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Oxana Timofeeva is a philosopher, born in Siberia in 1978, and now based in Berlin. Until 2023, she was a Professor at the European University of St. Petersburg. She is a member of the artistic collective "Chto Delat" ("What is to be done"), and a senior Associate at the Institute of Global Reconstitution (IGRec, Berlin). Her books, published in English and translated into many languages, include Freud’s Beasty Boys: Sex, Violence, and Masculinity (Matthes & Seitz Berlin; Polity 2025), Solar Politics (Polity 2022), How to Love a Homeland (Kayfa ta 2020), and History of Animals (Bloomsbury 2018). She also published books in Russian, such as This is not That (2022) and Introduction to the Erotic Philosophy of Georges Bataille (2009). He new book On the Soul is forthcoming in 2025 (Matthes & Seitz Berlin).