Staff Profile

I was appointed to the Philosophy department in the summer of 2023, and I'm delighted to be here.

As an undergraduate I studied Politics and Sociology at Manchester University, and then Philosophy (MA, PhD) at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University. My PhD was on science and individuation in Gilbert Simondon's early philosophy.

Before coming to Newcastle I taught Philosophy at Université Paris VIII, the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy and Staffordshire University.

My research interests are in Modern European Philosophy, and include philosophies of nature, politics, technics and science.

I'm currently working on a book with EUP on the role of natural science for Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of individuation.

Beyond this I'm currently interested in the relationship between politics and science (particularly with regards to ecology and the earth system); the history of the separation or autonomy of the political sphere; Marxist philosophy and Bruno Latour's challenge to it; philosophies of energy and information.

I teach Introduction to Political Philosophy PHI1014

• Article

  • Hewlett G. Earth Collective: Natural Conditions for a Transindividual Politics. Itinera Rivista di filosofia e di teoria delle arti 2023, (25), 379-401.

• Review

  • Hewlett, Gus. About Time: Review of Gilbert Simondon's 'Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information'. Radical Philosophy 2022, 2(12). In Preparation.