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Violence · Imagination · Critical Theory
Current Research
What Is a Political Imaginary?
A philosophical and historical investigation into one of contemporary theory's most ubiquitous and least understood concepts. The project traces the idea of the collective imaginary from postwar French philosophy through its confused reception in anglophone social and political theory, and offers a critical diagnosis of what that confusion reveals about the current intellectual and political conjuncture.
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Imperial Nostalgia as Patrimony: Shipwrecks and Treasures in the Colonial MuseumThe ideological work of the museum: how objects of colonial extraction are aestheticized into heritage.
2026
Critical Inquiry
What Is an Imaginary?Why has "imaginary" become ubiquitous in the humanities and the theoretical social sciences? This article traces the concept's origins, its theoretical debts, and the intellectual costs of its current usage.
2026
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
Class and Racial Capitalism: Lessons from Valdez' Democracy and EmpireOn the limits of the theory of racial capitalism — a critical engagement with Inés Valdez's Democracy and Empire.
2026
Polity
Capitalist Democracy and Socialist StrategyA contribution to a symposium on Adam Przeworski's Capitalism and Social Democracy, revisiting questions of democratic strategy on the left.
2025
