Stewart Motha

Reader, Birkbeck Law School, University of London
Being-with: Farewell, Jean-Luc Nancy

Being-with: Farewell, Jean-Luc Nancy

“Are feelings finite?” This was a question Jean-Luc Nancy asked me as we travelled in a taxi from Heathrow to Central London in the summer of 2005. I had just welcomed Jean-Luc and his wife Hélène Sagan at the airport. They were among the extraordinary gathering of...

The Redundant Refugee

The Redundant Refugee

“In the first place”, Hannah Arendt wrote in 1943, “we don’t like to be called “refugees”. She had escaped Germany, survived...

The End of Sovereignty, in North Africa, in the World

The End of Sovereignty, in North Africa, in the World

Spare a thought for Alain Badiou. He must be busy tending to the sensitive instruments of his evento-graph. As with the seismographs of late – all ‘revolutionary event’ detectors have had a busy time. The anticipation must also be difficult to bear. Syria is...