Manu has a background in philosophy and worked as a psychotherapist between 2005 and 2026. He is the founder of Affect Therapy, and teacher/founder of Wild Ivy Zen Sangha, an international community of Buddhist practitioners. He has been a visiting tutor at several colleges/universities, has been co-editor and contributor to several psychology Journals. He published several books on the cusp of philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics, and the arts, including Subversion and Desire; Difference and Multiplicity and the forthcoming Useless Passions and Zen and the Ethics of Joy.