From the global border to the border neighborhood

Conference lectured at the Symposium "Arxipelago of Exceptions. Sovereignties of extraterritoriality" CCCB 10-11 November 2005 1. The new global border Tracing an imaginary line along the US-Mexico border and extending it directly across a map of the world, what emerges is a...

Enduring innocence

Conference lectured on 10th November at the Symposium "Archipelago of Exceptions. Sovereignties of extraterritoriality" CCCB 10-11 November 2005 «You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for...

Walking through walls: Soldiers as architects in the Israeli/Palestinian conflict

Conference lectured at the symposium "Arxipelago of Exception. Sovereignties of extraterritoriality" CCCB 10-11 November 2005 This essay is based around several interviews1 I conducted with both Israeli military personnel and Palestinian activists following the 2002 Israeli incursion...

La vida en suspenso

Archipelago of exceptions

Several years ago, and a few years before 9/11, the Tsunami, Katrina and the terrifying leap in petrol prices that followed them, Jacques Attali1 pondered the phenomenal financial triumph of the film Titanic which left behind all previous box-office records of apparently similar disaster movies....

Lahore: Rich past, uncertain future?

Thinking Europe

Mecca: Cosmpopolis in the desert

L'excepció

  L'excepció és una expressió del caràcter arbitrari del poder. Bauman ho ha explicat a la seva lectura del llibre de Job. El poder no pot estar mai completament regulat perquè perdria la seva força principal: la que es deriva del seu...