Hage Ba'a
Monday, September 4, 2017
The struggle is fractal
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I came to think about fractal cultural forms when thinking about patron-client relations in Lebanon. Indeed I was thinking it before I ca...
Wednesday, August 2, 2017
The Ends of Nostalgia: waiting for the past-to-come (From my afterword to Andreas Bandak and Manpreet Kaur Janeja, Ethnographies of Waiting, forthcoming from Bloomsbury. A book to look forward to)
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… As anyone who has worked on the phenomenon knows, nostalgia is a lot more than a yearning for the past. Firstly, nostalgia is a ...
Monday, April 17, 2017
Reading Trump's Foreign Policy with Bourdieu-ian eyes
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A good understanding of Pierre Bourdieu's differentiation between a state of 'symbolic violence' and a state of 'orthodoxy...
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Monday, April 3, 2017
The world-(that’s)-to-come(-to-an-end): a ‘subvival’ guide. Some comments on Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro 2017. The Ends of the World (trans. Rodrigo Nunes). Polity Press, Cambridge, UK.
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It was just a brief reference, a single word, made kind of en passant , in what is a critical survey of the way human thought is trying to ...
Tuesday, March 21, 2017
On Racial Injury: Fighting the dilution of anti-racist legislation is more important than anti-racist legislation
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Last year, following the terrorist attack in Nice, I met a European friend and colleague at a conference in Milan. I asked him how his Pale...
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