About
Alejo's research focuses on the relationship between science, philosophy, and politics in Latin America. His thesis project explores the anomalous encounter between science and those who think in its margins. What is produced in such an encounter? What is produced by “non-experts” as they appropriate-expropriate the social product that is scientific knowledge? These questions are explored in the work of three emancipatory thinkers and their singular situations: José Carlos Mariátegui, Mauricio Malamud, and Subcomandante Marcos (Galeano). At stake is the question of the "uses" of science, the problem of truth and falsity, and the concept of science (or scientificity as such).
Alejo has taught upper-level Spanish courses, introduction to astrophysics, as well as philosophy courses focused on science and technology. Alongside Gavin Arnall, he also coordinates the marxisms collective Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop (RIW) at the University of Michigan. He has written about Marx and the Latin American marxist tradition, early modern philosophy (Spinoza and Hobbes), and contemporary continental philosophy (Althusser, Deleuze and Derrida). In his previous life as an astrophysicist his research focused on modified theories of gravity, cosmology, and galaxy clusters.
His published writings in science, philosophy, and politics can be found on his Academia page linked above.
