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A non-Western way of thinking
A non-Western way of thinking

Mario Schulze (Hg.), Sarine Waltenspül (Hg.)

String Figures

In recent years, string figures have gained prominence in cultural theory. Donna Haraway promotes string figures as a method of thinking and collaboration between both disciplines and species. Rather than the technicist and rigid metaphor of the network, Haraway’s string figures provide a playful, process-oriented, embodied, performative (and non-Western) mode of thought in which responsibility and collaboration are foregrounded.
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Mama Say Make I Dey Go, She Dey My Back

Jelili Atiku, Damian Christinger

Mama Say Make I Dey Go, She Dey My Back

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Eric Baudelaire

A for Anomie

A for Anomie

The idea that terrorism and other forms of political violence are directly related to strains caused by strongly held grievances has been one of the most common explanations to date and can be traced to a diverse set of theoretical concepts including relative deprivation, social disorganization, breakdown, tension, and anomie. Merton (1938) identifies anomie as a cultural condition of frustration, in which values regarding goals and how to achieve them conflict with limitations on the means of achievement.

Gary LaFree and Laura Dugan, “Research on Terrorism and Countering Terrorism”, Crime and Justice, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2009.

 

B for Block or Blocked

If terrorism in each of its expressions can be considered an indicator of the existence of a political block (of an impossibility of reacting if one wishes to react differently), this influences its real ability to modify the situation. Terrorism has been historically more successful when it was not...

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Weniger ist genug
Weniger ist genug

Pier Vittorio Aureli

Weniger ist genug

Aureli fordert uns auf, Weniger weder unter dem Paradigma von Verlust und Schulden noch unter dem Anspruch von Wachstum und Steigerung zu betrachten und stattdessen entlang des Mottos Weniger ist genug alternative und kritische, kollektive und soziale Wendungen der Erfüllung jenseits von Besitz und Produktivität zu erforschen.
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Ist das Drama k.o.? Ist das Theater k.o.?

Alexander García Düttmann

Ist das Drama k.o.? Ist das Theater k.o.?

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  • Alain Badiou
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