Allen Feldman
Allen Feldman is the author of Archives of the Insensible: of War, Photopolitics and Dead Memory (U. of Chicago Press, 2015), Formations of Violence: The Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland
( U. of Chicago Press, 1991. 1994) and numerous journal essays on Critical War Studies, the Politics of the Gaze, the Political Anthropology of the Senses and Embodiment, and Critical Carceral Studies.
Supervisors: The late Stanley Diamond and Reiner Schurmann
( U. of Chicago Press, 1991. 1994) and numerous journal essays on Critical War Studies, the Politics of the Gaze, the Political Anthropology of the Senses and Embodiment, and Critical Carceral Studies.
Supervisors: The late Stanley Diamond and Reiner Schurmann
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appear. This is the politically visible, that horizon of actors, objects, and events that constitute the worldview and circumscribed reality of the political emergency zone—the gathered and linked components of crises.This symbiosis means that political subjects are formed, in part, within a circuit of visual prosthetics: the surveillance camera, the helicopter overflight, the panoptic architecture of the
interrogation room and prison,13 and the aimed gun. These instruments of fatal vision can be divided into hardware and software technologies, and among the latter must be included the human eye, subject to a high degree of spatial and temporal extension and electronic supplementation. In turn, the fabrication of the politically visible infers the concomitant creation of that which is politically invisible. The circuit formed by vision and violence is itself circumscribed by zones of blindness and inattention
state anthropophagy and survivance, this essay anatomizes the
Derridean contretemps- the essential accident- as the time out
of time of wartime. The contretemps fractures teleocratic optics
while escalating the sovereign right to be without right in war.
Accidentalized violence does not speak to war as inconvenienced
by mishaps but rather to the political mobilization of the accidental
as war by other means. Collateral damage and enforced disappearance
constitute a temporal counter weight to the indivisibility of
sovereign force, crosscutting the latter with shape shifting indeterminacy
that preempts critical witnessing and political dejustification.
for original see:
http://www.nakedpunch.com/articles/273
Books by Allen Feldman
http://www.nakedpunch.com/articles/273.
(for original site) On new mods of war and state formation based on my recent book Archives of the Insensible and beyond it.
appear. This is the politically visible, that horizon of actors, objects, and events that constitute the worldview and circumscribed reality of the political emergency zone—the gathered and linked components of crises.This symbiosis means that political subjects are formed, in part, within a circuit of visual prosthetics: the surveillance camera, the helicopter overflight, the panoptic architecture of the
interrogation room and prison,13 and the aimed gun. These instruments of fatal vision can be divided into hardware and software technologies, and among the latter must be included the human eye, subject to a high degree of spatial and temporal extension and electronic supplementation. In turn, the fabrication of the politically visible infers the concomitant creation of that which is politically invisible. The circuit formed by vision and violence is itself circumscribed by zones of blindness and inattention
state anthropophagy and survivance, this essay anatomizes the
Derridean contretemps- the essential accident- as the time out
of time of wartime. The contretemps fractures teleocratic optics
while escalating the sovereign right to be without right in war.
Accidentalized violence does not speak to war as inconvenienced
by mishaps but rather to the political mobilization of the accidental
as war by other means. Collateral damage and enforced disappearance
constitute a temporal counter weight to the indivisibility of
sovereign force, crosscutting the latter with shape shifting indeterminacy
that preempts critical witnessing and political dejustification.
for original see:
http://www.nakedpunch.com/articles/273
http://www.nakedpunch.com/articles/273.
(for original site) On new mods of war and state formation based on my recent book Archives of the Insensible and beyond it.