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813Anger, Fragility, and the Formation of Resistant Feminist SpaceJournal of Speculative Philosophy 34 (3): 367-377. 2020.This article explores the role of second-order anger in the formation of resistant feminist space through the work of María Lugones and Sara Ahmed. I argue that this incommunicative form of anger can operate as a bridge between two senses of resistant spatiality in Lugones, connecting the hangout, which is a collective and transgressive space for alternative sense making, and the cocoon, which is a solitary and germinative space of tense internal transformation. By weaving connections with Ahmed…Read more
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1231Sylvia Wynter’s Decolonial Rejoinder to Judith Butler’s Ethics of VulnerabilitySymposium 22 (2): 158-177. 2018.Judith Butler argues for collective liberatory action grounded in ontological vulnerability. Yet descriptive social ontology alone provides neither normative ethical prescriptions nor direction for political action. I believe Butler tries to overcome this gap by appealing to equality as an ethical ideal. In this article, I reconstruct how equality operates in her transition from ontological vulnerability to prescriptive commitments. Then, turning to Sylvia Wynter, I argue Butler's uncritical use…Read more
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California State University, BakersfieldDepartment of Philosophy and Religious StudiesAssistant Professor
Bakersfield, California, United States of America