As a scholar and activist with transdisciplinary interests I publish work in a variety of academic and popular venues from university presses and critical theory journals to art catalogues and national newspapers and plan to write more for a wider audience in the future.

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Books

Articles & chapters

“Disruptive Spatiality and the Experience of Recordings of Bach’s Solo Cello Suites,” Current Musicology 82 (2006): 33–59.

“A Minimal Violence: Seven Theses on the Classical Style,” Les Cahiers de la Société québécoise de recherches en musique 11, no. 1–2 (2010): 71–80.

“Badiou contra Badiou,” Current Musicology 94 (2012): 143–64.

“Rethinking Difference and Community in Parsifal,” Opera Quarterly 29, no. 3–4 (2013): 355–60.

“The Sound of the Outside,” boundary 2 43, no. 1 (2016): 75–105.

“Sequence,” in Oxford Handbook of Critical Concepts in Music Theory, ed. Alexander Rehding and Steven Rings, 577–601 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019 [online in 2016]).

“The Time it Takes to Listen,” Music Theory Spectrum 39, no. 1 (2017): 18–35.

“Haydn’s Impropriety,” Journal of Music Theory 62, no. 1 (2018): 119–44.

“Form and Repetition: Deleuze, Guillaume and Sonata Theory,” Music Analysis 37, no. 2 (2018):
150–83.

“Deconstruction and Timbre,” in Oxford Handbook of Timbre and Orchestration, ed. Alexander Rehding and Emily Dolan (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021 [online in 2018]).

“Confronting Continental Philosophy’s Fears of Biologism,” Music & Science 1 (2018).

“The Sonic Habitués of the Strip: Listening in Las Vegas,” Sound Studies 3, no. 2 (2018): 115–33.

“A Music Worthy of the Name; Or, Agamben’s Museicology,” special issue on Music and Theory ed. Irving Goh and Christopher Swithinbank, CR: The New Centennial Review 18, no. 2 (2018): 179–202.

“Listening without Response-ability,” invited essay for Portable Gray 2, no. 1 (2019): 79–88.

“Turning Ears; Or, Ec(h)totechnics,” special issue on The Turn ed. Andrea Bechner and Carlos Rojas, Diacritics 47, no. 4 (2019): 110–29.

“Après-coup—Deconstruction Is/In the UK,” in French Thought and Literary Theory in the UK, ed. Irving Goh, 146–53. (London and New York: Routledge, 2020).

“Giving the Microphone to the Other,” forum on Pooja Rangan’s Immediations: The Humanitarian Impulse in Documentary, The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 7, no. 2 (2020): 216–24.

“For Transdisciplinarity,” colloquy on Stephen Amico’s essay, “‘We Are All Musicologists Now’; or, the End of Ethnomusicology,” Journal of Musicology 37, no. 1 (2020): 51–62.

“The Use of Ears: Agamben Overhearing Derrida Overhearing Heidegger,” parrhesia: a journal of critical philosophy 33 (2020): 113–49.

“Sonic Methodologies by Way of Deconstruction,” in Handbook of Sonic Methodologies, ed. Marcel Cobussen and Michael Bull (London: Bloomsbury, 2020).

“Listening Alone Together. Political Subjectivation in the Time of Pandemic,” special issue on Listening in the Time of Pandemic, ed. with Jessica Feldman, Sociologica 14, no. 2 (2020): 27–35.

“Hurler avec les loups: Vestiges of Beastly Writing in Nancy, Derrida, and Cixous,” special issue on Jean-Luc Nancy and the Poetics, Politics, and Erotics of Exscription ed. Stefanie Heine, Philippe Haensler, and John Ricco, parallax 26, no. 4 (2020): 384–99.

“Deconstruction,” in Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy, ed. Tomás McAuley, Nanette Nielsen, and Jerrold Levinson, 403–14 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020).

“Unexceptional Events; Or, Scarcely Audible Literature,” in Literature and Event: Twenty-First Century Reformulations, ed. Derek Attridge and Mantra Mukim (New York: Routledge, 2021).

“The Rhythm of Democracy, The Pulse of Deconstruction,” in The Politics of Friendship: Amity and Emnity, ed. Luke Collison, Cillian Ó Fathaigh, and Georgios Tsagdis (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022).

