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Aesthetic Practices in the Global South
Aesthetic Practices in the Global South

Liliana Gómez (Hg.)

Performing Human Rights

This book aims to show how arts perform human rights and how aesthetic engagements with human rights violations testify to art’s capacity to create alternate worlds, which with their creative modes do provide alternate semantics to the legal failures and the state’s official silence. This book shares the conviction that, after all, artistic articulations allow ethico-aesthetic considerations of “questions that are broader than the law and the institutions of the political, precisely because they are prior to law … and...
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Saturnaaaaalien
Saturnaaaaalien

Sina Dell’Anno

Oratio Soluta

Löwengleich ist Saturn in unser Denken eingegangen; als wilde Bestie der Revolution, im aufgerissenen Maul noch die Glieder eines halbverzehrten Kindes. Goyas Danton: das blutige Gesicht der unzähmbaren Angst, dass der menschliche Freiheitshunger außer Rand und Band geraten könnte. Im Aufreißen des Mauls kündigt sich ein aufbegehrender Appetit an. Diese Physiognomie der Revolution, bei Goya ins Fürchterliche gesteigert, begegnet uns bereits dort, wo Saturn noch nicht zur Fratze eines weltgeschichtlichen Ungeheuers erstarrt war, sondern als goldzeitalterliche Gottheit des Ackerbaus und Kulturstifter...
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Eric Baudelaire

A for Anomie

A for Anomie

The idea that terrorism and other forms of political violence are directly related to strains caused by strongly held grievances has been one of the most common explanations to date and can be traced to a diverse set of theoretical concepts including relative deprivation, social disorganization, breakdown, tension, and anomie. Merton (1938) identifies anomie as a cultural condition of frustration, in which values regarding goals and how to achieve them conflict with limitations on the means of achievement.

Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan, “Research on Terrorism and Countering Terrorism”, Crime and Justice, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2009.

 

B for Block or Blocked

If terrorism in each of its expressions can be considered an indicator of the existence of a political block (of an impossibility of reacting if one wishes to react differently), this influences its real ability to modify the situation. Terrorism has been historically more successful when it was not...

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