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27The public library, democracy and Rancière’s poetics of politicsInformation Research 18 (3). 2013.Introduction This paper applies the thought of Jacques Rancière to the concept of democracy as it is traditionally understood in library studies literature. Methods The paper reviews a cross-section of instances of the link between democracy and the public library in library studies literature. It offers a close textual analysis of Michael Gorman's Our Enduring Values as typifying the link between the public library and democracy. It critically applies the theoretical account of democracy develo…Read more
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26A Politics of Indifference: Reading Cavarero, Rancière and ArendtParagraph 42 (2): 205-222. 2019.This article compares the accounts of politics found in the work of Adriana Cavarero and Jacques Rancière. It argues that when Cavarero offers a formal account of politics she thinks politics with...
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24Destruction, Narrative and the Excess of Uniqueness: Reading Cavarero on Violence and NarrationCritical Horizons 19 (2): 157-172. 2018.In this article, I critically engage Adriana Cavarero’s account of uniqueness via an analysis of her work on narrativity and violence. I suggest there is an ambivalence in Cavarero’s account of uniqueness: Cavarero argues both that uniqueness is susceptible to destruction, and that it cannot finally be annihilated. To make this clear I use Cavarero’s account to read a narrative offered by Miklós Nyiszli, of a woman who survived an Auschwitz gas chamber. I contrast this to Cavarero’s reading of E…Read more
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20Introduction: The Legacies and Limits of The Body in PainBody and Society 25 (3): 3-21. 2019.Since its publication in 1985, Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain has become a seminal text in the study of embodiment. In its foregrounding of the body in war and torture, it critiques the minimising of the body in questions of politics, offering a compelling account of the structure and phenomenology of violent domination. However, at the same time the text can be seen to shore up a mind/body dualism that has been associated with oppressive forms of gendering, racialisation and disablement. Divi…Read more
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17Horrorism in the scene of torture: reading Scarry with CavareroJournal of Interdisciplinary Video Studies 2 (1): 25-43. 2017.In this article I read Elaine Scarry’s account of torture in her The Body in Pain alongside Adriana Cavarero’s account voice and its relationship to violence in her A più voci: Per una filosofia dell’espressione vocale and Orrorismo: Ovvero della violenza sull’inerme. This serves a dual purpose: first, to demonstrate that Scarry’s account of torture is implicitly committed to an Aristotelian distinction between phone and logos which mirrors Cavarero’s account of ‘The Devocalization of Logos’ ; a…Read more
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11Apprehending Care in the Flesh: Reading Cavarero with SpillersDiacritics 49 (3): 6-27. 2021.Abstract:In this article I stage an encounter between Adriana Cavarero's account of uniqueness and Hortense Spillers's account of the flesh. Doing so is valuable for two reasons: First, it forces Cavarero's thought to consider not only the exclusion of women from the Western tradition, but also the anti-Blackness foundational to this tradition. This both expands and contorts Cavarero's thought, affirming her key claims while also altering them in the process. Second, reading Cavarero and Spiller…Read more
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9Mimetic Apprehension: Care, Inclination and the Weather of AntiblacknessCritical Horizons 24 (2): 180-194. 2023.In this article I further Adriana Cavarero and Nidesh Lawtoo’s discussion of “mimetic inclination” to consider the way a person can be known in their uniqueness. Cavarero says that we receive a sense of the uniqueness of another by relating their narrative. I suggest that this also reveals a sense of the uniqueness of the one narrating, and that this can be understood as a practice of care. This narration is, as a consequence, distinct from representation (which itself is distinct from mimesis) …Read more
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4On the Politics of the WhoIn Paula Landerreche Cardillo & Rachel Silverbloom (eds.), Political Bodies: Writings on Adriana Cavarero's Political Thought, Suny Press. pp. 59-84. 2024.
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Violence, vulnerability, ontology: insurrectionary humanism in Cavarero and ButlerIn Adriana Cavarero (ed.), Toward a feminist ethics of nonviolence, Fordham University Press. 2021.
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PreludeIn Adriana Cavarero (ed.), Toward a feminist ethics of nonviolence, Fordham University Press. 2021.
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Introduction: Adriana Cavarero, feminisms, and an ethics of nonviolenceIn Adriana Cavarero (ed.), Toward a feminist ethics of nonviolence, Fordham University Press. 2021.
Brighton, Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Areas of Interest
Social and Political Philosophy |
Continental Philosophy |