Campus Directory

Division Humanities Division

Department/College/Unit History of Consciousness Department

Title PhD Candidate

Affiliation Graduate

Primary Office Location Humanities Building 1
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Mail Stop History Of Consciousness

Biography, Education and Training

Bart Feberwee is a PhD Candidate in the History of Consciousness department. He is broadly interested in philosophical and political questions of substitutability. In his dissertation research, he investigates how ideas of human obsolescence have shaped modern political thought. His research draws on and speaks to a variety of disciplines and methodologies including critical theory, intellectual history, philosophy of technology, Marxist and feminist critiques of labor, and science and technology studies. His committee members are Banu Bargu (History of Consciousness), Minghui Hu (History), Robert Meister (History of Consciousness), and Robert Nichols (History of Consciousness).

Currently, he is editorial assistant at Political Theory.

Research Interests

Political Theory | Critical Theory | History of Modern Political Thought | Continental Philosophy | Intellectual History | Political Economy | Historical Materialism 

Awards, Honors and Grants

• UC President's Pre-Professoriate Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz, 2026.
• Summer Seminar Fellowship, Materialist Institute for Research, University of California, 2025.
• Schiffer Fellow, UC Santa Cruz, 2024–2025.
• Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, University of California, 2024–2025.
• Summer Research Fellowship, The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz, 2023.
• Chancellor’s Fellowship, UC Santa Cruz, 2022–2023.
• Graduate Student Success Fellow, The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz, 2022–2023.
• X-Student Research Group Award, Humboldt University of Berlin, 2022.

Selected Exhibitions

• "Soil and Dung," International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, 2022.

Selected Presentations

Panel organizer

• "The Politics of Automation and the Crisis of Democracy," Western Political Science Association, 2026.

Presenter

• “Crisis, Revolutionary Subjectivity, and Dutch Council Communism,” THI Graduate Fellows 2024 Research Symposium, The Humanities Institute, UC Santa Cruz, 2024.
• “The Neoliberal Criminal: The Prisoner’s Dilemma in the Post-WWII United States,” Global Perspectives on the Prison & Systems of Punishment, Northwestern University, 2022.

Selected Publications

• “The American Wasteland: Grace Lee Boggs and James Boggs on the Ecology of Racialization.” Capitalism Nature Socialism 35(3), 64–83 (2024).
• “Overschot of overdaad. Reflecties op surplus” [Superfluity or Abundancy: Reflections on Surplus]. nY 55, 22–37 (2024), co-authored.
• “Bordering on Agoraphilia and Agoraphobia: Artistic Practices on Turkey’s Borderlands.” PEER vol. 5, 58–68 (2018), co-authored.