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Die Kunst des Wartens

ed. by Brigitte Kölle
and Claudia Peppel

Berlin: Wagenbach, 2019

Niemand wartet gern. Doch wer entscheidet, ob und wie wir warten? Angespannt oder resigniert, geduldig oder zuversichtlich? Schätzen wir Dinge mehr, auf die wir lange gewartet haben? Die Bilder und Texte dieses Buches vermitteln eine Fülle von Ideen und Einblicken.

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.

Ambivalenzen des Alltags

Neuorientierungen für eine Theorie des Politischen
Brigitte Bargetz

Bielefeld: transcript, 2016

Following Henri Lefebvre, Agnes Heller, and Lawrence Grossberg, Bargetz outlines a complex theory of everyday life that allows for a perception of the everyday as an ambivalent political battleground between domination and resistance.

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.

Ghostly Desires

Queer Sexuality and Vernacular Buddhism in Contemporary Thai Cinema
Arnika Fuhrmann

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2016

Through an examination of post-1997 Thai cinema and video art Arnika Fuhrmann shows how vernacular Buddhist tenets, stories, and images combine with sexual politics in figuring current struggles over notions of personhood, sexuality, and collective life.
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