• Colby College
    Department of Philosophy
    Other faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)
Waterville, Maine, United States of America
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    Introduction
    Symposium 27 (1): 1-7. 2023.
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    BioShock Infinite begins with the question of “founding.” One enters Columbia for the first time on “Secession Day,” the anniversary of Columbia's secession from the United States in 1902, and the commemoration of the founding of Columbia as the “New Eden.” Racial difference is one of the major antagonisms in BioShock Infinite. BioShock Infinite exemplifies Carl Schmitt's concept of the political, as grounded on fundamental antagonisms that express the will of “the people” of Columbia. Sovereign…Read more
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    Loving Rust's Pessimism
    In Tom Sparrow & Jacob Graham (eds.), True Detective and Philosophy, Wiley. 2017.
    This chapter describes motivations of Rust Cohle's pessimism in the first season of True Detective. On the one hand, Rust's pessimism is linked to the tragic death of his daughter, implying that a profound, personal tragedy made him a pessimist. On the other hand, Rust never appeals to this tragedy or any other personal experience to justify his belief in the meaninglessness of existence, arguing always that it comes from a rational evaluation of reality. In the season finale, Rust has a near‐de…Read more
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    The biopolitics of punishment: Derrida and Foucault (edited book)
    Northwestern University Press. 2022.
    The Biopolitics of Punishment marks a new chapter in the long-standing debate between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. The essays collected in this volume chart the undertheorized dialogue between the two philosophers on questions of life, death, punishment, power, and resistance.
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    Excluded Within: The Intelligibility of Radical Political Actors by Sina Kramer
    philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 9 (2): 151-156. 2019.
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    Sina Kramer, Excluded Within: The Intelligibility of Radical Political Actors (review)
    philoSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 9 (2): 151-156. 2019.
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    Review of Peter Gordon’s Adorno and Existence (review)
    Adorno Studies 2 (1): 82-87. 2018.
    Review of Peter Gordon’s Adorno and Existence.
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    Identity, Exchange, and Violence
    Symposium 22 (1): 210-227. 2018.
    This paper follows the question of violence as a guide to exploring the link between the metaphysical, social, and political in Adorno’s thought. More specifically, I argue that violence, in the form of the exclusion, domination, and fungibility of life, marks the shared space of the metaphysical, material, and ethical for Adorno. Hence, this project contests the longstanding Habermas-inspired notion that there is something unclear in the way in which Adorno’s metaphysical and methodological cri…Read more
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    Derrida and the Inheritance of Democracy. By Samir Haddad
    International Philosophical Quarterly 55 (1): 130-132. 2015.