Overview materials:
Links to my published work, and downloadable copies where available, can be found at my academia.edu page.
Here a conversation about my work on Frantz Fanon and the politics of exhaustion on Ordinary Unhappiness, a podcast of psychoanalysis and politics.
Here is a recent profile of my research in German which appeared in the Goethe University UniReport (3.22)
Books
Politics and Exhaustion: the Phenomenology of Action and the Horizons of Critique (Book manuscript in preparation)
Peer-Reviewed Writing
“Desiring Politics: Herbert Marcuse, Black Radicalism, and the Political Economies of Exhaustion.” New German Critique. Forthcoming
“Fanon’s Clinic: Revolutionary Therapeutics and the Politics of Exhaustion.” Polity, 2023.
Another Universalism: The Critical Theory of Seyla Benhabib (eds. Anna Jurkevics, Stefan Eich, Nishin
Nathwani, and Nica Siegel). Columbia University Press New Directions in Critical Theory series, 2023. “The Roots of Crisis: Interrupting Arendt’s Radical Critique.” Theoria: a Journal of Social and Political
Theory. Fall 2015.
“Thinking the Boundaries of Customary Law in South Africa” South African Journal on Human Rights.
September 2015.
Sarat et all. “Scenes of Execution: Spectatorship, Political Responsibility, and State Killing in American Film.” Law & Social Inquiry. 2013.
Re-printed in Punishment in Popular Culture, NYU Press, 2015 Other Writing
Book Review of Contesting the Far Right: a Psychoanalytic and Feminist Theory Approach by Claudia Leeb. Perspectives on Politics. Forthcoming pending editorial approval 2024.
Book Review of The Exhausted of the Earth: Politics in a Burning World by Ajay Singh Chaudhary. Theory&Event. 2024, in process.
Book Review of Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing by Nigel C. Gibson. Parapraxis Magazine. 2024.
“Fanon.” Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. (eds. Mortimer Sellers and Stephen Kirste), 2023.
“The Destiny To Be Set Free.” Parapraxis Magazine, 2023
“Fanon the Clinician ft. Nica Siegel” Interview on Ordinary Unhappiness, a podcast of
psychoanalysis and social theory. Summer 2023
Book Review of Bonnie Honig, Public Things. PhiloSOPHIA: a Journal of TransContinental Feminism. 2021.
“The South African National Development Plan and African Commission Jurisprudence.” Legal Resources Centre Working Paper Series. A2/2013. 2013.
A popular account of my research has appeared in PARAPRAXIS magazine and been featured on the podcast "Ordinary Unhappiness" and in a seminar at the Psychosocial Foundation. I am more broadly involved in conversations across theory and clinical perspectives in the American psychoanalytic community. I regularly present work at interdisciplinary and political science conferences, including as organizer of a conference on Left Kantian Thought at the University of Chicago (Spring 2024). I have been invited to present research in series including the Brown University Political Theory Colloquium, the Wesleyan University Center for the Humanities, the Colloquium of Normative Orders at the Goethe University, in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam, Smith College, and in UC Berkeley's Department of Rhetoric.