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71How method travels: genealogy in Foucault and Castro-GómezInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 67 (7): 2147-2174. 2024.This paper examines whether, and how, Foucauldian genealogy travels to contexts and problematizations beyond the method's European site of articulation. Our particular focus is on the work of Colombian philosopher Santiago Castro-Gómez, whose work includes both a systematic defense of the usefulness of Foucauldian inquiry for decolonial study and genealogical inquiry in a Foucauldian spirit but in a context beyond Foucault's own horizon of study. We show that taking up Foucault's work in the con…Read more
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33Just the Same as Fascism for UsPhilosophy Today 67 (1): 153-170. 2023.Recent scholarship on fascism has largely centered on identifying the defining features of fascism to determine whether political figures and parties are fascist. These debates take European fascism as paradigmatic, thereby obscuring alternative traditions of antifascist theorizing that can shed new light on the contemporary ascendancy of fascism in the United States and elsewhere. This paper examines one such alternative in the antifascist thought and praxis of the Black Panther Party. Against …Read more
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17Book review: A Hermeneutics of Violence: A Four-Dimensional Conception (review)Thesis Eleven 169 (1): 112-114. 2022.
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40Historicizing White Supremacist Terrorism with Ida B. WellsPolitical Theory 50 (2): 275-304. 2022.In light of increasing white supremacist violence in the United States, calls to identify such violence as terrorism have surged in public discourse. Federal and state agencies have taken up these demands and included white supremacy in counterterrorism and national security policy. While this classification appears to remove the racist double standard in applications of the terrorism label, it has come under criticism for obscuring the history and distinctly U.S. American roots of white suprema…Read more
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21Genealogy as Multiplicity, Contestation, and Relay: Response to Samir Haddad, Sarah Hansen, and Cressida HeyesFoucault Studies 1 (28): 25-35. 2020.
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19Philosophical Practice Following FoucaultFoucault Studies 25 55-83. 2018.This paper develops a heuristic of different modes of philosophical engagement with Michel Foucault’s work with the aim to aid self-reflection about contemporary uses of Foucault. Drawing on debates in the history of philosophy, I describe contextualism, appropriationism, and methodologism as three strands of Foucault scholarship. I then examine queer and feminist philosophical engagements with Foucault to explicate and illustrate the aims and strengths of each strand. I conclude by spelling out…Read more
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12Editor's Introduction: Critical Histories of the PresentSouthern Journal of Philosophy 55 (S1): 5-6. 2017.
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32Genealogies of Terrorism: Revolution, State Violence, EmpireColumbia University Press. 2018.What is terrorism? What ought we to do about it? And why is it wrong? We think we have clear answers to these questions. But acts of violence, like U.S. drone strikes that indiscriminately kill civilians, and mass shootings that become terrorist attacks when suspects are identified as Muslim, suggest that definitions of terrorism are always contested. In Genealogies of Terrorism, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson rejects attempts to define what terrorism is in favor of a historico-philosophical investi…Read more
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128Theodor W. Adorno on ‘Marx and the Basic Concepts of Sociological Theory’Historical Materialism 26 (1): 154-164. 2018.The following is the transcript of a lecture taken in shorthand by Hans-Georg Backhaus. The transcript was originally published as an appendix in Hans-Georg Backhaus, Dialektik der Wertform. Untersuchungen zur marxschen Ökonomiekritik, a complete translation of which is forthcoming in the Historical Materialism book series.
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95Being a Foreigner in Philosophy: A TaxonomyHypatia 33 (2): 307-324. 2018.The question of diversity, both with regard to the demographic profile of philosophers as well as the content of philosophical inquiry, has received much attention in recent years. One figure that has gone relatively unnoticed is that of the foreigner. To the extent that philosophers have taken the foreigner as their object of inquiry, they have focused largely on challenges nonnative speakers of English face in a profession conducted predominantly in English. Yet an understanding of the foreign…Read more
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37Foucault’s Sad Heterotopology of the BodyphiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 6 (2): 171-194. 2016.
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28From Race War to Socialist Racism: Foucault’s Second TranscriptionFoucault Studies 22. 2017.Since the publication of Michel Foucault’s lectures at the Collège de France, his position on race and racism has received much attention. The focus of discussion has largely been on his genealogy of biological racism as a feature of modern biopolitics. His account of social racism, by contrast, remains largely unexamined. Thus, the aim of this paper is to reconstruct and substantiate Foucault’s cursory remarks of the transcription of the historical discourse of race war into social racism. Afte…Read more
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61How (not) to study terrorismCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 17 (4): 470-491. 2014.This article disputes the premise dominant in moral philosophy and the social sciences that a strict definition of terrorism is needed in order to evaluate and confront contemporary political violence. It argues that a definition of terrorism is not only unhelpful, but also impossible if the historicity and flexibility of the concept are to be taken seriously. Failure to account for terrorism as a historical phenomenon produces serious analytical and epistemological problems that result in an an…Read more
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Foucault und die Realitätsbedingungen leiblicher ErfahrungIn Thomas Bedorf & Tobias Nikolaus Klass (eds.), Leib – Körper – Politik, Velbrück Wissenschaft. 2015.
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73Notes on violence: Walter Benjamin's relevance for the study of terrorismJournal of Global Ethics 6 (2): 167-178. 2010.This article uses Walter Benjamin's theoretical claims in the 'Critique of violence' to shed light on some current conceptualisations of terrorism. It suggests an understanding of terrorism as an essentially contested concept. If the theorist uncritically adopts the state's account of terrorism, she occludes an important dimension of the phenomenon that allows for a rethinking of the state's claim to a monopoly on legitimate violence. Benjamin's essay conceptualises the state as resulting from a…Read more
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36Terrorism and Revolutionary Violence: The Emergence of Terrorism in the French RevolutionCritical Studies on Terrorism 8 (2): 193-210. 2015.Accounts of terrorism, which locate the emergence of the concept in the French Revolution, tend to accept two premises. First, they assume that the concept of terrorism names a particular form of violence. Second, they regard Robespierre as the first practitioner of terrorism, thus suggesting an understanding of the term as state violence. While this article substantiates the second premise by way of a discussion of the first systematic articulation of terrorism by Tallien in 1794, it problemati…Read more
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33Ben Golder and Peter Fitzpatrick (eds.) , Foucault and Law (Surrey and Burlington: Ashgate, 2010), ISBN: 978-0754628668Foucault Studies 12 219-222. 2011.
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79The Concept of Sovereignty in Contemporary Continental Political PhilosophyPhilosophy Compass 7 (6): 365-375. 2012.The concept of sovereignty is one of the central concepts of modern political philosophy. However, faced with processes of economic globalization as well as legal and political universalism, contemporary political theory struggles to account for the exercise of state power in terms of the traditional understanding of sovereignty. This survey article reviews the most influential conceptualizations of sovereignty in contemporary continental political philosophy. These include Schmitt’s defense of …Read more
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107The Place of Sovereignty: Mapping Power with Agamben, Butler, and FoucaultCritical Horizons 14 (1): 44-69. 2013.,is article addresses the relationship between sovereignty, biopolitics and governmentality in the work of Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault. By unpacking Foucault’s genealogy of modern governmentality, it responds to a criticism leveled against Foucauldian accounts of power for their alleged abandonment of the traditional model of power in juridico-institutional terms in favor of an understanding of power as purely productive. ,is claim has most signi-cantly been developed by …Read more
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University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignDepartment of Philosophy
Department of Political ScienceAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Social and Political Philosophy |
Michel Foucault |
Critical Theory, Misc |
Continental Philosophy |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |
Philosophy of Law |