Andrea Mura
Goldsmiths, University of London, Politics, Faculty Member
- Political Theory, Psychoanalysis, Continental Philosophy, Islamic Philosophy, Italian Theory, Political Philosophy, and 38 moreMarxism, Discourse Analysis, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Biopolitics, Operaismo, Historical Materialism, Middle East Studies, Islamic Political Thought, Social Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Theory, Jacques Lacan, Operaismo, Autonomia and Post-workerism, Border Studies, European Studies, Political Economy, Philosophy, International Studies, Italian Studies, Social Anxiety, Political Science, Liberalism, Lacan, History of Capitalism, Lacanian theory, Capitalism, Michel Foucault, Neoliberalism, Precarity, Financial Crisis of 2008/2009, Karl Marx, Contemporary Political Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, Global Financial Crisis, Austerity Measures, European Debt Crisis, Politics of Austerity, and Critical Geography(Marxism, Discourse Analysis, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Biopolitics, Operaismo, Historical Materialism, Middle East Studies, Islamic Political Thought, Social Theory, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Theory, Jacques Lacan, Operaismo, Autonomia and Post-workerism, Border Studies, European Studies, Political Economy, Philosophy, International Studies, Italian Studies, Social Anxiety, Political Science, Liberalism, Lacan, History of Capitalism, Lacanian theory, Capitalism, Michel Foucault, Neoliberalism, Precarity, Financial Crisis of 2008/2009, Karl Marx, Contemporary Political Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, Global Financial Crisis, Austerity Measures, European Debt Crisis, Politics of Austerity, and Critical Geography)edit
- Andrea Mura teaches political theory and comparative philosophy at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work focuses... moreAndrea Mura teaches political theory and comparative philosophy at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work focuses on contemporary debates on political theology, religious radicalisation, indebtedness, and borders favouring an open dialogue between philosophy, religious thought, and psychoanalysis as well as speculative canons in continental philosophy and Islamic political thought.(Andrea Mura teaches political theory and comparative philosophy at Goldsmiths, University of London. His work focuses on contemporary debates on political theology, religious radicalisation, indebtedness, and borders favouring an open dialogue between philosophy, religious thought, and psychoanalysis as well as speculative canons in continental philosophy and Islamic political thought.)edit
In this article a reference to Jacques Lacan’s ‘capitalist discourse’ will help highlight the bio-political workings of neo-liberalism in times of austerity, detecting the transition from so-called ‘debt economy’ to an ‘economy of... more
In this article a reference to Jacques Lacan’s ‘capitalist discourse’ will help highlight the bio-political workings of neo-liberalism in times of austerity, detecting the transition from so-called ‘debt economy’ to an ‘economy of anxiety.’ An ‘il-liberal’ turn at the core of neoliberal discourses will be examined in particular, which pivots on an ‘astute’ intersecting between outbursts of renunciation; irreducible circularity of guilt and satisfaction; persistent attachment to forms of dissipative enjoyment; and a pervasive blackmail under the register of all-encompassing regulations and evaluations — all of which elevates the production of success up to the point of a production and consumption of failure.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, European Studies, Political Economy, Philosophy, and 28 morePolitical Philosophy, Political Theory, Marxism, International Studies, Italian Studies, Social Anxiety, Political Science, Liberalism, Lacan, Continental Philosophy, History of Capitalism, Jacques Lacan, Lacanian theory, Capitalism, Michel Foucault, Neoliberalism, Precarity, Biopolitics, Financial Crisis of 2008/2009, Karl Marx, Contemporary Political Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, Global Financial Crisis, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Austerity Measures, Italian Theory, European Debt Crisis, and Politics of Austerity(Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Marxism, International Studies, Italian Studies, Social Anxiety, Political Science, Liberalism, Lacan, Continental Philosophy, History of Capitalism, Jacques Lacan, Lacanian theory, Capitalism, Michel Foucault, Neoliberalism, Precarity, Biopolitics, Financial Crisis of 2008/2009, Karl Marx, Contemporary Political Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, Global Financial Crisis, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Austerity Measures, Italian Theory, European Debt Crisis, and Politics of Austerity)
(Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Marxism, International Studies, Italian Studies, Social Anxiety, Political Science, Liberalism, Lacan, Continental Philosophy, History of Capitalism, Jacques Lacan, Lacanian theory, Capitalism, Michel Foucault, Neoliberalism, Precarity, Biopolitics, Financial Crisis of 2008/2009, Karl Marx, Contemporary Political Theory, Psychoanalytic Theory, Global Financial Crisis, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Austerity Measures, Italian Theory, European Debt Crisis, and Politics of Austerity)
Carl Schmitt's critical insights into 'economic-technical thinking' and the dominant role that a 'magical technicity' is said to assume in the social horizon of his times offers an opportunity to reframe contemporary debates on political... more
Carl Schmitt's critical insights into 'economic-technical thinking' and the dominant role that a 'magical technicity' is said to assume in the social horizon of his times offers an opportunity to reframe contemporary debates on political and economic theology, exposing a theological core behind technocratic administration. Starting from this premise, the article engages with recent inquiries into socalled 'debt economy', assessing the affective function that 'deferment' and 'confession' perform as dominant operators in the social imaginary of neoliberal governance.
