Yesterday I had the pleasure of doing an interview with Heather Duncan and Alex Reid concerning digital humanities, blogging, twitter, and to a lesser degree object-oriented ontology. With any luck it will be posted, alongside a host of other interviews (including one by Eileen Joy), in the Fall. During the course of our discussion, Heather raised questions about OOO [object oriented ontology] and politics, remarking that initially she worried that OOO has no place for politics. Given that everything always comes back to politics for me, I was eager to know what gave her this impression.
I have a Ph.D. in Existential Phenomenology from the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of North Texas-Denton. I began my vocation through a nine year apprenticeship with my mentor, Richard M. Owsley, a primary founder of our philosophy program. I can be found around Denton troubling students and professors about this and that. A fringe scholar wandering like a. mountain dog through the borderlands between the Academy and the World, I love the hell out of Socrates and Yoda while tending to act like William S. Burroughs and Jaba the Hut. My current projects include studies of the Dào Dé Jing, the critical intersection of of Karl Jaspers’ periechontology with queer theory, and the challenge of finding freedom under the Current Empire.
CALL ME MAGGIE 
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