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141Exploring the diversity of conceptualizations of nature in East and South-East AsiaNature - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9 (186). 2022.This article sheds light on the diversity of meanings and connotations that tend to be lost or hidden in translations between different conceptualizations of nature in East and South-East Asia. It reviews the idea of “nature” in Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Filipino, Tagalog, Cebuano, Lumad, Indonesian, Burmese, Nepali, Khmer, and Mongolian. It shows that the conceptual subtleties in the conceptualization of nature often hide wider and deeper cosmological mismatches. It concludes by suggesting…Read more
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10Sim-to-Lab-to-Real: Safe reinforcement learning with shielding and generalization guaranteesArtificial Intelligence 314 (C): 103811. 2023.
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16On the suspension of law and the total transformation of labourThesis Eleven 130 (1): 96-116. 2015.This paper argues for the contemporary significance of the ‘Critique of Violence’ by proposing a Benjaminian reading of two important analyses of the relationship between history, politics and the Rights of Man: Hegel’s account of the French Revolution and the concept of dissensus proposed by Jacques Rancière. For both Hegel and Rancière, the gap between right and reality – between the ideal of equality, for example, and the existence of concrete inequality – does not warrant a rejection of the …Read more
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42This paper argues for the contemporary significance of the ‘Critique of Violence’ by proposing a Benjaminian reading of two important analyses of the relationship between history, politics and the Rights of Man: Hegel’s account of the French Revolution and the concept of dissensus proposed by Jacques Rancière. For both Hegel and Rancière, the gap between right and reality – between the ideal of equality, for example, and the existence of concrete inequality – does not warrant a rejection of the …Read more
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23Universal History and Immanent Critique in Anti-OedipusPhilosophy Today 64 (1): 51-76. 2020.This essay considers Deleuze and Guattari’s paradoxical claim that Marx’s critique of political economy implies as a universal history derived from the singular features of capitalism. In this critique, capitalism is defined by the commodity form, as a relationship of economic equivalence that replaces the bonds of dependence underlying other social formations. By negating relations of kinship and caste, capitalism reveals, a contrario, the universal foundation of other societies. As the “negati…Read more
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24Stupidity and the Threshold of Life, Language and Law in Derrida and AgambenDerrida Today 12 (1): 41-58. 2019.This paper examines Jacques Derrida's deconstruction of Giorgio Agamben's account of the history of bio-politics in the Beast and the Sovereign. In this account, the ‘threshold of bio-political modernity’ is identified with the collapse of an allegedly immemorial distinction between life and the law. According to Derrida, however, this in-distinction between life and the law, which supposedly marks the historical emergence of the bio-political, is in fact an originary event. Agamben, therefore, …Read more
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24The Angel of History and the Commodity Fetish: Walter Benjamin and the Marxian Critique of Political EconomyConstellations 22 (3): 341-353. 2015.
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25Le Capital Amoureux : Imaginary Wealth and Revolution in Jean Genet’s Prisoner of LoveHistorical Materialism 18 (4): 64-84. 2010.This paper explores the relationship between revolution and corruption in Jean Genet’s accounts of the Palestinian movement in his final work, Prisoner of Love. For Genet, corruption does not simply expose the actions of a revolutionary subject as an empty impersonation, performed for the actual ends of acquiring personal power and fortune. Rather, it exposes the ‘pretension’ inherent in the revolution it undermines as well as in the accumulation of value. For Genet, the misappropriation of mone…Read more