I am an Assistant Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Utah. My work has appeared in scientific and humanities journals, and my public writing in venues such as Science for the People and The Brooklyn Rail.
Science is conventionally understood as the domain of universal and objective truths—the realm of “positive” facts. Yet it is also often theorized as an instrument of domination. My work explores a different possibility: science as critique.
Drawing on training in astrophysics, philosophy, and Latin American studies, I trace how scientific ideas circulate beyond laboratories and universities, becoming a means through which Indigenous and Latin American intellectuals and movements challenge power.
My current book project traces how thinkers in Mexico, Peru, and Argentina transformed Indigenous knowledges, relativistic physics, psychoanalysis, and genetics into practices of critique capable of reshaping both science and culture.
Write me at alejostark [at] gmail [dot] com.
