The Heart of the World – Sovereignty & its Ground

The Heart of the World – Sovereignty & its Ground

This text appears as part of the exhibition For Inclusion in the Syllabi curated by Five Story Projects at the Pigeon Wing gallery in London (Sept 15th – 30th). The exhibition also features work by: Am Nuden Da, Ana Balona de Oliveira, Thomas Bush, Angus...
The Hyper-Hermeneutic Gesture of a Subtle RevolutionR

The Hyper-Hermeneutic Gesture of a Subtle RevolutionR

Drawing upon the thought of Giorgio Agamben, this paper focuses upon the potential of a single act to change a political order. Agamben’s writings on the exception and the figure of whatever-being retain the possibility for a paradigmatic gesture that opens up a space...
Human Dignity and the Incomplete Arab Spring

Human Dignity and the Incomplete Arab Spring

The political power of a protest movement can be seen by looking at the protest group’s awareness of its own position and the balance of power in which the group finds itself. Another factor is the group’s ability to resist its own integration into the hegemonic...
Capitalist Rioters Don’t Wear Hoodies

Capitalist Rioters Don’t Wear Hoodies

Author: Gaston Gordillo (Space and Politics) The global media has been nervously covering two simultaneous forms of destruction: the obliteration of wealth in the financial markets and the destruction of property in the United Kingdom. This destruction involves...
Riots and Ineloquence

Riots and Ineloquence

In Nicholas Ray’s 1955 Rebel without a cause1Nicholas Ray read The Rebel (2001) by Albert Camus when it first came out in 1954. He was deeply influenced by the book and it prompted him to make Rebel without a cause. For more, see Eisenschitz (1993). we follow the...