by shandra | May 24, 2023 | Writings
The possibility that a critical approach is grounded in what it critically approaches is indeed a paradox only a few would acknowledge, and certainly not as loudly as Derrida once did: “we can pronounce not a single destructive proposition which has not already had to...
by shandra | May 24, 2023 | Writings
Much has been written about extreme violence against individuals and their bodies from the perspective of ‘biopolitics’. According to Foucault, biopolitics emerges when ‘the right to punish’ shifts ‘from the vengeance of the sovereign to the defence of society’ (1977,...
by shandra | May 24, 2023 | Writings
Georg Simmel, perhaps still the theorist of urban experience, argues in The Stranger (1971) that society is not an external object that precedes the constellation of interactions between human beings. Society, according to Simmel, does not exist before ‘sociality’...
by shandra | May 24, 2023 | Writings
Bu makale Pier Paolo Pasolini’nin son filmi Saló’ya odaklanarak, işkenceyi egemenliğin bir tahakküm aygıtı, devlet terörünün en ‘ayrıcalıklı’ politik biçimlerinden biri olarak kuramlaştırmayı amaçlamaktadır. Agambenci bir şemayı kullanan makale, egemenliğin bir...
