Jon Gill

Jon Ivan Gill (he/him/they) is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gustavus Adolphus College and co-owner of Aesthetic Religion Records and Texts in Saint Peter, Minnesota and Tijuana, Mexico. His work revolves in the realm of Whiteheadian process philosophies, metaphysics of present day Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador, futurisms, poststructuralism, philosophies of (post)race, philosophy of religion, aesthetics, etc. 

They are also a solo hip hop artist using the moniker Gilead7 and a member of the Chicago hip hop collective Tomorrow Kings, the Southern California-based Echoes of Oratory Muzik, and the duo Crystal Radio along with Michael Adame, also known as Phantom Thrett. 

His newest book, Multi/Race/Less/Ness: A Process Philosophy, was released by Bloomsbury in November 2025. Their first monograph entitled Underground Rap as Religion: A Theopoetic Examination of Process Aesthetic Religion, is in the Routledge Studies in Hip-Hop and Religion series, edited by Monica R. Miller and Anthony B. Pinn. Toward Afrodiasporic and Afrofuturist Philosophies of Religion, a second text, is an edited volume of Pomona and Pitzer College student essays from a class they taught at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif., and was published by Wipf and Stock. 

For more, visit sevenivan.com.