I did a lot of writing this year that I’m quite proud of - I’d be happy to share any of these pieces with anyone who’s interested:

Wonderful read...

arriving better late than never at this fabulous essay olrsupplement.com/2025/05/19/g...

Here's the final installment of the Adam Kotsko roundtable, where Kotsko reflects on his relationship to Benjamin, Adorno, Hegel, and Agamben, and shares his thoughts about the "end of neoliberalism," Trump, and grifters: olrsupplement.com/2025/12/17/w...

The Adam Kotsko roundtable continues with an essay by Jay Martin: he builds on Kotsko's The Prince of the World by examining the absence of the devil in Hegel, to explore the indistinction of politics and theology olrsupplement.com/2025/12/15/e...

Excited and proud to share my new essay in ELH! “The Political Climate: Ecocriticism and the Apocalyptic Tone” focuses on John Guillory and Amitav Ghosh as examples of internal and external narrative contextualizations of a crisis in literary criticism muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

The Adam Kotsko roundtable continues with Peter Gratton's reading of Neoliberalism's Demons, a political theology of neoliberalism as governance through debt and guilt that produces the illusion of freedom, updated for a post-neoliberal grift society: olrsupplement.com/2025/12/08/a...

Keep an eye out for a new book by me early next year!

The Adam Kotsko Roundtable continues with an essay by Nils Richber; he draws on Adorno and political theology to describe 'too-late capitalism' as a post-apocalyptic state without eschatological orientation: olrsupplement.com/2025/12/02/l...

Very excited to share the latest with you from The OLR Supplement: a roundtable on the work of Adam Kotsko, beginning with an introduction by Peter Gratton. A survey of Kotsko's work from political theology, Zizek, Lacan, and Agamben, to sociopaths and Star Trek: olrsupplement.com/2025/12/01/a...

7 years old now and I just discovered it has a whopping 5 reviews on Goodreads, which freaked me out. But in the interest of emphasizing that shelf life is real: it was just this year cited in a CFP for a panel about generous modernisms. 🎁 global.oup.com/academic/pro...

everyone is talking about getting copies of University Keywords (or other JHU Press books) for all their friends, students, and comrades for the holidays, especially when it is 40% off with the code HHOL25.

In this vein, the only way we as academics could rebuild trust in institutions is through collectively organizing to transform those institutions so that they serve workers, students, and the people, rather than capital

New in the OLR Supplement: Violeta Ruiz Espigares on Elizabeth Rottenberg's For the Love of Psychoanalysis: The Play of Chance in Freud and Derrida olrsupplement.com/2025/11/19/u...

My biggest piece yet for the #Rudolphina research magazine of #UniVienna on Rupert Riedl and thread of meta-inquiry that led to the creation of marine biology, theoretical biology, electron microscopy and cognitive biology at the University of Vienna. rudolphina.univie.ac.at/en/the-intel... #evobio

Really a fantastic overview of literary criticism, the university, and a lot of other things today

These cuts, and similar ones at Columbia and U of Chicago, are transparently union busting tactics (using the Trump administration as an excuse to do what they already wanted to do)

Thanks to American Campus, the podcast about the history of higher education, for featuring my book. We talk about how NPR and PBS emerged from equal access to education discourses. And how Media Studies originated as a strategy of public media activism.

I’ll be speaking in 5 minutes :)

Rasmus Winther is talking now! Join us on zoom for an exciting day of dialectical biology!

I’m doing the hand symbol for dialectics

Our conference on Richard Lewontin is starting today! Come join us on zoom (register here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...) or in person if you're in Toronto!

I went apple picking last week. This fruit has levels that the supermarket just isn't capturing

Our conference on Dialectical Biology, the Marxist tradition represented by the work of Richard Lewontin, is this weekend! Join us Friday to Sunday, online or in Toronto, register here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale... Help spread the word if you can!

I’m enormously grateful to Ian James, who has written the first review of my book, Virality Vitality. It’s an honor to be read so carefully and generously: olrsupplement.com/2025/10/06/v...

Virality Vitality is now a paperback! Discount code: SNPF25. How do viral phenomena undermine basic concepts of the life sciences and philosophy, including the body, immunity, self-reproduction, and species? How does this affect synthetic biology’s attempts to control life?

Abstracts of the talks are now online: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

Join us in commemorating 40 years of groundbreaking biological insights from October 10-12. Participate at the Goldring Student Centre or virtually to honour the contributions of evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin. Find more details here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

"Despite the university requiring students to undergo the training, the Trump administration still cut $790m in research funding."

Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin A hybrid conference bringing together voices old and new to revisit how The Dialectical Biologist still resonates, and reinvigorates, contemporary biology www.dialecticalsystems.eu/events/diale...

I’m excited to be part of this hybrid event celebrating Richard Lewontin’s legacy from October 10-12. I’ll be presenting a talk titled “Dialectical Biology as Ideology Critique” on Saturday morning. You can register for the Zoom link and see the program here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

I wrote a piece for the Oxford Literary Review's online supplement on the cultural significance of darkness and how our relationship to the night has changed in modern times—from theology and poetry to the Copernican Revolution and the proliferation of light pollution in the contemporary world.

We now have this nifty flier for our upcoming conference on Marxist biology - please help spread the word! (registration including for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...)

A special autumnal equinox edition of The OLR Supplement: @hantologique.bsky.social on darkness and the night sky, from St. John of the Cross and the Tao Te Ching to Pascal, Trakl, and contemporary science and technology - What has "Enlightenment" cost us? olrsupplement.com/2025/09/22/p...

An upcoming conference highlighting the legacy of Marxist biologist Richard Lewontin. Speakers such as Sonia Sultan and Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda. Worth checking out for those with an interest in ecological-development and niche construction.

From @auralflaneur.bsky.social - what can Foucault's prison activism and Derrida's anti-Apartheid advocacy tell us about lived experience testimony in the fight to abolish modern day slavery? olrsupplement.com/2025/09/19/l...

An awesome hybrid conference on the legacies of Richard Lewontin is coming to Toronto. Elliott Sober is the keynote! "Dialectical Biology Today" runs from October 10-12. Learn more and register below! #philbio 🐋🌱 @ihpst-uoft.bsky.social ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

I'm excited to share with you all a conference I'm planning Oct. 10-12: Dialectical Biology Today: Legacies of Richard Lewontin. It will be hybrid in Toronto and on zoom, so please join us however you can! Register for zoom link here: ihpst.utoronto.ca/events/diale...

I have a new article out on Kafka! Basically, I argue that Derrida's reading of Before the Law/The Trial recognizes an undecidability that inhabits Benjamin's and Deleuze and Guattari's readings. Let me know if you'd like a copy! doi.org/10.3366/olr....

this is such a wonderful interview

whoa check out this incredible exploration of the overlay of culture wars 1990s / present, the false divide between theory & praxis, and the (double) status of institutions then & now, by two of literary criticism's most brilliant readers, in conversation w @jonothingeb.bsky.social

I spoke with Peggy Kamuf and Samuel Weber about the place of deconstruction in the 1990s canon wars debates, and its relevance to similar debates taking place today - very excited to share this with you all! olrsupplement.com/2025/08/28/t...

An interesting review of fictions of financialization, and not in a place I’d have expected!

I want to highlight @petergratton.bsky.social‬’s recent review in The OLR Supplement of @nickbernards.bsky.social‬’s Fictions of Financialization, an important critique of contemporary discourses on neoliberalism. olrsupplement.com/2025/05/29/f...

Dominik Zechner reviews Peter Szendy's latest, which recognizes the internally divided role of the reader/listener from Plato to the audiobook. Zechner's review brings together Nietzsche and Sade, The Talking Heads and Taylor Swift to analyze this structure olrsupplement.com/2025/08/11/p...

I'm very excited to see this in print! I have an essay here on ecocriticism and the maternal, the fecal, and the textual in Beckett's Texts for Nothing -- thank you to @professeurmartell.bsky.social, Charlie and Eleanor for the invitation and editing!

One of my biggest takeaways from today’s webinar is that administrators are asking for more & more granular surveillance privileges. Instructure is only to happy to grant them. As @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social has testified, such privileges are designed to reduce bargaining power of academic labor

Can psychoanalysis, together with deconstruction, describe the political functioning of borders? New in the OLR Supplement: Nisarg Patel's review of Rosaura Martínez Ruiz's Eros: Beyond the Death Drive olrsupplement.com/2025/08/05/f...

My first paper is published!🤩 In it, I analyze how 20th century plant morphologist Agnes Arber understood teleology in plants.🪴 Spoiler: I think that she had two different notions of teleology and only liked one of them. Read more here: rdcu.be/d5xPI or in the following thread! 🧵 (1/5) 🌱🐋 #HistSci