In her book, The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability, Jasbir Puar looks into the settler-colony of Israel in Palestine to bring forth a crucial understanding of sovereignty and its relation to the body. She specifically analyses the deliberate maiming techniques used by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) which attempts to keep Palestinian casualties low... Continue Reading →
Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence / Judith Butler
"The media’s evacuation of the human through the image has to be understood, though, in terms of the broader problem that normative schemes of intelligibility, establish what will and will not be human, what will be a livable life, what will be a grievable death. These normative schemes operate not only by producing ideals of... Continue Reading →