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Palestinians in Syria

Nakba Memories of Shattered Communities
Anaheed Al-Hardan

New York: Columbia University Press, 2016

Al-Hardan's research sheds light on the enduring relevance of the Nakba among the communities it helped create, while challenging the nationalist and patriotic idea that memories of the Nakba are static and universally shared among Palestinians.

The Trouble with Pleasure

Deleuze and Psychoanalysis
Aaron Schuster

Cambridge: MIT Press, 2016

Neither a Lacanian reading of Deleuze nor a Deleuzian reading of Lacan but rather a systematic and comparative analysis that identifies concerns common to both thinkers and their ultimately incompatible ways of addressing them.
Publications The Most Unsatisfied Town

The Most Unsatisfied Town

Amy Evans

Münster, edition assemblage, 2015

Since claiming asylum in Germany, Laurence has had to start his life over again. He’s found the formula for survival, or so he thinks, until one day his friend mysteriously disappears.

The Manhattan Project

A Theory of a City
David Kishik

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015

This sharp, witty study of a book never written, a sequel to Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, is dedicated to New York City, capital of the 20th century. A sui generis work of experimental scholarship or fictional philosophy, it analyzes an imaginary manuscript composed by a ghost.

Under Bright Lights

Gay Manila and the Global Scene
Bobby Benedicto

Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014

Bobby Benedicto draws on ethnographic research and employs affective, first-person storytelling techniques to capture the visceral experience of Manila, painting a remarkably counterintuitive portrait of gay spaces in postcolonial cities.
Cover Publication The Crises of Multiculturalism

The Crises of Multiculturalism

Racism in a Neoliberal Age
Alana Lentin and Gavan Titley

London, Zed Books, 2011

Across the West, something called multiculturalism is in crisis. Regarded as the failed experiment of liberal elites, commentators and politicians compete to denounce its corrosive legacies; parallel communities threatening social cohesion,...

Kritik des Okzidentalismus

Transdisziplinäre Beiträge zu (Neo-)Orientalismus und Geschlecht
ed. by Gabriele Dietze, Claudia Brunner, and Edith Wenzel

Bielefeld: transcript, 2009

»Okzidentalismuskritik« begreift Neo-Orientalismen und antimuslimische Rassismen nicht als Folge von Migration und internationalen Konflikten, sondern als Kristallisation neuer nationaler und europäischer Identitätsbildungen, in der Gender und Sexualpolitik eine strategische Rolle spielen.

Bilder von Sexualität und Ökonomie

Queere kulturelle Politiken im Neoliberalismus
Antke Engel

Bielefeld: transcript, 2009

The volume explores the relation between sexuality and neoliberal economics from a queer perspective: How do they condition each other? Do they challenge one another?

Poetik der Technik

Elektrizität und Optik bei E.T.A. Hoffmann
Rupert Gaderer

Freiburg: Rombach, 2009

Gespenster gehen um in Europa. Sie verschwinden so abrupt wie sie auftauchen. Auch der Medientechniker E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822) lässt sie in einer Berliner Winternacht erscheinen, und zwar mittels elektrotechnischen, optischen und mechanischen Apparaturen.
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