Research

Academic Publications

“Being-with the other: on the general purpose of Byung-Chul Han’s critique of neoliberal subjectivation.” Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory. http://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2025.2585035 (online first). Free E-Print

Unpublished/Works in Progress

“Ambivalence, Drive, and Dispersion: Bataillean Themes in Georg Trakl’s Poetry.” See Draft. 

“Monogamy and the Prohibition of Adultery: On Tolstoy’s Kreutzer Sonata and the Genealogy of the Possessive Logic of Marriage.” See Draft. 

“Byung-Chul Han and Buddhism: On the Way from Ontology to Politics.”

“Nietzsche, Drive, and Desire.”

“Nietzsche, Causality, and Normativity.”

MA Thesis

“THE METAPHYSICS OF INTERIORITY: ON BYUNG-CHUL HAN’S DESTRUKTION OF THE ANALYTIC OF DASEIN IN MARTIN HEIDEGGER.”

You can find a copy of the thesis at Scholarbank or get a direct copy here.

[I wrote most of this more than a year ago. Approval just took a while. There are many problems with it. But I have given up on solving them. Hope this is useful to anyone interested in the more philosophical sides of Han.]

Teaching

As Teaching Assistant:

• NUS: Life, the Universe, and Everything (Introduction to Philosophy)

• NUS: Major US Supreme Court Cases and the Big Ideas Behind Them

• NUS: Science Fiction and Philosophy