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- Trotta, Joe, et al.
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Broken Mirrors: Representations of Apocalypses and Dystopias in Popular Culture
- 2019
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Dystopian stories and visions of the Apocalypse are nothing new; however in recent years there has been a noticeable surge in the output of this type of theme in literature, art, comic books/graphic novels, video games, TV shows, etc. The reasons for this are not exactly clear; it may partly be as a result of post 9/11 anxieties, the increasing incidence of extreme weather and/or environmental anomalies, chaotic fluctuations in the economy and the uncertain and shifting political landscape in the west in general. Investigating this highly topical and pervasive theme from interdisciplinary perspectives this volume presents various angles on the main topic through critical analyses of selected works of fiction, film, TV shows, video games and more.
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Culture on the Move: Towards a Minorization of Cultural Difference
- 2020
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Ingår i: Moderna Språk. - 0026-8577. ; 114:1
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As a Special Issue in Moderna Språk, the volume collects eight essays and an introductory paper that all focus on demythologizations of cultural politics. What could be identified as the watershed of the contributions included is the fact that there are no homogeneous cultures and that all forms of localisms are fantasies or collective fictions of homogeneity. This is articulated differently and carried across a variety of thresholds in the contributions whose analyses of cultural production include translation, cuisine, media, water writing, punk literature, history, urban studies and protest art as well as more theoretically focused deconstructions of frames of capture that cultural imaginaries rely on. Diversity of material in relation to the elusive concept of culture and the question of its limits was significant for the volume and its overall concerns and, although only eight studies are included, they are all appropriate in terms of their geographical and imaginative focus. They all represent the general movement of elision and disarticulation of bodies and totalities that are always presupposed, not only in essentialisms and the racialized rhetoric blowing across the volatile terrain of contemporary politics but also in the liberal discourses of cultural pluralism, tolerance and multiculturalism. It is this general disarticulating movement across a variety of cultural expressions that provides a departure point for the volume and that contributes to the integrity of its claims.
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- Filipovic, Zlatan, 1974
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A Light That Never Goes Out: Bare Life and the Possibility of Ethics in McCarthy’s The Road
- 2020
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Ingår i: Broken Mirrors: Representations of Apocalypses and Dystopias in Popular Culture / edited by Joe Trotta, Zlatan Filipovic and Houman Sadri. - New York : Routledge. - 9780367235918 ; , s. 15-32
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter argues that, in spite of its defeat, humanity in McCarthy’s novel is buried alive as a resilience of ethics. Using Agamben’s notion of bare life and Levinas’s writing on the absolute primacy of ethical relation, the chapter explores McCarthy’s vision of a humanity that is backed up against its limit. For Agamben, the modern paradigm of bare life, characterized by its infinite exposure to death, is the concentration camp where there is no longer any distinction between law and life. The crisis of political existence this implies as well as the divestiture of value that life is exposed to represent the ontological warrants that allow McCarthy to examine the significance of a humanity abandoned to the threshold of its presuppositions. When life is cut back to its intrinsic terms, the only value that seems to remain is pure life (zoē) or life deprived of its political value, in Agamben’s terms. In a colorless landscape of the novel where all distinctions have been burnt to cinders that cover the earth as the ubiquitous remainder of their absolute destruction, the topography of what makes us human, however, can yet be traced as an ethical intrigue that, in spite of all, still flickers in the ashes and powers the novel. For McCarthy, in other words, the call of goodness is what constitutes the gravity of being whose pull, in the end, remains stronger than its fear of death.
