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Literary & critical theory 📚 aesthetics 🌊 ecology 🌋 • Wrote a thesis on Thomas Pynchon • Not a Hegelian • Blog: thewastedworld.com
Starting this Monday! -- My lecture series with the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: a semester-length reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit from cover to cover!
August 1, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Starting this Monday! -- My lecture series with the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: a semester-length reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit from cover to cover!
Excited to announce my upcoming lecture series with the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: a semester-length reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit from cover to cover!
mscp.org.au/courses/even...
mscp.org.au/courses/even...
July 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Excited to announce my upcoming lecture series with the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy: a semester-length reading of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit from cover to cover!
mscp.org.au/courses/even...
mscp.org.au/courses/even...
Just received from @umbrellaent.bsky.social — the 4K restoration of Wake in Fright, complete with the novel by Kenneth Cook, and a booklet of essays on the film (including a critical comparison of the book and film by yours truly)!
June 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Just received from @umbrellaent.bsky.social — the 4K restoration of Wake in Fright, complete with the novel by Kenneth Cook, and a booklet of essays on the film (including a critical comparison of the book and film by yours truly)!
Very pleased to announce that I will be presenting a lecture series with the MSCP on Hegel's speculative thought -- including introductory forays into the Phenomenology, Logic, and Lectures on Fine Art. Starting on June 20th, in-person and online!
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...
May 19, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Very pleased to announce that I will be presenting a lecture series with the MSCP on Hegel's speculative thought -- including introductory forays into the Phenomenology, Logic, and Lectures on Fine Art. Starting on June 20th, in-person and online!
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...
mscp.org.au/courses/wint...
January
February 1, 2025 at 12:49 AM
January
First up, an essay on Gillian Rose's theory of literary style and the speculative work of writing.
Read it here (open access): doi.org/10.1177/0725...
Read it here (open access): doi.org/10.1177/0725...
January 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
First up, an essay on Gillian Rose's theory of literary style and the speculative work of writing.
Read it here (open access): doi.org/10.1177/0725...
Read it here (open access): doi.org/10.1177/0725...
A quick thread of recent publications -- on Gillian Rose's speculative poetics of philosophical style, Pynchon's reckoning with the genesis of America's empire, and his short writings on the enchantments of literature.
Links below...
Links below...
January 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
A quick thread of recent publications -- on Gillian Rose's speculative poetics of philosophical style, Pynchon's reckoning with the genesis of America's empire, and his short writings on the enchantments of literature.
Links below...
Links below...
Burton’s Anatomy, I.306.
January 20, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Burton’s Anatomy, I.306.
Itinerary for 2025. You heard it here first. Don’t get left behind.
January 4, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Itinerary for 2025. You heard it here first. Don’t get left behind.
December
December 31, 2024 at 4:55 AM
December
Books read in 2024, and my favourites of the year: Carlyle, Collingwood, Du Bois, Fitzgerald, Gawain, Spenser, Warner, and Yourcenar.
December 31, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Books read in 2024, and my favourites of the year: Carlyle, Collingwood, Du Bois, Fitzgerald, Gawain, Spenser, Warner, and Yourcenar.
Bookmas 🎄📚🎁
December 27, 2024 at 5:46 AM
Bookmas 🎄📚🎁
hawk tuah heralds, angels sing
December 27, 2024 at 4:26 AM
hawk tuah heralds, angels sing
who up immanentising their eschaton??
December 19, 2024 at 11:08 PM
who up immanentising their eschaton??
The sort of vibe I’m bringing to 2025
December 19, 2024 at 10:42 PM
The sort of vibe I’m bringing to 2025
Okay what’s the deal with the 90s-00s microgenre of the transatlantic romcom?
Are they figurations of the “personal” as horizon of collective life at the end of history? A displacement of global finance capital onto the family-form? A sublimation of the GWOT “special relationship”?
Are they figurations of the “personal” as horizon of collective life at the end of history? A displacement of global finance capital onto the family-form? A sublimation of the GWOT “special relationship”?
December 16, 2024 at 10:31 AM
Okay what’s the deal with the 90s-00s microgenre of the transatlantic romcom?
Are they figurations of the “personal” as horizon of collective life at the end of history? A displacement of global finance capital onto the family-form? A sublimation of the GWOT “special relationship”?
Are they figurations of the “personal” as horizon of collective life at the end of history? A displacement of global finance capital onto the family-form? A sublimation of the GWOT “special relationship”?
yeah actually if you haven’t read all of these books twice over before starting The Hungry Caterpillar it’s basically over for you
December 11, 2024 at 7:58 AM
yeah actually if you haven’t read all of these books twice over before starting The Hungry Caterpillar it’s basically over for you
ughh nostalgia reboots 🙄
December 9, 2024 at 10:39 AM
ughh nostalgia reboots 🙄
look at this reference list. could a depressed person make this?
December 7, 2024 at 7:04 AM
look at this reference list. could a depressed person make this?