︎ Ben Woodard

Ben Woodard is currently an affiliated fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin. He received his PhD in Theory and Criticism from Western University in 2016. From 2017–2020 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the IPK (Institute of Philosophy and Sciences of Art) at Leuphana University where he completed a habilitation on the analytic/continental divide in the history of philosophy. Since 2020 Ben has lectured at the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy, the School of Materialist Research, and the New Centre for Research and Practice.He is the author of numerous articles and three books: Slime Dynamics: Generation, Mutation and the Creep of Life (2012), On an Ungrounded Earth: Towards a New Geophilosophy (2013), and Schelling’s Naturalism: Motion, Space, and the Volition of Thought (2019). He has two forthcoming books: Uninhabited: Science Fiction and the Decolonial (Zero Books) and F.H. Bradley and the History of Philosophy: Animating a Lost Idealism (Edinburgh University Press).