My research is centered in the intersection between the philosophy of biology and the philosophy of technology, and their ontological and political implications. I am interested in exploring the relationship between the ecological and the political, the place of technics in ecology and evolution, and the limits of cybernetics in the understanding of life. My thinking is influenced by biologists of the Eco-evo-devo field (Ecological, evolutionary, and developmental biology), who describe evolution not through exclusively genetic means, but through a variety of phenomena occurring in development. Most importantly, organisms always evolve in relationship and response to one another, that is that evolution is always coevolution. I argue that this has great implications on our understanding of technics and their evolution, especially as developed in the works of Bernard Stiegler, and enables us to better theorize technology beyond the Nature-Culture distinction. I’m interested in understandings of life rooted in particularity and historicity, and without the subordination of parts to the whole. This also leads to further questions about locality and politics. Related to this inquiry, I’m also interested in critiques of reductionist biology, genetics, and the nation-state. Other than the aforementioned thinkers, my thinking is influenced by Hannah Arendt, Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, Jakob von Uexküll, Martin Buber, and the Ontological Turn in Anthropology.
I received my Bachelor of Science from UC Berkeley in Conservation and Resource Studies with a focus in Environmental Philosophy.
Philosophy of Biology, Philosophy of Technology, Environmental Humanities, Posthumanism, New Materialism, Political Theory, Phenomenology, Cybernetics
