Robab Vaziri
I am a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University studying Political Science, where I specialize in political theory. I obtained my M.A. in Philosophy and B.A. in both Philosophy and Political Science at Johns Hopkins University (Phi Beta Kappa). I also minored in Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies.
My dissertation, preliminarily entitled After Capital: From Value to Calculation In-Kind, attempts to articulate an alternative to market coordination. I rely in part on insights from the socialist calculation debates, which contested whether rational economic calculation was possible in a post-capitalist society. Taking as my point of departure Otto Neurath’s proposal of calculation “in kind”, I attempt to articulate a postcapitalist alternative that rejects value commensurization altogether, while avoiding the Austrian School’s epistemic objections concerning the articulation and aggregation of dispersed knowledge.
Outside of dissertation research, I am the Vice President of Columbia University’s graduate student union, SWC-UAW Local 2710. I also enjoy powerlifting, playing chess and violin, and practicing Farsi.
I was recently published in the journal, Spectre.
Feel free to contact me at robab.vaziri@columbia.edu, and access my CV here.
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