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Between Bare Life and Everyday Life: Spatializing Europe’s Migrant Camps [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
The migrant and refugee camps that proliferated in Europe over recent years reflect extreme, if not bipolar, architectural conditions. While fenced carceral camps with prefabricated units were created top-down by state and municipal authorities, informal
Katz, Irit
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What is Extinction? Ecopolitics of the End [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations]

open access: yesRoutledge Open Research
In recent years, extinction has become something of a buzzword used to portray the state of consciousness of the epoch. Its definition as a concept, however, heavily oscillates between naturalistic, speculative, ethical and critical connotations. The aim
Gregorio Tenti
doaj   +1 more source

Architecture as an Extension of the Domain of Struggle. An Idea of Europe Revisited in View of Three Successive Concepts: Technocracy, Thanatopolitics and Thanatopraxia

open access: yesHistories of Postwar Architecture
A few years after the original edition of Michel Houellebecq's book Extension of the Domain of Struggle, in the aftermath of the civil war and the subsequent balkanization of Yugoslavia, Lebbeus Woods accompanies a dystopian proposal for the ...
Daniel Maurício Santos de Jesus
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From inexorable death to chosen death. [PDF]

open access: yesColomb Med (Cali), 2022
Díaz Amado E.
europepmc   +1 more source

At war or saving lives? On the securitizing semantic repertoires of Covid-19. [PDF]

open access: yesInt Relat (David Davies Mem Inst Int Stud), 2023
Baele SJ, Rousseau E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Communicatief lijden en de ethiek van het beeld : een essay [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
From a sociological viewpoint, suffering can be a source of power in at least two significant ways: by conveying information and by evoking emotions. Accordingly, social theories of protest as ‘communicative suffering’ distinguish dying with a cause ...
Stamenkovic, Marko
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Biopolitical Correspondences: Settler Nationalism, Thanatopolitics, and the Perils of Hybridity

open access: yesAustralian Literary Studies, 2011
How does (post)colonial literary culture, so often annexed to nationalist concerns, interface with what Michel Foucalt called biopolitics? Biopolitics can be defined as the regularisation of a population according to the perceived insistence on norms.
openaire   +2 more sources

The Biopolitics of the Coronavirus Pandemic: Herd Immunity, Thanatopolitics, Acts of Heroism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
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.
Ali Rıza Taşkale   +1 more
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