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About Oxana Timofeeva

Oxana Timofeeva teaches philosophy at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). She is a Senior associate at the Institute of Global Reconstitution (Berlin) and a member of the artistic collective "Chto Delat" ("What is to be done"). Her books, translated into many languages, include Freud’s Beasty Boys (Matthes & Setz, Berlin; Polity, 2025), Solar Politics (Polity 2022), How to Love a Homeland (Kayfa ta, 2020), History of Animals (Bloomsbury 2018), This is not That (a collection of short essays, in Russian, 2022), and Introduction to the Erotic Philosophy of Georges Bataille (in Russian, 2009).
Latest Posts | By Oxana Timofeeva
Love
2 months ago

Love

People of my generation, born in the late USSR, probably remember that the main political topic discussed with children back then was peace. When I think about it, I recall …
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And Say the Alien Responded?
4 years ago

And Say the Alien Responded?

I teach contemporary philosophical anthropology at Stasis Center for Philosophy at the European University in St. Petersburg. Inspired by Paul Preciado’s ‘Letter to an Extraterrestrial’, originally published in Libération in …
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Stasis @ The Salon 1. From the Quarantine to the General Strike: On Bataille’s Political Economy
4 years ago

Stasis @ The Salon 1. From the Quarantine to the General Strike: On Bataille’s Political Economy

This essay opens a new rubric Stasis @ The Salon, in which we will publish selected fragments from new issues of the journal Stasis, covering a broad range of topics, …
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A Goddess Manifesto
6 years ago

A Goddess Manifesto

I am writing this essay and thinking that perhaps it will never be published in any “serious” edition. It would never go through the eye of a needle of censorship. …
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