Victor Peterson II

Assistant Professor of Humanities

Victor Peterson II is an assistant professor of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Hailing from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Peterson's work in Black Cultural studies develops articulation theory: how relations of dominance and subordination emerge and evolve through and against the networks of norms and institutions that structure sociocultural and political movements. Currently, Peterson's working on a book project ​positing a relation between sound and ​​movement​s​ ​that utilizes mosh pits as ​a ​model for ​socio-cultural movements as ​complex adaptive systems ​that aligns with Black scholars' theorizing ​these movements as collective improvisations
 
Peterson has published through Routledge's Africa and African Diaspora series, the CLR James Journal, the Journal of Black Studies, Philosophia Africana, the Journal of World Philosophy, and with RACE.ED at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities. He has held fellowships at Institutes for Advanced Study in Johannesburg, Amsterdam, and Edinburgh and was a fellow at the Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, Rutgers University. 
 
He received his Ph.D. from King's College London and holds a degree in arts politics from New York University.
 
Web 
http://vpii.us
 
Recent Publications 
“Collective Improvisations,” Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy and Culture.
“Future Perfect: Imagination and Ideology,” Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge 39.
“Pessimism and Assumptive Logics,” Journal of World Philosophies 7 (2).
“Value and Culture,” Philosophia Africana: Analysis of Philosophy and Issues in Africa and the Black Diaspora 21 (2).
“Forms of Life and Cultural Endowments,” The Pluralist: The Journal of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 18 (2).
“Articulation: Individuals to Collectives,” The International Academic Forum: Journal of Cultural Studies 7 (1).
 
For more, see CV.
 
Books/Tracts
Black Thought: A Theory of Articulation, Routledge: Africa and African Diaspora Series, 2022.
Black Thought: A Theory of Articulation, Routledge: Africa and African Diaspora Series, 2022. 


R|D: Articulation and Representational Divergence, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities: Occasional Papers Series, 2022.
R|D: Articulation and Representational Divergence, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities: Occasional Papers Series, 2022.

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