I am a scholar of technology, media, and aesthetics trained in continental philosophy and critical theory in Europe and the United States. My research examines how the material infrastructures of the modern world embody and uphold relations of power and domination, despite professing to liberate humanity from scarcity and toil.

In my doctoral research, I focused on the longue durée of industrial modernity and the machine-mediated ordering of life in technologized society, tracing its roots to the nineteenth century. My dissertation, “Karl Marx, Philosopher of Technics: Critique, Alienation, and the Materiality of Social Power,” grounded this historical inquiry in Marx’s engagement with the industrial literature of his time, reconstructing – against prevailing productivist and economicist readings – how he theorized the relationship between capitalism and modern technological transformations. I argued that Marx’s account of industrial development, though largely misunderstood by the Marxist tradition, presciently identified in the capitalist “subsumption” of the labor process the basis of the technocratic illusion that governs the relationship between humans and technology in advanced industrial society. Today, this illusion finds renewed expression in the contemporary AI project and its pretense of expanding human autonomy through the automation of judgment and reason – rehearsing, in the process, the fateful convergence of technological determinism and authoritarian politics that plagued the twentieth century.

I hold a Ph.D. from Duke University’s Graduate Program in Literature, where I specialized in critical theory and media philosophy, as well as a Fulbright-funded master’s degree in media studies from New York University. I received my undergraduate training in Spain, where I completed two degrees in philosophy (UNED) and fine art (University of Barcelona). I am currently an affiliated researcher with the Historical Materialism Studies Group of the Societat Catalana de Filosofia – the philosophy section of the Institut d’Estudis Catalans, the highest academic body for the Catalan language and culture. My work has appeared in South Atlantic Quarterly and Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, with further articles under review or in preparation for Historical Materialism, Theory, Culture & Society, and a special issue of Qui Parle. Alongside my research, I have developed substantive experience in writing pedagogy, including two years of writing center practice at Duke’s Thompson Writing Studio and teaching writing-intensive courses on media theory, philosophy of technology, and the history and politics of AI.