Independent Philosopher

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Carlos A. Segovia (PhD) is an independent British-born, Spanish philosopher and writer, working on contemporary philosophy at the crossroads of the philosophy of mythology; and author of fifteen books. Among his publications, Dionysus and Apollo after Nihilism: Rethinking the Earth–World Divide (with Sofya Shaikut; Brill, 2023), Guattari Beyond Deleuze: Ontology and Modal Philosophy in Guattari’s Major Writings (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), Félix Guattari and the Ancients: Theatrical Dialogues in Early Philosophy (with Gary Genosko; Bloomsbury, 2025), Nietzsche’s Pre-Dionysian Apollo and the Limits of Contemporary Thought (Peter Lang, 2026), and The Wor(l)d in the Crucible: Poetic and Philosophical Explorations, after Zambrano and Blanchot (currently under consideration at Palgrave Macmillan). He has been associate professor of philosophy and religious studies at St Louis University Missouri, visiting professor at the University of Aarhus and the Free University of Brussels, and guest lecturer at the European Research Council, the Collège International de Philosophie, the École Normale Supérieure, University College London, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Milan), the European University at St Petersburg, Waseda University, and Ryukoku University. Convinced that higher education within mainstream academia is undergoing a form of intellectual exhaustion—brought about by epistemological bureaucratization, and the compartmentalization and commodification of knowledge, alongside the cultivation of middlebrow mediocrity—he has turned to other scholarly venues in which thinking may be pursued less as a means of reinstantiating the already thought than as a way of confronting the unknown—the as-yet unthought but thinkable. He collaborates regularly with Incite Seminars and is currently based in Berlin with his life partner, Sofya Shaikut, a performative artist and butō dancer, with whom he is also engaged in ongoing joint work.

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