Patricia Cipollitti Rodríguez

Student Fellow

Patricia Cipollitti Rodríguez is a PhD candidate in Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she works on topics in critical social theory. Her research seeks to understand capitalism as a global social order and form of life especially in light of capital’s relationship to colonial/modern forms of power. This inquiry is motivated by a political commitment to radical social transformation and a specific interest in prefigurative strategies as pursued by solidarity economy movements across the Americas. Patricia has a background in community and labor organizing and is a strike-ready member of her union, PSC-CUNY. She holds a BPhil master’s degree in Philosophy from the University of Oxford and a B.S. in International Political Economy and Philosophy from Georgetown University. In 2025, she was a visiting scholar in the Cultural Studies program at the University of Carabobo, Venezuela.

Participating Years

2026–2027

Radical Imagination: Temporalities and Geographies of Struggle

In a world of deepening crises, of socioeconomic inequities, of environmental collapse, of resurgent fascism and institutionalized authoritarianism, what is the place of radical imagination in creating more just worlds? While some think of the work of imagination as being outside of—at a distance to, or even in a different temporality than—everyday struggle, we want to shine a light on the work of radical practice as a form of imagination. We look to anticapitalist and antiracist organizing and thought, and the complex practices in time and place through which change is not only presented and represented but produced.