essays
Do we have a duty to read women writers?
New Statesman. Summer 2021.
Epistemic FOMO
Cambridge Humanities Review. Winter 2020.
Illness as Fantasy.
The Point. Summer 2020.
The Erotics of ASMR.
The Oxonian Review. Spring 2020. [link]
Rape Fantasies.
The Point. Winter 2020. [link]
Animal Citizens, Animal Workers.
The New Inquiry. Autumn 2017. [link]
New Statesman. Summer 2021.
- I consider what might be ethically and politically objectionable about male dominance in the art world.
Epistemic FOMO
Cambridge Humanities Review. Winter 2020.
- I review two books about conspiracy theories: `Conspiracy Theories’, by Quassim Cassam, and `A Lot of People Are Saying’ by Russ Muirhead and Nancy Rosenblaum.
Illness as Fantasy.
The Point. Summer 2020.
- I write about coronavirus, metaphor, and Susan Sontag. [link]
The Erotics of ASMR.
The Oxonian Review. Spring 2020. [link]
- I write about ASMR videos, porn, the philosophy of sex, and Sianne Ngai.
Rape Fantasies.
The Point. Winter 2020. [link]
- I discuss the place of trauma in contemporary feminism, the history of the rape crisis movement, and the difficulties of representation.
Animal Citizens, Animal Workers.
The New Inquiry. Autumn 2017. [link]
- I sketch the prospects for a politics of animal labour.
reviews
Scents and Sensibility.
Times Literary Supplement. May 2020. [link]
Rules of a Diatribe.
Times Literary Supplement. May 2019. [link]
A Terrible Beauty.
The Oxonian Review. February 2019. [link]
An Ingenious Way to Live.
The Cambridge Humanities Review. [link]
Consumer vs Citizen.
The Oxonian Review. [link]
No One Ever Tried To Save Me From The Restaurant Industry.
The Oxonian Review. [link]
Times Literary Supplement. May 2020. [link]
- I review A. S. Barwich’s Smellosophy.
Rules of a Diatribe.
Times Literary Supplement. May 2019. [link]
- I review Mary Kate McGowan's Just Words.
A Terrible Beauty.
The Oxonian Review. February 2019. [link]
- I review Heather Widdows' Perfect Me: Beauty as an ethical ideal.
An Ingenious Way to Live.
The Cambridge Humanities Review. [link]
- I review Elizabeth Barnes' The Minority Body.
Consumer vs Citizen.
The Oxonian Review. [link]
- I review Juliet Jacquet's Is Shame Necessary?
No One Ever Tried To Save Me From The Restaurant Industry.
The Oxonian Review. [link]
- I review Melissa Girl Grant's Playing The Whore
interviews
Can’t get Netflix? You may be suffering an aesthetic injustice.
The Irish Times. Spring 2018.
- I am interviewed by The Irish Times about my research at the intersection of aesthetics and political theory.
