Max Wade

Writing

My Substack is home to most of my non-academic writing.

For the Journal of the History of Ideas Blog

“The Dance of Reality: Plotinus and the Activity of the Whole”. Published Nov. 18, 2024.

“Our Duties to the Earth: Pliny the Elder as a Proto-Environmentalist”. Published Dec. 12, 2022.

For Grasping Water

The Eye, the Universe, and the Revolt Against Vision. Published Nov. 1, 2025.

My review of the 1980 film “Altered States”: ontology recapitulates physiognomy. Published Sep. 22, 2024.

Undergrad Publications

“Walter Benjamin’s ‘Über den Begriff der Geschichte’ and the Marxist Tradition.” Dianoia: The Undergraduate Philosophy Journal of Boston College 6, no. 1 (2019): 61–74.

I also wrote an article for Proteus: The Rutgers University Undergraduate Journal of Comparative Literature in 2019 on Otto Weininger but this seems to have been lost to time.

Travel Writing

“Beyond Clam Chowder and Lobster Rolls: Dock and dine on authentic New England Dishes” for Marina Life Magazine. Published Apr. 2024.