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This article inquires into the ideological vision of Hasan al-Banna (1906-1949), one of the most influential figures of Islamist thought. By assuming a discourse theory perspective, I argue that al-Banna's Islamist discourse was... more
This article inquires into the ideological vision of Hasan al-Banna (1906-1949), one of the most influential figures of Islamist thought. By assuming a discourse theory perspective, I argue that al-Banna's Islamist discourse was genealogically caught between a traditional pan-Islamic vocation and modern ways of articulating political discourse, such as nationalism and Arab nationalism. Following the traumatic encounter between tradition and modernity that colonialism enacted, al-Banna increasingly integrated and valourized modern national `signifiers', downplaying early universalistic ethos. This denoted a growing reliance on the language of modernity over the language of tradition, though such reliance was instrumental to al-Banna's anti-imperialist political project, entailing the very preservation of tradition as a moderator principle in the appropriation of modernity. ""
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Religion, Political Philosophy, Critical Discourse Studies, and 23 morePolitical Theory, Middle East Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Religion and Politics, Sovereignty, Islamic Philosophy, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Political Theology, Islam, Islamic Political Thought, Middle East Politics, Islamism, Political Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, Islam and Modernity, Islamic Movements and Political Islam, Jihad, Hasan al-Banna, and Postcolonialism(Political Theory, Middle East Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Religion and Politics, Sovereignty, Islamic Philosophy, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Political Theology, Islam, Islamic Political Thought, Middle East Politics, Islamism, Political Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, Islam and Modernity, Islamic Movements and Political Islam, Jihad, Hasan al-Banna, and Postcolonialism)
(Political Theory, Middle East Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Religion and Politics, Sovereignty, Islamic Philosophy, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Postcolonial Theory, Political Theology, Islam, Islamic Political Thought, Middle East Politics, Islamism, Political Islam, Muslim Brotherhood, Islam and Modernity, Islamic Movements and Political Islam, Jihad, Hasan al-Banna, and Postcolonialism)
This article inquires into the clinical figure of paranoia and its constitutive role in the articulation of the nation-state discourse in Europe, uncovering a central tension between a principle of integrity and a dualist spatial... more
This article inquires into the clinical figure of paranoia and its constitutive role in the articulation of the nation-state discourse in Europe, uncovering a central tension between a principle of integrity and a dualist spatial configuration. A conceptual distinction between ‘border’ (finis) and ‘frontier’ (limes) will help to expose the political effects of such a tension, unveiling the way in which a solid and striated organisation of space has been mobilised in the topographic antagonism of the nation, sustaining the phantasm of a self-enclosed, self-sufficient finitude.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Human Geography, Political Geography and Geopolitics, Urban Geography, and 29 moreInternational Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Globalization, Political Theory, Border Studies, Political Science, Politics, Nationalism, Continental Philosophy, Jacques Lacan, Lacanian theory, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Anthropology of Borders, Social and Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Finitude, Frontier Studies, Territoriality, Decolonial Thought, Borders and Frontiers, Paranoia, Cultural Globalization, Nation-State, Territorio, Borders and Borderlands, Nationalism and Decolonization, and Storia Della Città e Del Territorio(International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Globalization, Political Theory, Border Studies, Political Science, Politics, Nationalism, Continental Philosophy, Jacques Lacan, Lacanian theory, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Anthropology of Borders, Social and Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Finitude, Frontier Studies, Territoriality, Decolonial Thought, Borders and Frontiers, Paranoia, Cultural Globalization, Nation-State, Territorio, Borders and Borderlands, Nationalism and Decolonization, and Storia Della Città e Del Territorio)
(International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Globalization, Political Theory, Border Studies, Political Science, Politics, Nationalism, Continental Philosophy, Jacques Lacan, Lacanian theory, National Identity, Nationalism And State Building, Anthropology of Borders, Social and Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Finitude, Frontier Studies, Territoriality, Decolonial Thought, Borders and Frontiers, Paranoia, Cultural Globalization, Nation-State, Territorio, Borders and Borderlands, Nationalism and Decolonization, and Storia Della Città e Del Territorio)
