I am a philosopher who has published and taught extensively on psychoanalysis, philosophy of religion, French and Italian theory, biopolitics, and Marxism. Questions regarding subjectivation, the origins, transmission, and modification of social structures, as well as the ontological and political nature of the human animal are crucial concerns in all strands of my current and past investigations. My orientation is realist and materialist. My books include Subjectivity and Otherness (MIT Press,