In the recent years, the relationship between race and digital technologies has gained new momentum.
Emergent forms of engineered inequalities, from the governance of life and death through biotechnologies
and algorithms to the commodification of bodies in platform capitalism or the biopolitical management of
b/ordering are now at the core...
Standpunkttheorien argumentieren, dass unser Wissen in bestimmten Bereichen von unserer sozialen Position abhängt. Sie sind die philosophische Grundlage von politischer Kritik, die mit Bezug auf die soziale Position argumentiert, wie beispielsweise antirassistische oder feministi-sche Kritiken. Zentral ist dabei, die hegemoniale Perspektive der Dominanzkultur, die sich als universell gültig versteht, als...
Black people are particularly vulnerable to forms of social and premature death in the current crises of liberal democracies and neoliberal racial capitalism. The necropolitical regimes in the Mediterranean Sea, the Prison Industrial Complex, mass criminalization, policing and environmental racism are just some of the modalities of structural violence that...
In this course, we will investigate existentialist responses to experiences of crisis such as states of emergency and high risk, periods of uncertainty and struggle, and situations of injustice and racism. The seminar begins with the existentialist movement in 20th century Germany and France (Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Jean-Paul Sartre,...
In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
Mapping literature from Spanish-speaking sub-Saharan African and Afro-Latinx Caribbean diasporas, Decolonizing Diasporas argues that the works of diasporic writers and artists from Equatorial Guinea, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Cuba offer new worldviews that unsettle and dismantle the logics of colonial modernity. With women of color feminisms and decolonial... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.
In this book, Thomas J. Connelly draws on a number of key psychoanalytic concepts from the works of Jacques Lacan, Slavoj Žižek, Joan Copjec, Michel Chion, and Todd McGowan to identify and describe a genre of cinema characterized by spatial confinement. Examining classic films such as Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and... and An electronic version of this book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched. KU is a collaborative initiative designed to make high-quality books open access for the public good. More information about the initiative can be found at www.knowledgeunlatched.org.