'The Symbolic Scenarios of Islamism' initiates a dialogue between the discourse of three of the most discussed figures in the history of the Sunni Islamic movement — Hasan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, and Osama bin Laden — and contemporary... more
'The Symbolic Scenarios of Islamism' initiates a dialogue between the discourse of three of the most discussed figures in the history of the Sunni Islamic movement — Hasan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb, and Osama bin Laden — and contemporary debates across religion and political theory, providing a crucial foundation upon which to situate current developments in world politics. Redressing the inefficiency of the terms in which the debate on Islam and Islamism is generally conducted, the book examines the role played by tradition, modernity, and transmodernity as major "symbolic scenarios" of Islamist discourses, highlighting the internal complexity and dynamism of Islamism. By uncovering forms of knowledge that have hitherto gone unnoticed or have been marginalised by traditional and dominant approaches to politics, accounting for central political ideas in non-Western sources and in the Global South, the book provides a unique contribution towards rethinking the nature of citizenship, antagonism, space, and frontiers required today. While offering valuable reading for scholars of Islamic studies, religious studies and politics, it provides a critical perspective for academics with an interest in discourse theory, post-colonial theory, political philosophy, and comparative political thought.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Discourse Analysis, Religion, Political Sociology, Islamic Law, and 80 moreComparative Politics, Political Philosophy, Critical Discourse Studies, Comparative Philosophy, Political Theory, Middle East Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Religion and Politics, Sovereignty, Political Science, Discourse, Language and Ideology, Islamic Philosophy, Political Violence and Terrorism, Politics, Ideology, Nationalism, Colonialism, Pan-Islamism, National Identity, Postmodernism, Nationalism And State Building, Critical Discourse Analysis, Modernity, Islamic Studies, Globalization And Postcolonial Studies, Language Ideology, Postcolonial Theory, Political Theology, Territory (Political Theory), Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Critical Theory (International Studies), Islamic Political Thought, Modernism, Ideology Critique, Political Discourse Analysis, Middle East Politics, Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Religion and Modernity, Political Ideology, Social and Political Philosophy, Islamism, Modern Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Ideology and Discourse Theory, Postcolonial Theology, Edward Said, Comparative Political Theory, Political Islam, Contemporary Political Theory, International Political Theory, Muslim Brotherhood, Radical political thought, Middle East, Islam and Modernity, Islamic Movements and Political Islam, Religious Studies, Orientalism, Jihad, Political Thought, Political Sciences, Comparative Historical Study of the Middle East and South Asia,Psychology and Philosophy, Political Discourse, Ernesto Laclau, Semiotica, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Social and Political Theory, Comparative Political Thought (Western and Eastern), Histories and theories of modernity, Islamismo, Fundamentalismo Islâmico, Ocidente, Jihadism and Radical Islamism, Postcolonial Thought, Modernity/coloniality/decoloniality, Islamism & Post-Islamism, Islamism and modernity, Discourse Analysis (DA), Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Postcolonialism, Comparative Philosophy and Theology, and Comparative empire, frontier, and political culture(Comparative Politics, Political Philosophy, Critical Discourse Studies, Comparative Philosophy, Political Theory, Middle East Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Religion and Politics, Sovereignty, Political Science, Discourse, Language and Ideology, Islamic Philosophy, Political Violence and Terrorism, Politics, Ideology, Nationalism, Colonialism, Pan-Islamism, National Identity, Postmodernism, Nationalism And State Building, Critical Discourse Analysis, Modernity, Islamic Studies, Globalization And Postcolonial Studies, Language Ideology, Postcolonial Theory, Political Theology, Territory (Political Theory), Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Critical Theory (International Studies), Islamic Political Thought, Modernism, Ideology Critique, Political Discourse Analysis, Middle East Politics, Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Religion and Modernity, Political Ideology, Social and Political Philosophy, Islamism, Modern Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Ideology and Discourse Theory, Postcolonial Theology, Edward Said, Comparative Political Theory, Political Islam, Contemporary Political Theory, International Political Theory, Muslim Brotherhood, Radical political thought, Middle East, Islam and Modernity, Islamic Movements and Political Islam, Religious Studies, Orientalism, Jihad, Political Thought, Political Sciences, Comparative Historical Study of the Middle East and South Asia,Psychology and Philosophy, Political Discourse, Ernesto Laclau, Semiotica, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Social and Political Theory, Comparative Political Thought (Western and Eastern), Histories and theories of modernity, Islamismo, Fundamentalismo Islâmico, Ocidente, Jihadism and Radical Islamism, Postcolonial Thought, Modernity/coloniality/decoloniality, Islamism & Post-Islamism, Islamism and modernity, Discourse Analysis (DA), Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Postcolonialism, Comparative Philosophy and Theology, and Comparative empire, frontier, and political culture)