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- Filipovic, Zlatan, 1974
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Ashamed of Who I Am: Levinas and Diasporic Subjectivity in Salman Rushdie’s Shame
- 2014
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Ingår i: Ethics and Poetics: Ethical Recognitions and Social Reconfigurations in Modern Narratives, Eds. Margrét G. Champion and Irina R. Goloubeva. - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. - 9781443856416 ; , s. 81-107
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper inquires into the complex experience of shame that in Levinas seems essential to subjectivity in its encounter with others in order to see how this might inform our understanding of Rushdie’s eponymous novel. In Shame, it is the shamelessness of political power that becomes literally embodied in Sufiya Zinobia who expiates for the unfelt shame of her father and is eventually taken over entirely by the fiery and ravenous beast of shame. It is, in other words, the unfelt presence of shame in the political structure of society that seems to prevent truly ethical experience. Both formally and thematically, the novel traces what Levinas in Otherwise than Being calls "the torsion of a complex" that consciousness feels whenever it tries to excuse suffering. What it seems to suggest is that in shame, painfully lacking in Rushdie's world, we revert back to the originary charity of being, to our humility and our compassion.
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- Filipovic, Zlatan, 1974
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Culture on the Move: Towards a Minorization of Cultural Difference : Introduction to Culture on the Move: Towards a Minorization of Cultural Difference
- 2020
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Ingår i: Moderna Språk. - 0026-8577. ; 114:1, s. 1-15
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The article is an introductory paper to a Special Issue in Moderna Språk that collects eight contributions focusing on demythologizations of cultural politics. Using Deleuzian concepts of minorization and delirium, the paper attempts to frame cultural difference in a new open terrain where all forms of localisms and regimes of identifications are seen as frames of capture that subjugate rather than emancipate difference. The measure of a culture’s health, I argue, does not reside in atrophy of its self-identity but in its dispersion of atoms everywhere, its schizoid states of intensities and deterritorializations where thresholds of self-consistency are surpassed and zones of indiscernibility entered. In this context, cultural difference could be seen as a permanent disjunction of territoriality, body or code, that which escapes capture to disrupt the self-valorizing forces of its enunciation, a kind of counter-pressure of synchrony in diachrony, a black body within the white imaginary that produces lesions and lines of escape in airtight regimes of definition and multiplies narrative ruptures in every narrative of constitution. With this mind, the paper then proceeds to introduce and analyze eight contributions to the volume that articulate cultural difference in a variety of contexts including translation, cuisine, media, water writing, punk literature, history, urban studies and protest art as well as more theoretically focused deconstructions of territorial fictions that cultural imaginaries rely on.
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- Filipovic, Zlatan, 1974
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Deconstructing the Past in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants: Historiography and Memory in Postmodern Writing
- 2014
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Ingår i: Der reisende Europäer / hrsg. von Linda Karlsson Hammarfelt und Edgar Platen. Unter Mitarb. von André Menke. - München, Germany : Iudicium Verlag GmbH. - 9783862054534 ; , s. 26-43
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- When Linda Hutcheon in her work on postmodern aesthetics and historiography (1988) speaks of “history as ‘a true novel’” she seems both to sum up the postmodern skepticism towards historical knowledge but also point towards what, in an unfortunate turn of phrase, could be called a poetics of history, flashing out the fact that history and fiction may not be as too far apart as it may seem. W. G. Sebald’s novel The Emigrants could be seen as a site of contention where desperate attempts by the narrator to preserve the memory of the past are constantly undermined by the unreliability of the very means by which he attempts to maintain its legitimacy. Reflecting on the nature of historical knowledge and memory in Sebald’s novel, this paper intends to consider whether history, insofar as it shares its narrative conventions with fiction, is not past but perhaps yet and always to be determined.
