We take up the conference theme in earnest, looking at gardens as the place of questioning. We invite you to walk through, dwell in, or simply look at gardens and to share your path. Gardens are yearned for and yet, the place in which this yearning emerges remains...
Today in Greece a 77 year old pensioner shot himself in Syntagma Square. In his letter he explained that the government was robbing him of his dignity and that he had no choice but to commit suicide or start living out of bins. He didn’t want to leave his...
Monday June 18, 14.00 – 20.15 Aula, University Main Building, Ludwigstraße 23, Giessen Democracy in Crisis? Democratic Alienation Austerity Politics and Sacrificial Citizenship Wendy Brown (University of California Berkeley) The Politics of Speed and the Loss of...
This presentation takes as its subject the real and fictional trials of Bülent Ersoy – a fantastically outrageous Turkish transgender singer/film star, whose public gender ‘transition’ coincided and collided with the 1980 military coup d’état in...
Given the profound reverberations contemporary economic crises have had in established democracies, a new phase of post-democracy appears to have emerged, severely constraining processes of autonomous decision-making and traditional modes of contestation. At the same...
William S Burroughs (1914-1997), is one of the most influential, and yet much maligned writers of the Twentieth Century. He has been described by critical legal theorist Nathan Moore as, “… one of the most fundamental diagnosticians of the 20th century...