(Comparative Politics, Political Philosophy, Critical Discourse Studies, Comparative Philosophy, Political Theory, Middle East Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Religion and Politics, Sovereignty, Political Science, Discourse, Language and Ideology, Islamic Philosophy, Political Violence and Terrorism, Politics, Ideology, Nationalism, Colonialism, Pan-Islamism, National Identity, Postmodernism, Nationalism And State Building, Critical Discourse Analysis, Modernity, Islamic Studies, Globalization And Postcolonial Studies, Language Ideology, Postcolonial Theory, Political Theology, Territory (Political Theory), Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, Critical Theory (International Studies), Islamic Political Thought, Modernism, Ideology Critique, Political Discourse Analysis, Middle East Politics, Ideology and Discourse Analysis, Religion and Modernity, Political Ideology, Social and Political Philosophy, Islamism, Modern Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Ideology and Discourse Theory, Postcolonial Theology, Edward Said, Comparative Political Theory, Political Islam, Contemporary Political Theory, International Political Theory, Muslim Brotherhood, Radical political thought, Middle East, Islam and Modernity, Islamic Movements and Political Islam, Religious Studies, Orientalism, Jihad, Political Thought, Political Sciences, Comparative Historical Study of the Middle East and South Asia,Psychology and Philosophy, Political Discourse, Ernesto Laclau, Semiotica, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), Social and Political Theory, Comparative Political Thought (Western and Eastern), Histories and theories of modernity, Islamismo, Fundamentalismo Islâmico, Ocidente, Jihadism and Radical Islamism, Postcolonial Thought, Modernity/coloniality/decoloniality, Islamism & Post-Islamism, Islamism and modernity, Discourse Analysis (DA), Comparative Philosophy and Religion, Postcolonialism, Comparative Philosophy and Theology, and Comparative empire, frontier, and political culture)
The chapter begins with a brief genealogy of psychoanalytic thinking in the broad area of religion. It first looks at Freud’s early modernist dismissal of religion, comparing this with Lacan’s valorisation of the ethical quests that both... more
The chapter begins with a brief genealogy of psychoanalytic thinking in the broad area of religion. It first looks at Freud’s early modernist dismissal of religion, comparing this with Lacan’s valorisation of the ethical quests that both religion and psychoanalysis are said to share at the heart of their discourse. It then examines Lacan’s later pessimism in opposing the ‘triumph of religion’ in our times to an increasingly uncertain future for psychoanalysis. Moving from a conceptual discussion of these themes to an applied analysis of contemporary challenges, the chapter highlights the contribution of psychoanalysis to an understanding of the aesthetics of violence informing the eschatology of Islamic terror within contemporary global jihadism.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Religion, International Relations, Terrorism, Political Theory, and 15 morePolitical Science, Security Studies, Critical Security Studies, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Radicalization, Political Violence, Islamic Studies, Middle East Politics, Islamism, Political Islam, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Islamic Movements and Political Islam, Psychoanalisis, and Jihadism and Radical Islamism(Political Science, Security Studies, Critical Security Studies, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Radicalization, Political Violence, Islamic Studies, Middle East Politics, Islamism, Political Islam, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Islamic Movements and Political Islam, Psychoanalisis, and Jihadism and Radical Islamism)
(Political Science, Security Studies, Critical Security Studies, Jacques Lacan, Sigmund Freud, Radicalization, Political Violence, Islamic Studies, Middle East Politics, Islamism, Political Islam, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Islamic Movements and Political Islam, Psychoanalisis, and Jihadism and Radical Islamism)
Comparative political theory has long been defined by a major project to widen the horizons of Western thought by attending to non-European and non-western speculative traditions. This chapter explores not only the implications and... more
