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Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency in the Neoliberal Age [PDF]

, 2015
This chapter examines the colonial roots of counterinsurgency practices deployed by the US after September 11, 2011 in Iraq and Afghanistan. Drawing on a broad range of primary sources produced by the US military and its officers and soldiers, the ...
Khalili, Laleh
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Digital witnessing in conflict zones: the politics of remediation [PDF]

, 2015
Digital witnessing, our engagement with death through local participants’ own recordings of the conflict zone, introduces a new kind of death spectacle in the West: mediatized death [Mortensen, M. (2015). Journalism and eyewitness images.
Chouliaraki, Lilie
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The dispositif between Foucault and Agamben [PDF]

, 2015
This article interrogates the specter of resistance in the writings of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, arguing they open up divergent ways of theorizing resistance to power. This article’s focus is on both philosophers’ use and interpretation of the
Frost, Tom
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European borders and identity from the new materialist approach [PDF]

, 2016
The article deals with the concept of “new materialism“ and tries to explain “how discourses come to matter” and “how matter comes to discourses” [Barad 2003, 2007].
Nikiforova, Basia
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Remapping Capricornia: Xavier Herbert’s Cosmopolitan Imagination [PDF]

, 2017
Since its publication in 1938 critics have generally read Xavier Herbert’s Capricornia as a nationalist novel, even when its nationalism is seen to be structured by contradiction. But little attention has been given to the ways in which Herbert’s complex,
Smith, Ellen
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Foucault and Soviet Biopolitics [PDF]

, 2014
The article addresses the puzzling silence of the Foucaldian studies of biopolitics about Soviet socialism by revisiting Foucault’s own account of socialism in his 1970s work, particularly his 1975–6 course ‘Society Must Be Defended’. Foucault repeatedly
Prozorov, Sergei
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Entextualizing Thanatopolitics

Semiotic Review
On December 17, 2010, Mohammed Bouazizi, a 27-year-old street vendor set himself on fire on the public square facing the Sidi Bouzid town hall in Tunisia. This social event became an irreversible turn in the history of the Arab World.
Mariem Guellouz
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Wspólnota, immunizacja, życie – o filozofii politycznej Roberta Esposita

Politeja, 2013
Community, Immunization, Life – On the Political Philosophy of Roberto Esposito The article aims to present and to problematize the political philosophy of a representative of the reviving Italian thought – Roberto Esposito.
Mateusz Burzyk, Piotr Sawczyński
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Analyzing Zombie Dystopia as Neoliberal Scenario: An Exercise in Emancipatory Catastrophism

Frontiers in Sociology, 2018
This article starts with a hypothesis that the sociological analysis of literary and film production on the “living dead” in the 21st century, owing to the triumph of neoliberalism that has accompanied by the process of globalization, allows us to better
Andreu Domingo
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A man, burning : communicative suffering and the ethics of images [PDF]

, 2015
This paper assumes a relationship among life, death and power in order to underline the following: under certain conditions, self-sacrifice—or the form of death broadly associated with self-immolation—has the power to mobilise political life.
Stamenkovic, Marko
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