Critical Theory & Politics
“From time to time, the structural dispossession, exclusion or disappearance upon which a given polity is founded and maintained is exposed. This exposure manifests as disagreement. In response, the existing order offers to reconcile with those in disagreement, by recognizing them as part of that order, after all. Some accept this offer. Others refuse it...One task for critical theory is to attend to the forms taken by politics in this mode, and to discern the qualities of the condition it reflects.”
Withdrawal Symptoms: Refusal, Sabotage, Suspension. Politics of Withdrawal: Media, Arts, Theory. Eds. Pepita Hesselberth and Joost de Bloois. Rowman & Littlefield. 2020.
Beyond Carbon Democracy: Energy, Infrastructure and Sabotage. Energy Culture: Art and Theory on Oil and Beyond. Eds. Imre Szeman & Jeff Diamanti. West Virginia Univ. Press. 2019.
Sabotage. “Marx from the Margins: A Collective Project, from A to Z” Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy, Issue 2, 2018
We shall not be moved: on the politics of immobility. Theories of the Mobile Internet: Materialities and Imaginaries. Eds. Jan Hadlaw, Thom Swiss and Andrew Herman. Routledge. 2014.
Eat your vegetables: courage and the possibility of politics. Theory & Event. 14:2. Summer 2011
Reflections on the 2012 Quebec Student Strike. Communication Studies Speakers Series, School of Journalism & Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario. 16 November 2012
Theorizing le printemps érable. Theory & Event 15:3 supplement. Fall 2012. Co-edited with Brian Massumi and Cayley Sorochan.
The truth of le printemps érable. Theory & Event 15:3 supplement. Fall 2012.
“Excuse us if we don’t give a fuck”: the (anti-)political career of participation. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts and Culture. 2.2. Fall 2010
Getting it right: Canadian Conservatives and the “war on science.” Canadian Journal of Communication. 41:1 Spring 2016 (co-authored with Elyse Amend).
The Impossibility of Conservatism: The Discourse of New Right Ideology. Civic Discourse and Cultural Politics in Canada: A Cacophony of Voices. Sherry Devereaux Ferguson and Leslie Regan Shade (eds.). Ablex. 2002. Unabridged.
Right-populists and Plebiscitary Politics in Canada. Party Politics. 5:3. Spring 1999 (with David Laycock).