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

The paperback of my book Remapping Biology with Goethe, Schelling, and Herder will start shipping July 30th! The lower price point means I can hawk this one with a clearer conscience 😅 #booksky #philsci #hps #philbio #histbio 🐋🌱 www.routledge.com/Remapping-Bi...

Inspiring work by Denis Walsh on organism/ environment dialectic, along side @jonothingeb.bsky.social and Stuart Newman ! #ISHPSSB2025 is such a treat !

In 2002, a small group of virologists and biochemists synthesized infectious poliovirus from mail-order DNA fragments. I consider the implications of this experiment in the introduction of my book, Virality Vitality /THREAD

Such a pleasure to review Ian's newest book and to do it for the wonderful OLR Supplement. Proust, Quignard, and Lit & Science fans, this book is a must!

New in The OLR Supplement: a review by @professeurmartell.bsky.social of Ian James' Rethinking Literary Naturalism, a biosemiotic reading of Proust and Quignard that sees these literary works as returns to a fundamental vital form of semiosis olrsupplement.com/2025/07/14/ret

A new review of Alenka Zupancčič's Disavowal -- Patrick Pender gives a lucid account of Zupančič's Lacan, and her understanding of our inability to face climate change and capitalism as a shift from collective psychosis to perversion olrsupplement.com/2025/06/23/d...

I have a review of Adam Rosenthal's "Poetics and the Gift," along with some related thoughts on the impasse of reading contemporary poetry, now up on the Oxford Literary Review's online platform - thank you to the editor, Jonathan Basile, for the call and the patience

Very excited to share a brilliant review of a brilliant book with you all! Nora Fulton writes on Adam Rosenthal's Poetics and the Gift: Reading Poetry from Homer to Derrida olrsupplement.com/2025/06/06/p...

Recommended read 👇 Argues that distinguishing between pseudoscience, guilty of prejudice, and true science is risky: “The risk is that one will allow these same prejudices, which continue to play a structuring role within scientific institutions and discourse, to escape detection or critique”

Slobodian's book feels destined for at least 50-100 cites in my dissertation's final chapter, conservatively, i.e., work I'm getting to know very well, find invaluable. this review essay is that rare one that expands and deepens my appreciation – by leaps and bounds, truly. (tldr: read!! it!!!)

I wrote this essay to show that the types of biological racism and neoliberal apologia that Slobodian finds among explicit advocates for neoliberalism are prevalent among evolutionary biologists: olrsupplement.com/2025/05/19/g... (Thread)

Very excited to share with you Peter Gratton's review of Nick Bernards' Fictions of Financialization. Gratton sees it as an important though flawed attempt to change the narrative around financialization and Marx's understanding of it olrsupplement.com/2025/05/29/f...

There's a discount code for my book, Virality Vitality - SNWS25 (for the hardcover, which even with the discount is still quite pricey - a more affordable paperback will be published in October, and there is an ebook too) sunypress.edu/Books/V/Vira...

I wrote a review and reflection on Quinn Slobodian's Hayek's Bastards, focusing on the complicity of certain evolutionary scientists with the evolutionism of the Far Right and neoliberal ideology: olrsupplement.com/2025/05/19/g...

Come join this conversation about my new book tomorrow on zoom! Register here: utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/regi...