What we owe the dead : designing fiction as philosophical output

Abstract

This article reflects on the cultural and heuristic implications of formulating and communicating philosophical thinking through alternative forms of writing that depart from the academic writing canon. He does so by presenting his two theory-fiction books, The Clouds (Routledge, 2023) and What We Owe the Dead (Set Margins’, 2025), which creatively engage with hybrid forms of textuality. These two experimental pieces play with different forms of philosophical texts, inviting readers to share in and co-participate in the critical speculation designed by the author.