The Body As Design Project In An‘Order Of Pure Decision’. Transformable Bodies In Makeover
In a brief but suggestive article about risk and morality from 1993, French political scientist Francois Ewald coins what he somewhat catchy, but also illuminatingly, calls a contemporary order of Read More »
Body And Soul. Notes On Challenges To Freedom
It is probably a good thing that the theme of this conference has puzzled me. I see this as a sign that there is research going on and that frontiers are being moved – although I have not been part Read More »
Utopia And Torture In The Hollywood War Film
I want to show how an unpleasant element – the torture scene in the Hollywood war film – may be read as a site of Utopia. Viewed in a larger perspective, I claim that Hollywood can envision a Read More »
Mission Impossible? Neoliberal Subjects And Empowerment
My contribution today has two immediate contexts. First, in an ongoing multidisciplinary research project “The Power of Culture in Producing Common Sense (POWCULT)”, funded by the Academy of Read More »
Body, Soul And Society. Rethinking Media And Communication Ontologies
It is a common discernment that modern Western societies entail a problematic division between the conceptual realms of “body” and “soul”, and that the ideal of rational thinking and progress Read More »
