“Biopower, Fascism, and the Coloniality of ‘Life’” — A Talk by Sabeen Ahmed

Sabeen Ahmed (she/her) is an interdisciplinary scholar, cultural theorist, and visual artist whose work bridges social and political philosophy, critical aesthetics, and anticolonial thought and praxis. She specializes in the philosophy of race, critical colonial studies, Marx, Foucault, and twentieth-century Continental Philosophy, with particular interests in Critical Theory, existential phenomenology, and aesthetics and affect studies. Her current research examines the enduring coloniality of modern law, regimes of racial legibility, and the metaphysics of fascism. She holds a PhD in Philosophy from Vanderbilt University and has held academic appointments at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Colorado College, and Swarthmore College.