by shandra | May 24, 2023 | Writings
Caught between the seemingly contradictory imageries of particularity and universality, ‘European identity’ could in fact be presumed but as a shorthand for ontological anxiety. The (‘euro-‘) centric ontology that it denotes is marked by an...
by shandra | May 24, 2023 | Writings
The coronavirus pandemic offers a rare opportunity to critique the biopolitical argument and a chance to reveal the life-and-death nexus, which is often clandestine in its operation. In this context, death rather than life is “put to work” under a biopolitical mode of...
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’...
