Cold, confrontational, and deliberately uncomfortable.

When her philosophy department is shuttered in favour of managerial cost-cutting, a professor decides to defend her discipline the only way she can: by putting its questions into practice.

Influenced by Sade and Bataille, she designs a series of increasingly brutal experiments to test what — if anything — makes human life sacred. If we claim that killing is wrong, she asks, where exactly does that wrongness reside? In the body? In language? In consciousness? In the soul?

As the experiments escalate, theory becomes flesh. Violent Faculties is a philosophical horror novel about academia, utilitarian logic, and the violence hidden inside abstract reasoning. It's pretty gross! Good luck.