AliKashani

Ali Kashani

Lecturer Faculty
Political Philosophy, Ethics
Email: kashani@sfsu.edu
Location: Humanities Building Room 443
Office Hours:
Mon: 5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.or by appointment
Biography

Ali Kashani holds a Ph.D. in philosophy. He teaches courses in continental philosophy, social and political philosophy, political theory, ethics, critical theory, post-structuralism, anarchism, and feminist philosophy.

He is the author of Radical Generosity: Resisting Xenophobia, Considering Cosmopolitanism, (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), ‘Media and Ethics: The Public Sphere, Truth-Telling, and Practice of Freedom’ in a volume entitled Lost in Media: Ethics of Everyday Life, (Peter Lang Publishing, 2013), and ‘Machine Rationality and the Logic of Social Control and Domination’ in a volume entitled Meditations on Resistance: An Inquiry into AI, Critical Media Literacy, and Social Justice, (Peter Lang Publishing, 2024). He is also working on two book projects entitled, Critical Resistance: In the Time of Crisis, and Social Control: Power, Truth, Specters of Democracy.

 

Recent Presentations

"Anarchy and the Art of Critical Resistance." PACT 2021: Anarchy. Volcanoes National Park, Hawai'i, September 2021.

Eleven Theses on Strike. 15th Global Labour University Conference LIVESTREAM 15th GLU Conference, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Germany, April 4th, 2022.