I am an independent British-born, Spanish philosopher and writer, working on contemporary philosophy in relation to questions of post-nihilism and meta-conceptuality, at the crossroads of the philosophy of mythology; 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: Explorations in Poetry and Philosophy, after Maurice Blanchot and María Zambrano: At the Crossroads of Word and World (currently under consideration at Palgrave Macmillan).
⏀ I have been associate professor of philosophy and religious studies at St Louis University Missouri (Madrid Campus), 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, though, that higher education within mainstream academia is undergoing a form of intellectual exhaustion—brought about by academic standardization, epistemological bureaucratization, and the compartmentalization, ideologization, and commodification of knowledge, alongside the cultivation of middlebrow mediocrity and the reduction of learning to a consumer experience—I have turned to alternative scholarly venues in which thinking may still be pursued for what it truly is: a way of confronting the unknown—the as-yet unthought but thinkable—with renewed awe and in the spirit of an art rather than a science.
≈ 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.
◻◼ 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. You may also visit my profile page on Academia.edu, as well as my page on Wikipedia and my Facebook page.