Over the years, my interests and writings have varied from Lebanese post-cold war art and politics; to theories of witnessing, testimony and critiques of memory culture; realism and modernism debates in documentary; contemporary art and finance; to psychoanalysis and law, while remaining in keeping with a long tradition of Marxism and critical theory.
My doctoral work revolved around art and politics in the context of post-Cold War Lebanon and private reconstruction, reading the formal strategies of certain artists and filmmakers as ideology critique, and part of an extended political modernism through their rethinking of the figure of the witness.
I grew interested in post-Marxist critiques of contemporary art as contiguous with the broader political economy, not in spite of its criticality but because of it. I became interested in labour and art organizing (also through an art protocol project that never came to fruition).
I have also written about hypochondriasis and modernity, first as an auto theory essay, then as a scholarly exploration of the modern dialectics of health and illness in the figure of critique that I argue is the hypochondriac. I am drafting a book length manuscript on this question. In this line of non-academic writing, I am also developing a prose essay titled ‘Capital as a State of Mind’ which tries to develop a new lexicon of psychoanalysis and political economy.
In view of my longstanding interest in critiques of human rights discourse, I began researching the intersections of law and psychoanalysis in their potential for a renewed critique of liberalism and the founding violence of law. And most recently am developing an essay on Palestine, human rights discourse, and Israeli-American exceptionalism.
My first book, Between October in November is forthcoming with Fitzcarraldo Editions (2025).
