This book explores God's use of violence as depicted in the Hebrew Bible. Ophir shows how the Bible's varied formations of divine violence anticipate the main outlines of the modern European state. A critique of the modern state, the book argues, must begin in unpacking its mostly repressed theological dimension.
Why is the colonial context absent from Michel Foucault's history of a European sexual discourse that for him defined the bourgeois self? This book challenges Foucault's tunnel vision of the West and his marginalization of empire.
Offers a methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. This title identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing the problematic racial ontologies of that confused epistemic space.
Focusing on the concept of "interior frontiers," Ann Laura Stoler explores the racial dynamics within imperial democracy and their implications for global violence. The essays dissect the silent and violent divisions that arise in struggles among diverse populations. Drawing on Etienne Balibar's ideas, Stoler examines the legacy of colonialism and how it shapes current societal conditions. This thought-provoking collection challenges readers to confront the deep-rooted racist structures that persist in contemporary contexts.
Focusing on the intersection of empire, war, and cinema, this gripping account delves into the roles of Italian and international film during periods of dictatorship. It highlights the significant yet often overlooked contributions of filmmakers and their works, providing a compelling narrative that intertwines historical context with the evolution of film as a medium under oppressive regimes. The exploration reveals how cinema reflects and shapes societal dynamics in tumultuous times.
In Duress Ann Laura Stoler traces how imperial formations and colonialism's presence shape current inequities around the globe by examining Israel's colonial practices, the United State's imperial practices, the recent rise of the French right wing, and affect's importance to governance.
Essays by major contemporary figures in political philosophy, anthropology, and cultural studies presenting an original reflection on the question what is a particular concept (classic concepts in politics as well as newly politicized concepts) and asking what sort of work a rethinking of that concept can do for us now.
This book reviews the colonial projects of the nineteenth and twentieth century which cast a long shadow on the laws, politics, and culture of nations around the world. It mentions the colonial residue that is apparent in fears about caravans of refugees and their effects on national culture. It also highlights the argument that nationalism isn't something that appeared out of nowhere, pointing out that liberals failed to see it coming because of the philosophical concepts that can't capture the importance of imperial thinking to liberal notions of self and nation. The book looks at a range of concepts that fall outside of traditional political measures and that structure the ways in which nations and individuals conceive of themselves. It considers Europe as a "shatterzone," an eighteenth-century geological term for areas of fissured rock that networks of veins that fill with rich mineral deposits