Drawing inspiration from Machiavelli’s discussion of “necessity,” Arendt’s emphasis on the frailty of human “action” and “power,” Heidegger’s later thoughts on “clearing,” and Jonas’s discourses on “metabolism,” all of which argue, in their respective ways, that freedom is futile and can only be reaffirmed or thrive in the multi-plays of worldly distancing, I aspire to provide a notion of freedom that emphasizes the experience of the vital becoming of human lives while leaving room for their formal, relatively stable personalized maintenance of freedom to be possible within the multiple phenomenological distances to which the plural free processes are distinctively incepted, intersected, and grounded.
The key concepts reproductively engender my thoughts include agency, life, intensity, individuation, worldliness, temporality, spatiality, personality, appearance, and necessity.
I received my B.A. in Political Science, with a minor in Sociology, from George Washington University and my M.A. in Social Sciences (focusing mainly on political theory and continental thoughts) from the University of Chicago. My M.A. thesis at the University of Chicago addressed how Machiavelli’s conceptualization of “necessity” demands an ethical-existential transformation of subjects, resulting in a particularly ferocious free ethos, and how that ethos can and should be maintained and continuously reproduced within a popular-democratic institutional context.
Political Theory (Machiavelli, Arendt, Foucault)
Ethics and Subjectivity
Phenomenology
Existential Philosophy
New Materialism
Process Ontology