A Dispatch from Turkey Two letters. Both sent by women to their mothers; one to the prison, the other from the prison. The co-leader of Democratic Society Party and the MP of pro-Kurdish left alliance, Peoples’ Democracy Party, Leyla Güven… Continue Reading
By Sami Cleland Banu Bargu’s Strave and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons and Tarek El-Ariss’ Leaks, Hacks and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age were the extremely interesting companion pieces that spurred our Praxis 12/13 discussion on the old and… Continue Reading
A Summary of Karuna Mantena’s Presentation By Emily Gruber There are two enigmas in Banu Bargu’s book, Starve and Immolate. The primary lies in understanding the ethnography of the fast as in some ways a logic of sacrifice that seemed… Continue Reading
A Summary of Susan Buck-Morss’s Presentation By Hannah Rose Liberman Banu Bargu’s book, Starve and Immolate, is both rigorous and inventive in how it puts the theoretical and empirical elements together. Rather than simply a historical, empirical account, Bargu offers an… Continue Reading
By Bernard E. Harcourt And God willing, after madness, illness, crime, sexuality, the last thing I would like to study would be the problem of war and the institution of war within what one might term the military dimension of… Continue Reading