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55Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in PraxisHypatia 19 (3): 231-234. 2004.Review of Jacqueline Martinez's Phenomenology of Chicana Experience and Identity: Communication and Transformation in Praxis.
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81The Ethics of Policing: New Perspectives on Law Enforcement (edited book)NYU Press. 2021.From George Floyd to Breonna Taylor, the brutal deaths of Black citizens at the hands of law enforcement have brought race and policing to the forefront of national debate in the United States. In The Ethics of Policing, Ben Jones and Eduardo Mendieta bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars across the social sciences and humanities to reevaluate the role of the police and the ethical principles that guide their work. With contributors such as Tracey Meares, Michael Walzer, and Fran…Read more
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15Anthropocenic TemporalitiesEnvironmental Philosophy 17 (1): 125-141. 2020.The Anthropocene must also be seen as the convergence of the historicization of nature and human historicity, not simply metaphorically, but factually. As historical time is injected in nature through anthropogenesis, resulting in our having to see nature as a product of a historical process, our understanding of time is being transformed. The Anthropocene must be understood as a temporalization of time tout court. The key concern is what could be called an Anthropocenic matrix of intelligibilit…Read more
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24The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2018.Over a career spanning nearly seven decades, Jürgen Habermas - one of the most important European philosophers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries - has produced a prodigious and influential body of work. In this Lexicon, authored by an international team of scholars, over 200 entries define and explain the key concepts, categories, philosophemes, themes, debates, and names associated with the entire constellation of Habermas's thought. The entries explore the historical, philosophical a…Read more
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8The creature of language: Three postcards to ChuckPhilosophy and Social Criticism 44 (7): 741-744. 2018.
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11Borders and Debordering: Topologies, Praxes, Hospitableness (edited book)Lexington Books. 2018.This book addresses issues connected with political, ontological, existential, and spiritual borders that define our being-in-common. Engaging with various debordering practices relating to migration, the media, hospitality, and the more than human world, it is a timely contribution to contemporary philosophical, political, and social studies.
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30Metaphysics of Subjectivity and the Theology of SubjectivityPhilosophy and Theology 6 (3): 276-290. 1992.This study calls for a re-evaluation of Schleiermacher’s relevance and contemporaneity, with special emphasis on his account of consciousness and his theory of religion. Through a critical examination of Hegel’s critique of Schleiermacher, the author argues that Schleiermacher suceeeded in overcoming the paradigm of subjectivity in some ways, and failed in others.
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29The U.S. Border and the Political Ontology of "Assassination Nation": Thanatological DispositifsJournal of Speculative Philosophy 31 (1): 82-100. 2017.The U.S.-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. And before a scab forms it hemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two worlds merging to form a third country—a border culture. Borders are set up to define the places that are safe and unsafe, to distinguish us from them. A border is a dividing line, a narrow strip along a steep edge. A borderland is a vague and undetermined place created by the emotional residue of an unnatural boundary. It is …Read more
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43Habermas on human cloning: The debate on the future of the speciesPhilosophy and Social Criticism 30 (5-6): 721-743. 2004.Jürgen Habermas’s recent book Die Zukunft der menschlichen Natur (2001) is discussed. Particular attention is paid to the central argument concerning the adverse effects the general acceptance of cloning and pre-implantation genetic diagnostics (PGD) would have on the moral and political self-understanding of present and future generations. The argument turns to a critique of Habermas’s central arguments against PGD, and develops at least two arguments that are in harmony with his general defens…Read more
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56Plantations, ghettos, prisons: US racial geographiesPhilosophy and Geography 7 (1): 43-59. 2004.In the first part of this essay, I develop the argument that Michel Foucault's work should be read with geographical and topological ideas in mind. I argue that Foucault's archeology and genealogy are fundamentally determined by spatial, topological, geographical, and geometrical metaphors and concepts. This spatial dimension of genealogy is explicitly related to racism and the regimes that domesticate agents through the practices, institutions and ideologies of racialization. The second part of…Read more
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13The Silence of the Sirens: Rereading the Dialectic of Enlightenment with Kafka and BorgesJournal of Speculative Philosophy 28 (3): 401-410. 2014.ABSTRACT The article rereads Horkheimer and Adorno's classic Dialectic of Enlightenment from the standpoint of animal philosophy while also offering a comparison and contrast between Odysseus and Socrates as personifications of the “animal question” that haunts all Western philosophy. The key thesis is that this question is a metaphilosophical question and that we thus have to develop a critical philosophy that is at its core also an animal philosophy.
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16The Metaphysical Bite of Animal Others and Toothless EthicsPhilosophy Today 55 (Supplement): 43-46. 2011.
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22Dispose After Expiration DateTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 20 (2): 129-136. 2016.This article argues that there are three key claims of postphenomenology: first, that there is no immediate access to a phenomena that is not always already embodied; second, that there is no science that is not determined by a technology, and that technologies are instances of certain theoretical assumptions and perspectives; third, that all technoscience is enabled and mediated by the embodied perception that takes place in and through instrumentation, which leads to the insight that all scien…Read more
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12The Death of Positivism and the Birth of Mexican PhenomenologyIn Gregory Gilson & Irving Levinson (eds.), Latin American Positivism: New Historical and Philosophic Essays, Lexington Books. pp. 1. 2012.
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20Communicative freedom, citizenship and political justice in the age of globalizationPhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (7): 739-752. 2005.Seyla Benhabib’s The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era (2002), is considered in terms of three main virtues: first, it moves the question of political justice beyond the debate on the priority of recognition over distribution; second, it contributes to the expansion of the notion of communicative freedom and how it relates to rights; and third, it lays down the foundation for a cosmopolitan, post-nationalistic, form of citizenship that would have as its core the rights …Read more
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9Forms of Transference: On Charles Johnson’s Philosophical FictionThe Pluralist 12 (1): 30-37. 2017.i want to begin by thanking my good friend Richard Hart for the invitation to be part of this wonderful panel in which we are honoring while also being challenged by the work of Charles Johnson to think differently about our discipline. I also want to thank the organizers of SAAP for hosting this important series of lectures, in which we are invited to engage the work of thinkers who challenge us to think differently because they either come to our problems from different disciplines and fields,…Read more
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72Scholar’s Symposium: The Work of Angela Y. Davis: The Prison Contract and Surplus Punishment: On Angela Y. Davis’s Abolitionism (review)Human Studies 30 (4): 291-309. 2007.
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32Ecoscapes: Geographical Patternings of Relations (edited book)Lexington Books. 2006.This volume presents the concept of Ecoscape as spatial interrelations, or spatially patterned processes, that are constitutive of an environment_an ecosystem. Contributors investigate environmental issues concerning the human impact on geohistory, food distribution, genetically modified biota, waste management, scientific mapping, and the rethinking of human identity
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123What can and cannot be rescued – taking leave of Heidegger’s hutPhilosophy and Social Criticism 38 (2): 227-233. 2012.
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13Mapping the Geographies of Social Inequality: Patricia Hill Collins's Intersectional Critical TheoryJournal of Speculative Philosophy 26 (2): 458-465. 2012.
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