Alexander's current interests lie in constructing a new mode of universalism via the particularization of marginalized identities, following in the tradition of post-structuralist philosophers like Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, combined with recent materialist bodily frames from trans theory, especially Paul B. Preciado. The study of universalism is crucial to our contemporary understanding of identity and our attachments to the norms that constitute it. At the larger level, this study is crucial to understanding the future of democracy at a time when various fascist movements have tempted the public with tempting (but false) visions of universal harmony. This research also involves reframing previous attempts (such as that of Habermas) at universal democratic ethics via discourse. Though seemingly abstract, these ideas have eternal application to today's most important questions on gender, democracy, artificial intelligence, extremism, identity, economics, political movement building, digital culture, and much more. Alexander has communicated these ideas at the level of public-facing opinion pieces in outlets like The Guardian, in traditional philosophical academic work, and personal memoir-like video essays. He is available for writing, research, consulting, and speaking on a variety of related topics.
Each of Alexander's videos reflects a dedicated course of study on different angles. To provide a few examples: His study on Charlie Kirk's life and work was also a study on the history of free speech, the democratic paradox, and American fascism. His work on MAHA combined healthcare policy with Deleuzian/Foucauldian concepts of biopower and "life" as a point of political resistance. His work on technofascism and AI represented a deep look at the left's uncritical attachment to humanism, the role of language in constituting subjectivity, and "accelerationism" as the product of a left-wing political study in commodified desire.
Alexander has been constructing his own system of social thought since 2019, when he first started as an undergraduate at Brown University. At Brown, he was a member of several research teams and fellowships, including at the Mass Incarceration Lab, the Cogut Undergraduate Fellowship, and The Mellon Mays Fellowship. He also worked on original research on anti-COVID-19 mask movements in Mexico and the United States, analyzing hundreds of thousands of comments on Facebook using machine learning with frameworks from Critical Theory (particularly, Habermas). The research was published in the CLR James Journal and went on to become his thesis, winning the department prize. If not for becoming an independent writer, Alexander would have pursued a PhD in critical theory.
His work continues to stimulate a certain cultural impasse. Between the particularity of identity and its universal content, between establishing institutional legitimacy and the deconstruction of norms, between the productive capacity of technology and its destructive constitutive elements, between order and rupture, between cringe and based.