Theses/Dissertations from 2024
Assemblage, Paradox, and Becoming-cat: Making Videogames with Deleuze and Guattari, Yiling Hu
Extinction Anxiety as Zeitgeist: An Examination of the Cultural Anxiety Surrounding Extinction Threats, Spencer J. Kett
Outrageous Love Letters to the Psy-disciplines: Rethinking Causal Models of ADHD and OCD Through Phenomenological Encounters with Bergson and Merleau-Ponty, Jean F. McLachlin
Digital Ecology - Ecological Interfaces in Félix Guattari's Ecosophy, Lennon Samuel William Needham Mr.
The Only Labourer Left: Resituating the Nonhuman Animal in the Language of Labour and the History of Philosophy, Mina Rosefield
Productive Disintegration, Vinay Sharma
Critical Post-Humanism as Problematic: Epistemological, Ethical, and Teleological Gestures for the Future of Post-Humanity, Jacob Vangeest
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
The Metaphysics of Modernism and the Aesthetics of Reason in Wittgenstein, Deleuze, and Others, M. Curtis Allen
Grounds for a "Third Place": The "Starbucks Experience," Sirens, and Space, Michael A. Bodkin
The Embodied Rhetoric of Cognitive Labour, Shubhayan Chakrabarti
Giving Death to the Production of Knowledge: Collective Resistance through Testimony, Mitch de Lange
The Forgetting of Fire: An Archaeology of Technics, Thomas A. Doerksen
Monism and Dialectic, Daniel LeBlanc
Empathy/Sympathy, Shakil Malik
Computation as a Planetary Scale Phenomenon, Payoshini Pandey
You Unseen Cathedrals: A Study of the Conceptual Conditions of Negativity, Anda Pleniceanu
Algorithmic Hypnosis, Suarjan Prasai
Kierkegaard and the Assumptions of Philosophy, Ryan K. Shea
The Cave and The Stars: On the People and Democracy of Non-Philosophy, Jeremy R. Smith
The Sense of Waste, Sean Sokolov
A Critical Phenomenological Inquiry into Disabled Embodiment and Identity, Heather Twele
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
Transient Constellations: Adorno, Benjamin, and the Actuality of Idealism, Jeremy Arnott
Futures of Film Criticism: Aesthetics, Cinephilia, Philosophy, and Politics, Christina Elle Burke
The Digital Extreme: Cinema's Reality Crisis in a Nostalgic Age, Lucas J. Dvorsky
Civil War and Power: A Theoretical Inquiry, Can Guven
The Masochian Woman: Coming to a Philosophical Understanding of Haudenosaunee Women's Masochism, Jennifer Komorowski
Art, Work: Subsumption, Posthumanism and Artistic Responses to Surveillance Capitalism, Anna Mirzayan
Dancing beyond the Mirror Stage: Jacques Lacan and the Embodied Sinthome, Megan Sherritt
White Histories of Antiblack Violence: an Investigation between Black Studies and Critical Theory, Anna E. Stoutenburg
Ontological Fables: Jean-Francois Lyotard's Ontology after The Differend, Dylan T. Vaughan
The Arts of the Street: Sense Perception, Creativity and Resistance in Everyday Urban Life, Nicholas Wees
After the Storm: Histories of Cultural Marxism/s in the United States, Andrew Woods
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Is Another World Possible?: Herbert Marcuse and Possibilities for 'Real' Change, Robert Halperin
Does the Cogito Have (a) Sex?, Emily Laurent-Monaghan
Are Near-Death Experiences Veridical? A Philosophical Inquiry, Monika J. Mandoki
Towards A Poetics of Representation in 'London, Ontario': or, Local and Universal Passages, Alex McIntosh
Alighting: A Phenomenology and Ethics of Sight and Touch in the Videocall, Liam Morantz
Phantasms of Hope: The Utopian Function of Fantasy Literature, Alexander C. Morgan
Addictive Potential: Regimes, Transformations, Circulations, Kayleigh E. Shield
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
The Habits of Settlement: A Critical Phenomenology of Settlerness, Deanna L. Aubert
Cognition Without Construction: Kant, Maimon, and the Transcendental Philosophy of Mathematics, Nicholas A. J. Birmingham
Encountering Others: Degeneration, Distortion, and Disability in Interwar German Visual Culture, 1918-1933, Kathryn Carney
Foucault, Affect, History: On the Art of Feeling, Austin Chisholm
The Psyche and Gender as a Multiplicity, Jessica N. Ellis
Another Possibility: HIV and the Contemporary Moment, Matthew Halse
An Ontological Critique of the Self: The Daoist ‘Non-self’ at the Heart of Jung’s Analytical Theory, Camilo Andrés Hoyos Lozano
"Second Sight": Acknowledging W.E.B. Du Bois's "Double Consciousness" as a Step Towards Dissolution, Alexandra M. Hudecki
Language After God: Nietzsche, Lacan, and the Sinthome of Tragic Wisdom, Dylan J. Hughes
