Ein Streifzug durch die Szene der Aktivistinnen und Aktivisten in
Tunesien zeigt neben anhaltender Repression und Ernüchterung eine
starke Politisierung der Gesellschaft, viel Selbstbewusstsein und Mut.
DieWahlen waren für sie nur ein kleiner Schritt, den einige boykottiert
haben. Ihre Botschaft: Die Revolution hat erst begonnen, in T…[Read more]

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Auf welche Weise verschwistern sich in der Moderne Sichtbarkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit? Welchen Gesetzen gehorcht die Visualität des Kapitals, welchen Logiken die Visualität als Kapital? Das sind einige der Fragen, auf die dieser Band Antworten zu geben versucht.

Un attroupement de personnes, scandant parfois des slogans, équipées souvent de pancartes
ou de banderoles : il suffit de peu de signes pour identifier une manifestation comme telle.
Dans la manifestation, la procession s’accompagne d’une protestation physique, elle oscille
entre émeute et rassemblement festif, révolution et réforme, menace e…[Read more]

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This article presents the frontispiece of the Leviathan, the emblem of the Body Politic,
in new contexts. S tarting from a detail mostly overlooked in previous analyses, the masks of the
plague doctors, the author sketches a new picture of sovereignty, establishing a connection to
sanitation and biopolitics. As the crux of his interpretation…[Read more]

This case study looks at the march of the Paris women to Versailles in October
1789
as a paradigmatic point in the history of demonstration. The march of the market
women is also an expression of their long tradition of political participation as
members of a corporative estate as well as of the experience of loss of power. The
focus is above…[Read more]

In this essay the theoretical focus of postcolonial theory has been shifted
from the cultures and societies of former formal colonies to those countries
that have an explicit self-understanding as an outsider within the European
colonial power constellation. Using the example of Switzerland, it analyses
the presence and perseverance of…[Read more]

From 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]

From 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]

From 1756 until his death in the early 1790s, Primus Fowle, an enslaved African American, performed typographical and press work involved the in the publication of The New-Hampshire Gazette and other materials printed at the press owned by Daniel Fowle. With the archive of print Primus Fowle created as its object of study, this essay historicizes…[Read more]

Instead of preventing protest, deportations on political grounds could – under certain
circumstances – help to spread dissent. Accordingly, the spaces deportees were sent
became fertile ground for new coalitions. Analysing such spaces furthers our understanding
of how resistance may be contained, dispersed and re-constituted. The main
part of…[Read more]

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Italian intellectuals participated in Italy’s reconstruction
with an ideological commitment inspired by the African-American struggle for equal rights in the
United States. Drawing on the work of many of the leading figures in postwar Italian culture,
including Italo Calvino, Giorgio Caproni, Cesare P…[Read more]

Veit Harlan zählte zu den wichtigsten Regisseuren des Nationalsozialismus, insbesondere mit seinem antisemitischen Propagandafilm „Jud Süss“. Nach dem Krieg musste sich Harlan wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit vor Gericht verantworten, wurde jedoch aus Mangel an Beweisen 1950 freigesprochen und konnte seine Regietätigkeit fortse…[Read more]

The plague doctors’ masks on the frontispiece of the “Leviathan”, John Locke’s empty land, the photographs by Carleton Watkins, a military policeman’s protective mask, the colonial history of the deportation camps, the plague policies and the Sans-Papiers – these are the seemingly disparate pieces that Francesca Falk assembles into a mosaic to…[Read more]

In this essay Queen Margaret’s curses in Richard III become part of a feminist ethics on the early modern stage. As a parrhesiast, in Foucault’s terms, Margaret speaks truth to power and claims a right of citizenship. That Margaret elicits universal revulsion from the other characters while also holding a unique, though not untroubled, pos…[Read more]