The sacred, the secular, and the profane: introducing Agamben’s ‘profane philosophy’ to security studies and the case of Israel’s natural gas discoveries
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DOI: 10.1057/s41268-017-0093-1
Abstract: In security studies, the dichotomy between ‘security’ and ‘regular’ politics has been effectively challenged in recent years, both theoretically and empirically. To address this challenge, the article develops Giorgio Agamben’s concepts of the sacred, the… read more here.
Keywords: philosophy; security studies; security; profane ... See more keywords
Occult Surrealism as “Profane Illumination”: Mina Loy, Leonora Carrington, and Ithell Colquhoun
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DOI: 10.2979/jmodelite.46.1.10
Abstract: Abstract:Walter Benjamin in his 1929 essay “Surrealism: The Last Snapshot of the European Intelligentsia” regarded the supernatural dimension of Parisian surrealism with suspicion: as a “profane” distraction from its more politically engaged aesthetics. Commenting on… read more here.
Keywords: surrealism; mina loy; profane illumination; loy leonora ... See more keywords