Publications

Chapters in Edited Volumes:

  • Beauvoir’s Phenomenology of Rational Sacrifice, The Phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir. Ed. Rebecca Harrison. Palgrave.
    (forthcoming 2025).
    This chapter is in progress. You can find an abstract under the “Research” tab.

  • Chapter V: The Genesis of a False Dichotomy: A Critique of Conceptual Alienation, in Objective Fictions: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Marxism. Eds. Johnston, A., Nedoh, B., Zupančič, A. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press. pp. 85-104 (2021).
    Abstract: In ‘The Genesis of a False Dichotomy: A Critique of Conceptual Alienation’, I locate the origin of the conceptualist-realist debate in the medieval debate between nominalists, realists, and conceptualists; subsequently, I trace the development of realism and conceptualism through Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason and Hegel’s critique of the Kantian concept in his Logic, but conclude – alongside Sohn-Rethel – that the Hegelian concept failed to capture that all things, including concepts, appear dichotomous under capitalism. Next, I detail the ways in which the division of word and thing mimics the mutual exclusivity of exchange and use. Finally, I claim that Marxist Psychoanalysis has the unique capacity to expose the connection between the concept, the objective world, and the individual; and in turn, reveal our subjective participation in the creation of the objective ‘terms’ of our lives.

Book Reviews:

  • Ulrike Kistner and Philippe Van Haute: Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon, Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2020, 168 pp., ISBN 978-1-77,614-623-9, ISBN 978-1-77,614-627-7. Continental Philosophy Review 55, 133–136 (2022). https://doi-org.libproxy.unm.edu/10.1007/s11007-021-09560-x
    Abstract: Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon is a volume of secondary literature that dispels common misconceptions about the relationship between Hegelian and Fanonian philosophy, and sheds new light on the connections and divergences between the two thinkers. By engaging in close textual analyses of both Hegel and Fanon, the chapters in this volume disambiguate the philosophical relation between Sartre and Fanon, scrutinize the conflation of Self-Consciousness in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and subjectivity in Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of History in light of Hegel's reception in decolonial thought, and flesh out the pivotal ontological role of violence in Fanon's work. In particular, this volume underscores the necessity of Fanon scholars to pay heed to the distinction between Hegel's dialectic of lordship and bondage and Kojève's master-slave dialectic, as the latter-an anthropological (mis)interpretation of a Hegelian epistemological gestalt of consciousness-is what enables Fanon to engage with the former as a historical dialectic. This review emphasizes that Violence, Slavery and Freedom between Hegel and Fanon is a pedagogically significant text, and ultimately concludes that this volume is a vital resource for Continental Philosophical scholarship on Fanon and Hegel.

Art criticism:

  • “No Wave or Not, ESG's Legacy is Alive and Well,” Thrdcoast. Sept 2nd 2016. Thrdcoast.com

  • “TEEN: Love Yes,” Caesura Magazine. August 10th 2016. Caesuramag.org

  • “Review: Anri Sala at the New Museum,” Neon Signs . March 10th 2016. Neonsignsmag.com