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Dark Light: Utopia and the Question of Relative Surplus Population
(2016)
This article addresses the question of the actuality of Sir Thomas More's Utopia by arguing for the centrality within More's text of the question of forcibly displaced and economically “surplused” populations. Drawing upon ...
Utopian Studies in Greece Today: A Brief Survey
(2016)
In the first section, this article offers a sketch of tendencies in the engagement with utopia and utopianism in contemporary Greece: after dwelling on Greek-language scholarly research and translation in the area of utopian ...
The Discreet Charm of the ‘Anarchist Sublime’: Sovereign Power and Bare Life Revisited
(2012)
HOW HAVE INTELLECTUALS, PARTICULARLY INTELLECTUALS IN THE UNITED STATES, thought about the state in the period inaugurated by the catastrophic events of 9/11 and e#ectively terminated with the global $nancial crisis of ...
Varieties of Lacanian anti-utopianism
(Peter Lang, 2012)
Nesologies: island form and postcolonial geopoetics
(2008)
The terrain of what this essay calls geopoetics is limned by the encounter between two epistemologically independent but insistently cross-pollinating strands of enquiry. The first concerns the textuality of geography, and ...