In ancient Rome, any citizen who had brought disgrace upon the state could be subject to a judgment believed to be worse than death: damnatio memoriae, condemnation of memory. The Senate would decree that every trace of the citizen's existence be removed from the city as if they…
Arthur Bradley explores the power to render life unlived from ancient Rome through the War on Terror. He argues that sovereignty is the power to decide what counts as being alive and what does not: to make life "unbearable," unrecognized as having lived or died.
The Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural sciences but also for a synthetic approach bringing together insights from the various subdiscipli…
The Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural sciences but also for a synthetic approach bringing together insights from the various subdiscipli…
The Anthropocene is a concept which challenges the foundations of humanities scholarship as it is traditionally understood. It calls not only for closer engagement with the natural sciences but also for a synthetic approach bringing together insights from the various subdiscipli…
The Cognition of Life and the Life of Cognition (Kant) -- Metamorphoses of Form (Goethe) -- Enter the Hybrid (Kleist) -- Life as Will (Nietzsche) -- Brains (Benn) -- The Infinite Specificity of Life (Musil). "Forms of Life brings the works of Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Fr…
"Forms of Life brings the works of Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, Benn, Musil and others into critical conversation with contemporary discussions of vitalism and biopolitics"--
"Forms of Life brings the works of Kant, Goethe, Kleist, Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein, Benn, Musil and others into critical conversation with contemporary discussions of vitalism and biopolitics"