Dr. Alejandro de Acosta

Alejandro de Acosta received his Ph.D. in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture from SUNY-Binghamton, and his B.A. from Hampshire College.

His dissertation, The Power of the Affects, concerns the relation between reason and emotion in relation to group and individual subjectivity. It was inspired by the experiences of extraparliamentary political groups and various forms of social marginality.

His current research and teaching interests are in Latin American philosophy (especially questions of language, territory, history, and cosmology), and the theoretico-practical intersection of anarchist theory, experimental therapeutic practices and assorted “limit-experiences.”

He is also interested in studying and intensifying the tension between philosophy as an academic discipline and philosophy as self-fashioning, or as way of life.

He has published articles in OFF! The Voice of Campus and Community, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, Radical Society, and Tactical Sound. With Joshua Beckman, he has completed a translation of Carlos Oquendo de Amat’s Cinco metros de poemas [Five Meters of Poems], to be published by Ugly Duckling Press.

He collects music, books, and scraps of material life that he finds in the streets of Austin, and goes on bicycle adventures whenever he can.



	Dr. Shannon Winnubst Dr. Elaine Craddock Dr. Laura Hobgood-Oster Dr. Philip Hopkins Dr. Michael Bray Dr. Alejandro de Acosta Philosophy Courses Religion Courses Photos Return to Main		Dr. Alejandro de Acosta Alejandro de Acosta received his Ph.D. in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture from SUNY-Binghamton, and his B.A. from Hampshire College. His dissertation, The Power of the Affects, concerns the relation between reason and emotion in relation to group and individual subjectivity. It was inspired by the experiences of extraparliamentary political groups and various forms of social marginality. His current research and teaching interests are in Latin American philosophy (especially questions of language, territory, history, and cosmology), and the theoretico-practical intersection of anarchist theory, experimental therapeutic practices and assorted “limit-experiences.” He is also interested in studying and intensifying the tension between philosophy as an academic discipline and philosophy as self-fashioning, or as way of life. He has published articles in OFF! The Voice of Campus and Community, Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, Radical Society, and Tactical Sound. With Joshua Beckman, he has completed a translation of Carlos Oquendo de Amat’s Cinco metros de poemas [Five Meters of Poems], to be published by Ugly Duckling Press. He collects music, books, and scraps of material life that he finds in the streets of Austin, and goes on bicycle adventures whenever he can.