essays
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]
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.
