Mathew Abbott is Senior Lecturer in Humanities at Federation University Australia. His research draws on figures from modern European philosophy to engage contemporary debates in politics and aesthetics. His current focus is a project on the implications of self-consciousness for ecology and the place of our species in nature. Mathew is the editor of Michael Fried and Philosophy: Modernism, Intention, and Theatricality (Routledge 2018). He is the author of Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy (Edinburgh 2016) and The Figure of This World: Agamben and the Question of Political Ontology (Edinburgh 2014). He is also President of the FedUni Branch of the National Tertiary Education Union. [m.abbott@federation. edu.au]