Select Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“Decolonial Mood Work”
Theory & Event. 2024.
“Imperial Debris, Vibrant Matter: Plastic in the Hands of Asian American and Kanaka Maoli Artists”
Empire and Environment: Confronting Ecological Ruination in the Transpacific. 2022.
“Vital Impasse: Animacy Hierarchies, Irredeemability, and a Life Otherwise”
American Quarterly. 2021.
“Object Theory and Asian American Literature”
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian American Literature and Culture. 2020.
Short Essays
“Theory in Survival Time”
Politics in the Time of COVID Critical Exchange. Contemporary Political Theory. 2021.
“Cultivating the Weeds”
Companion piece to “Educational Undergrowth,” a special issue of Social Text edited by Nathan Snaza and Julietta Singh. Social Text Online. 2021.
“The Dehuman Condition”
Symposium on Julietta Singh’s, Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements. Syndicate. 2020.
“Exploring the Promise of New Materialisms”
Forum: Emergent Critical Analytics for Alternative Humanities. Lateral. 2017.
"Convergence in the Margins of Survival"
Think piece on ʻAe Kai: A Cultural Lab on Convergence. Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. 2017.
"On Our Way"
Think piece on CTRL+ALT: A Culture Lab on Imagined Futures. Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center. 2016.
“New Humanisms”
Review essay on Rachel C Lee, The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Ecologies, and Alexander G Weheliye, Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human. Qui Parle. 2016.