Co-Director, Centre for Philosophy and Art (CPA) @kingsphilosophy| Latest books ‘On Extinction’ (2024) @versobooks ‘Bacon Disfigured’ (2026) @thamesandhudson
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My last book review of 2025 is (fittingly) about the end of the world. Ben Ware's very stimulating philosophical discussion On Extinction. resolutereader.blogspot.com/…
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This is actually a part summary of Bacon’s own account of his works. I in fact disagree with this reading in the paper.
“The paintings seek to ‘unlock sensation’, to provoke a convulsive, existential shudder in those who encounter them,” writes @benjamin_ware on Francis Bacon’s art. | iai.tv/articles/distortion-a…
Tap to read more about Ware’s argument that decay and extinction bleeds into a philosophical view of Bacon’s art that heightens his genius.
Welcome To Hell: my recent interview with Shane Anderson for 032c 032c.com/magazine/welcome-to…
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If you missed our live event on Extinction with @benjamin_ware and @KateWarcoran, catch up now on our YouTube channel:
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We asked Sarah Shulman, Rev. Simon Woodman of @bloomsburyCBC, @xlorentzen, @jamiesonwebster, @benjamin_ware, @Jeffvandermeer, @contrapoints, @jeremycorbyn, @lamornaash, @thecarlwilliams, @khalidbinyaqub, @drposhlost and more: why does evil exist?
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Thanks to @thomasowaller for his insightful review of my ON EXTINCTION @VersoBooks
New review just published online in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books:
Thomas Waller on Ben Ware's On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End
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Looking forward to joining @KateWarcoran to discuss extinction, the Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis, and much else besides 👇
Our Autumn event series features (amongst others): @kate_manne @annefabpeter @ParekhSerena @vcwills @Alex_A_Guerrero @JulesHolroyd @benjamin_ware @m_j_hannon @EliseWoodard20 @SchlawinerKreis @newsphilosophy, Sara Ahmed, Paul Ritter, Havi Carel, Simon Critchley & more!
Thank you, James
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Just read this excellent book by @benjamin_ware. Lots of familiar faces heading for the exit door of history... perhaps. (Emoji: red star).
Thanks @VersoBooks
Alenka Zupančič, 'On Series and Doubles’, followed by a short discussion with me @francisbacon @KingsCollegeLon
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Another vital intervention from @BalaskaMaria. If you want to know why 'nothing' matters, buy a copy now:
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Out now: On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End, by Ben Ware
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"In this fast-moving philosophical essay, Ben Ware develops not simply an aesthetics or ethics of extinction but a politics capable of responding to its almost unthinkable existential challenge."
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Nice summary (in Spanish) of my critique of anti-natalism @Cambio16.
Ben Ware es co-director del Centro de Filosofía y Artes Visuales en el King’s College de Londres.
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Radical politics today should not be concerned with merely averting the worst but rather with beginning again at the end.
Books to read alongside Ben Ware's essential new intervention, On Extinction: Beginning Again At The End.
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Last Sunday! In conversation with @benjamin_ware about his new book on #Extinction at @ThePapersLive. A fascinating topic, a book everyone should read, a wonderful venue and audience! @VersoBooks
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“While anti-natalism is thus relentlessly pessimistic about ‘life,’ it is eerily silent about the profit system responsible for specific kinds of life-making.” @benjamin_ware on the problems with anti-natalism and the emptiness of opting out.
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