Writings and Publications

Below you will find titles and brief synopses of my publications and public talks. In an attempt to avoid freely feeding LLMS, I have decided to limit uploads except where a text is already available online. Should you have any interest in any of the work here, please use the contact form on this website and I will mail you a printed hard copy of the desired text.

Books

Nature as Limit: Prolegomena to Ecological Thinking in Heidegger (Brill, 2022)
Synopsis: An intensive study of Heidegger’s thinking from the mid-1930s forward focused specifically on the relationship between technology and nature. The first and second sections focus on how and why Heidegger equates a certain type of systematic (or “metaphysical”) thinking with the “essence of technology”, emphasizing the stress put on self-fulfilling or automated dimension of such thought. The third section focuses on what would be complementary to systematic thinking, namely a non-metaphysical thinking guided by the essence of place or locality.

Published Articles

“Nature Arises in the Person: Hölderlin and the Task of Ecological Grammar” (ANGELAKI, 2025)
Hölderlin’s work is framed through two fragments: a critique of reflexive subjectivity in Fichte and the outline of a play titled “Communism of Spirit”. Essay investigates the concept of a pre-reflexive and radically open subject in Hölderlin, especially in relation to the character Empedocles and Hölderlin’s understanding of nature. This work is shown not only to test the limits of modern European philosophy but of European grammars broadly. The essay closes, therefore, with a preliminary sketch of the question of an “ecological grammar” in Hölderlin.

“Finite Tech, Unknowable Nature” (Alienocene, 2022)
Focuses on the role of finitude in the conceptions of technology and nature found in Nature as Limit, in particular the way in which nature resists the technical or technical urge to make things present or to capture things. Pitches the idea of an “ecological grammar” that is later picked up in “Nature Arises in the Person”.

Invited Talks

“The Problem of the Head”
Keynote talk given at Appalachian State University in April 2025. Talk focused on the relationship between the demiurge and the concept of locality or “khōra” in Plato’s Timeaus, with references to the Republic, Seventh Letter, and Cratylus. Argues for an understanding of the demiurge not as a figurehead, god, or singular creator but rather a collective work or working together. Such an understanding of the demiurge is rooted in khōra as pure differentiation and delimitation. The figures of the demiurge and khōra are both explored as pushing beyond reason, a rational logos, and Form.

“Hell; or an attempt to locate the category of the social in several historical vignettes”
Invited talk given at Appalachian State University in April 2024. Talk focused on the conceptions of family and friendship in Hölderlin, Hegel, and Vine Deloria Jr. This is set through several historical vignettes relating to the colonization of the Americas and a foiled plot among Vienna Jacobins. Through all this, the question is raised as to whether or not the foundations of modern Western society are fundamentally anti-social.

Conference Papers

“Traveling and Fixed Locales: Sketch of a Problem for Ecological Thought”
Talk given at the 2024 meeting of the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle in Volcano, Hawaii. Focused on a comparative analysis of notion of locale or locality in German Phenomenology (Husserl, Heidegger) and North American Indigenous thought (Brian Burkhart). An unpublished, article length version of this essay also exists.

“Nature Arising in the Person: The ‘Endlose Aufgabe’ of Ecological Thinking in Hölderlin”
Talk given at the 2023 meeting of the Comparative and Continental Philosophy Circle in Bogotá, Colombia. An early version of the above article published with ANGELAKI.

Other Papers and Talks

“Alleviating a Shared Burden” (2020)
Article initially written for a private collection gifted to Alexander García Düttmann on the occasion of his 60th birthday. Explores themes of education and the transmission of knowledge in relation to figures of youth and extinction. Georg Trakl's poem "Abendlied" serves as the essay's centerpiece and is brought into dialogue with comments made by Levi-Strauss on a 'prima material'. Certain ecological overtones appear when an overzealous Prometheanism is contrasted with a labor of re-creation.