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- Filipovic, Zlatan, 1974
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Not Human Enough: Levinas and a Call For New (Old) Humanism
- 2013
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Ingår i: An Insatiable Dialectic: Essays on Critique, Modernity, and Humanism, Ed. Roberto Cantú. - Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing. - 9781443852920 ; , s. 104-121
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The humanity of man, Levinas argues in Humanism of the Other, is not defined by rationality or subjectivism of freedom, it is found instead in absolute humility and subjection of my freedom to the vulnerability of others. Indeed, for Levinas, the subject itself is constituted as singular or unique by an assignation of responsibility it cannot escape. The fact that no one can respond to the distress of others in my stead is what so imperially consigns me to my identity. The critique of humanism that is implicit in Levinas does not testify so much to its failure as to the hypocrisy of the humanist projects based on reason, integrity, autonomy and the dignity of the subject, its naive rights of freedom and self-assertion often appropriated by the discourses of exploitation and used as a shameless pretext for virile imperialism and colonial aggression. Instead, for Levians, humanism has not risen to the true height of its ideals, of what it means to be human. It is the status and the menaing of this ideal that this paper will question. For to be human is to be called to goodness such that the other counts more than myself. Freedom of the subject, ‘is not the source of all right and meaning,’ as Levians writes in Ethics and Infinity. It is rather the possibility of self-sacrifice and being for the other. Being called to goodness is being sobered up to a responsibility that for Levians is manifested as the-one-for-the-other, even as ‘substitution unto death.’ To be human is to call into question the prejudice of my freedom and my self-righteousness. It is to discover onself in passivity. The other person’s vulnerability, his mortality, comes as the effraction of my being, of my rights, and exposes the injustice of my selfish will. True humanness seems, in fact, to demand more than my capacity. I am thus never responsible enough, I am never human enough. The presence of the other person, the unabated pathos of his need and vulnerability, revelas me to my own shame, to a kind of self-effacement and absolute indiscretion of my own presence. There is a supplication to a freedom that precedes mine and to respond to it is to be human. This paper points towards a certain insufficiency of humanism and the inheritance of its concept in the context of Levinas’s writing as an expression a post-Enlightenment critique both of the notions of freedom and autonomy that are put in question in the responsibility for the other but also in terms of its pre-critical naivité about ‘the human nature’ and the metaphysics of the unified subject. Self-relation is broken in Levinas by infinite incumbent responsibilities that devolve on the subject like an insolvent debt one can never settle in good conscience. The self with all its resources is in a permanent deficit.
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- Filipovic, Zlatan, 1974
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(Mis)reading Proust: Style, Rhetoric, Allegory
- 2011
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Ingår i: Studia interdisciplinaria, linguistica et litteraria 3, ed. Eva Ahlstedt. ; 3, 2011, s. 105-119
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Filipovic, Zlatan, 1974
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Introduction to Emmanuel Levinas: "After you, sir!"
- 2011
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Ingår i: Moderna Språk: Journal of English, French, German and Spanish Languages, Literatures and Cultures. - Uppsala. - 2000-3560. ; 105:1, s. 58-73
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- Filipovic, Zlatan, 1974-
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Mimicry and Shame in Naipaul’s The Mimic Men and Desai’s The Inheritance of Loss
- 2017
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Ingår i: Comparative Critical Studies. - : Edinburgh University Press. - 1744-1854 .- 1750-0109. ; 14:2-3, s. 205-224
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reflecting on the affective nature of diasporic experience, the essay begins by developing Arendt's understanding of displacement as a temporal disjunction of being caught between the claims of the past and the exigencies of the present. The impossibility of salvaging the past against the often stifling imperatives of the present that she accounts for in her essay 'We Refugees' is, however, also what produces affective economies in the diasporic subject that I argue are crucial to diasporic identity formation. In this respect, I focus on shame, which I see as an affective residue of the unsalvageable past in the experience of displacement. In order to determine and further develop the significance of shame for diasporic subject formation, this essay will consider its impact on subjectivity in a comparative close reading of two contemporary novels, V. S. Naipaul's The Mimic Men and Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, both of which manifest the elision of the past in diasporized subjects and the movement towards strategies of identification articulated in mimicry. Mimicry, seen in Fanon's rather than Bhabha's terms, as a disavowal of the past, fails, however, to provide a viable strategy of identification for a diasporic subject in the novels that testify rather to the affective cost of our incumbent efforts to start anew.
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