current research

My major current research project focuses on the interface between digital gaming, and videogames more generally, and posthumanism broadly understood (i.e. including issues related to the Anthropocene, the impact of affect – and the rise of affect theory – on the emergence of new subjectivities, etc.), with a specific focus on ‘critical posthumanism’. An insight into this book-length project has been published as a chapter, titled ‘Posthumanism and Digital Gaming’, in the recent Palgrave Handbook of Critical Posthumanism, ed. Stefan Herbrechter et al. (December 2022). More details can be found under ‘Projects’.

Other, shorter-term research projects for the near future include several essays on the work of Hélène Cixous: the relation of her most recent texts to postmemory, to Lacan’s notions of tuchè and automaton, the relation to cities and Modernism in her writing, and the motif of the garden and exile. I will also be co-editing (with Marta Segarra) a special anniversary issue of Word and Text titled ‘What Remains Today – Jacques Derrida’ (scheduled for end 2024).

Academic links

• Academia.edu
• Google Scholar
• ORCID
• PhilPeople
• ResearchGate
• Web of Science

• Critical Perspectives on Theory, Culture and Politics