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... Harootunian .” By Yildirim Halis . Los Angeles Review of Books , December 7 , 2019 . lareviewofbooks.org/article/stirring-the-ashes-a-conversation-with-harry-harootunian . Klein Janet . The Margins of Empire: Kurdish Militias in the Ottoman Tribal Zone . Stanford, CA : Stanford...

.... The article develops a hermeneutics of benthic becoming at intersections in literary studies, critical theory, cultural geography, and recent subsea turns in the oceanic (and more broadly environmental) humanities. Wrecky concretion, I argue, configures the thickening presences of empire's remains...

...) and the Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 (CAA). By resituating these exercises within the mid-nineteenth-century emergence of practices of delegating administrative authority sans responsibility with the modality of indirect rule in the British Indian Empire, and the emergence of a European imperial modality...

...Banu Karaca Abstract Drawing on the works of artists Maria Eichhorn (Berlin) and Dilek Winchester (Istanbul), this article focuses on artistic responses to the twin processes of violence and dispossession in Germany and the late Ottoman Empire and republican Turkey, respectively. Their artistic...

..., the article seeks to answer a question that was only treated partially in the author's recent book For God or Empire . Does the mysticism of this tradition devolve into apolitical practices, or does its survival and even proliferation compel a revisioning of emancipation in history and in theory...

..., political theology of Zionism within a Christian history of deferral, messianism, and empire. [email protected] © 2022 Adam Y. Stern 2022 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Gershom Scholem Zionism Palestine...

... by explorations of the historical and conceptual links between imperialism and political theory. A generation of scholarship has highlighted the ways in which questions of empire and expansion, and more broadly European encounters with the non-European world, were central themes in the history of political...

... but confesses unbelief to a European audience, and whose political activities render any of his allegiances suspect. Although anti-imperial, al-Afghānī’s writings are alleged to contain layers of deception toward the masses of colonized Muslims. Meanwhile, Amīn is made into a client of European empire...

... world—for example, those that understand the Haitian Revolution as a world-historical event, 22 or those that regard colonial processes of extraction as central to the making of capitalist modernity, 23 or those that see the construction of the United States as a project of empire 24 —could...

... 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...

... and empirically measured and calculated, and time is linearly plotted, “stretching infinitely from the past to the future,” as for Newton, Descartes, Kant; (2) the relative , where space and time are linked via processes and motions, rendered multiple rather than differentiated or singular, and subject to more...

... the restorative fantasies of authoritarian populism (“make something great again”), Cooppan tracks the forward-looking temporalities of nation-state formation and imperialism. She notes the persistence of Eurochronology—or history's map drawn according to the linear time of empire and nation-state—in the colonial...

... this distress distress us, since it increases our pleasures?’” 5 This refunctioning of the Diwan should make one wary of Said's hasty conclusion that the citation operates as a kind of lexicographical censorship device, tamping down Marx's human sympathies for the Indian victims of empire...

... already in a negative way anticipates the form of life of liberation. However, taking a realistic, empirical look at this claim will reveal the limitations of the historical-philosophical argument: the shattering of the certainty of a pending communist revolution has rendered this explanation questionable...

... rehearses a critique of Foucault's residual Kantianism through Said 11 in order to argue that the limited horizon of the transcendental-empirical doublet is itself conditioned by the objective material contradiction of class struggle. The dialectic, for Amel, is the only way to apprehend and overcome...

... of Sloterdijk and posthumanist feminist Rosi Braidotti; a challenge to the sovereignty of the Chinggisid empire in the Secret History of the Mongols ; 12 and a fulcrum of resistance against mining in Mongolia. In each case, however, with the exception of Braidotti's, the uncanny power of the placenta...

... through R. A. Judy's “Kant and the Negro,” where Judy underlines Kant's mixing, his excessive and paralogistic intercalculating, of the transcendental with the empirical in his explication of “the Negro.” If what Kant speaks of, in speaking of “the Negro,” is not “something in the world, but The Negro...

... the transit of empire , the replication of this process in imperial contexts and on other Indigenous and colonized populations. 6. “The modalities of Indigenous land-connected practices and long-standing experiential knowledge that inform and structure our ethical engagements with the world and our...

... with existing structures that constitute new ones, it totalizes what it empirically assimilates to preexisting generalized discursive systems (chapters 9 and 10). Amel compares the process of theoretical production to a mode of production of knowledge and points to a homology between social formations...

... insistence on the primacy of empirical over normative claims increasingly met with challenges from the proliferation of values, principles, and ideas of justice making claims on subjects both individual and collective, suggest how even the type of theory that would acquire the name “normative” after World...