Kyle Scott
PhD, candidate, University of California-Los Angeles
I’m a philosopher working in social and political philosophy. My work primarily concerns the topics of freedom, labor, and capitalism. Currently, I am working on a project on contemporary care work that argues that market pressures increasingly force care workers to perform emotionally engaged labor in ways that are mechanical, instrumentalized, and disconnected from authentic caring motivations. I argue that this produces new forms of alienation that separate workers from the moral and emotional expressions that give their work its distinctive value.