BOOKS 

How to Read Like a Parasite: Why the Left Got High on Nietzsche Repeater Books (January, 2024). Purchase it now.

  • Read an interview on the book here and listen to podcast discussions on the book here

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Psychoanalysis and the Politics of the Family: The Crisis of Initiation Palgrave Lacan Series (Available for purchase online

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Justice in Islam: New Ethical Perspectives Co-edited with Ramon Harvey, IIIT Press, 2023 

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CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

“Foreword” – Flowers for Marx Revol Press [Available for purchase online

“Belonging on the Left Today: Or How to Avoid the Dissident Trap” – Underground Theory Theory Underground [Available for purchase online]

“Love, Psychoanalysis, and Leftist Political Ontology”Sex and Nothing: Bridges from Psychoanalysis to Philosophy Karnac Books [Available for purchase online]

“Cohle and Oedipus: The Return of the Noir Hero” – True Detective and Philosophy The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series [Available for purchase online]

“Karatani for Libidinal Economy: Invariance and Praxis” – Libidinal Economies Transcript Publishing [Available online]

Special Issue Journal on Lukács’s The Destruction of ReasonHistorical Materialism, Co-Editor with Matthew Sharpe [forthcoming]

Ph.D. DISSERTATION 

Political Community in Badiou, Laclau, Nancy, and Žižek[Abstract available online]

Committee: Professor Alain Badiou (chair), Dr. Laurence Rickels.


ESSAYS AND PAPERS

The Gaza Genocide, Liberal Decadence, and the Lifting of Taboos Muftah Magazine [Available online]

The Antinomies of Nietzschean-Marxism Cosmonaut Magazine [Available online]

Micro-Politics: Anti-Oedipus and the Wall of Ultra-Liberalism InAnalysis [Available online]

Renewing Political Marxism Spectre Journal [Available online]

A Caliphate of Ideas? Islamic Politics in Dialogue with Contemporary Marxism Re-Orient: The Journal of Critical Muslim Studies [Available online]

Matrimony and the Market Aeon Magazine [Available online]

Learning from Freud’s Anti-Politics: Why Marxists Should Read Philip Rieff  Sublation Magazine [Available online]

Reason in Revolt: Freud Reopens the Radical Enlightenment European Journal of Psychoanalysis [Available online]

On the Communism of Jean-Luc Nancy Philosophy World Democracy [Available online]

The Rise and Fall of Homegrown American Marxism Cosmonaut Magazine [Available online]

The Question of Worldview and Class Struggle in Philosophy: On the Relevance of Lukács’s Worldview Marxism Cosmonaut Magazine [Available online

Recentering the Lumpen Question: Understanding Lumpenization and Bonapartism Spectre Journal [Available online]

The Frankenstein of Culture Jamming: QAnon, Baudrillard and the Politics of Simulation The Bias Magazine [Available online]

Nietzsche in His Time: The Struggle Against Socratism and Socialism Historical Materialism [Available online]

The Materialism of Warm-Stream Marxism: Ernst Bloch on Ibn Sina Cosmonaut Magazine [Available online]

The Subject Supposed to Rebel: A Lacanian Perspective on Black Lives Matter Everyday Analysis [Available online]

Overcoming Liberalism from Within: On Solidarity and American Socialism Hampton Institute [Available online]

The Missed Encounter Between Critical Theory And American Pragmatism The New Polis [Available online]

Obscure Subjects: Myth and Metapolitics on the alt-Right Critical Theory Research [Available online]

Elements of Islamophobia: The State, Class and Capital Heathwood Press [Available online]

On The Political Project of Psychoanalysis Crisis and Critique [Available online]

Deleuzian Theology and the Immanence of the Act of Being Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World [Available online]

The Amputated Father: Kojève’s Theory of Revolution and Authority review of Alexander Kojève’s The Notion of Authority Philosophy Now [Available online]

Thinking Islamic Governance with Continental Philosophy Journal of the Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World [Available online]

Radical Love and Žižek’s Ethics of Singularity The International Journal for Žižek Studies [Available online]

Oedipus and the Social Bond in Žižek and Badiou The International Journal for Žižek Studies [Available online]

The Object of Proximity: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis in Žižek and Santner via Lacan The San Francisco Society for Lacanian Studies Journal “The Other” [Available online]

The Arab uprisings and the dawn of emancipatory history Platypus Review [Available online]

Badiou and the Affirmation of Emancipatory Politics Brev Spread Magazine [Available online]

Psychoanalysis and the Veil in Islam: Rethinking Truth and Liberation Berfrois: Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters [Available online]

Is Philosophy Finally Without God? Berfrois: Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters [Available online]

Plato, Our Comrade? Berfrois: Intellectual Jousting in the Republic of Letters [Available online]

The Euthanasia of Tolerant Reason: The New Discourse on Tolerance in the Age of Terror Graduate thesis at American University

Metaphysicians in the Dark: Poetry, Thinking, and Nostalgia for the Idea TheThe Poetry

Psychoanalysis and the Mad Artist: Hölderlin’s Empty Center TheThe Poetry [Available online]

Beyond the Stereotype: The Shared Story of Muslims and Mormons in America Duke Islamic Studies Center [Available online]

Malleable Stereotypes: How Media is Improving the Image of American Muslims September 2011 Institute for Social Policy and Understanding [Available online]


INTERVIEWS

  • The archive of my interviews as part of Emancipations podcast and my Study Groups can be found here

Interview with philosopher Alain Badiou “Philosophy and Insurrection” [Available online]

Interview with philosopher Adam Bartlett “Badiou and Plato” [Available online]

Interview with geographer Phil Neel “On the Far Right After Trump and Political Organization” [Available online]

Interview with Lacanian theorist Mari Ruti “Protagonists of Love” [Available online]

Interview with philosopher Ishay Landa “The Apprentices Sorcerer: On Nietzsche and Popular Culture” [Available online]

Interview with philosopher Daniel Lopez “Lukács Today” [Available online]

Interview with philosopher Simon Critchley “The Hamlet Doctrine: Knowing Too Much, Doing Nothing” [Available online]

Interview with Lacanian theorist Todd McGowan “Enjoying What We Don’t Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis” [Available online]

Interview with Hegelian philosopher Frank Smecker “Night of the World: Traversing the Ideology of Objectivity” [Available online

Interview with Lacanian psychoanalyst Thomas Svolos “Lacan and the Politics of Psychoanalysis” [Available online]

Interview with political theorist Jodi Dean “Occupy Wall Street and the New Radicalism” [Available online]

Interview with poet and activist Joshua Clover “The Return of Riots and Uprisings” [Available online]

Interview with political theorist Richard Gilman-Opalsky “Insurrections in the 21st Century” [Available online