Writing

BOOK CHAPTERS

Heft, P. “Sino(phobia)(futurism).” In Accelerated Ad(E)vent: Subjectivity and Aesthetics Approaching the Singularity. Edited by Peter Heft and Vinay Sharma, 34–40. London: Miskatonic Virtual University Press & The Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism, 2026.

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Heft, P. “The Geocosmic Unconscious: Metapsychologial Speculations on Geotrauma and Dissolution.” Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy Volume 30, no. 1 (2026): 152–165.
Heft, P. “On Peripheral Philosophy: A Para-Academic Polemic.” Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy Volume 35, No. 1 (2024): 99–123.
Heft, P. “Libidinal Materialism: Speculative Realism’s Chthonic Dizygote.” Das Questões Volume 18, No. 1 (2023): 187–227.
Heft, P. “Virtual Embodiment or: When I Enter Cyberspace, What Body Will I Inhabit?” Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy Volume 19, No. 1 (2023): 193–211.
Heft, P. “Xenofeminism: A Framework to Hack the Human.” New Proposals: Journal of Marxism and Interdisciplinary Inquiry Volume 12, No. 1 (2021): 121–139.
Heft, P. “Betwixt and Between: Zones as Liminal and Deterritorialized Spaces.” Pulse: The Journal of Science and Culture Volume 8, No. 2 (2021): 1–20.
Arenson, H. and P. Heft. “Noclipping Reality: A Journey to the Backrooms.” Parasol: Journal of the Centre For Experimental Ontology Volume 5 (2021): xxxi–xxxii, 85–97.
Heft, P. “When Language Breaks: A Heideggerian Analysis of Grice’s ‘Cooperative Principle.’” Stance Volume 11 (April 2018): 22–33.
Heft, P. “Smoothing the High Seas: A Deleuzoguattarian Analysis of the Somali Pirates.” Journal 360˚ Volume 12, No. 2 (Winter 2017): 29–39.

PRESENTATIONS

Heft, P. “Exploring the Geologic Unconscious: A Stratoanalytical Case Report.” Centre for the Study of Theory and Criticism at Western University with Radboud University’s Center for Contemporary European Philosophy: A Two-Day Workshop on “Affects and Worlds,” London, CA. May 26, 2025 – May 27, 2024.
Heft, P. “The Geocosmic Unconscious and Anorganic Subjectivity.” Amor Mundi & Ecological Cosmopolitanism, Nijmegen, NL. October 14, 2024 – October 15, 2024.
Heft, P. “‘Aural Cameras’ and Temporal Slippage: Sampling and Détourned Time.” 62nd Annual Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Conference, Rochester, NY. September 26, 2024 – September 28, 2024.
Heft, P. “Sino-ph(obia)(uturism).” Accelerated Ad(E)vent: Subjectivity and Aesthetics Approaching the Singularity, London, CA. May 24, 2024 – May 25, 2024.
Heft, P. “Close Encounters of the Kantian Kind: Transcendental Idealism and the Interdimensional Hypothesis.” 36th Annual Conference of Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (Alien 2023), Tempe, AZ. October 26, 2023 – October 29, 2023.
Heft, P. “When Freud Met Foucault, Or: Freud as A Theorist of Population Politics.” 61st Annual Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) Conference, Toronto, CA. October 12, 2023 – October 14, 2023.
Heft, P. “Trans~~humanism~~ and the Alien-to-Come.” International Conference on Radical Humanism (Conferencia Internacional Sobre Humanismo Radical), Sante Fe, NM. September 8, 2023 –September 9, 2023.
Heft, P. “Back to the Future: F. T. Marinetti and Valentine de Saint-Point’s Gender Nihilism.” Unlearning Nihilism, Online and London, UK. June 23, 2022 – June 26, 2022.
Heft, P. “Tall Waves and Smooth Seas: The Somali Pirates as the War Machinic Rejoinder to the Global State.” Deleuze & Guattari Studies Camp and Conference 2021, Prague, Czech Republic. July 5, 2021 – July 7, 2021.
Heft, P. “On Peripheral Philosophy: Para-Academia and the Call of the Outside.” Binghamton University Philosophy Graduate Conference, Binghamton, NY. November 2, 2019.
Heft, P. “Black Death and White Civil Society: Foucault, Wilderson, and the Necessity of Necropolitics.” DePaul University Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Chicago, IL. September 27, 2019 – September 28, 2019.
Heft, P. “Nuclear Aesthetics: Technology, Corporeality, and the Politics of Nuclear Weapons Testing.” 22nd Annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Forest Grove OR. April 20, 2018 – April 21, 2018.
Heft, P. “When Language Breaks: A Heideggerian Analysis of Grice’s ‘Cooperative Principle’.” 2017 Steven Humphrey Colloquium, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY. November 3, 2017.
Heft, P. “Taking Things Seriously Again – An Introduction to Object-Oriented Ontology.” 21st Annual Pacific University Undergraduate Philosophy Conference, Forest Grove, OR. April 21, 2017 – April 22, 2017.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Heft, P. [Interview]: “the backrooms: a blurry photo that changed the internet.” On Sixteenth Minute (Of Fame). Last modified February 10, 2025.
Heft, P. [Interview]: “Liminal Spaces: A Psychological and Social Deep Dive – Double Talk Asks with Hannah and Cailin Loesch.” On Loesch Twins. Last modified August 5, 2023.
Heft, P. “Tic-Xenotation as a Solution to Problems of Context: Barker, Derrida, and ETI.” Plutonics: A Journal of Non-Standard Theory, Volume 16 (2023): 70–78.
Heft, P. “Stellar Bile, Terrestrial Extraction & Carrie Blast Furnaces.” Triple Ampersand Journal (&&&). Last modified July 25, 2022.
Heft, P. “we finally took indigenous knowledge squid-fungi hybrid seriously.” Possible Utopias: the Wordsfest Eco Zine, issue 6 (2020): 21-22.
Heft, P. “Notes on Retrocausal AI.” Plutonics: A Journal of Non-Standard Theory, Volume 13 (2020): 154–159.
Heft, P. “Stuck Inside the Vampire Castle.” On The Mantle. Last Modified April 23, 2019.
Heft, P. “On Peripheral Philosophy.” On The Mantle. Last modified January 25, 2019.
Heft, P. “Genderhacking an Alien Future: On Helen Hester’s Xenofeminism.” On The Mantle. Last modified July 23, 2018.
Heft, P. “‘The Rhizome’ – An American Translation: Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s The Rhizome, translated from English to American.” On The Mantle. Last modified June 26, 2017.

TRANSLATIONS

Helleu, G. and A. Masure. “Total Record: The Blockchain Protocol Towards Post-Capitalism.” Translated by P. Heft. Multitudes Volume 71, No. 2 (2018): 70-79.