Z.J. Rubin
zjrubinpa[at]gmail[dot]com
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I am currently a student in Pittsburgh, PA. My main academic research areas are in Linguistics, Chinese Philosophy, and Continental Poststructuralist Philosophy.
Research Interests:
In Linguistics, I currently focus primarily on pragmatics, discourse analysis, and historical linguistics.
Particularly, I have found interest in deixis, negation, context and common ground, ecolinguistics and eco-critical discourse analysis,
Classical Chinese, Classical Tibetan, and Jewish languages.
Outside of Linguistics, which I see as a more unsullied study, my philosophical endeavors
can draw from a very wide range of sources and cover a very wide range of topics.
My primary interests are in Pre-Han Chinese Philosophy, particularly Zhuangzi, the Mingjia philosophers, Xunzi, and Han Fei,
and French Poststructuralism, particularly Baudrillard and Deleuze and Guattari. Recently, I have also begun research in Tibetan philosophy (Buddhism and Bön).
However, my interests and knowledge in philosophy also extend to
Legal Philosophy, Jewish Philosophy/Theology/Kabbalah, Schopenhauer, New Confucianism, the Kyoto School, Zen Buddhism,
Radical and Postmodern Feminism, Formal Epistemology, Wittgenstein, the Pittsburgh School, and ancient Near Eastern philosophy.
Misc:
I practice tea ceremony, calligraphy, and I am also a Guzhengist.
I am a policy debater, and I maintain a strong love-hate relationship with the activity. My horrendously long paradigm can be found here.
I am an active member of the Linguistic Society of America, and serve as a member on the Linguistics in the School Curriculum Committee, Committee on Student Issues and Concerns, and East Asian Historical Linguistics Special Interest Group.
Current Projects:
Formal papers:
"A Pragmatics Perspective on the White Horse Discourse"
View Abstract
"The Language Ecology of the Rhizome"
Blogs/Essays:
Haglashah; revelations: hosted on substack here