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이재원, 「저항 전략으로서의 세속화」, 『동국대학원신문』, 제145호, 2007년 11월 5일자; Giorgio Agamben, Profanazioni (Roma: Nottetempo, 2005)에 관한 서평.
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Walter Benjamin in his 1921 written essay, Capitalism as Religion, tried to express an opinion that Capitalism was a cultic religion without mercy or truce and its immanent principle is to create a “house of despair.” Benjamin directly... more
Paper for Political Performances working group, IFTR, Hyderabad, 2015. See 52:23 mins for another version of this paper with slides, at Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, as part of Fast Forward Festival.... more
DOS MATERIALES ARTICULADOS: (1) por una parte la interdependencia de la escuela moderna en proceso de expansión las grandes ideas dellos siglo XVIII y XIX: iluminismo y positivismo. La cruzada de civilización y progreso encontró en la... more
In this essay I theorize the time that remains as the temporality of "aftertime," the minor detail, and queer profanation, by looking at novels by Yiyun Li (Where Reasons End) and Adania Shibli (Minor Detail), and Dean Sameshima's two... more
Este ensaio debruça-se sobre polémicas recentes e ainda duradouras sobre vandalização e/ou possível desmantelamento ou retirada de esculturas e monumentos, ou reconfiguração de espaços públicos, em Portugal. Embora prenhes de equívocos,... more
Subvertising, a portmanteau for 'subverting advertising', is the illicit practice of intervening into urban advertising space, from graffiti scribbles and removed adverts, to full-blown billboard takeovers and digitally hacked adverts. In... more
The relationship of Walter Benjamin’s thought with theology and Judaism has always been controversial. In a canonical way, this controversy has posed the dichotomy between materialism and theology as the “Janus face” that would define his... more
The article is divided into three sections and reconstructs Proust’s impact on Bataille’s philosophy. The first one shows how Bataille derives from Proust an atheism very much different from Nietzsche’s but not less influential for his... more
This paper deals with the involvement of Greek clergy in secular poetry and music in early-modern Balkans. This trend began in late-16th century, and involved the production of large anthologies and treatises on Ottoman music. This... more
As a political artist, director, theoretician and writer, Pier Paolo Pasolini engaged, on a variety of levels, with non-European cultures and the ways they were shaped by the forces of western late capitalism and modern globalization. In... more
Zürih ETH Mimarlık Okulu’nda çalışmalarını sürdüren Alfredo Brillembourg ile Hubert Klumpner’in 1998’de oluşturdukları Urban-Think Tank (U-TT), kolektifinin, Münih Mimarlık Müzesi'nde (Pinakothek der Moderne) sergilenen çalışmaları... more
The leadership literature is full of stories of heroic self-sacrifice. Sacrificial leadership behaviour, some scholars conclude, is to be recommended. In this article we follow Keith Grint’s conceptualization of leadership as necessarily... more
Cet article examine les liens entre, pour l’aspect technique, le plan séquence et le montage, et, pour l’aspect philosophico-historique, la vie quotidienne et la politique mondiale, du point de vue d’une profanation capable de désamorcer... more
The decrease in people who regularly celebrate liturgy in western Europe has led to the question of what to do with so-called obsolete church buildings. This question not only refers to whether or not a church building will be converted,... more
Научная журналистика в настоящее время играет особую роль, обусловленную исключительным местом науки и техники в современной жизни. Соответственно возросло и её воздействие на наше общество, построенное на делегировании особых полномочий... more
The author shows how the Jewish community in Jerusalem is scrupulous about their own religion and their allegiance to God and His Temple. On the other hand, 2 Macc reveals a Hellenistic orientation by viewing the Temple as that of the... more
Picnic at a Hanging Cross. On Carnivalisation, Profanations in Modern Art, and „Something Else” The main aim of this article is to discuss issue such as profanations in art and the public sphere as well as legal regulations of... more
The leadership literature is full of stories of heroic self-sacrifice. Sacrificial leadership behaviour, some scholars conclude, is to be recommended. In this article we follow Keith Grint’s conceptualization of leadership as necessarily... more
This Chapter comes from the book 'Contemorary Puplics': P.D.Marshall et al. (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2016. http://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9781137533234 The concepts, ideas and material experiments that much contemporary art... more
The article is a study of the phenomenon of profanation and the ensuing acts of offending religious feelings on the basis of the events described in the Book of Daniel and in the Books of the Maccabees. It addresses the topics of the... more
Taboo, as a space where the prohibited resides, delimits the form of the thinkable in a society. Freud, in Totem and Taboo, attempted to trace an explanation beyond the 'categorical imperative' of morality and custom. A century later the... more
L’article aborde une scène présente dans la quasi-totalité des pièces du dramaturge et poète Agustín de Salazar y Torres (1636-1675) : l’entrée, effective ou simplement envisagée, d’un personnage dans un espace qui lui est interdit,... more
There are few cartoonists who have had a capacity for social satire comparable to that of Al Capp in his series Li'l Abner, one of the most popular comic strips of the golden age of the American comics. In the saga of the shmoos,... more
This article explores the function of the precarious (non-) significance of the thing in Theodor Fontane’s 1879 novella Grete Minde. On the surface a simple tale of exclusion and revenge in seventeenth-century Brandenburg and a seeming... more
This paper discusses issues related to society and American culture in the 1950s and 1960s. We studied the society and the economy of the United States after the war, and analyze the cultural field of the country during this period. In... more
Aus dem Französischen übersetzt von Ariane Müller
The conversion of Jews after the Edict of Expulsion of 1492 was completely different from the previous ones. In this case, Jews found out that there were no more ex-core¬ligionists, synagogues or symbols to link with their previous... more
The presence of the crucifix in comical literature is a special case of an encounter of the sacred and the profane. It appears in several French medieval texts, where it is associated with sexuality or with food, it is treated with... more
En "Elogio de la profanación" , Giorgio Agamben sitúa la religión como aquella instancia que separa la esfera divina y la mantiene inaccesible a los hombres: lo sagrado, de este modo, se constituiría como un campo inaccesible, segregado o... more
Este artigo busca analisar o filme Histórias que nosso cinema (não) contava (2017), de Fernanda Pessoa, a partir de uma crítica dividida em três atos. Na esteira do desenvolvimento desses atos, arriscaremos situar Histórias... como um... more
A instituição Museu é, por natureza, uma entidade descontextualizadora, que retira do «circuito da vida» os objetos que incorpora. Os Museus de Arte, em particular, talvez sejam dos mais zelosos no cumprimento deste desígnio. Ávidos em... more
In security studies, the dichotomy between ‘security’ and ‘regular’ politics has been effectively challenged in recent years, both theoretically and empirically. To address this challenge, the article develops Giorgio Agamben’s concepts... more
This chapter engages in speculation on the notion of iconoclashes (Latour 2010b) by drawing on insights garnered from three sources for which iconoclasm has become a central challenge: Bruno Latour, relational psychoanalysis and my... more
The sponsoring teleologies of the historiography of magic have tended to affirm a Weberian Entzauberung at modernity’s core. Some scholars have portrayed this as a necessary and inevitable evolutionary step, while others have lamented the... more