Book Projects:
I am in the very early phases of two book projects. One will explore Merleau-Ponty's enigmatic reference, in the Visible and the Invisible, to a "transcendental geology," reading this phrase as expressive of a philosophical method and a philosophical ontology. The second, intended for undergraduate philosophy students, is a guide to philosophical writing.
Articles in Progress:
I am currently working on three articles, each promised for a different edited collection.
A (second) paper on Fanon's phenomenological geography, this one intended to bring his critical use of spatial metaphors and imagery in Black Skin White Masks into conversation with his more explicit engagement with critical geographies in Wretched of the Earth. This one will appear in the Palgrave Handbook to Frantz Fanon.
A paper on the violence and laughter, as forms of what I call "exuberant transcendence", this one begins with Ottobah Cugoano's 1789 abolitionist treatise, Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, and traces some common themes up to the mid-20th century, ending with a close reading of Ralph Ellison's autobiographical essay "An Extravagance of Laughter." It will appear in an edited collection on slavery and the philosophy of the emotions.
A paper on the Indigenous philosopher V.F. Cordova's philosophical methodology, to be published in an edited collection celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of Cordova's landmark How It Is, this chapter explores some of the distinctive features of Native American philosophy, with particular emphasis on "hermeneutic tolerance" as a philosophical ideal.