Russell Ladson is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley.
His research interrogates the metaphysical presuppositions that structure form, intelligence, and negation. Working within the fractures that link ancient ontology, Kant and Hegel, and contemporary formations of intelligence and computation, he asks what remains when thought no longer believes in its own coherence.
Before coming to Berkeley, he earned dual master’s degrees from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in Interactive Telecommunications (ITP) and Arts Politics with a focus on human-computer interaction and computational media. He holds a BA from Morehouse College.
Philosophies of Intelligence (metaphysics of mind and computation)
Philosophies of Form (metaphysics of form and being)
Kant and Hegel
