Pamphlets and Zines // anti-commodity //

I’m currently in a phase of making my own print copies of my writings, something that I did a couple of decades ago and which I’ve started doing again. You can get the zines free if you become a paid subscriber to my Substack (which you can also subscribe to totally free if you just want to read my stuff online). If you do want the free zines sent to you as a paid sub then you have to DM with an address.

The zines and pamphlets don’t have a fixed price, as they’re not for sale in a traditional sense. I distribute them for free around Brighton and to my comrades. However, you can order them online over at the shop page on Ko-Fi (where you are also welcome to make small donations to support my work).

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Books // adademic work // other writings

• Thinking Between Kant and Deleuze (editor and contributor) – Continuum, 2009. (Paperback 2011)

In the wake of much previous work on Gilles Deleuze’s relations to other thinkers (including Bergson, Spinoza and Leibniz), his relation to Kant is now of great and active interest and a thriving area of research. In the context of the wider debate between ‘naturalism’ and ‘transcendental philosophy’, the implicit dispute between Deleuze’s ‘transcendental empiricism’ and Kant’s ‘transcendental idealism’ is of prime philosophical concern.

Bringing together the work of international experts from both Deleuze scholarship and Kant scholarship, Thinking Between Deleuze and Kant addresses explicitly the varied and various connections between these two great European philosophers, providing key material for understanding the central philosophical problems in the wider ‘naturalism/ transcendental philosophy’ debate. The book reflects an area of great current interest in Deleuze Studies and initiates an ongoing interest in Deleuze within Kant scholarship.

The contributors are Mick Bowles, Levi R. Bryant, Patricia Farrell, Christian Kerslake, Matt Lee, Michael J. Olson, Henry Somers-Hall and Edward Willatt.

• Oceanic Ontology and Problematic Thought, v1.0 – Self-Published 2007 –  An Open Access PDF version is available here

My doctoral thesis in Philosophy, passed in 2005 (external examiner Dr Keith Ansell-Pearson).  This an account of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze which argues for a Nietzschean ontology of forces as the core ‘oceanic’ ontology of Deleuze and which then attempts to understand sense on the basis of this ontology, developing a concept of character which is first applied to the conceptual case of aporias and second to the textual case of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus.  

If you prefer an ebook or hard copy it is available on my Lulu page here. 

Essays

• Psychoanalysis and the time of the last breath, 2024, published in Sitegeist – a journal of psychoanalysis and philosophy, Issue 14, Spring 2024.
• Cunning technologies – hypnotizing chickens, horse whispering and the sorcery of social subjectivities, 2017 – originally written for an edited collection that didn’t come out.  PDF Direct Download // Academia link.
• Sorcery, thought and the ‘ghosts of departed quantities’, in The Enigmatic Absolute, Ed. Joshua Ramey, Rowman and Littlefield, 2016.  PDF Direct Download // Academia link.
• Fotamecus Film Majik (a magical film, available on vimeo), 2012 – part of a chaos majik project.
• Levelling the levels, in Thinking Between Kant and Deleuze, Continuum 2009
• On the very idea of conditions of thought, (with Ed Willatt); Editorial Introduction to Thinking Between Kant and Deleuze, Continuum 2009
• Memories of a sorcerer: notes on Gilles Deleuze-Felix Guattari, Austin Osman Spare and Anomalous Sorceries; in The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, Issue 1, 2003.
• Rhizomatic#1 (a documentary film), in Actual/Virtual #1, journal of Deleuze Studies at MMU ERI.
• What is chaos majik?, in Razorsmile journal, Issue 2, May 2003.
• Hearing touches: towards a philosophy of sound (with Ben Rumble); Razorsmile journal, Issue 1, October 2002 . (Page 1-2 PDF, Page 3-4 PDF)
• Aporregma#1; (under pseudonym of ‘Keyman’), Razorsmile journal, Issue 1, October 2002.
• Marxism and morality: methods and values; New Interventions journal, Oct/Nov 1994

