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 develops novel approaches to understanding the universe’s large-scale structure, cosmological expansion, and modified theories of gravity. As a philosopher and cultural critic, he engages with Latin American and Indigenous movements to rethink the relationship between knowledge and critique. His current book project explores how thinkers in México, Perú and Argentina turn indigenous knowledges, Einstein’s physics, Freud’s psychology, 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, Latin American Council of Social Sciences, Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, Galilæana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science, and Chasqui: Revista de literatura y cultura latinoamericana e indígena.
His public writing and interviews have been featured in Verso,
The Brooklyn Rail, Jacobin, In These Times, and Abolition Journal.