Alejo Stark is an astrophysicist, philosopher and cultural critic.
He currently works as an Assistant Professor of Spanish and
Comparative Literature at the University of Utah.
As an astrophysicist, his research developed novel approaches to understand the universe’s large-scale structure, cosmological expansion, and modified theories of gravity. As a philosopher and cultural critic, he theorizes how Latin American and Indigenous movements reconfigure the relationship between science and critique.
His current book project explores how thinkers in México, Perú and Argentina turn indigenous knowledges, relativistic physics, psychoanalysis, and human genetics into critical practices that transform both science and culture alike.
Alejo’s research has been published in academic venues such as The Astrophysical Journal, Physical Review, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, and
Galilæana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science.
His public writing and interviews have been featured in Verso,
The Brooklyn Rail, Jacobin, In These Times, and Abolition Journal.