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Dr. Koopman is on a NEH-funded research sabbatical for the entirety of calendar year 2024 (and may respond to emails with delay during this period).

Colin Koopman's writing and teaching are focused on contributions to political theory and ethics.  His current focus is on the the politics of information and the ethics of data.  He explores these fields in terms of century-old predecessor technologies that continue to condition contemporary techno-trends that are often presented as importantly new. Methodologically, this work mobilizes analytics and concepts from the philosophical traditions of genealogy and pragmatism to engage current issues of politics, ethics, and culture.  From a metaphilosophical perspective, his work is expressive of a pluralistic practice of philosophy that draws widely on diverse figures, traditions, disciplines, and themes.  He has written on a range of figures across genealogy (Foucault, Nietzsche, Williams) and pragmatism (James, Du Bois, Dewey, Rorty, Brandom) as well as other thinkers in Continental (Deleuze, Habermas, Latour) and Analytic (Wittgenstein, Cavell, Rawls) philosophy.  His work also engages research in other disciplinary contexts by media scholars, historians anthropologists, political scientists, legal theorists, and information scientists.