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Humanities Division
History of Consciousness Department
PhD Student
Graduate
History Of Consciousness
- BA Philosophy at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM - CDMX, Mexico)
- MA Savoirs en Sociétés at École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS - Paris, France)
At the crossroads of philosophy of technology, STS, political economy, environmental humanities and political theory, my PhD dissertation project develops a longue durée materialist history of mining extractivism.
As such, this project attempts to shed critical light on the sociotechnical and socioenvironmental morphology of colonialism, capitalism and the Anthropocene. More generally, it tackles broad political, philosophical and athropological questions like: What constitutes value, use and waste? Which are the material conditions of possibility for the transformation of shared experience? How are nature and society assembled through the means and mediums that make and are made by historically situated processes and devices? How different modes of appropriation, modes of production and modes of dwelling produce and reproduce particular - yet patterened - relations between humans and non-humans alike? Or how do landscapes and populations subsist through resources and how do resources subsist through landscapes and populations?
Before, I did a field philosophy MA dissertation on field philosophy on land struggles in Chiapas Mexico.
Extractivism - Dwelling - Social Movements - Critical Theory - Environmental Humanities - Violence - Sovereignty - Property - Anthropocene - Historical Materialism - New Materialisms - Political Ecology - Commons - Philosophy of Technology - Non-western Marxisms - Conceptual History - Labor and Environmental History - Infrastructure Studies
Marx - Foucault - Ilich - Simondon - Schmitt - Agamben - Mbembe - Heidegger - Hegel - Haraway - Latour - Deleuze - Federici - Benjamin
Zapatistas - Antiglobalization movement - Labor, environmental and autonomic struggles
My teaching interests gravitate around Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Historical and Critical Epistemology, Conceptual History, Philosophical Anthropology, French Theory, and Marxisms.
I am currently preparing a GSI course on Structuralism and Poststructuralism: "After Language"
TAships
2026/7 (Fall) – Teacher assistant “Why Obey?”, Dr. Robert Nichols – History of Consciousness, UCSC
2025/6 (Winter) – Teacher assistant “What is Resistance?”, Dr. Banu Bargu – History of Consciousness, UCSC
2025/6 (Fall) – Teacher assistant “Historical Introduction to Philosophy”, Dr. Massimiliano Tomba - History of Consciousness, UCSC
2018/9 - Teacher assistant "Theory of Knowledge I" and "Theory of Knowledge II", Dr. Ricardo Vásquez Gutiérrez - FFyL, UNAM
- 2026 - History of Consciosuenss Outstanding Teaching Assistant
- 2025 – 2029 – SECHITI – PhD Fellowship in Science and Humanities Abroad 2025
- 2025 - Graduate Dean's Travel Grant
- 2024 – Summer – Tribeca Summer Funding Support - History of Consciousness, UCSC
- 2024 - Chancellor's Fellowship – PhD History of Consciousness, UCSC
- 2022, 2021 – Fieldwork travel expenses support – Environmental Studies Master, EHESS
- 2021 – Ecosociety Research Award (as part of the Research Cooperative ‘FRICHE’) - Fondation pour le Progrès de l'Homme (FPH)
- 2019 – CONACYT research assistantship (National Research System SNI - level III)
- 2017, 2018 – PAPIIT research fellowship and degree completion fellowship, Philosophy Faculty (FFyL), UNAM, within the framework of the IN403017 project: “Sophists and Pragmatists”
- 2026 – “Dwelling” at the Political Concepts Graduate Conference – New School for Social Research, (March 26) - New York, USA
- 2026 – “Sacrifice and Infrastructural Violence” (with Natalia Derossi) at the “Profane Technologies: Sacrifice, Translation, and Technological Modernity” panel in the 2026 Western Religion Conference, American Association of Religion (AAR), (March 15) – Las Vegas, USA
- 2019 – “Wittgenstein y Gramsci: de la palabra a lo politico” (Wittgenstein and Gramsci: from the speech to the political) at the 3er simposio Sofística y Pragmatismo (3rd conference Sophists and Pragmatism), FFyL UNAM (August 29) – Mexico City, Mexico
- 2018 - "Nietzsche y Wittgenstein: La inmanencia de lo cotidiano” (Nietzsche and Wittgenstein: The Immanence of the Ordinary) at the panel Nietzsche, Voluntad y Verdad (Nietzsche, Will and Truth) as part of the XIX Congreso Internacional de Filosofía (19th International Congress of Philosophy), Asociación Filosófica de México (AFM), (November 12) - Aguas Calientes, Mexico
- 2018 – “La Razón en contexto: Prácticas y costumbres en la construcción de lo politico” (Reason in context: Practices and customs in the construction of politics), 2do Coloquio Sofística y Pragmatismo (2nd colloquium Sophists and Pragmatism) PAPITT project IN403017, UNAM (August 30) – FFyL, Mexico
ARTICLES
2025 - "Expropriation and Extraction" coauthored with Dr. Robert Nichols in Traces of Nitrate, Editorial Teno
2020 - Book chapter "Nietzsche, Wittgenstein y Marx: de la Inmanencia de lo Cotidiano a la Filosofía de la Praxis" (Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Marx: from the Immanence of the Ordinary to the Philosophy of Praxis) in Sofística y Pragmatismo - coordinated by Dr. Rogelio Laguna & Dra. Mónica Gómez Salazar – FFyL - UNAM
NON-ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
2026 - "Que faire de la pensée? Vers une critique des dispositifs dégéneratifs - A bas bruit
2024 - "Les hurlements du vent : enquête sur l’extractivisme éolien au Mexique” coauthored with Natalia Derossi for Revue Terrestres
2023 - “Ch.9. The Extemporaneous", "Ch.10. Sans Papiers with the Zapatistas, Zapatistas with the Sans Papiers"; "Ch.25. Flowers from Bridges"; "Ch.26. All life is a life” – Coauthored with Métie Navajo in The Journey for Life (Lisa Lugrin), Futuropolis
TRANSLATIONS
(Forthcoming) - El cuidado de las nubes. Envejecimiento y Demencia en Oaxaca (Caring for the People of the Clouds. Aging and Dementia in Oaxaca), Jonathan Yahalom - Abya Yala
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