.... Social Text 108 • Fall 2011 13 Other Ways of Being Human In the immediate postindependence moment, Mohammad Hasan Askari (1919 – 78) was one of the major critics of the progressives. Askari’s...

..., in the convincing nature of these stories. The function of genealogy in this context—genealogy as an ally and prerequisite of critique, derived here Askari’s search for from Foucault’s influential reading of Nietzsche—seems thus to be to uncover and expose...

..., prepared for the conference organized by Miriam Hansen, “Cinema as Vernacular Modernism,” at the University of Chicago in 2002 (for an account of the conference see Kaveh Askari and Joshua Yumibe, “Cinema as ‘Vernacular Modernism’ Confer- ence...