Extimacies
Critical Theory from the Global South

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Villanova University

Surti Singh

Co-Principal Investigator

Surti Singh is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. Prior to Villanova, she was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo, where she served as Principal Investigator of the Extimacies project [2018-2020]. Her research interests include Frankfurt School Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Feminist Philosophy, Phenomenology, and Aesthetics. She also currently serves as the President of the Association for Adorno Studies.

Publications & Projects

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Mahdi Amel Reading Edward Said Reading Marx

Singh, Surti and Nadia Bou Ali, eds. 2021. “Mahdi Amel Reading Edward Said Reading Marx” Special Section of Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory, 4 (3).

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The Wound and the Flower

Singh, Surti. 2021.“The Wound and the Flower” Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy, 42 (2): 115-117.

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Dark Play: Aesthetic Resistance in Lukács, Benjamin, and Adorno

Singh, Surti. 2020. “Dark Play: Aesthetic Resistance in Lukács, Benjamin, and Adorno” Philosophy & Social Criticism 46(10): 1182–1202.