” Association for Political Theory Conference, University of California at Irvine, 10/2019.
“Ecstatic Populism,” Invited talk, Emergent Horizons (NAASN), Atlanta, 05/2019.
“The Construction of Popular Power in the Yellow Vest Protests,” Invited talk, Indiana University Bloomington, 01/2019
Dialogues between Afropessimism, Feminism, and Marxism
“Destituting Humanism,” The Essentialism That is Not One Philosophy Conference, New School for Social Research, NYC, 4/2016.
“No Selves to Abolish,” philoSOPHIA Conference, Emory University, 5/2015.
“Incommensurable forces, Non-Dialectical Practices: Afropessimism and the Crisis of the Existential Commons,” Futures of Black Studies Conference, Bremen Universität, 4/2014.
“Expropriation and Social Death: Class, Race, and the Slave Relation in Theory and Practice,” Marx 2013 Conference, Stockholm, 10/2013.
“Primitive Accumulation, Immigration, and the Rights of the Dispossessed,” 9th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, London, 11/2012.
“Feminism, Afropessimism, and the History of Predatory Power,” Invited talk, Centro de Documentación y Estudios Avanzados de Arte Contemporáneo (CENDEAC), Murcia, Spain, 5/2013.
“Afropessimism Contra Marxism? On the Question of Social Death in Politics,” Invited talk, Crisis Party Working Group, Berlin, 2/2013.
The "Right of Necessity” in Kant, Hegel, and Marx
“Liberalism and the Question of Theft,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Baltimore, 10/2011.
“Hegel, Marx, and the Question of Theft” ‘The Spirit of Capital’ Conference, the New School for Social Research, New York, 4/2011.
“Theft, Law, and Liberalism,” 11th Annual Philosophy Conference, University of Toronto, 4/2011.
“On the Right of Extreme Necessity and the Concept of Class Struggle,” DePaul University, 3/2011.
“‘Necessity Has No Law’: Notrecht and the Logic of Exception,” Radical Philosophy Association Meeting, University of Oregon, 11/2010.
Ontology and Politics in the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze
The Economy of Affect and the Category of the 'Intolerable' in Political Philosophy,” Invited talk, Radical Philosophy Association Panel, American Philosophical Association (A.P.A.), Central Division, Chicago, 2/2012.
“Involuntarism and the Critique of Truth in the Work of François Zourabichvili,” 5th International Deleuze Studies Conference, New Orleans, 6/2012.
“After Ontology: François Zourabichvili’s Deleuze,” International Deleuze Conference, Kaifeng, Henan, China, 5/2012.
“‘Claws of Absolute Necessity’: Deleuze and the Involuntarist Image of ought,” Invited talk, Potentiality and Normativity Colloquium, Université de Montréal, 8/2011.
There Is No ‘Ontology of Deleuze’: Irrationalism, Illogicism, and the Order of Reasons,” 16th Annual Philosophy Conference, Villanova University, 4/2011.
“Dialectics of Multiplicity,” 3rd International Deleuze Studies Conference, Utrecht University, Amsterdam, 7/2010.
“Deleuze, Tiqqun, and the Concept of Secession,” 4th Biennial Philosophy and Literature Conference, Purdue University, 4/2010.
“Unlivable Milieux,” Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, London, October 2009.
“A More Tortuous Labyrinth: Repetition Beyond Representation,” 10th Annual Graduate
Conference at the University of Western Ontario, London, 3/2008.
“Synthesis and Paradox in Deleuze’s Logic of Sense,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, 10/2007.
Violence and Communication in Gilbert Simondon, Peter Sloterdijk, and Georges Bataille
“Simondon, Sloterdijk, and the Weaponization of the Pre-Individual,” International Association of Philosophy and Literature, London, UK, 6/2009.
“The Other and the Impossible. Bataille on Communication,” American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton, 3/2006.
“On the Materialist Concept of Communication in Georges Bataille,” 8th Annual Graduate Conference, University of Western Ontario, London, 4/2006.