Presentations

“Constructing the Site of Politics,” Pacific Association for Continental Thought, 9/2023
“Exile and Fragmentation,” Radical Philosophy Association Panel, American Philosophical Association (Central Division), 2/2021.
“Defensive Construction and the Place of Politics,” Radical Philosophy Association, 11/2021.
“Infrastructures of Passion: Fourier Today” International Society for the Study of Surrealism (co-authored with Hugh Farrell), 11/2021.
The New Politics of Place,” Radical Philosophy Association Panel, American Philosophical Association (Central Division), Chicago, 2/2020.

“Italian Philosophy in the Age of Mass Shootings,” SPEP, Toronto, 10/2023.
“The Continuation of War by Religious Means,” Society for Italian Philosophy, 6/2023.
“What is Fascist Accelerationism?”, Invited talk, University of Texas at Austin, 04/2023.
“Spiritual Luxury and Sacrificial Acceleration: Italian Philosophy and the Semiology of Fascism,” Radical Philosophy Association, 11/2022.
“From Wordless Language to the Construction of Worlds: Lessons from Furio Jesi’s Cultura di destra,” Society for Italian Philosophy, 6/2022.

“Destitution, Interrupted: On Two forms of Capture,” Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay, 11/2023.
“A Dance Without a Song: Furio Jesi and the Post-Mythological Festival,” Society for Italian Philosophy, 11/2021.
“From Insurrection to Destitution: Jesi, Agamben, and the Limits of Suspended Time,” Riot as a Global Political Concept, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina, 10/2018
“Ten Theses for a Post-Mythological Politics,” Invited talk, Transformations of Critical Theory, Northwestern University, 11/2017
“Furio Jesi and the Aporia of Insurrection,” Hospitality and its Other, Southern Illinois University, 10/2017.
“The Destituent Pledge,” The Big No, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 4/2017.
“What is an Oath?” Liberal Arts and Social Sciences Graduate Conference, DePaul University, 3/2017.

“Is there a Revolutionary Use of Law? Fanon, Agamben, and Laclau on Insurrection and Civil War,” Closeness in Distance Colloquium, Indiana University, 3/2021.
“Reply to Onward Barbarians,” Invited talk, Roundtable on Endnotes, Crisis Party Working Group, Berlin, 02/2021.
“Elements of Destituent Power in France’s Yellow Vest Movement,” Association for Political Theory Conference, University of California at Irvine, 10/2019.
“Ecstatic Populism,” Invited talk, Emergent Horizons (NAASN), Atlanta, 05/2019.
“The Construction of Popular Power in the Yellow Vest Protests,” Invited talk, Indiana University Bloomington, 01/2019

“Destituting Humanism,” The Essentialism That is Not One Philosophy Conference, New School for Social Research, NYC, 4/2016.
“No Selves to Abolish,” philoSOPHIA Conference, Emory University, 5/2015.
“Incommensurable forces, Non-Dialectical Practices: Afropessimism and the Crisis of the Existential Commons,” Futures of Black Studies Conference, Bremen Universität, 4/2014.
“Expropriation and Social Death: Class, Race, and the Slave Relation in Theory and Practice,” Marx 2013 Conference, Stockholm, 10/2013.
“Primitive Accumulation, Immigration, and the Rights of the Dispossessed,” 9th Annual Historical Materialism Conference, London, 11/2012.
“Feminism, Afropessimism, and the History of Predatory Power,” Invited talk, Centro de Documentación y Estudios Avanzados de Arte Contemporáneo (CENDEAC), Murcia, Spain, 5/2013.
“Afropessimism Contra Marxism? On the Question of Social Death in Politics,” Invited talk, Crisis Party Working Group, Berlin, 2/2013.

“Liberalism and the Question of Theft,” Annual Meeting of the American Studies Association, Baltimore, 10/2011.
“Hegel, Marx, and the Question of Theft” ‘The Spirit of Capital’ Conference, the New School for Social Research, New York, 4/2011.
“Theft, Law, and Liberalism,” 11th Annual Philosophy Conference, University of Toronto, 4/2011.
“On the Right of Extreme Necessity and the Concept of Class Struggle,” DePaul University, 3/2011.
“‘Necessity Has No Law’: Notrecht and the Logic of Exception,” Radical Philosophy Association Meeting, University of Oregon, 11/2010.

The Economy of Affect and the Category of the 'Intolerable' in Political Philosophy,” Invited talk, Radical Philosophy Association Panel, American Philosophical Association (A.P.A.), Central Division, Chicago, 2/2012.
“Involuntarism and the Critique of Truth in the Work of François Zourabichvili,” 5th International Deleuze Studies Conference, New Orleans, 6/2012.
“After Ontology: François Zourabichvili’s Deleuze,” International Deleuze Conference, Kaifeng, Henan, China, 5/2012.
“‘Claws of Absolute Necessity’: Deleuze and the Involuntarist Image of ought,” Invited talk, Potentiality and Normativity Colloquium, Université de Montréal, 8/2011.
There Is No ‘Ontology of Deleuze’: Irrationalism, Illogicism, and the Order of Reasons,” 16th Annual Philosophy Conference, Villanova University, 4/2011.
“Dialectics of Multiplicity,” 3rd International Deleuze Studies Conference, Utrecht University, Amsterdam, 7/2010.
“Deleuze, Tiqqun, and the Concept of Secession,” 4th Biennial Philosophy and Literature Conference, Purdue University, 4/2010.
“Unlivable Milieux,” Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy, London, October 2009.
“A More Tortuous Labyrinth: Repetition Beyond Representation,” 10th Annual Graduate
Conference at the University of Western Ontario, London, 3/2008.
“Synthesis and Paradox in Deleuze’s Logic of Sense,” Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, Chicago, 10/2007.

“Simondon, Sloterdijk, and the Weaponization of the Pre-Individual,” International Association of Philosophy and Literature, London, UK, 6/2009.
“The Other and the Impossible. Bataille on Communication,” American Comparative Literature Association, Princeton, 3/2006.
“On the Materialist Concept of Communication in Georges Bataille,” 8th Annual Graduate Conference, University of Western Ontario, London, 4/2006.