Comparative political theory has long been defined by a major project to widen the horizons of Western thought by attending to non-European and non-western speculative traditions. This chapter explores not only the implications and potentialities of such a move, but also its possible flows. It addresses some of the limits determining the idea of 'non-Western' thought across comparative projects, pointing to the internal tensions, accidental assumptions and integral betrayals through which the Western tradition has constituted itself. Our approach here is to expose the contingent roots of the 'Western referent' in its problematic association with the idea of Europe, highlighting the way in which 'orientation' and 'Orientalisation' have helped to consolidate the normative ideal supplied by these two terms. We then proceed to examine a 'minor tradition' lying behind the unifying image of the Western canon, where an insight provided by Spinoza's philosophy supports a critical transition from 'comparative' to 'world' thought. Functioning not as the synthetic sum of totalising local traditions but the constituent space of a nomadic thinking, 'world' thought embodies and valorises difference and production, opening up new possibilities for a synesthetic thought.
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If Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology serves as a sort of ‘ground zero’ of political theological questions, at least in the disciplinary framework of political and legal theory, today’s debate has managed to look beyond Schmitt’s analysis... more
If Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology serves as a sort of ‘ground zero’ of political theological questions, at least in the disciplinary framework of political and legal theory, today’s debate has managed to look beyond Schmitt’s analysis of political authority, public law and the prerogatives of sovereign power. Schmitt’s genealogical and analogical methods have thus been redeployed to trace not only the modern concept of power back to Christian theology between the second and the fifth centuries, but to expose a systemic relation between the Trinitarian idea of ‘oikonomia’ and modern forms of biopolitical governance. This chapter contributes to contemporary reflections on economic theology. Drawing on Schmitt’s early attempts to elaborate a concept of ‘neutralization’, it makes the case for a theological-based analysis of ‘neoliberalization’ after the Great Crash of 2008.
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This chapter examines the relation between citizenship and orientalism under the new conditions of indebtedness resulting from austerity. Taking its departure from a condition of precarity under debt economy, the crisis of Europe is... more
This chapter examines the relation between citizenship and orientalism under the new conditions of indebtedness resulting from austerity. Taking its departure from a condition of precarity under debt economy, the crisis of Europe is described as the anxiety produced by a reversal of those paradigms that have sustained the image of Europe so far. This reversal coincides with a return in Europe of that which for a long time was ejected outside in order for Europe itself to be constituted as a unified symbolic reality. The chapter illustrates how this new economy has exposed a certain ‘disorienting’ effect of austerity, contributing to rekindling the ambiguities of Europe and therefore reconfiguring the image of the European self against its others. It concludes that this reconfiguration forms the background against which a new relationship between citizenship and orientalism in contemporary Europe should be examined.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Psychoanalysis, Human Geography, European Studies, Anthropology, and 27 moreInternational Relations, Political Economy, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, European integration, Globalization, Political Theory, Marxism, International Studies, Middle East Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Political Science, Nationalism, Continental Philosophy, Jacques Lacan, Post-Colonialism, Capitalism, Michel Foucault, Neoliberalism, Postcolonial Theory, Middle East Politics, Edward Said, Citizenship, Orientalism, Austerity Measures, Neoliberalismo, and Postcolonialism(International Relations, Political Economy, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, European integration, Globalization, Political Theory, Marxism, International Studies, Middle East Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Political Science, Nationalism, Continental Philosophy, Jacques Lacan, Post-Colonialism, Capitalism, Michel Foucault, Neoliberalism, Postcolonial Theory, Middle East Politics, Edward Said, Citizenship, Orientalism, Austerity Measures, Neoliberalismo, and Postcolonialism)
(International Relations, Political Economy, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, European integration, Globalization, Political Theory, Marxism, International Studies, Middle East Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Political Science, Nationalism, Continental Philosophy, Jacques Lacan, Post-Colonialism, Capitalism, Michel Foucault, Neoliberalism, Postcolonial Theory, Middle East Politics, Edward Said, Citizenship, Orientalism, Austerity Measures, Neoliberalismo, and Postcolonialism)
This article pursues a topological reading of Milestones, one of the most influential books in the history of Islamism. Written by Muslim thinker Sayyid Qutb, the general interest in this crucial text has largely remained restricted to... more
