Talks

Invited talks

  • “Cosmopolitical Coarticulations: How to Think More-than-Human Politics of Cohabitation”, Centre for Ethics as Study of Human Value, University of Pardubice, Czech Republic, 5 November 2024.

  • Inaugural Lecture at the Czech Academy of Sciences: “Ecological Grand Narratives. Cohabitability with More-than-Human Worlds”, Czech Academy of Sciences, 10 October 2024, poster

  • “Cosmopolitical Coarticulations”, Research Seminar, Dept. of Education, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 11 June 2024

  • “Conceptualzing Anarchist Collectives: Solidarity with Singularity and Mimetic Contagion,” Philosophy Festival, Prešov, Slovakia, 16 November 2023

  • “Coarticulations: Towards a Politics of Cohabitation”, Perpetual Peace Conference, Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, 9-10 November 2023

  • “What Universality? Cosmopolitics and its Guises,” Becoming Planetary as a Challenge, Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 6-8 October 2022

  • “Slow Social Transformation: How Radical Can It Get?” Global Klimaaktion, Aarhus, Denmark, 13 April 2022

  • “The Archive and the Laboratory: Rancière, Latour and the Speechless,” Aesthetics Seminar, Aarhus University, Denmark, 3 December 2020

  • “Designing Fictions: A Philosophical Perspective on Speculative Practices,” Workshop Designing Fictions, Cultures, Spaces and Politics Research Group, School of Architecture, University of Sheffield, UK, 18 February 2019

  • “Ethics of Generosity, Gift Economy and Alternative Modes of Existence,” History, Genealogy, Archaeology: Alternative Approaches to Political and International Studies, Kingston University London, UK, 3 November 2017

  • “Strange Bedfellows? Anarchism, New Materialisms and the Question of Political Practice,” Economies of Existence. Ecole Normale Supérieure, New York University Paris, France, 9–10 June 2017

  • “Über das Astronomische und das Mikroskopische: Sloterdijk und die Frage der Geschichte,” [Scaling up, Scaling down: Sloterdijk on History], In Sloterdijks Weltinnenraum, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, 19 April 2017

  • “Neomaterialist Utopia? Ways to Think Political Practice in a Non-Anthropocentric Framework,” School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Denmark, 20 September 2016

  • “What Does ‘Nonhuman Politics’ Mean? Zoopolitics, Zoepolitics and Neomaterialisms,” School of Communication and Culture, Posthuman Aesthetics Research Group, Aarhus University, Denmark, 13 September 2016

  • “Politics and Non-humans: Spherology and General Organology as Compasses for Political Practice?”, Welcome to the Anthropocene. Debate with Philosophers Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler, Expert seminar with Stiegler and Sloterdijk, Radboud University, the Netherlands, 27–28 June 2016

  • “Was Philosophie umtreibt: Gilbert Simondon und der Begriff des tierischen Lebens,” [What Bothers Philosophy: Gilbert Simondon and the Notion of Animal Life] Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover [Hannover Institute for Philosophical Research], Germany, 7 June 2016

  • “In Schäumen Schweben: Sphärische Immunsysteme und ihr Potential für den Neo-Materialismus,” [Floating in Foams: Spherological Immune System and its Potential for Neo-Materialism], Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Germany, 2 June 2015

  • “Critique vs. Affirmation: Foucault, Sloterdijk and the Possibilities of Formulating an Affirmative Theory after Poststructuralism,” Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Germany, 4 December 2014

Podcasts and interviews


Conference papers (in the last decade, selected)

  • “Cosmopolitical Coarticulations: How to Think More-than-Human Politics of Cohabitation?” (in Polish), Political Imaginary: Theories, Ideas, Practices (Wyobraźnia polityczna. Teorie, idee, praktyki), University of Wrocław, Poland, 21-22 October 2024.

  • “Ecofeminist Grand Narratives? Cohabitability with More-than-human Worlds”, Imagining Planetary Health, Well-Being, and Habitability. Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities, Rachel Carson Center Munich, Germany, 2-4 October 2024.

  • “Supporting Social Transformation in the Anthropocene” Becoming One Planetary – Space and Time in the Anthropocene, l’Université catholique de l’Ouest, Angers, France, 1-3 July 2024

  • “Repetition-Singularity-Solidarity. An Addendum to Daniel Colson’s Petit lexique philosophique de l’anarchisme,” Anarchist Studies Network Conference, Loughborough University, UK, 12–14 September 2018

  • “Solidarity with Singularity and Anarchist Collectives,” The Politics of Plasticity: On Solidarity and Mutual Aid with Catherine Malabou, The Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, 23–24 February 2018

  • “La Politique à venir. Political Practice and the New Materialism,” Research Seminar, Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Germany, 9 June 2016

  • “The Contours of a Political Subject. Jacques Rancière’s Concept of Politics and the Nonhumans,” Nonhumans & Politics. An International Conference on Non-Anthropocentric Perspectives on Politics, Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, Germany, 22 January 2016

  • “Politics as Aesthetics. The Potential of Jacques Rancière’s Aesthetic Turn for Posthumanism,” Conference: Aesthetics, Ethics and Biopolitics of the Posthuman, Aarhus University, Denmark, 11 December 2015

  • “Housing Projects as Affirmative Forms of Social Change,” CRAG Conference: “Creation of Reality”: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Comprehensive Understanding, University of Edinburgh, UK, 3 December 2015

  • “Beyond Critique? Anarchist Practice as an Affirmative Orientation of Habits,” The Future of Critique and Emancipatory Practice: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Critical Theory, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 30 October 2015

  • “Homo immunologicus: Humans as Designers of Symbolic Immune Systems,” ADEFFI 17th Annual Conference: Systèmes/Systems, University of Limerick, Ireland, 17 October 2015.

  • “Atmospheres & Air Conditions. What it Means to Consider Air from a Philosophical Perspective,” Conference: Forms to Experience the Environment. Theory, Experience, Aesthetics and Political Criticism, L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Paris, France. 1 October 2015

  • “The Limits of Posthumanism. How to Translate Ontology into Politics?” Research Seminar, Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover, 4 June 2015


Departmental talks

  • “World-Building. Towards a Constructive Notion of Philosophy,” AIAS Seminar, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies, Denmark, 7 December 2020

  • “Postkritik: Philosophische Konturen eines Begriffs,” [Postcritique: Contours of a Philosophical Concept] Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany, 12 December 2018

  • Book discussion of Elettra Stimilli’s The Debt of the Living (SUNY Press, 2017), in conversation with Elettra Stimilli (Roma La Sapienza) and Antonio Cerella (Kingston), University of Warwick, UK, 4 May 2017.

  • “Magnetisers, Hypnotists and Magic Hands: Philosophical Perspectives on Pseudoscience from the Renaissance until Today,” Short papers with Cecilia Muratori and Alessandra Aloisi (Italian Studies); SMLC Lunch Time Research Seminar, 7 March 2017

  • “Solidarity with Singularity and Contemporary Anarchism,” French Graduate Research Seminar University of Cambridge, UK, 3 December 2013

  • “Hegel on a Carrousel: Universality in Triangulation in Judith Butler’s Work,” French Graduate Research Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK, 27 November 2012

  • “Autobiography – a Theoretical Encounter between Paul de Man and Jean Améry,” German Graduate Research Seminar, University of Cambridge, UK, 9 March 2009