Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, edited by John Mullarkey and Anthony Paul Smith, Edinburgh University Press, 2012. This is the first collection of critical essays on the work of this most original thinker. Francois Laruelle is one of the most important French philosophers of the last 20 years, and as his texts have become available in English […]

The Poetics of Sleep: From Aristotle to Nancy (Bloomsbury, 2013) Simon Morgan Wortham To what extent does sleep constitute a limit for the philosophical imagination? Why does it recur throughout the ‘text’ of philosophy? Does philosophy entail a certain repression of sleep in all its conceptual impossibility? Through a series of engagements with key thinkers […]

Horror isn’t what it used to be. Nor are its Gothic avatars. The meaning of monsters, vampires and ghosts has changed significantly over the last two hundred years, as have the mechanisms (from fiction to fantasmagoria, film and video games) through which they are produced and consumed. Limits of horror, moving from gothic to cybergothic, […]

Why is film becoming increasingly important to philosophers? Is it because it can be a helpful tool in teaching philosophy, in illustrating it? Or is it because film can also think for itself, because it can create its own philosophy? In fact, a popular claim amongst film-philosophers is that film is no mere handmaiden to […]