Rodrigo Karmy Bolton

Rodrigo Karmy Bolton is professor and researcher at the Center for Arabic Studies in the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Chile. In his work, contemporary thought is intertwined with medieval Greek-Arab thought, focusing on the question of imagination. This includes research on the theological roots of modernity, the comparative research of Christianity and Islam, and medieval Arabic philosophy. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Chile with a thesis entitled "Politics of In(Ex)-carnation: Elements of a Genealogy of Biopolitics." He is the author of Barbarian Writings: Essays on Imperial Reason and the Contemporary Arab World (LOM, Santiago de Chile, 2016) and Intifada: A topology of popular imagination (Metales Pesados, Santiago de Chile, 2020), among others.