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Books

• The Esoteric State: Military-Industrial Imaginaries and the Politics of Secret Worldbuilding (in preparation).
• Theory of the Alien: Astropolitics, Spacepower, and the Outside. New York: Routledge, 2026 (forthcoming).
• Noir Materialism: Freedom and Obligation in Political Ecology. New York: Bloomsbury, 2024.

Journal articles

• “Dark laboratories of the soil: Bruno Latour and Aldo Leopold on cosmopolitics and crisis.” Nature and Culture 18:2 (2023): https://doi.org/10.3167/nc.2023.180201.
• “Companion ecologies: a new theory of the subject.” Contemporary Political Theory (2021): 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41296-021-00494-w
• “Bleeding together: Caitlin Hackett and companion ecologies.” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 37 (2021).
• “The end of the affair with life: political theory and the corpse.” Critical Horizons 20:4 (2019): 350-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/14409917.2019.1672274
• “Creaturely conditions: acknowledgement and animality in Kafka, Cavell, and Uexküll.” Configurations 24:1 (2016): 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2016.0005

Book chapters

• “Politics of the outside: preface to a political theory of the alien” in The Politics of Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena: Science, Security, and Society, eds. Jacob Haqq-Misra, Alexander Wendt, and James Wirtz. Stanford: Stanford University Press (in press).
• “What do we lose when we become posthuman?” in The Future Is Unwritten: Representations of Political Resistance and Emancipation in Science Fiction, eds. Judith Grant and Sean Parson. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020.

Other academic writing

• “Blackened rationalism: Reza Negarestani and the space of reasons.” Radical Philosophy (forthcoming).
• “Reformatting the human: on Peter Wolfendale’s Revenge of Reason.” Philosophy Today: An International Journal of Contemporary Philosophy (forthcoming).
• “Mythologies of outer space: a critical perspective.” Extrapolation (forthcoming).
• “What is living and what is dead in vitalism?” Theory & Event (forthcoming).
• “The orbit is the territory: rethinking spacepower in a domain where nothing stays still.” The Space Review (September 2026).
• “Warfare modulation: atmospheric violence from Sebald to Sama’ Abdulhadi.” boundary 2 online (August 2026).
• “Political theory needs the alien (and vice versa).” Limina 3:1 (2026). https://doi.org/10.59661/001c.164634
• “’Providence is my world’: H. P. Lovecraft and the politics of self.” Extrapolation (2026). https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2026.7c
• “Past as prevarication: ancient Greece in modern science fiction.” Extrapolation (2024). https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2024.22
• “Rules of war and human rights in first contact scenarios.” Limina 1:1 (2024). https://doi.org/10.59661/001c.92685
• “From biocult to bioculture: the case of Ludwig Klages.” Configurations 27:1 (2019): 117-20. https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2019.0005
• “On terraforming: transformations in the terrain of science fiction.” Extrapolation 59:3 (2018): 319-21. https://doi.org/10.3828/extr.2018.18
• “Material speculation as political praxis.” Configurations 25:4 (2017): 563-566. https://doi.org/10.1353/con.2017.0033

Works in progress

• “Manyworlds coincide: the politics of encounter in Arthur C. Clarke’s Songs of Distant Earth.”
• “Globus or nomos?: arcane geopolitics and spatial orders in Franz Rosenzweig and Carl Schmitt.”
• “Paranoid intelligence: James Jesus Angleton and the epistemology of betrayal.”
• “Wisdom or oblivion: the political anthropology of Wilfred Bion.”
• “The savage anomaly of Aldo Leopold: political ecology and post-apocalyptic forms of life.”
• “Storms and omens of life itself: political decay in Ludwig Klages and Gilles Deleuze.”
• “Molotov’s cowboy hat: Alexandre Kojève, Carl Schmitt, and the politics of friendship.”

See Other Writing for additional publications.