“Homofaunie: Cixous, Derrida, and Non-Human Tonalities,” special issue on Animality and Textuality, Word and Text: A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 11 (2021): 68–82.

“The Silences of Feeling,” special issue on Rewriting/Rereading Lyotard’s Le différend, ed. Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz and Simon Morgan Wortham, Philosophy Today 66, no. 2 (2022): 287–307.

“Fabulous Fox (Agamben in the Henhouse),” Malice 13 (2022).

“Whispered Secrets, Encrypted Lives,” Der Alltag der Dekonstruktion, ed. Stefanie Heine and Philipp Hubbmann (Vienna: Passagen Verlag, 2022).

“Unflappable,” special issue on Derrida’s Geschlecht III, ed. Katie Chenoweth and Julia Ng, Paragraph 45, no. 3 (2022): 336–50.

With Julia Ng, “Tender Violence, Coercive Simplicity, Geschlecht III: An Introduction,” special issue on Derrida’s Geschlecht III, Paragraph 45, no. 3 (2022): 267–84.

“Nationalism, Mania, and Specters of Neoliberalism,” special issue on Derrida’s Specters of Marx at 30, CR: The New Centennial Review 23, no. 2 (2023): 53–81.

“Noise Strike: Wakeful Listening at the Limits of Liberal Cognition,” special issue on The Mental State of Noise and the New Frontiers of Cognition, ed. Cécile Malaspina, Angelaki 28, no. 3 (2023): 133–43.

“Politics” and (with Alexander Rehding) “Introduction,” in A Cultural History of Western Music in the Industrial Age vol. 5, ed. Alexander Rehding and Naomi Waltham-Smith (London: Bloomsbury, 2023).

“‘A Chest Full of Cello Boughs’: The Sonorous Force of Writing in Deconstructive Readings of Celan,” in Thresholds, Encounters: Paul Celan and the Claim of Philology ed. Kristina Mendicino and Dominik Zechner, 127–49 (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2023).

“Who Gets a Hearing? Academic Freedom and Critique in Derrida’s Reading of Kant,” special issue on Critical Freedoms, ed. Lisa Downing, Paragraph 46, no. 3 (2023): 317–36.

“Life, Would that it Might be to Say—Power: Metaphor, Tragen, Épuis(s)ement,” Derrida Today 16, no. 2 (2023): 158–69.

“Double Blind Date: Jealous Glances, Knowing Caresses, Secret Cruelties,” in Erotics in Deconstruction: Autoaffections of the Living, ed. Lynn Turner (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2024).

“Universal Eco-Homophony: Overtaking Translation,” Universality and Translation: Sites of Struggle in Philosophy and Politics, ed. Gavin Arnell and Katie Chenoweth (New York: Fordham University Press, 2025).

Media, public & policy

“‘Ni Le Pen, ni Macron’: Parisian Soundscapes of Resistance,” Sounding Out! 61, podcast (May 2017).

“Urban Sound and the Politics of Habitability,” Perry World House blog post (January 2018).

“Listening as Monument,” invited essay on Emeka Ogboh’s sound installation Logan Squared: Ode to Philly featuring poet Ursula Rucker, in Monument Lab: Creative Speculations for Philadelphia, ed. Ken Lum and Paul M. Farber (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2019).

“Lisa Nandy’s Latest Promise is Straight Out of the Thatcher Playbook: The Labour leadership candidate’s pledge to listen to voters echoes the Tory underdog’s winning pitch,” The Independent, February 25, 2020.

“Whispered Secrets, Encrypted Lives,” experimental invited address for “The Everyday Life of Deconstruction: On the Anecdotal in Jacques Derrida und Hélène Cixous,” Universität Zürich, September 24, 2020.

“Take It or Leave It: The Political and Epistemic Effects of Academic Freedom,” The Philosopher 109, no. 4 (Autumn 2021): 78–83.

“(Cruci)fix: Three Theses on the Fix,” position paper for “The Promise of the Fix",” University of Warwick (December 2021).

Written evidence submitted to the Human Rights at Work Inquiry, Joint Committee on Human Rights, March 24, 2023 (with James Murray).

“Championing Academic Freedom: A Call to Unite for the Sake of Higher Education,” Advance HE Knowledge Hub, October 25, 2023.

Written evidence submitted to the Defending Democracy Inquiry, Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy, March 20, 2024.