Violence on the Body: A Manual for French Police Escorting Illegal Immigrants
The last decade has seen Europe experience a very important wave of xenophobia that is modifying our institutions in their very essence. As two current examples, Hungary is modifying its constitution...
View ArticleHome & Apart: Spatial Justice in ‘Women of Cyprus’
On the 16th of June 2011, the Westminster International Law & Theory Centre hosted the London premiere of Women of Cyprus, a documentary directed by Vassiliki Katrivanou and Bushra Azzouz, followed...
View ArticleIn Commemoration October 12, 1492: Manifesto of Decolonial Aesthetics
A transmodern world has emerged, reconfiguring the past 500 years of coloniality and its aftermath, modernity, postmodernity and altermodernity. A remarkable feature of this transformation is the...
View ArticleImage as Interest: Occupy & the Pepper Spray Cop
In his Times column this morning, David Carr wonders about the future of the Occupy Wall Street movement and, specifically, its fate as an ongoing topic of mass-media conversation. “Occupy Wall Street...
View ArticleA Play on Justice: The Trial of Phryne at (Occupied) Old Street Magistrates...
Yet it is precisely the disenchantment of beauty in the experience of nudity, this sublime but also miserable exhibition of appearance beyond all mystery and all meaning, that can somehow defuse the...
View ArticleThe Critique of Science: Von Braun and the Ethics of Techno-Capitalism
Like an empty vessel, an abstract practice floats aimlessly in suspense of its navigator. Once boarded, it acquires a direction, an intention – the first instance of its ethical contamination. The...
View ArticleArt as Disobedience: Liberate Tate’s Gift to the Nation
This weekend was an eventful one for the Tate Modern. Late Saturday morning, pursuant to section 7 of the Museums and Galleries Act 1992, art collective Liberate Tate presented the gallery with an...
View ArticleCompliance: The Uncomfortable Reality of Docile Bodies
The movie 'Compliance' is disturbing on many different levels, and left me with a feeling of extreme discomfort, and even disorientation, long after the credits rolled, no less because it is based on...
View ArticleAll Rise: What Does Justice Sound Like?
‘Liberate Tate’ raises awareness of the uglier side to BP funding of Tate galleries Three years ago last Saturday, an oil rig around 50 kilometres off the coast of Louisiana exploded. The explosion...
View ArticleDecolonial Strategies and Dialogue in the Human Rights Field
This is a fragment of the Introduction to José-Manuel Barreto, ed., Human Rights from a Third World Perspective: Critique, History and International Law (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013). Some...
View ArticlePoems, Kettles and Monopolies
A short poem inspired by the student protests, mainly on the ‘kettling of kettling’ idea used by friends and supporters of injured protestor Alfie Meadows. They created something of a ‘Russian doll’...
View ArticleThe Dark Shores of Europe
This was August 2008 at Koraka’s Cape beach in Lesvos. A local farmer told me that he saw a prosthetic leg on the beach. He said that the leg belonged to a boy, around 13 years old, who arrived on a...
View ArticleThick Skin, a lawful film written and directed by Peter Rush
This film explores an aesthetics of law and its inhabitants through the public art sites of The Another View Walking Trail that was installed in the 1990s in the City of Melbourne. In a slow-moving...
View ArticleOn Agamben’s Politics and Theology
Colby Dickinson and Adam Kotsko recently did an interview on Agamben for the Brazilian publication Unisinos, which was translated into Portuguese and recently published. They decided to publish the...
View ArticleRobert Webb is a Prick
Last week when I was writing about Russell Brand’s article in the New Statesman, I didn’t want to subject it to too close a reading because there are some things that are written with intentional...
View ArticleIn Commemoration October 12, 1492: Manifesto of Decolonial Aesthetics
A transmodern world has emerged, reconfiguring the past 500 years of coloniality and its aftermath, modernity, postmodernity and altermodernity. A remarkable feature of this transformation is the...
View ArticleMandela will never, ever be your minstrel.
Dear revisionists, Mandela will never, ever be your minstrel. Over the next few days you will try so, so hard to make him something he was not, and you will fail. You will try to smooth him, to...
View ArticleTouch: Notes on the Thought of Luce Irigaray
Touch is at the heart of Luce Irigaray’s dialectic of relations with the other. It is a gesture that responds to the call of the (m)other.1 The dialectic of touch is based upon the gesture of respect...
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