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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 15–24.
Published: 01 June 2020
...Judith Butler Abstract Indefinite detention is a legal norm and practice that is increasingly acceptable throughout the world. It consists of arrest and forcible detention without a clear communication of crimes committed, and it can last indefinitely, since it deprives the detained of recourse...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2020) 29 (1): 1–14.
Published: 01 June 2020
... the interconnected structures of enclosure and expulsion. Copyright © 2020 Editorial Board, Qui Parle 2020 graphic arts refugeehood Palestinian diaspora border imperialism migrant detention Our age—with its modern warfare, imperialism, and the quasi-theological ambitions of totalitarian rulers...
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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 35–75.
Published: 01 June 2014
... to justice. The weekly pro-
tests were called off in 1999 due to the intensity of police repres-
sion, after many occasions of “ridicule and insults, ill- treatment,
or even detention and imprisonment.”1 But they recommenced a
decade later, gaining impetus with several high-profi le...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2008) 17 (1): 175–192.
Published: 01 June 2008
... the point
as a knowing insider, Pessoa made a claim for which his teachers
in Durban might have put him in detention: “The plays and poems
of Shakespeare are, from the pure artistic standpoint, the greatest
failure that the world has ever looked on” (215).
It is just...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2016) 25 (1-2): 263–278.
Published: 01 December 2016
... observes the po-
litical activities of refugees (what Agamben might call “bare life”) in
detention centers (“spaces of exception”) in Body Counts: The Vietnam
278 qui parle fall/winter 2016 vol. 25, nos. 1–2
War and Militarized Refuge(es) (Oakland: University of California...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 June 2018
... analysis further in her essay “Indefinite Detention,” published in her collection Precarious Life : “For Agamben, the state reveals its extralegal status when it designates a state of exception to the rule of law and thereby withdraws the law selectively from application. The result is the production...
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Journal Article
Qui Parle (2005) 15 (2): 197–225.
Published: 01 December 2005
... and total annihilation. The "bare life" of
homo sacer is not to be found only in the zones of exception that
Agamben identifies — detention facilities, organ transplantations,
death row, etc. — but rather can be found everywhere, in the uni-
versal nuclear threat to which we are all subjected...
Journal Article
Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 107–149.
Published: 01 June 2012
...
are instructed, as was Solzhenitsyn during his own detention, to be-
come the next “George Fletchers”: to build a vocoder and a sound
spectrograph for telephone encryption and surveillance. In his re-
view of The First Circle, Raymond Williams queried the privileging
of voice reproduction and identifi...