This article pursues a topological reading of Milestones, one of the most influential books in the history of Islamism. Written by Muslim thinker Sayyid Qutb, the general interest in this crucial text has largely remained restricted to the fields of Islamic Studies and Security Studies. This article aims to make the case for assuming a philosophical standpoint, relocating its significance beyond the above-mentioned fields. A topological reading of this text will allow the spatial complexity of Qutb’s eschatological vision to be fully exposed, while also unpacking the way in which antagonistic relations have variously been articulated by this thinker. This will offer new perspectives from which to examine and develop current debates on political universalism and antagonism in the tradition of continental philosophy.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Religion, Human Geography, International Relations, Philosophy, and 32 morePolitical Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, International Relations Theory, Political Theory, Middle East Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Religion and Politics, Sovereignty, Continental Philosophy, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, International Politics, Middle Eastern Politics, Islamic Studies, Political Theology, Topology, Islam, Islamic Political Thought, Middle East Politics, Islamism, Comparative Political Theory, Political Islam, International Political Theory, Muslim Brotherhood, Islam and Modernity, Religious Studies, Orientalism, Jihad, World Politics, Sayyid Qutb, Islamismo, Fundamentalismo Islâmico, Ocidente, and Islamist movements(Political Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, International Relations Theory, Political Theory, Middle East Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Religion and Politics, Sovereignty, Continental Philosophy, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, International Politics, Middle Eastern Politics, Islamic Studies, Political Theology, Topology, Islam, Islamic Political Thought, Middle East Politics, Islamism, Comparative Political Theory, Political Islam, International Political Theory, Muslim Brotherhood, Islam and Modernity, Religious Studies, Orientalism, Jihad, World Politics, Sayyid Qutb, Islamismo, Fundamentalismo Islâmico, Ocidente, and Islamist movements)
(Political Philosophy, Comparative Philosophy, International Relations Theory, Political Theory, Middle East Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Religion and Politics, Sovereignty, Continental Philosophy, Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, International Politics, Middle Eastern Politics, Islamic Studies, Political Theology, Topology, Islam, Islamic Political Thought, Middle East Politics, Islamism, Comparative Political Theory, Political Islam, International Political Theory, Muslim Brotherhood, Islam and Modernity, Religious Studies, Orientalism, Jihad, World Politics, Sayyid Qutb, Islamismo, Fundamentalismo Islâmico, Ocidente, and Islamist movements)
L'articolo esamina il rapporto tra cittadinanza e paradigma dell'indebitamento alla luce dei flussi precarizzanti che la recente crisi finanziaria ha mobilitato in Europa. Ciò consente di tracciare il contesto genealogico in cui inserire... more
L'articolo esamina il rapporto tra cittadinanza e paradigma dell'indebitamento alla luce dei flussi precarizzanti che la recente crisi finanziaria ha mobilitato in Europa. Ciò consente di tracciare il contesto genealogico in cui inserire una discussione su alcune fondamentali torsioni del discorso neoliberalista degli ultimi anni ed esaminare, per questa via, alcune pratiche di auto-organizzazione articolate attorno all’esperienza del comune.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, Political Theory, Marxism, Italian Studies, and 24 moreCommons, Italian Politics, Jacques Lacan, Capitalism, Marxist theory, Precarity, Cultural Political Economy, Political theatre, Cultural Economy, Contemporary Political Theory, Operaismo, Art and Activism, Filosofía Política, Constituent Power, Filosofía, Italian Political Thought, Europa, Capitalismo, Right to the city, Austerity Measures, Italian Theory, Urban Commons, Neoliberalismo, and Beni comuni(Commons, Italian Politics, Jacques Lacan, Capitalism, Marxist theory, Precarity, Cultural Political Economy, Political theatre, Cultural Economy, Contemporary Political Theory, Operaismo, Art and Activism, Filosofía Política, Constituent Power, Filosofía, Italian Political Thought, Europa, Capitalismo, Right to the city, Austerity Measures, Italian Theory, Urban Commons, Neoliberalismo, and Beni comuni)
(Commons, Italian Politics, Jacques Lacan, Capitalism, Marxist theory, Precarity, Cultural Political Economy, Political theatre, Cultural Economy, Contemporary Political Theory, Operaismo, Art and Activism, Filosofía Política, Constituent Power, Filosofía, Italian Political Thought, Europa, Capitalismo, Right to the city, Austerity Measures, Italian Theory, Urban Commons, Neoliberalismo, and Beni comuni)
This chapter provides an introduction to the history, themes and debates concerning the relationship between Islam and politics. The authors trace a short history of Islam and Islamism's relation to politics from the early days of... more
This chapter provides an introduction to the history, themes and debates concerning the relationship between Islam and politics. The authors trace a short history of Islam and Islamism's relation to politics from the early days of Muahmmad, to the recent rise of DAIISH (ISIS), and phenomena as Islamism online, Islamism in music (hip hop, punk), and popular culture, arguing that the point about 'Political Islam' is not so much that it is Islamic, but that it is political.
