...Debarati Sanyal Abstract Starting with Alan Kurdi as the “ideal” figure of the refugee, juxtaposed with the figure of the migrant swarm, which rehearses the contrast between humanitarian compassion and securitarian anxiety, this essay traces how these seemingly opposed logics meet...

...Ajay Skaria Abstract In conversation with the work of Qadri Ismail, this essay explores the figure of the minor. It suggests that Ismail and others have given that figure a distinctive torsion by imbuing it with the moral aspiration for a freedom and equality no longer centered on sovereignty...

...Anne-Lise François Abstract This article offers a partial commentary on the figures of parenthetical or bracketed power in paragraphs 12 and 13 of Walter Benjamin's “Toward the Critique of Violence.” Performing its own bracketing of the central question of the general strike, it focuses instead...

... and dogs, an idea that would have tremendous influence on public policy on overpopulation. The sources of Townsend's Dissertation are based on the figure of Alexander Selkirk, who lived as a castaway on an island of the Juan Fernández Archipelago. This essay analyzes Townsend's sources and takes note...

... into the mainstream of the discipline. The expansion, however, has been marked by a tendency to typecast the archive of anticolonial thought with a handful of figures. This article examines the edge of the archive, or three thinkers who are only at its margins. They are Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī, Qāsim Amīn, and Sayyid...

...Emily Ng Abstract The history of modern China has been filled with loss in many senses. From certain angles of vision, loss, remembrance, and forgetting orbit around figures of political repression in the People's Republic of China (PRC), particularly that of censorship. These approaches posit...

... in each case, sovereignty is obliged to summon the figure of the “last man.” This logic needs to be reconstructed. We need to go back to where Bataille left off. We must understand the terrible obstacle that he ran into along the way. Bataille was on the brink of entering virgin territory...

..., elle est obligée de faire appel à la figure du « dernier homme ». Cette logique demande à être reconstruite. Il faut revenir là où Bataille s'est arrêté. Il faut comprendre quel était ce formidable obstacle auquel il s'est heurté. Il devait entrer dans un territoire vierge, celui du survivant. Et...

... expressed a deep rejection of the existing economic model, emphasizing its cultural concomitants and questioning the practices of self-exploitation imposed by neoliberal work culture. The first part of the essay develops a critical picture of the figure of the entrepreneur, an embodiment of meritocratic...

...Sophie Chao Abstract This essay considers the multiscalar manifestations of loss and the destruction of loss through the material-semiotic figure of “spent earth,” a toxic waste by-product generated by the industrial bleaching of crude oils into edible oils. Drawing on two distinct encounters...

..., in alternative news outlets. “No +.” Figure 1. Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento. Acción de arte, 1979. Figure 1. Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento. Acción de arte, 1979. Figure 2. Una milla de cruces sobre el pavimento. Acción de arte, 1979. Figure 2. Una milla de cruces...

...Ali Cherri; Basit Kareem Iqbal; Rajbir Singh Judge 6. Povinelli, Geontologies , 167 . 7. Lesch, “Systematics and the Geometrical Spirit,” 75 . 8. Blanchot, Space of Literature , 259 . Figures 17–18. Dead Inside series. Figures 17–18. Dead Inside series...

... their composite words on one level, they offer a contemplative space on another. The simple phrase Take Care of Yourself has prompted this project. Figure 1. Take Care of Yourself —Series: Michel Foucault Figure 1. Take Care of Yourself—Series: Michel Foucault Figure 2. Take Care of Yourself...

... origin almost to the point of disappearance. figure 1 . Hisham's Palace (Khirbat al-Mafjar), Mosaic floor, Jericho, 724–43 AD. Figure 1. Hisham's Palace (Khirbat al-Mafjar), Mosaic floor, Jericho, 724–43 AD. figure 2 . “Jericho First” no. 4, 2006. In the exhibition Taking Place...

... to Goya's genius, dirtying it with the smoke of the real, seemed to me both entirely necessary and entirely natural. figura/figure 1 . Los desastres de la guerra: Tristes presentimientos de lo que ha de acontecer (2018). Fumaça sobre impressão em papel (smoke on printed paper). FIGURA/FIGURE 1...

... as euphoria turned to despair, with no accountability for the many lives lost, jailed, maimed, otherwise destroyed, the images remained, circulating as proof that all we had lived had actually happened. figure 1. Figure 1. figure 2 . Protesters gather in Beirut demanding the prime...

...–), for which you solicited “letters with love” from viewers in exchange for an art work. Why are these episodes so crucial to you, as an artist? figure 16 . Mithu Sen, UnLOCKDOWN . Video-montage as artist’s response for “Coronavirus Artpocalypse: The Art World Responds—Part 6,” YouTube video, 25:46...

... of tickseed. They said they were going to clear them all. I told them, those flowers over there, near the boulder, should be saved. There's still some left now. There used to be so much. figure 1 . Yi Xin Tong, still from Tickseed , 3:16. Poems in the Mount Lu Zoo (2015–20). Ten-channel HD video...

... demikian kita bisa belajar apa makna belajar. FIGURE 1. School of Improper Education modular logo, designed by Tuhantu Design Collective (Yogyakarta). Tuhantu responded to our call for a logo design that resists a fixed formation of shapes. The logo configuration signifies a condition...