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Michael Haneke’s cinema of disturbance poses a series of interesting and urgent questions about the contemporary condition and its effects on personal relationships. Perhaps Benny is actually an inhabitant of ‘surmodernité’, aimlessly wandering between non-places, transit points and temporary abodes, and constantly ‘watching’ a filtered ‘virtual reality’ that he believes to be […]

This week’s class will host the visit of Marta Sánchez of Pragda Films, to offer a counterpoint on the ‘borders’ theme. Her visit will be double-worth since she will also deliver an interesting lecture/screening on thursday morning as part of this semester’s lecture series. The contents of her participation in the class on wednesday and the lecture on […]

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The Camp could be seen as the extreme capsule: a capsule of exclusion. When sovereign power exerts its ability to ’suspend’ legal order, the ‘exception state’ emerges as the inmanent principle of order. When such an exception state becomes permanent, the Camp unfolds: a piece of territory has been placed outside normal legal […]

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Ulrich Beck’s second modernity unfolds within the liquid space of flows… a landscape of risk, uncertainty and constant change. Hyperindividualism and a never-ending process of suburbanization and ’super-urbanization’ lead to even further isolation… capsules proliferate. Is there a phenomenological alternative to heterotopian urbanism and capsular architecture? how to escape from the […]