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304Faith between reason and affect: thinking with Antonio GramsciDistinktion: Journal of Social Theory 1 (1). 2021.This article argues that faith is a crucial concept for understanding the relationship between reason and affect. By allowing people to learn from religious faith for secular ends, it can help generate political action for emancipatory change. Antonio Gramsci's underexplored secular-political and materialist conception of faith provides an important contribution to such a project. By speaking to common sense and tradition, faith avoids imposing a wholly external set of normative and political pr…Read more
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236Comradely critiquePolitical Studies 1. 2021.What does it mean to disagree with people with whom you usually agree? How should political actors concerned with emancipation approach internal disagreement? In short, how should we go about critiquing not our enemies or adversaries but those with whom we share emancipatory visions? I outline the notion of comradely critique as a solution to these questions. I go through a series of examples of how and when critique should differ depending on its addressee, drawing on Jodi Dean’s figure of the …Read more
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203‘Black Intellectuals in the Age of Crack’: Organic Responsibility, the Race-Class-Gender Nexus, and Action Paralysis in the Boston Review Roundtables, 1992–1993Global Intellectual History 1 (00): 00. 2022.The existing research on the role of intellectuals in alleviating suffering has overlooked contributions by prominent Black intellectuals from the United States in the early 1990s. Two roundtable debates co-organised under the auspices of the Boston Review at Harvard and MIT in 1992 and 1993 in response to Eugene Rivers’ essay “On the Responsibility of Intellectuals in the Age of Crack” were central to these contributions, counting a star-studded line-up of Black intellectuals including bell hoo…Read more
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32Eugene Rivers and the responsibility of intellectualsConstellations 29 (2): 244-258. 2022.Constellations, Volume 29, Issue 2, Page 244-258, June 2022.
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17Domestic colonies: The turn inward to colonyContemporary Political Theory 18 (3): 195-198. 2017.
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12Political fatalism and the (im)possibility of social transformationContemporary Political Theory 1-19. forthcoming.How can the world be improved if the people inhabiting it do not believe they can transform it? A belief in such political fatalism is an important obstacle to social transformation, yet underexplored in the contemporary political theory literature. Political fatalism can be understood as a commitment to the belief that human agency cannot effectuate social transformation. In this article, I provide a typology of such political fatalism, considering its two main forms: fatalism of inevitability …Read more
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London School of EconomicsFellow
London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Specialization
Political Theory |
Critical Theory |
Social and Political Philosophy |
20th Century Continental Philosophy |