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is a researcher in philosophy and psychoanalytic theory at University College London, and a writer on politics and social theory. He writes the Substack Antagonisms of the Everyday.

is a senior postdoctoral fellow associated with Ghent University in Belgium. His work has been published in Psychological Science and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General and elsewhere. He ...

is a PhD candidate in the Department of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley.