About

I am a Ph.D. student living in New York City. My primary intellectual concerns are the visual cultures produced by European expansion during the “modern” era, especially the various hybrid cultural phenomena that have become “American” (Native American, Euro-American, African-American, and so on). I approach these histories with an eye toward the “history of the present,” recocognizing the irresolution of old histories in today’s relationships–and their import for ethical social engagement today. As such, I attend to the genealogical precursors of contemporary globalization, technological acceleration, and post-national reformulations of “community.” I am also interested in the question of “responsibility” as it flashes up in the age of decentralized (”swarm”) warfare and the inhuman virtualization of information.

But, all told, I’d rather be hiking, hunting forest herbs, or running along the Hudson in NYC…

Random other interests: edible/medicinal wild plants; wilderness survival; social ecology; anarchism; pacificism; open-source software; Linux; Python; beginning programming; troubleshooting; modern theology; history of philosophy; ethics; Judeo-Christian traditions; human rights without liberalism; global politics of indigeneity; obscure Simpsons references; genealogy; eco-communities; agriculture that works, i.e. sustains communities indefinitely; the Pre-Columbian Americas; possibilities of off-grid/net living.