Alberto Moreiras is a Spanish

Spain

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-born academic and cultural theorist who currently works at Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University

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. Previously he taught at Duke University

Duke University

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 and at the Centre for Modern Thought at the University of Aberdeen

University of Aberdeen

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His publications include Tercer espacio, The Exhaustion of Difference, and Línea de sombra.

In critic Juan Poblete's words, Moreiras's work "has been characterized thus far by a strong metacritical component whereby theoretical texts are continuously de/constructed in an investigation of both their epistemological status and their general political potential as interventions in a concrete field of forces."

External links

• home page at the University of Aberdeen