Corpus Anarchicum [electronic resource] : Political Protest, Suicidal Violence, and the Making of the Posthuman Body /
Dabashi, H.author.
Dabashi's newest book is a meditation on suicidal violence in the immediate context of its most recent political surge and a critical examination of the radical transformation of the human body, supported by close readings of cinematic and artistic evidence.
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Cover; Corpus Anarchicum: Political Protest, Suicidal Violence,and the Making of the Posthuman Body; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Suicidal Violence; The Making of a Posthuman Body; Clouds of Ashes; Body Doubles; Veiling as Countervailing the Colonial; Marking the Colonial Body; Bodies Veiled, Bodies Unveiled; The Material and the Metaphoric Bodies; Tehran in the Mirror of Paris; The Solitary Site of State Violence; In the Absence of the Face; Save His Face; The Unseen Cannot Be Seen; A Sign Is No Signifier; Repressing Vision; Bodiless Faces; Like Ghostly Apparitions
Bodies and FacesTruth and Veiling; The Anxiety of Surface; The Vivid Lantern ofEmotions in Search of a Body; Homeless Emotions; From Disillusioned Artists to Their Critics; Between Poetry and Censorship; Absenting the Other; Forming Bodiless Faces; The Serenity of a Distanced Gaze; Bordercrossings; Veiling and Revealing; A Bodily Resurrection; The Global Gaze; The Space In Between; Caro Spiritualis; Voice, Vision, and Veiling; Watching a Soccer Game; Building Visual Memories; The Next Move; Gender Apartheid; Blinding the Body to Itself; Corpus Amorphous; Removing an Eye (for an Eye)
The Political Body under ControlA Historic Battle; The Body Is Dangerous; Corpus Anarchicum; Uprising; The Military and the Militant; The Palestinian, the Arab, and the Muslim; Forcing the Face; The State Control of the Posthuman Body; Conclusion: A Postmortem; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7; Conclusion; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dabashi's newest book is a meditation on suicidal violence in the immediate context of its most recent political surge and a critical examination of the radical transformation of the human body, supported by close readings of cinematic and artistic evidence.
Terrorism.
Political violence.
Political sociology.
Communication.
International relations.
Ethnology.
Terrorism and Political Violence.
Political Sociology.
Media Studies.
International Relations.
Cultural Anthropology.