Very excited to see this coming out in just a few months! The translation is already all available online for free, but I much prefer print versions of these things to read through and annotate

I received the news today that Raoul Vaneigem has passed away. One of the last surviving members of the Situationist International, and author of the incredible 'The Revolution of Everyday Life.' Rest in power.

I'll be giving my paper titled 'A Fiction to Command the Emotions: Du Châtelet and Spinoza' today at 13:40 UK time today. Anyone interested can join by using this link, and clicking on the paperclip on the top right of the 14:00 session indico.uni-paderborn.de/event/157/ti...

My free copy of the brand new Routledge Companion to Simone Weil just arrived in the mail this morning - it's a strange feeling seeing my words in print like this! (Full article available for free here: www.academia.edu/169551205/Si...).

I’ve been hoping to find this book at my local charity shops for years, and I decided on a whim to step into them today only to find a copy there on the shelves, waiting for me

I can't believe we're finally getting a translation of this book! A few years ago, I tried my hand at translating two of the sections in it after reading some commentary by Warren Montag, but Maruzzella and Ramos are sure to do a much better job than I ever could.

I've now finalised all of my materials for the History of Women in Philosophy's Summer school. If you'd like to hear my presentation, feel free to tune in on July 27th at 14:00CET!

I am conducting in the Taylorian’s Voltaire Room today, and was somewhat dismayed to see so little in here dedicated to Du Châtelet: exactly 8 books, 4 of which are only about her relation to Voltaire. It seems she is still a long way from being rightly seen as equal to her male peers.

I am greatly pleased to share that the Routledge Companion to Simone Weil has finally been released - and with it, my article on Weil, biopolitics, and the antifascist meaning of community. Anyone interested can read my chapter for free here: www.academia.edu/169551205/Si...

I'm very pleased to share that my paper has been accepted for the conference coming up in Rotterdam on the reception of Ancient Philosophy among the Early Moderns. The idea of this paper is to challenge some of the parallels that people draw between Spinoza and the Ancients.

For the lectures on Spinoza I gave at my university last term I made this image, the idea being that Pascal inhabits an enchanted world with an all-loving designer God, but is miserable despite this. However, Spinoza's world is radically disenchanted, and yet he sees this as a source of immense joy.

I first read Camus' The Plague when I was 17, and this passage from it has stuck with me since then. I don't agree with all of it, but there is something admirable and romantic in its vision: an aspiration to live at as little cost to others as is possible.

While we do regularly debate today whether Spinoza was really an atheist, I always find it informative to look at how that word was actually used in his own time. By the standards of the early modern period, Spinoza was very obviously an atheist, even paradigmatically one.

So cool that I got to meet Hasana Sharp at the Oxford Spinoza Conference last week (and lots of other great folks like Jack Stetter and Ericka Tucker, and some other old UK Spinozist friends)

I think these are the main books on the long-term history of the whole 'can pagans be virtuous' debate in Christianity. Are there any big ones that I'm missing?

I'm geeking out over the fact that one of my articles made it onto a reading list for a Philosophy BPhil class at my university

It's exciting to see production on this book coming along. It's scheduled to come out in July, with a chapter from yours truly on Simone Weil and operaismo.

I've just received news of acceptance for my abstract for the 'Early Modern Naturalisms' conference in Hungary! I've never been to the country before, but I'm excited to see the place in September.

I'm currently reading Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane, and it's striking to me how he espouses his hideous fascist ideology, while at the same time trying very hard to appear as though he's giving a politically neutral account of the origins of religion. /1

It's 6 days until this book comes out and I am stoked for it

There's a common interpretation of the 'protestant work ethic' thesis that blames the fathers of protestantism for something like hustle culture. But here's Calvin criticising this, and saying that such insatiable striving for forgiveness and reward comes from Catholicism instead:

I want to make these two books fight

Sun in Oxford

This is the paper I plan to present there:

The final programme for the Thinking About God conference in Edinburgh has now been released - looking forward to meeting people there!

This is an actual book??

I picked up a copy of Clara Mattei's new book at an event last night. It's a strong read so far!

Saw this in the new Verso catalogue, hopefully it'll serve as a corrective for the Losurdo-inspired dreck that seems to have been dominating the discussions of Nietzsche among the (too online) left since last year

I'm somewhere on the outskirts of the academic philosophy community