•  36
    Artistic, Artworld, and Aesthetic Disobedience
    Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 81 (2): 173-187. 2023.
    Jonathan Neufeld proposes a concept of aesthetic disobedience that parallels the political concept of civil disobedience articulated by John Rawls in A Theory of Justice. The artistic transgressions he calls aesthetic disobedience are distinctive in being public and deliberative in their aim to bring about specific changes in accepted artworld norms. We argue that Neufeld has offered us valuable insight into the dynamic and potent nature of art and the artworld; however, we contend that Neufeld …Read more
  •  28
    In this dissertation I explore the conceptual relationship between equality and resistance in political philosophy. Through examination of the work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Karl Marx, John Dewey, and Jacques Rancière, I formulate a position called Fractured Social Holism. This is a problematic that attempts to articulate core issues at stake in the debates surrounding the purposes, meanings, and possibilities for politics. Through Fractured Social Holism I articulate a theory of equality that e…Read more
  •  24
    Internal Colonialism and Democracy
    Philosophy Today 67 (1): 135-152. 2023.
    This essay examines the relationship between African American internal colonialism and democracy, highlighting the complexities of democracy that make it both susceptible to oppressive violence at home and abroad, as well as a potential resource for emancipation and equality. I understand “internal colonialism” here to encompass various terms used by African Americans beginning in the 1830s, including semi-colonialism, domestic colonialism, and a nation within a nation. Much political philosophy…Read more
  •  17
    Neither race nor ethnicity: Latinidad as a social affordance
    Journal of Social Philosophy. forthcoming.
    Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
  •  14
    Power in/and the University
    with Sabeen Ahmed, George Fourlas, and John Harfouch
    Philosophy Today 67 (1): 207-222. 2023.
    The following conversation examines the role of the university in our present moment and examines the necessity of anti-colonial praxis in the academy. The dialogue takes as its starting point the long history of white, heteropatriarchal capitalist supremacy that has oriented the institutional production of knowledge and considers its present permutations in such practices as diversity initiatives in teaching and hiring. The discussants in turn reflect on their own approaches and strategies for …Read more
  •  14
    This article proposes that social identities are best understood as a kind of affordance, a “social identity affordance.” Social identity affordances are possibilities for action and interaction between persons, within a social niche, based on perceived and self-perceived social group identification. First, the view presented captures and articulates the basic structure of social identities. Second, it explains the multifaceted interplay of such an item in the social field, including not only th…Read more
  •  11
    A Dialectical Taxonomy of Resistance
    The Harvard Review of Philosophy 28 23-52. 2021.
    Working from Adorno’s notion of negative dialectics, this essay charts a dialectical course of resistance toward a horizon of universal freedom. Rather than propose relations between ideal types of resistance, it emphasizes the ineliminable historical dimensions of not only real-world resistance movements but also the philosophical and political theorizing that attempts to make sense of them. In doing so it brings out certain conceptual relations that emerge or recede as the context of resistanc…Read more
  •  7
    Resistance and the Reconfiguration of the Sensible (review)
    Syndicate Philosophy 1. 2017.
    Politics is about much more than the laws we enact, the politicians we elect, the institutional structures and procedures that we support, and the distribution of rights and goods that undergird those decisions. It is, certainly, all of those things, but it is also something deeper and more fundamental to our way of being in society and among those with whom we live: at the level of our sensibility lies that which conditions our experiences and interactions. By sensibility I am referring to the …Read more
  •  6
    Legitimacy, resistance and the stakes of politics
    Philosophy and Social Criticism. forthcoming.
    This essay argues for the conceptual connection of legitimacy, resistance and ‘the people’ within liberal theories of public justification by making two primary claims: that legitimacy and resistance are mutually constitutive of one another and that together legitimacy and resistance are constitutive of an aspirational conception of ‘the people’. These claims revolve around the idea that the legitimacy of democratic regimes necessarily entails the questioning of that legitimacy through resistanc…Read more
  •  6
    Jacques Rancière and Critical Theory: Issue Introduction
    Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 27 (2): 1-7. 2019.
    Overview of the special issue on Jacques Ranciere and Critical Theory, along with some additional thoughts.
  •  6
    Looks at the connections between practices of resistance and political theory.
  • New Perspectives on the Ontology of Social Identities (edited book)
    Routledge. forthcoming.