The normalization of exceptions and the ‘zone of indistinction’- Germany and Egypt
Today political discourse especially after 9/11, more recent terror-attacks in Europe and the Arab Uprising focuses on security issues and anti-terror legislation. Whereas the cases of Guantánamo (Gregory, 2006) and Palestine (Furani, 2014) are only the most discussed examples Giorgio Agamben argues with his theory that nowadays we live in a sphere of more frequently […]
Visuality and Power – Seeing the extraordinary in International Relations
Outline 1. Introduction 1-2 2. Visuality in Critical Security Studies 2-3 3. Visual Securitization 3-5 4. What is an image? 5 5. Visuality as power 5-6 6. Seeing the Extraordinary in International Relation 6 6. 1 Postcolonialism and visuality in International Relations 6-8 6. 2 Gender and Visuality in International Relations 8-9 7. Conclusion 9-10 […]
ALL IN ONE BOAT? Or – What Corona has to do with social inequality and capitalism Again an article about the Corona crisis; but beware this is above all a critique of capitalism
The spread of the corona virus has been preoccupying us all every day for weeks, and in the meantime the limitations of public life are also being felt. If you are still allowed to walk through the streets, you can hardly hear conversations off the beaten track. And that is understandable. There has never been […]
