Dementia and the Paradigm of the Camp: Thinking Beyond Giorgio Agamben’s Concept of “Bare Life”
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DOI: 10.1007/s11673-019-09913-5
Abstract: This essay discusses the use of analogies drawn from the Holocaust in cultural representations and critical scholarship on dementia. The paper starts with a discussion of references to the death camp in cultural narratives about… read more here.
Keywords: giorgio agamben; camp; dementia; bare life ... See more keywords
Late Modernity and Community Change in Lattimer No. 2: The American Twentieth Century as Seen through the Archaeology of a Pennsylvania Anthracite Town
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DOI: 10.1007/s41636-017-0087-2
Abstract: The shanty town at the periphery of Lattimer No. 2 began in the 1880s as an ephemeral settlement for new immigrant workers. Situated within the pluralist labor hierarchy of northeast Pennsylvania’s coal region, Italian families… read more here.
Keywords: giorgio agamben; archaeology; pennsylvania; community ... See more keywords
Follow Your Leader – I Prefer not to: Slavery, Giorgio Agamben and Herman Melville:
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DOI: 10.1177/1743872118787236
Abstract: Giorgio Agamben proffers Bartleby’s phrase “I prefer not to” as a model for paralyzing apparatuses of power rather than slave mutiny leader Babo’s phrase “follow your leader.” This article compares the strategies embodied in these… read more here.
Keywords: giorgio agamben; herman melville; follow leader; leader ... See more keywords