Theory
Independent work in philosophy and critical theory, with recurring questions around posthumanism, embodiment, identity, subjectivity, technology and the limits of the human.
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The Monster That Isn't Watching You+
An essay arguing that Lovecraft's most frightening monsters are not hostile but indifferent, and that cosmic horror derives its force from the collapse of human centrality rather than from personal threat.
A Universe Without Witnesses: Lovecraft's Cosmicism and the Collapse of Anthropocentric Meaning+
An inquiry into Lovecraftian cosmicism as a literary response to the collapse of anthropocentric meaning, connecting cosmic, biological and conceptual decentering with questions of the category of the human.
Bodies Without a Subject: Biopolitics and Extraction in the Fiction of Peter Watts+
A biopolitical reading of the Rifters trilogy and Echopraxia, examining the body as a substrate of extraction and the ways power redefines what a body must do to exist.
Peter Watts and the Body That No Longer Needs a Subject+
A literary-critical essay beginning from Starfish and Lenie Clarke to consider bodily modification, corporate adaptation and the displacement of the subject.
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