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Lo-Fi Femme: The Messy Hypermediacy of Aspirational Femininity in Melisa Liebenthal’s "Las lindas" (2016)
No full textThis article merges discursive-based scholarship with a phenomenological approach to analyze the media convergence in Melisa Liebenthal’s Las lindas (2016), a personal documentary which explores thresholds of femininity through liminal life stages of girlhood, adolescence, and womanhood. Lo-fi aesthetics and post-production techniques reduce the primacy of the visual logic of feminine allure, highlighting the physical exchange of media and heightening audience awareness of cultural practices that reinforce standards of femininity. The film thus filters the reality of femininity in such a way as to make it unsteady, incomplete, and never quite in focus, forestalling any notion of its completion or attainability.
Ruins in the Expanded Field
No full textThis paper applies the Klein Group form used by Rosalind Krauss in her essay, "Sculpture in the Expanded Field", to the field of ruins. The opposition utilized to create the ruin Klein Group is the opposition between vanished and intact. The paper proceeds by classifying and discussing each of the possibilities opened up by the expanded field: ruins (not-vanished ; not-intact), consecrated sites (vanished ; not-vanished), ruin-reproduction (vanished ; intact), and finally the "necroaesthetical ruin" (intact ; not-intact). The expanded field and the political and aesthetic implications thereof are discussed primarily in conversation with Paolo Virno\u27s "Deja Vu and the End of History," as well as Achille Mbembe\u27s "Necropolitics" and Andreas Huyssen\u27s "Nostalgia for Ruins.”This paper applies the Klein Group form used by Rosalind Krauss in her essay, "Sculpture in the Expanded Field", to the field of ruins. The opposition utilized to create the ruin Klein Group is the opposition between vanished and intact. The paper proceeds by classifying and discussing each of the possibilities opened up by the expanded field: ruins (not-vanished ; not-intact), consecrated sites (vanished ; not-vanished), ruin-reproduction (vanished ; intact), and finally the "necroaesthetical ruin" (intact ; not-intact). The expanded field and the political and aesthetic implications thereof are discussed primarily in conversation with Paolo Virno\u27s "Deja Vu and the End of History," as well as Achille Mbembe\u27s "Necropolitics" and Andreas Huyssen\u27s "Nostalgia for Ruins.
Theory at the Limits of Science and Politics: The Challenges of Writing a Manifesto in Times of Climate Collapse
No full textThe prior issue of Krisis (42:1) published Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto, with the aim to instigate a debate of the issues raised in this manifesto – the necessary re-thinking of the role (and the concept) of nature in critical theory in relation to questions of ecology, health, and inequality. Since Krisis considers itself a place for philosophical debates that take contemporary struggles as starting point, it issued an open call and solicited responses to the manifesto. This is one of the sixteen selected responses, which augment, specify, or question the assumptions and arguments of the manifesto.The prior issue of Krisis (42:1) published Critical Naturalism: A Manifesto, with the aim to instigate a debate of the issues raised in this manifesto – the necessary re-thinking of the role (and the concept) of nature in critical theory in relation to questions of ecology, health, and inequality. Since Krisis considers itself a place for philosophical debates that take contemporary struggles as starting point, it issued an open call and solicited responses to the manifesto. This is one of the sixteen selected responses, which augment, specify, or question the assumptions and arguments of the manifesto
Wolfgang Bartuschat: An Obituary
No full textThis is an obituary on Wolfgang Bartuschat (May 13, 1938 – August 10, 2022), an eminent Spinoza scholar at Universität Hamburg. As an interpreter, Bartuschat emphasized the human and individual perspective in Spinoza’s metaphysical and political thought. Bartuschat will also be remembered as an excellent translator and editor
Spinoza on the Wise and the Free
No full textThis paper is a response to Sanem Soyarslan’s objections to my reading of Spinoza’s free person (homo liber). She argues that on my interpretation the free person, unlike the wise person (vir sapiens), while subject to passive affects, does not experience bondage to the passions; and so only the latter, but not the former, can serve as a viable “model of human nature.” I argue that, in fact, the free person and the wise person are, for Spinoza, one and the same indiviual, and thus constitute a single ideal model that we can more or less closely approximate
More than Truth: The Hope of Preaching and Its Languages in Context
No full textThis essay is adapted from a keynote address offered at Societas Homiletica in Budapest, Hungary (August 2022). It frames preaching in shifting social contexts as a practice of theologically ethical meaning-making—supported by accountability to lived experiences, practical wisdom and decision making, and imaginations grounded in boldness and humility. The essay argues that pedagogical strategies in support of these practices prioritize the possibilities that emerge in the constraints of learning contexts. Teaching within the mass crisis of a global pandemic is offered as a case study in the connected outcomes afforded in reassessing one’s presuppositions in both pedagogy and preaching
The Ethics of Mapping Slums—And How AI Complicates the Picture
No full textThis is an interview conducted with Isaac Oluoch (Twente) and Michael Nagenborg (Twente) on 1 March 2023. It is about their research on mapping deprived areas in lower-income countries, better known as slums or informal settlements. They talk about technical and especially ethical challenges involved in practical mapping projects, and also discuss what complications may arise when machines (AI) start participating in interpretations of spaces. We also discuss our situatedness as researchers in wealthy countries, the practice of philosophy in general and how it might contribute to concrete real-world problems
Slachtoffers van onwetendheid. Gebrekkige kennisverspreiding over het DES-hormoon in België sinds 1971
No full textTussen de jaren 1940 en 1970 maakte het DES-hormoon, dat werd toegediend aan zwangere vrouwen om miskramen te voorkomen, wereldwijd miljoenen slachtoffers. Toch blijft het DES-probleem in België tot op heden onder de radar. Aan de hand van interviews met DES-slachtoffers en artsen toont Antje Van Kerckhove aan hoe die onwetendheid verklaard kan worden
Genderview Gloria Wekker: Vaderlandse geschiedenis creëert ‘Witte onschuld’
No full textInterview met Gloria Wekker over \u27cultureel archief\u27, koloniaal verleden, antiracisme en diversiteit in de academische wereld