I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the the murderer has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this exceptional figure serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.

Kant argued that, where nature could be considered beautiful in her acts of destruction, human violence appeared instead as monstrous. However, a misreading of Kant in Romantic philosophy led to the idealization of the murderer as a sublime genius that has colored constructions of that criminal figure ever since.

I always attempt to challenge and upend discourses that appear to be disinterestedly describing the world, but that are in fact wholly grounded in historically and culturally specific hegemonic modes of thought.

Writing system software is like planning a family.If you make a mistake you have to live with it for 20 years.

I would say I am very much more interested in ethics than in code/ morality. I think it's in this way that one avoids the conservatism inherent in the moral.