About

I am a former mechanic, philosopher, photographer, and make my living as an engineer.

My thinking is preoccupied with the (after)lives of colonialism, the revolutionary potentiality of the colonized, and the irreducibility of their/our lives to the political. I am the author of Filosofía del cimarronaje (2020), which was awarded the first honorable mention for the Essay Prize 2021 by PEN Club Puerto Rico, and was an attempt to think about marronage phenomenologically. My published work appears in journals like Tabula Rasa, Theory & Event, Society & Space, Transmodernity, and others. For the 2022-2023 academic year, I was also working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras campus. At the moment, I am taking an indefinite hiatus from all academic research and writing projects.

My interest in photography as a modality of expression parallels my philosophical interests. I am currently working on a zine/book project which endeavors to document daily life in Aguadilla, PR beyond the tourist gaze. In addition, I am interested in travel photography, photojournalism, contract work, and have prints for sale.

As an engineer, I work full-time designing inertial measurement units and navigation electronics for industrial applications and hold 3 patents related to this. In parallel, I have worked as an adjunct professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Aguadilla with the Department of Humanities and the Department of Technology & Applied Sciences.

I live in Bo. Aceitunas, Moca, Puerto Rico.