Publications

Current Research
  • Fucking AI: Love, Sex, and Human Connection in the Age of Cyber-Intimacies. Trade book proposal under review at Oxford University Press (invited submission).
    • Emerging technologies centered on intimacy – such as dating apps, AI companions, and AI-generated pornography – are transforming human relationships by becoming active participants rather than mere intermediaries. This project examines how these shifts reshape our concepts of love, desire, empathy, and vulnerability, while raising significant ethical concerns. It questions what happens to intimacy when algorithmic systems begin to anticipate, simulate, or even replace human connection, making otherness increasingly optional. Drawing on feminist frameworks, the project critiques the “attachment economy” and the extraction of affect as data. Rather than adopting either technophobic or technophilic positions, it targets a specific design paradigm: anthropomorphic systems engineered to deceive, simulate intimacy and maximize engagement. My project combines a trade book, a podcast series and related art exhibitions.
  • "Synthetic Love, Human Loss? Intimacy Without Otherness" Chapter proposal for The Public and Its Machines: A Pluralist Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, eds. Samantha Noll, Sherri Lynn Conklin, and Mark Fagiano. Invited contribution; volume proposal in preparation for Palgrave Macmillan.

Selected Talks and Public Scholarship on Cyber-Intimacies:

– “Monsters Without Otherness: LLMs and the Creature Narrative.” Festival of Monsters Academic Conference (The Center for Monster Studies): Monsters and Language, UC Santa Cruz, October 16, 2026. Panel: “Interdisciplinary Monsters and Contemporary Crises.”
– 2026 Right Livelihood International Conference – April 28, 2026: Cyber-Intimacies: Love, Desire, and the Politics of Artificial Affection
– April 8, 2026: American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting: Participation in a workshop on "AI and Computing" to present my book project on Cyber-Intimacies, with a manuscript and talk titled “Synthetic Love, Human Loss? Rethinking Intimacy in AI Design”.
– APA Blog article on Cyber-Intimacies (Sept. 2025)
– Entitled Opinions interview: Cyber-Intimacies with Robert Harrison (March 2025)

Other Works in Progress

  • What do (A)I want? Assessing how AI can durably affect users’ willpower; reflecting on measures that could be implemented through both educational strategies and AI design to mitigate impacts on users’ cognitive abilities and behavior. Interdisciplinary project bridging psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy to examine how deep learning might be shifting notions of personal responsibility and autonomy. Emphasis on transparency and meaningful human control over advanced AI systems, particularly around moral decision-making. Exploring the forms of “liberated” agency that might be enabled—or constrained—by systems such as algorithmic recommendation engines.

  • Morbiditiés du vouloir chez Schopenhauer, Nietzsche et Bergson (Morbidities of the Will: Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Bergson)

  • Figures of Love in 19th-Century European Philosophy

  • Free Will Anxieties: A Bergsonian Remedy?

  • Transgender Concerns within the Prison Walls (in collaboration with Barry Zack, expert and international consultant in the field of correctional (prison, jail and other detention settings) and community health.

  • Desire Without Taboos? Rethinking Sex-Positive Feminism (ThinkOlio; Interview; Podcast)


    • Books

    Conceptualizing Personality Disorder book cover

    • “L’habitude chez Montaigne”, ouvrage collectif sous la direction de Romain Bondonneau, Sédiments : les grands cahiers Périgord patrimoines. Montaigne et nous, Les éditions du ruisseau, 2019

    • La force des habitudes: Anthropologie philosophique de la notion de sclérose : Genèse, emprise, libération (Novembre 2018, Essai, Broché)

      L'habitude qui fait naître la routine fige le sujet jusqu'à lui ôter toute possibilité de jouir de son hypothétique libre-arbitre. Nous façonnons nos habitudes, puis nos habitudes nous façonnent ; la liberté cède la place - sans forcément qu'il y ait conscience de ce sournois glissement - à l'asservissement. D'instrument idéal pour l'apprentissage, l'habitude se fait appauvrissement et fixation, obstacle par excellence au mouvement de la vie. L'habitude peut certes affiner les sens, mais ces sens orientent leur acuité dans une direction très spécifique, cependant que la multiplicité des impressions plus communes passe inaperçue. L'acte familier ne renvoie plus ici à la concentration appliquée, mais à un mouvement automatique qui se dérobe à la conscience, jusqu'à scléroser l'individu. Dans quelle mesure et de quelle manière le processus de fixation des habitudes constitue-t-il une donnée structurante fondamentale du devenir individuel et de la société ? A quelles conditions peut-on espérer sortir de l'immobilisme intellectuel, social, culturel auquel peuvent mener les habitudes ?

    • «Sentiment d’injustice et chanson populaire» ("The Feeling of Injustice and Popular Music") Editions Delatour, France, October 2017 (co-authored with Charles Ramond, Professor at Paris 8 University)

      L'état du monde offre tant d'occasions de s'indigner... Comment douter du "sentiment d'injustice"? Le présent ouvrage invite pourtant à un tel réexamen. Puisque les chansons populaires sont les mots et les voix des passions ordinaires, un sentiment aussi universel que le " sentiment d'injustice " devrait y apparaître sans cesse. Or l'enquête ici présentée montre le contraire : le " sentiment d'injustice " est entièrement absent des chansons populaires, qu'il s'agisse des chansons anciennes et traditionnelles, des chansons de l'amour malheureux et des disgrâces, du rap sous toutes ses formes, mais aussi des chansons engagées, contestataires, voire révolutionnaires. Ce fait très étonnant est considéré ici comme indice et point de départ possible pour une théorie de la justice qui ferait l'économie des " sentiments moraux ".

    Articles

    • Public Philosophy Network Guides to Public Philosophy; Community Groups and Continuing Education
    • Op-ed for Lookout Santa Cruz, April 1st, 2025: Will AI make us dumber and asocial? Let’s brainstorm together at the Santa Cruz Night of Ideas
    • “Attention and Free Will in Experimental Psychology: An Unexpected Analysis of Voluntary Action by William James and Theodule Ribot”, Journal of Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, September 2022
    • “A Remedy for FOMO", Noema Magazine, April 2022
    • “Women and their Uteri: Symbolic Vessels for Prejudiced Expectations”, co-authored with Paola Nicolas, bioethicist. International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (IJFAB), March 2022

      • What is a uterus? This question seems quite disconcerting. Do we not know the anatomy and the functions of this female organ already? This article calls for a holistic reevaluation of the way we perceive and what we expect from women’s uteri. We explore the powerful and deeply rooted cultural representations of women’s uteri as mere receptacles, containers or vessels, and the impact of such representations on our biological categories, medical practices and current policies. While looking at controversies surrounding hysterectomies, Cesarean sections, and uterus transplants, we aim to shed light on ambivalent narratives, alternatively promoting an essentialist approach where the uterus is emblematic of womanhood, or implying that the uterus is a dispensable organ, that is useless outside of reproduction.
    • “Le cas Amiel à la lumière de la psychologie expérimentale” (“The Amiel Case in the light of Experimental Psychology”), Revue Implications Philosophiques, 2019
    • "L’irrésolution et l’Aboulie chez Théodule Ribot” (“Irresolution and Aboulia in Theodule Ribot’s works”), Revue Implications Philosophiques, 2018
    • “La Passion Morbide : Une approche physiologique de l’addiction chez Théodule Ribot” (“Morbid Passion : A Physiological Approach of Addiction in Théodule Ribot’s works”), Revue Implications Philosophiques, 2016