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
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.
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.
