Professor Jodi Dean Study Day :: 21/03/2013
March 20, 2013
In recent years, big claims have been made about the political potential of new media and social networking, from Obama’s use of Facebook in his 2008 election campaign to the alleged role of smartphones in the so-called ‘Arab Spring’. We hear constantly about the ‘digital revolution’ and the ‘democratizing’ effects it can have. But can …
The SRU seeks critique.
Hello! Posted below is the first draft of a piece of collective writing coming from the Sitting Room University (a project co-coordinated by a current and ex MA Critical Theory student amongst others) and destined for a publication accompanying a show we are contributing to called Landmark Seizure, taking place in the Aid+Abet contemporary art …
Denaturalising Terror Suspects in the Age of Drone Strikes: British Sovereignty and Homo Sacer in the “War on Terror”
In the early years of the “War on Terror” academic attention was drawn to the ways in which this new paradigm in international relations had begun to shift not only the nature of armed conflicts, but also our assumed understandings of sovereignty and the law. But while both these shifts had developed out of a …
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