This dissertation develops a theory that accounts for the rhetorical practices that constitute living entities as sacred, expendable, or somewhere in between. I forward a concept of zoerhetorics , defined as legible, consequential, public, and partisan discourses or practices th…
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This Master’s Thesis explores the deployment and appropriation of the war metaphor as it relates to criminal justice policy in the United States from 1930 forward, paying close attention to the 1980s and 2010s. More specifically, this thesis centers on the city of Chicago to ana…
“Towards a Theory of Digital Necropolitics,” elucidates the intersection of technology, human rights, aesthetics, and testimony through representations of the dead, dying, disappeared, or wounded body. Theorizing interventions into "Digital Necropolitics” highlights how the digi…
As the devastating effects of the Anthropocene become ever more acute, contemporary artists are increasingly concerning themselves with ecology: the study of relations between organisms and their environments. In this thesis I examine several projects that address these critical…
This work centers on the necropolitical lived reality of Latinx people within the United States. Specifically, this work explores the conditions of death present at the US-Mexico border which migrants encounter, as well as the condition of social death that those undocumented mi…