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Research Interests: Critical Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Marxism, Italian Studies, and 15 morePolitical Science, Post-Marxism, Politics, Jacques Lacan, Neoliberalism, Biopolitics, Marxismo, Political Sciences, Austerity, Biopolitica, Capitalismo, Austerity Measures, Italian Theory, Psicoanalisi, and Neoliberalismo
This interview is part of 'Indebted Citizenship', a video project by Andrea Mura conducted on behalf of the Oecumene project and the Open University's Centre for Citizenship, Identity and Governance (CCIG). The project inquires into... more
This interview is part of 'Indebted Citizenship', a video project by Andrea Mura conducted on behalf of the Oecumene project and the Open University's Centre for Citizenship, Identity and Governance (CCIG). The project inquires into today's context of crisis and austerity, exploring current developments in advanced forms of capital, and the effects of so-called debt economy on power and subjectivity.
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This interview is part of 'Indebted Citizenship', a video project by Andrea Mura conducted on behalf of the Oecumene project and the Open University's Centre for Citizenship, Identity and Governance (CCIG). The project inquires into... more
This interview is part of 'Indebted Citizenship', a video project by Andrea Mura conducted on behalf of the Oecumene project and the Open University's Centre for Citizenship, Identity and Governance (CCIG). The project inquires into today's context of crisis and austerity, exploring current developments in advanced forms of capital, and the effects of so-called debt economy on power and subjectivity.
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In this article transmodernity is described as the symbolic context within which, in the last decades, new formulations of selfhood and community have emerged that challenge consolidated representations of the world. The article examines... more
In this article transmodernity is described as the symbolic context within which, in the last decades, new formulations of selfhood and community have emerged that challenge consolidated representations of the world. The article examines and map out an illustrative range of discourses at the core of the transmodern scenario, highlighting the counterhegemonic potential of its symbolic function vis-à-vis modern representations of reality. In doing so, particular focus is put on some of the major effects of globalisation, i.e., spatial displacement, virtuality and fragmentation, exposing the critical dimension of globalisation as a traumatic process of dislocation of social space.
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This article aims at highlighting the relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis for an understanding of Islamism, unfolding its discursive-ideological complexity. In the attempt to reply to Fethi Benslama’s recent exploration of the function... more
This article aims at highlighting the relevance of Lacanian psychoanalysis for an understanding of Islamism, unfolding its discursive-ideological complexity. In the attempt to reply to Fethi Benslama’s recent exploration of the function of the father in Islam, I contend that Benslama’s argument about the ‘delusional’ character of Islamism and the link he envisages between the emergence of Islamism and the crisis of ‘traditional’ authoritative
systems should further be investigated so as to avoid potential risks of essentialism.
systems should further be investigated so as to avoid potential risks of essentialism.
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This chapter provides an introduction to the history, themes and debates concerning the relationship between Islam and politics. The authors trace a short history of Islam and Islamism's relation to politics from the early days of... more
This chapter provides an introduction to the history, themes and debates concerning the relationship between Islam and politics. The authors trace a short history of Islam and Islamism's relation to politics from the early days of Muahmmad, to Islamism online, in music (hip hop, punk), and popular culture, arguing that the point about 'Political Islam' is not so much that it is Islamic, but that it is political.