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I have been invited to lead a session at the CICSI 2025 Essex Summer School on "Effecting Change" in mental health contexts, along with an exciting panel of mental health experts and critical theorists. Reserve a place: Here.
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About me​​​
Hi. I am Felix from Hong Kong. Writing and teaching philosophy has become my aesthetic practice - my means to address trauma, hurt, and loss.
My current PhD research studies the neoliberalist capitalist world through a psychoanalytic and psychosocial lens and ways of collectively transcending it. Neoliberalism burdens the subject with the task of chasing ever-receding goals and perfecting their performance. This creates significant anxieties and insecurities for everyone, providing them no time to grieve their losses. The anxieties and unmourned losses then receive social expression through culturally-sanctioned manic hyperactivity, chronic, individualized depression, and paranoid politics. Among the three symptoms, the first two serve to individualize issues, whereas the last symptom fails to tackle the root cause of current social problems. This means that transcending and collectively opposing neoliberalism necessitates that we look beyond these symptoms. My suggestion is that true transcendence such a social order would require us not only changes in institutions or social arrangements, but a change in one's psychosocial make-up made possible only by collective mourning.
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I have recently published a related paper on the critical theory journal Constellations on paranoid politics.
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Aside from my interest in critical and psychoanalytic theory, I am also doing research on machine ethics and the social theory of the digital age. I have collaborated with Dr. Song Fei at Lingnan University in the publication of papers on the skilful expert model of machine virtues (in an edited book and on American Philosophical Quarterly) and a pluralist hybrid model of moral AIs.)
Along the lines of my critical theory research, I am also looking into psychosocial implications of the widespread deployment of AI technologies.
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I am currently a philosophy tutor/lecturer in Hong Kong. I have in the previous school year developed and lectured a course at the School of Creativity on the social philosophy of emotions for the Diploma in Creative Arts Program. I have also tutored courses ranging from political philosophy and philosophy of A.I. to logic and critical thinking at HKU.
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For my brief bio, current projects and publications, see RESEARCH.
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