I am an independent British-born, Spanish philosopher and writer, working on contemporary philosophy at the crossroads of the philosophy of mythology and the philosophy of art; and author of fifteen books.
⭑ Among my recent publications, Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism: Rethinking the Earth–World Divide(with Sofya Shaikut; Brill, 2023), Guattari Beyond Deleuze: Ontology and Modal Philosophy in Guattari’s Major Writings (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), Félix Guattari and the Ancients: Theatrical Dialogues in Early Philosophy (with Gary Genosko; Bloomsbury, 2025), and Nietzsche’s Pre-Dionysian Apollo and the Limits of Contemporary Thought (Peter Lang, 2026). Among my forthcoming ones: Poetry and Philosophy after Blanchot and Zambrano: Between Word and World (forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan in 2028) and Post-Nihilist Aesthetic Explorations: From a Visual Minimal Pneumatology to a Musical Ontology of Experience (in preparation).
⏀ I have been associate professor of philosophy and religious studies at St Louis University Missouri (Madrid Campus) for more than ten years, visiting professor at the University of Aarhus and the Free University of Brussels, and guest lecturer at the European Research Council, the Collège International de Philosophie, the École Normale Supérieure, University College London, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, the European University at St Petersburg, Waseda University in Tokyo, Ryukoku University in Kyoto, and the University of Lilongwe.
⏃ Convinced, however, that higher education within mainstream academia is undergoing a form of intellectual exhaustion, he has turned to more alternative and experimental venues in which thinking may still be pursued as a form of art and a way of approaching the unknown.
≈ I collaborate regularly, among other independent higher-education initiatives, with Incite Seminars, where I have facilitated seminars like “Life as an Untotalizable Enigma: The Lame Ontology of Greek Mythology,” “Anarchia and Archai: Re-Imagining the Pre-Socratics” (with Hannes Schumacher), “Plato Inside Out—or: as You Never Imagined It… with and beyond Derrida,” “Between Death and Beauty: Diving into René Char’s Post-Nihilist Poetics,” Foucault’s Greeks as Savages? A Cross-cultural Approach to the Aesthetics of Existence (with Camilo Rios), and “Chaosmic Landscapes in Guattari’s Latest Works.”
≈ I have also collaborated punctually with the Ereignis Center for Philosophy and the Arts in Moss, Norway, and Parrhesia School of Philosophy in Berlin. Lastly, I currently work as a private philosophy tutor and intellectual mentor, offering individualized instruction, rigorous philosophical guidance, and advanced academic mentorship
◼ I am currently based in Berlin with my life partner, Sofya Shaikut, a butō dancer and performance artist, with whom I am also engaged in ongoing joint work. Besides, I play the Baroque lute as an amateur, with a particular focus on the French repertoire from the early to mid 17th-century.
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