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... of indignation, revenge, and envy. But again, as a reaction to powerlessness, it is not the factual hopelessness of the case in question that produces ressentiment. There is more to it. The powerlessness in question is, again, in some way self-made. Those driven by ressentiment are not just devoid of power...

....” At the beginning of the sixth paragraph of “Toward the Critique of Violence,” he writes: “Characteristic of these legal circumstances, so far as they concern the individual person as legal subject, is the tendency to deny the natural ends of these individuals in all cases when, in a given situation, such ends may...

...Rosaura Martínez Ruiz Abstract This article offers an analysis of some of the reasons why the unveiling of the truth in the Ayotzinapa case, in which forty-three students enrolled in a rural teaching school in Mexico were forcibly taken and then disappeared, must not be postponed. To make a strong...

... on Benjamin's interest in these paragraphs in the technique of open-ended discussion on a case-by-case basis. Technique, so understood, assumes, without necessarily exercising, the power to lie and be lied to. © 2019 Anne-Lise Francois 2019 This is an open access article distributed under the terms...

... . Sovereignty implies an experience, but the experience it implies is one that cannot bear witness to itself. Sovereignty must leave an institutional record; at the same time, sovereignty calls for apocalyptic thinking. In each case, sovereignty can only pronounce itself through a “catastrophe,” and, likewise...

... that marks it even among the left, and open it instead onto those cases of anticolonial politics that did not play out, at least initially, as a desire for the forward march of progress and its terminus in the state form? In these cases, how do we move past the language, or more precisely, the grammar...

...Sergio Delgado Moya Abstract This essay makes the case for sensationalism as an archive of violence. It traces the ways in which the Mexican filmmaker Felipe Cazals draws from the sensationalist tabloid Alarma! in the making of his film Las Poquianchis (1976), a film version of the story of human...

... the case for a general theory of the ethical life of counter-communities and applies it to the examples of queer and diasporic forms of collectivity. In closing, the article explores the success conditions of counter-collectivization as well as names some social-theoretical implications. © 2021 Daniel...

... freedom, critical thought, and its important relation to democratic practices and ideals. It further suggests that academic freedom might be considered an international human right without making any claims about what the human is or can be. Finally, a case is made for the humanities in the field...

... case. This article simultaneously demonstrates how Black thinkers—Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Angela Y. Davis, Fred Moten, Fumi Okiji, and Spillers—have long offered exemplary accounts of art that combine its negative dialectics, critical edge, and transformative force while defying...

.... In the Argentine case, ensuring abortion access in public health institutions, with the help of activist professionals, allowed for the broadening of biomedical frameworks and a move toward more holistic approaches. Third, the essay analyzes how increasing access to medication abortion challenged monopolistic...

... class). We know that the impetus for the Ni Una Menos marches in Latin America emerged from the exceptional number of cases of gender violence. I participated in the beginning of the organization of this march in Peru, and it became necessary for us to contact colleagues from Argentina to learn from...

... by considering changing politico-economic epistemes and regimes of truth. Banu Bargu's critical genealogical intervention and Nandini Sundar's political ethnography uncover, for the cases of Turkey and India, respectively, the nuances of the consolidation of centralized, authoritarian regimes, which restrain...

.... These moments are inseparable. 5. In each specific case: this is, as it were, a counterimage of the singularity of justice, which is universal with respect to each case, but not universalizable, as similar as other cases may be. This is the meaning of the “incomparable effects” in which divine violence...

... of the morning, we had sued the president. That Saturday, a small army of students descended into the clinic basement—researching, writing, and preparing to submit a brief in support of our case. By evening, we had managed to file the brief and schedule an emergency hearing before a judge. While attorneys...

..., in countries like the Philippines, as a way of rendering twelve-year-old girls marriageable. But what I would like to communicate today is how “Sexual Consent: Some Thoughts on Psychoanalysis and Law” can help us think about certain cases of rape and death in Argentina. In the film The Accused...

... unexpectedly and unpredictably, from within a state of apparent normality.” It is not a question of the state of exception (Schmitt) but of the tendencies present in each and every case. It is not a question of finding the accurate measure of suffering or magnitude of destruction, discovering a principle...

... and the Criminalization of Motherhood . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2020 . Grossman Daniel , Joffe Carole , Kaller Shelly , Kimport Katrina , Kinsey Elizabeth , Lerma Klaira , Morris Natalie , and White Kari . Care Post-Roe: Documenting Cases of Poor...

... and violence must be thought with one another as, in many cases, mutual conditions of possibility for one another, each of which shapes the appearance of the other. Balibar writes that he wishes to reject “the claim that politics and violence are antithetical terms, which are to one another what...