Elemental Disappearances

Politics & Social Sciences

Mohaghegh, Jason Bahbak

Lukic, Dejan

Philosophy

Punctum Books

How is a hostage space constructed? In this age-long procedure found in conflicts around the world, strange forms of terror and intimacy arise, particularly in the contemporary Islamic cultures of Chechnya, Albania, and Bosnia. This book investigates the modes of desire and politics found in kidnapping, in order to reveal the voices of victims and kidnappers that often remain closed up. Dejan Lukic explores the spaces where hostages and hostage takers come into contact - spaces of accident, sacrifice, hope, and catastrophe. Or in other words, the spaces that announce utopias bound to fail. In this book, the figures of the victim, the terrorist, the sovereign, the resistance fighter and the witness - among others - emerge with a new face; one that will contribute to our understanding of what it means to act politically and ethically today.Contents:Preface: Diagrammatic Intensifications 1. "Being on the Lookout", the Animal  2. Biopotentiality and the Enemy 3. Architectonics of Hostage-Space 4. The Movement of the Black Stone 5. Delirium of Air 6. The New Weapon 7. Sovereign, Of the Outside 8. Taking, Seizing, The Event 9. Cry, the Inhuman BibliographyIndex

Hostage Spaces of the Contemporary Islamicate World: Phantom Territoriality (Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought)

History

World

Bloomsbury Academic

Hostage-space is where aesthetics and terrorism touch intimately and dangerously. Art, theology, politics, literature all partake of this spatial constellation. Fear, veiling, immunity, peace, prophet's cloak, dust, community, camouflage, territory... all fractals of the same universe based on the criteria that magnetically pulls them together: enmity.

There is something of the seventeenth century methodology present in The Oyster, as multiple disciplines (philosophy, literature, visual art, biology, architecture) converge within the experiences of thinking, eating, and diagramming. The center stage is given to a humble mollusk, which becomes an object, a subject, a sentient consciousness, and an alien will, progressively and then even simultaneously. In The Oyster we also find a pan-psychic attitude, something of a vital materialist disposition. This investigation reveals to the reader contingent details about the aesthetic origin of the universe by: a) ingesting the oyster's interior; and b) carefully traversing its sharp outer surface and polished interior space. Here reading, writing, creating, cooking, digesting become an act of filtering. The essential glorious trait of the oyster.

The Oyster: Or, Radial Suppleness (Agrodolce)

Kosieradzki, Nik

Contra Mundum Press

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