Benjamin JJ Carpenter
Doctor of Philosophy
About
My research focuses on conceptions of the self and the political formulation of identity. Specifically, I understand selfhood and the categories of identity as spatial: as shaped by the spaces in which we appear to ourselves and others. My current project uses cyber phenomenology to examine the role of digital technologies in shaping the self.
Publications
The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Digital Spaces: Appearing Together
“Monstrous Adventurers”: The Racecraft of the Dungeons and Dragons Imaginary forthcoming in the Howard Journal of Communication Studies
“Command Me Confessor”: Violence, Power, and Ethics within Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth Series. (Chapter in Fictional Worlds and the Political Imagination, forthcoming with Palgrave.)
Gender Precarity: Gender Identity and the Economy of Authenticity
Confronting Grief in the Post-Snap World in Avengers Endgame and Philosophy
Reviews
Roberto Malvezzi: The Archetype of Wisdom: A Phenomenological Research on the Greek Temple
Heidegger in Ruins (Forthcoming)
Reading Groups
Trans Philosophy Reading Group
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