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researcher, lecturer and author in Contemporary European Thought: Atheism and Religion

April 10, 2017

Research hacks intermezzo: A cornucopia of writing and publishing advice from Stuart Elden

April 6, 2017

Research hacks #12: Seven ways of keeping up to date with developments in your field

April 3, 2017

Research hacks #11: Let your arguments breathe

March 30, 2017

Research Hacks #10: How to present a smart, well-crafted argument

March 27, 2017

Research Hacks #9: Building an argument with the “it’s not as simple as that” tool

March 23, 2017

Research hacks #8: How to know when “good enough” is good enough in academic writing

Read everything, but not in the same way

March 20, 2017

Research hacks #7: Read everything, but not in the same way

March 13, 2017

Research Hacks # 6: Capture every important thought you have, even on the go

March 8, 2017

Explaining Derrida with Diagrams 2: Messianicity without messianism

March 6, 2017

Guest Post: Sylvia Plath, Paul Ricoeur and the language of madness

March 1, 2017

Research Hacks # 5: Microsoft Word macros for academics

February 27, 2017

Explaining Derrida with Diagrams 1: Différance

February 23, 2017

Research Hacks #4: One important question to increase the focus of your academic research

February 20, 2017

Research Hacks #3: Help! I can’t settle on a research project

February 15, 2017

Research Hacks #2: Three important questions to ask before you choose a new research project

February 13, 2017

Research Hacks #1: Research Audit

Derrida at his desk

February 9, 2017

Can you help me subtitle my book on Derrida? Describe him in five words or fewer

February 8, 2017

A quick note to my subscribers

January 20, 2017

Marcel Gauchet in discussion in Melbourne: The Crisis of Democratic Politics

December 17, 2016

My review of Catherine Malabou’s Before Tomorrow now available at Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

December 9, 2016

The Return of Religion, Kettle Logic, and the Secular Dilemma

November 28, 2016

Just received: Malabou’s Before Tomorrow to review for NDPR

November 21, 2016

French Philosophy Today to join Difficult Atheism on Edinburgh Scholarship Online

November 2, 2016

Difficult Atheism reviewed in Derrida Today

October 12, 2016

French Philosophy Today reviewed at NDPR

September 20, 2016

French Philosophy Today: Summary of Chapter 6 – Bruno Latour

September 14, 2016

French Philosophy Today: Summary of Chapter 5 – Michel Serres

September 7, 2016

French Philosophy Today: Summary of Chapter 4 – Malabou, The Epigenetic Human

July 23, 2016

Jean-Luc Nancy and Visual Culture just published, with my chapter on Nancy, dance and equality

July 20, 2016

French Philosophy Today: Summary of Chapter 3 – Malabou, The Plastic Human

July 16, 2016

My review of Ignaas Devisch’s Jean-Luc Nancy and the Question of Community now available on the H-France website

July 14, 2016

Talk in Melbourne on Aug 5 – Varieties of Contemporary Atheism: Badiou, Nancy, Meillassoux

July 11, 2016

French Philosophy Today: Summary of Chapter 2 – Meillassoux

June 29, 2016

French Philosophy Today: Summary of Chapter 1 – Badiou

April 3, 2016

In this Sunday’s Age and Sydney Morning Herald I’m quoted talking about robots, consciousness and Descartes

March 28, 2016

Michel Serres’s The Parasite: A Reader’s Guide. 148 page document to download

March 23, 2016

Third Derrida Podcast: Derrida, Atheism and Theology

March 15, 2016

Second in the Derrida and Reformed Theology Podcast series: Derrida’s Ethics

March 12, 2016

Cover proofs of French Philosophy Today, and endorsement by Clayton Crockett

March 10, 2016

Podcast on Derrida, metaphysics and Reformed theology

February 15, 2016

A diagrammatic snapshot of French philosophy from Magazine Littéraire, September 1977

November 22, 2015

French Philosophy Today: New figures of the Human, low-res cover

November 11, 2015

Interviews with two Monash colleagues: Poet and novelist Ali Alizadeh, and linguistician Alice Gaby

November 1, 2015

My article on Jacques Rancière and the Death of the Author out in Philosophy and Literature

November 1, 2015

My article on Michel Serres, Biosemiotics and the “Great Story” of the Universe published in SubStance

October 19, 2015

Modernism Unit: Alain Badiou on Krapp’s Last Tape and “the space that lies between French and English”

October 10, 2015

Eleven thoughts on reading and citing

September 4, 2015

Rethinking alterity and logocentrism after phenomenology with Serres’s L’Hermaphrodite: Sarrasine sculpteur (1987)

August 13, 2015

Women and Surrealism, by Chris Worth

July 6, 2015

Draft entry for a Michel Serres Dictionary: Le Système de Leibniz et ses modèles mathématiques (1968)

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