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Testimony, Violence, and Silence – An Examination of Agamben and His Critics

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You’re not allowed to speak much, and you don’t know which language to speak when you can. Recovery from trauma is finding the words.”- Rebecca Mott (2021), writer, poet and survivor of prostitution 'More listened to dead than alive'. A 'collage' by French feminist in the Paris banlieue. Photography: my own. A philosophical investigation on… Continue reading Testimony, Violence, and Silence – An Examination of Agamben and His Critics

Paul Ricœur: Memory, History, Forgetting – Coming Soon

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This post is about a presentation I gave last June at the Fonds Ricœur Summer Workshop at the UCD (University College Dublin). I had the same questions, the same goal -  demonstrating that male violence is a type of atrocity that brings about its unique challenges to the question of testimony (and to women and girls’ lives of course) - but I responded to a different author, Paul Ricœur.