I was educated in France (BA, MA in Philosophy, Paris I-Sorbonne), the US (Ph.D in Philosophy, Loyola University, Chicago), and Germany (Postdoc in Philosophy, Hegel-Archiv, Bochum).  Before joining ICREA, I was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Warwick (UK) for over 25 years. I have held Visiting Professorships in Milan , Moscow, New York, Boston, and Venice. I have been the recipient of various grants as Principal Investigator between 2007 and 2019 and am currently a co-PI on a project at the intersection of literature and political theory, which explores the utopian/dystopian narratives of Atwood, Ishiguro, and Houellbecq. I am also the co-creator and co-director of the Barcelona Network for Critical Thought and Social Research, the aim of which is to a. engage critically with the tensions and contradictions of our time and envision alternative societal models; b. bring together scholars and activists across disciplines, methodologies, and institutions.

I am a philosopher with a broad range of interests (ontology, aesthetics, philosophy and literature, political philosophy) and monographs on Heidegger, Deleuze, Proust, Chillida, and Lacan. Since the 2008 financial crisis, my thought has taken a critical turn. My recent work includes a trilogy on desire as: a genealogy of desire as a way of understanding who we are; as a specifically liberal technology of government; as a constructive approach to the self, aimed at exploring alternative and emancipatory practices.  My most recent includes a book: a critique of, and a reflection on ways to overcome, the forces or 'vices', such as stupidity, spite, and superstition, which harm our ability to think and diminish our agency (individual or collective); and articles (and a monograph in progress) on chronic crisis as a distinctive feature of our time.