Authorship in the post-academic, post-human age
In 1964, when describing the threshold for obscenity in Jacobellis v. Ohio, the US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart said […]
From Despair to Where? Anthropology, critique, political practice and the case for radical optimism
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The cats of Gaza or why Nakba is a multispecies catastrophe
Like many of my friends and colleagues, I have been relying on the social media accounts of Gazan journalists, photographers,
Heresies and provocations. For a politics of urban justice
In search of urban heresies Wherever I glanced around Solomon’s office, I saw, plastered on the walls and spread over
Gaza and the coming age of the ‘warrior’
‘Is it ethical to write something ‘interesting’ about a massacre as the massacre is unfolding?’ I keep asking myself. ‘Is
Our History is Our Mandate
An edited talk delivered at the London School of Economics and Social Sciences on Nov 7th 2023 I spend a
Statement on humanitarian action and the situation in Palestine
On the 31st of October 2023, professors and participants in the Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action at the Geneva Centre
The politics of condemnation
As if he was, for the occasion of Halloween, joyfully embracing the figure of the grotesque, Hubert Aiwanger, former as
A critique of humanitarianism on the brink of genocide
That humanitarian language, materials, and practice offer a space for politics to hide (Feldman, 2018, p. 131) can probably not
Not even Israel can block the sun
The title of this statement is a direct quote from Gazan-based journalist Muhammad Smiry, who took footage of how people