com-posing abolitionist≠posthumanism: notes on incommensurability, incomputability and incognita syn-aesthetics, Michelle Liu
Toward a Fluid Cinematic Spectatorship and Desire: Revisiting Laura Mulvey’s Psychoanalytic Film Theories, Taylor Ashton McGoey
An Archaeology of Contemporary Speculative Knowledge, Justas Patkauskas
Religion in Modern Sports Fanaticism: From Classical Antiquity to Online Sports Forums, Matthew Prokopiw
Sounding Unsettlement: Rethinking Settler States of Mind and Re(-)cognition through Scenes of Cross-Cultural Listening, Ryan Ben Shuvera
The Cosmos is Not Finished, Natalie B. Trevino
Nietzschean Problematics, Jacob Vangeest
Between Worlds, Between Times: Thinking with Trans Narratives at the Limits of Ontology and Temporality, Elden L. Yungblut
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Hegel avec Kleist: On Marriage, Colby A. Chubbs
Excavating Feminist Phenomenology: Lived-Experiences and Wellbeing of Indigenous Students at Western University, Eva Lynn Cupchik
The Weak Survival of French Rhetoric, Jonathan Doering
A Geology of the General Intellect, Dillon Douglas
There is a Secret Heart, Dru Farro
Critical Interventions in the Medical Humanities, Maryam Golafshani
Hallucinating the Ukrainian Cityscape: A Reevaluation of Walter Benjamin’s Urban Experience for a Postsocialist Context, Alexander M. Harasymiw
Han and Dada: Early Expressions of New Affliction, Maxwell Hyett
The Myths That Make Us: An Examination of Canadian National Identity, Shannon Lodoen
A Deleuzean Poststructural Deconstruction, Adam Nadir Mohamed
Trial by Space: Lost Cause Monuments and Public Controversy through Bruno Latour and Henri Lefebvre, Wil Patrick
Performing Spatial Justice, Ramona A. Radu
Spirals: Spacing, Trauma, Becoming, and Autoimmunity with Caruth, Derrida, Freud, Itō, and Miyazaki., Elizabeth Song
Temporalities of Revolution: On the Representation of History and Collective Action, Nicholas D. Tostowaryk
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Bastard Reasoning: A "Preposterous" History of Walter Benjamin's Ideas, Vladimir Cristache
Pheneticism As A Cultural And Literary Critique Of Human Interaction, Richard Dew
The Mirror of Humanism; or, Towards a Baudrillardian Posthuman Theory, David Guignion
The Passing Away Of Nature: Two Essays On Natural History, Domenic Hutchins
Subjectivity, Passion, and Mystical Intuition: Nietzsche's Early Writing, Joseph Leivdal
Preparing to Receive: On the Revolutionary Questioning of Being and Time, Joshua Livingstone
The Politics of Wounds, Jonathan Nash
1981: One or Several Aesthetics?, Jacob Norris
"I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater": Post-Foundational Subjects, Inoperative Teleologies, and the Aesthetics of Dispossession, Averil L. Novak
Double/Cross: Erasure in Theory and Poetry, John Nyman
The Event of Blues Music and the Effects of Technology on the Artistic Event, Adam Rejak
Monuments of the Present: The Document and Monument in Michel Foucault's Archaeology, Alexander Walker
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Tracing the Interstice: Godard, Deleuze, and The Future of Cinema, Anthony C. Coughlin
Reblogging Gender: Non-Binary Transgender Subjectivities and the Internet, Lee (Molly) J. Fraser
The Revolution Will Be Social and Poetic: The Insurgent Poetics of Decolonial Thought, Marshall Hill
The Voice as an Object of Desire in the Work of Ann Quin, Jennifer Komorowski
The Tapestry of Memory, Kathryn M. Lawson
On That Heart-Knotting Feeling: An Outline, Lawrence JY Liang
Mnidoo-Worlding: Merleau-Ponty and Anishinaabe Philosophical Translations, Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning
Can the Undead Speak?: Language Death as a Matter of (Not) Knowing, Tyler Nash
Laughing Doubles: The Duality of Humour, Evan A. Pebesma
The Ontological-Ontic Character of Mythology, Jeffrey M. Ray
Autos, Allos, and World: Life and Identity in the Situation of Contemporary Global Modernity, Thomas M. Szwedska
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
The Correspondence(s) of Benjamin and Adorno, Jeremy W. Arnott
The Primacy of Resistance: Anarchism, Foucault, and the Art of Not Being Governed, Derek C. Barnett
In-Between What Once Was and What is Yet to Come: On the Phenomena of Bereavement and Grieving, Rachel L B Bath
Very Pressing Television and Other Imaginary Things, Rebecca Erin Bernstein
Bodies: Punk, Love and Marxism, Kathryn Grant