...-genocide Turkey denial habitus A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned...

... in the same way (if at all). The dehumanization of Afghan bodies in a war that habitually and casually discarded Afghan bodies is now more starkly revealed (for those who needed this dehumanization to be still more stark, more obvious to register as such). We interrogate this historical moment of empire's...

.... The question of exemplarity also relates to that of a model to be followed. The Latin word habitus may be of some use here, as it specifically relates to repetition and performance. In Politics of Piety , Saba Mahmood evokes Islamic reformulations of the term to mean a specific pedagogical process...

... not exist is one of the first axioms of the exercise of power.” 9 But political economy is the “science” par excellence of this denial. It claims to be a double negation: negation of war and negation of sovereignty, where economic interests and individual egotism replace warring passions, while...