Lectures and presentations

• Bodies of water and breath – a presentation-film-talk made for a conference at Goldsmiths University in 2021 on ‘White privilege, racism and psychoanalysis‘. It’s co-written with Erica Harper, Tammy Shefer and Sunny Tsai, whose voices you hear,  October 2021.
• I can’t breath – wretching of the earth – notes for a lecture at Goldsmiths University, Applied Psychoanalysis Masters course, 2 June 2020
• Free University Brighton: alternative education for social emancipation, talk at the 5th Community Psychology conference, 13th September 2019, Brighton.
• On the concept of study as a mode of becoming-x, notes for a talk at ‘The Reverse Side: Guattari, Deleuze and institutional thought‘, July 8th-10th 2019.
• What I do as a sorcerer“, notes for a panel discussion with Chris Oakley, for a seminar at The Site, 22.2.2018
• Capital and the schizoanalytic unconscious, notes for a talk to London A2Z Seminar, March 31st 2017
• Making a body that questions, notes for a talk at Goldsmiths University, 13 Nov 2015.
• Cunning; notes, thoughts, speculations , notes for a talk to the London A2Z seminar, October 2015.
• Molecular revolution – on the question of organisation Talk given to the Guattari Study Day, London, 16th October 2015.
• Content, constraint and community – on Robert Brandom, presented to a  seminar at UWE in 2014-2015 (including handout).
• The role of the philosopher in relation to life – some notes on creativity and stupidity, notes for a talk to Kant’s Cave, London, March 7th 2013
• Finding a voice: opening a new future for the avatar, paper presented at SKEPSI conference, University of Kent, May 27th 2011
• Kant, Deleuze and the “Great Outdoors” of Speculative Realism – Michael J. Olson (Villanova), Matt Lee (Greenwich) and Edward Willatt (Greenwich),  24 June 2009
• On Foucault and Deleuze, paper presented to the Volcanic Lines Deleuzian Research Group, On Foucault – A Workshop on Gilles Deleuze’s book Foucault, University of Greenwich, 18 April 2009
• To_survive_daath, paper presented to Manchester Metropolitan University conference on ‘The Deleuzian event’, Sep.8/9 2007.
• What is the force of counter-actualisation? – paper presented to conference ‘The work of Gilles Deleuze”, July 2006

Reviews

Bruno Bosteels, The actuality of Communism, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, August 2015

James Williams: “Gilles Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition: a critical introduction and guide”; Philosophical Quarterly, Vol 55 Number 221, October 2005.William E. Connolly: “Neuropolitics”; Metapsychology Review, February 2005

Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey, ed.s: “Wittgenstein, theory and the arts”; Film and Philosophy Salon, vol. 9 no. 2, January 2005.

M.Greenberg, S.S.Shergill, G.Szmukler and D.Tantam : “Narratives in psychiatry”, Metapsychology Review, February 2004.

Jean-Luc Nancy; trans. C.Surprenant: “The speculative remark (one of Hegel’s bons mots)”; Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques, Vol.XXIII, No.2, April 2003.

David Sudnow:“Ways of the hand – a rewritten account”; Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, Volume 3, no.3, December 2002.

Review of the“L and B Review” for Film and Philosophy Salon, Volume 6 No. 41, November 2002.

Greg Bottoms: “Angelhead: A Memoir”; Metapsychology Review, Jan 2002

E.Fuller Torrey: “Surviving schizophrenia – A Manual for Families Consumers and Providers, Third Edition”; Metapsychology Review, Dec 200.

Eva Brann: “The ways of Naysaying – No, Not, Nothing and Non-being”; Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques, Vol XXI, No.6, Dec. 2001 – PDF version

Ken Steele and Clare Berman: “The day the voices stopped”; Metapsychology Review, Aug 2001.

John Modrow: “How to become a schizophrenic – the case against biological psychiatry (2nd. Edition)”; Metapsychology Review, March 2001.

Dr Thomas Szasz: “Insanity – the idea and its consequences”; Metapsychology Review, Nov 2000.

Gilles Deleuze:“Negotiations”; Film and Philosophy Salon, Volume 2 No.38, October 1998.

Andrew Dobson: “Jean Paul Sartre and the politics of reason: a theory of history”; Canadian Philosophical Reviews/Revue Canadienne de Comptes rendus en Philosophie, Vol XVI, No.6, Dec. 1996 – PDF version