CURRENT RESEARCH

FORTHCOMING

BOOKS

  • Vital Ontologies: The Facts of Life, Reconsidered (monograph, Columbia University Press)
  • Epigenesis: Critical Theory for the 21st Century, co-written with Claire Colebrook (Open Humanities Press/MIT).
  • Theory at the End of the World: Thinking with Claire Colebrook, co-edited with Rachel Loewen Walker, Rick Elmore, Vernon Cisney, eds. (Columbia University Press).
  • Editor, with “Foreword” and “Posthumous Conclusions”: Michel Tibon-Cornillot’s The Laboratory Planet: Instability and the Disappearance of Industrial Societies (Columbia University Press).

ARTICLES/CHAPTERS

  • “Permacrisis, Statelessness, and the Extinction of Being,” in Theory at the End of the World: Thinking with Claire Colebrook (Columbia University Press).
  • “On the Fundamental Instability of Life,” and “The Afterlife of the (Laboratory) Planet: Posthumous Reflections,” in Michel Tibon-Cornillot’s The Laboratory Planet: Instability and the Disappearance of Industrial Societies, translated by Taylor Adkins (Columbia University Press).
  • “From the Cradle to the Caves: Architectures of a New Humanity,” in John Drabinski, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Fanon (Cambridge University Press).
  • “Terminal Lucidity: Negative Life, Dysphoria Mundi, and the Terminus,” in Comparative Literature Studies (forthcoming 2026). A book review essay on: Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern University Press, 2024); David A. Collings, The Rubble of Culture: Debris of an Extinct Thought (Open Humanities Press, 2023); and Paul B. Preciado. Dysphoria Mundi: A Diary of Planetary Transition (Graywolf Press, 2025).

PLANNED FUTURE PROJECTS:

  • Permacrisis (monograph)
  • Vital Politics: On Life and Indifference (monograph)

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECT

Principal Investigator: Life’s Pasts and Futures: On Being and Science, Sabbatical grant (Riksbanken Jubileumsfond, 2023-2024).