The question of how best to name those who are most vulnerable to precarity and
exploitation is both a conceptual and political one. It has been tempting in recent years to …

Vulnerability is a concept with fleeting contours as much as it is an idea with assured
academic success; its topicality in Europe and the United States, however, refers to different …

Questioning the material status of a dead body is a challenge: On the one hand, a corpse
seems to be nothing more than the physical remains of a person that once was–and is now …

What does it mean to live dangerously? This is not just a philosophical question or ethical
call to reflect upon our own individual recklessness. It is a deeply political question being …

The unlivable is the most extreme point of human suffering and injustice. But what is it
exactly? How do we define the unlivable? And what can we do to prevent and repair it …

Vulnerability is a concept with fleeting contours as much it is an idea with assured academic
success. In the United States, torturable,“mutilatable,” and killable bodies are a wide topic of …

Our bodies provide perhaps the most solid and concrete dimension of our self-experience.
When we are in ecstatic pleasure or excruciating pain, when we blush in shame or feel chills …

The abrupt climate change thesis suggests that climate passes through threshold transitions,
after which change is sudden, runaway and unstoppable. This concurs with recent themes in …

Contemporary feminist theory by and large agrees on criticizing the traditional, autonomous
subject and instead maintains a relational, dependent self, but the vocabulary used to …

The human body is the locus of meaning, personhood, and our sense of the possibility of
sanctity. The desecration of the human corpse is a matter of universal revulsion, taboo in …