RACHEL FRASER
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​essays and reviews

The Biggest Questions. 
The TLS. Summer 2023. A review of Philip Kitcher's What's The Use of Philosophy.

On Passport Privilege. [with Tushar Menon]
The APA Blog. Spring 2023. We discuss passport privilege in academia.

You Owe Me An Argument.
Boston Review. Summer 2022. A review of Sophie-Grace Chappell's Epiphanies. [selected for Boston Review's `20 most loved essays of 2022']

Come As You Are.
Literary Review, Summer 2022. A review of Clare Chamber's Intact.

Touching the Void.
The TLS, Summer 2022. A review of Roy Sorensen's Nothing: A Philosophical History.

Do we have a duty to read women writers?
New Statesman. Summer 2021.

Creaturely Purpose.
Cambridge Humanities Review. Summer 2021. I review two books about cats.

Epistemic FOMO
Cambridge Humanities Review. Winter 2020. A review of 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. [received an honorable mention in The Best American Essays of 2020]

The Erotics of ASMR.
The Oxonian Review. Spring 2020. I write about ASMR videos, porn, the philosophy of sex, and Sianne Ngai. 

​Rape Fantasies.
The Point. Winter 2020. I discuss the place of trauma in contemporary feminism, the history of the rape crisis movement, and the difficulties of representation.


Scents and Sensibility.
Times Literary Supplement. May 2020.  I review A. S. Barwich’s Smellosophy.​

Rules of a Diatribe.
Times Literary Supplement. May 2019.
​I review Mary Kate McGowan's Just Words.       ​

A Terrible Beauty.
The Oxonian Review. February 2019. I review Heather Widdows' Perfect Me: Beauty as an ethical ideal. 


Animal Citizens, Animal Workers.
The New Inquiry. Autumn 2017.  ​I sketch the prospects for a politics of animal labour.

An Ingenious Way to Live. 
The Cambridge Humanities Review.
I review Elizabeth Barnes' The Minority Body. 

Consumer vs Citizen.
The Oxonian Review.
I review Juliet Jacquet's  Is Shame Necessary? ​​​

No One Ever Tried To Save Me From The Restaurant Industry.
The Oxonian Review. 
I review ​Melissa Girl Grant's Playing The Whore​


interviews and podcasts

You just won't understand!
The Good Fight with Yascha Mounk. I discuss standpoint epistemology.

Can’t get Netflix? You may be suffering an aesthetic injustice.
The Irish Times.  Spring 2018. I discuss aesthetics and political theory.
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