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Through reference to Sadgati (Deliverance), I will delineate Ray's formal and enunciatory cinematic usages and their applications in Sadgati, along with the critique of Premchand's progressive realism and aesthetics. I address the aporia... more
The manifold, elusive everyday uses of the notion of 'life' carry over into its under-determined, ambiguous and often ambivalent function within numerous theoretical and applied disciplines as well as within philosophical discourses.
Taking a cue from a reading of Agamben’s essay “Nudity” (2009), the text analyses the most famous concept of his vocabulary, “bare” or “naked life,” and attempts to understand the meaning of life’s “nakedness” within the whole project... more
Este ensayo discute el concepto de Violencia divina sugerido por Walter Benjamin y su relación con el homo sacer planteado por Giorgio Agamben. Su aplicación se basa en la relación existente entre lo divino (ley), lo teológico... more
This thesis investigates what trauma theory would look like if it were more attuned to the creaturely residues of trauma. Through theorizing Freudian trauma theory and showing how its humanist focus is taken on by literary scholars, the... more
La nuda vita, ‘bare life’, is certainly the most popular and popularized concept of Giorgio Agamben’s project: it is explicitly, and from its inception, its ‘protagonist’, and has become one of the unavoidable foci of contemporary... more
This article reconsiders the politics and aesthetics of aftermath photography. Many critics have argued that the emerging, experimental genre of documentary photography ‘abstracts’ and renders ‘sublime’ the traumatic historical events... more
Syllabus, graduate seminar, Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Fall 2016
"Résumé : La déconstruction heideggérienne de l’animalité qui a lieu dans les Concepts fondamentaux de la métaphysique va jusqu’à faire disparaître l’idée même d’une vie animale, d’une vie propre aux animaux. La vie, comme le disait... more
Abstract Through reference to Sadgati (Deliverance), I will delineate Ray's formal and enunciatory cinematic usages and their applications in Sadgati, along with the critique of Premchand's progressive realism and aesthetics. I... more
This chapter is an overview of Giorgio Agamben's engagement, in the Homo Sacer series (1995–2014), with Aristotelian philosophy. It specifically studies Agamben's attempt to deconstruct two Aristotelian conceptual oppositions fundamental... more
This is the complete file of the Sassen piece uploaded earlier.
"Necrorealist" performance art and cinema movement (Russia) is analyzed in the context of the last decade of Soviet history and Soviet collapse.
Abstract: Taking the cue from a reading of Agamben’s essay Nudity (2009), the text analyses the most famous notion of his vocabulary, «bare» or «naked life», and attempts to understand the meaning of life’s ‘nudity’ within the whole... more
In this paper, I will argue the layout of the notion of freedom in Giorgio Agamben's political thought by relying on his account of potentiality which is put in his two essays On Potentiality and Homo Sacer. It is claimed that while... more
Drawing on Walter Benjamin's "Critique of Violence," this paper illuminates the complexity of law and violence in global biopolitical cinema. Benjamin's key notions ("lawmaking" and "law-preserving," "mythical" and "divine" violence) are... more
Mucho se ha escrito sobre las “caravanas” de migrantes centroamericanos que recientemente han llegado a la frontera entre México y los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica. Se han analizado los motivos y las rutas de los migrantes. También se... more
HIV is God’s blessing examines the Russian Orthodox Church’s (ROC) role in combating the HIV and drug use epidemics in contemporary Russia. Based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork with a ROC rehabilitation and HIV prevention and care... more
This essay discusses Walter Benjamin's concept of divine violence and its relationship to Giorgio Agamben's idea of the homo sacer. This analysis is based on the existing relationship between the divine (law), the theological (sacrifices... more
Situated within fifty miles of each other at the heart of Israel-Palestine, three zoos — Jerusalem, Qalqilya, and Gaza — tell three very different stories about nonhuman animals, humans, and their imbricated survival across borders and at... more
I would like to show how the existential itinerary depicted in Conjugation can be read as a powerful allegory about how neoliberalism operates as a reduction of the political to a postpolitical, economic management issue. Following on the... more
The current 'pandemic' is approached through the lens of (mainly) the concept of Homo sacer, elaborated on by Giorgio Agamben (1998). Taking the work of Michel Foucault on the 'disciplinary society' and 'bio-politics' further, and drawing... more
Ben Smith's debut novel, Doggerland (2019), is a vivid portrait of a claustrophobic post-industrial environment with strong ethical implications. Set in a near future, the novel stages an old man and a boy who work in a wind farm in the... more
The installation of the hydroelectric power plant Belo Monte in the Brazilian Amazon displaced more than 40,000 people , among them numerous riverine families who were not recognized as such. Their displacement resulted in the loss of... more
Dissertação de Mestrado em AntropologiaA crise dos refugiados despoletou a corrida às fronteiras por parte dos meios de comunicação social. São estes que, através da sua própria perspetiva, divulgam através de imagens os acontecimentos,... more
This article offers an ethnographic comparison of two genres of waiting for healthcare in Northeast Brazil in order to explain the persistence of patron-client practices at a time when people otherwise reject patronage. The explanation... more
http://www.diaphanes.net/titel/whats-legit-6053 Arendt’s criticism of human rights is not that they are powerless — and therefore useless but also harmless. Her criticism is rather that human rights entail disastrous negative effects... more
This article develops the concept of bare nature by examining the interdependent and underlying conditions that make genocidal and ecocidal processes possible. Agamben identifies states of exception as a juridical key to understanding the... more
Este curso se propone introducir a los estudiantes en los debates contemporáneos alrededor de la biopolítica y su productividad como aparato teórico-crítico para los estudios literarios. Organizado a través de tres núcleos problemáticos... more
ข้อเสนอทางการเมืองที่เรียกร้องให้มีการจัดตั้ง “เขตปกครองพิเศษ” ในจังหวัดชายแดนภาคใต้ด้วยมุ่งหวังว่าจะคลี่คลายความขัดแย้งระหว่างศูนยกลางของรัฐประชาชาติกับชนกลุ่มน้อยได้รับการถกเถียงอย่างกว้างขวางในรอบปีที่ผ่านมา... more
This dissertation seeks to shed light on the issue of homelessness in the City of Cape Town, with the intention that its findings might achieve traction further afield. Central to the thesis is the idea that homelessness is not a... more
This article examines three of Joseph Roth’s feuilletons in the context of the intersecting discourses of anthropology, medicine, and politics in post– World War I Europe. Specifically, the article connects Roth’s description of the... more
"Resumen Sloterdijk y Agamben coinciden respecto a la importancia de repensar el humanismo (en especial el conflicto entre animalidad y humanidad) y en situar a Nietzsche en el epicentro de dicha problemática. Sloterdijk rastrea la... more