Charlie Blake is currently visiting Senior Lecturer in Media Ethics and Digital Culture at the University of West London, UK, and Lecturer in Philosophy, Aesthetics and Synaesthetics for the Free University of Brighton, UK. He is a founding and executive editor of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, creator and performer in the Manchester-based post-industrial cabaret group Babyslave who have released albums including Kill for Dada and Runt on Valentine Records, and he has published recently on Blanchot and music, Deleuze and angelic materialism, Bataille and divine dissipation, and the greater politics of bees, barnacles, and werewolves.