Echos of Earthly Suffering in Transitional Justice: Revisiting the Soundings of Colombia's Truth Commission
As part of the 2016 landmark peace accord, the Colombian State launched a four-year “Comisión de la Verdad,” or Truth and Reconciliation Commission as known in ... More
Review Forum on Writing with Light Magazine's Issue No. 1: Photography & Forensics
Before it was the subject of medical and, thereafter, forensic scrutiny, the body had long been a locus of image-making practices. Such a reminder—more so than ... More
Book Forum on Marina Peterson's Atmospheric Noise: The Indefinite Urbanism of Los Angeles
Atmospheric Noise gathers the indeterminacies and excesses of sound and the limits of measurement, law and archive, with noise “falling away as both sound and c... More
Book Forum: Iran Reframed
Narges Bajoghli’s Iran Reframed: Anxieties of Power in the Islamic Republic (2019) is an extraordinary achievement that illustrates the relation between contemp... More
A Political Passion Play: Review of The New Gospel
Passion plays are theatrical reenactments of the suffering of Jesus Christ: his trial, the Stations of the Cross, and finally, the crucifixion on Calvary, outsi... More
Life After Catastrophe: Review of Dylda/Beanpole
Dylda (2019) by Kantemir Balagov is a film about human struggle to conceive a life amid ruins, left behind by war. It is also about the ambivalent meanings and ... More
Book Forum: A Possible Anthropology
This book forum invites a group of anthropologists to reckon with Anand Pandian's A Possible Anthropology: Methods for Uneasy Times (Duke University Press, 2019... More
The Porosity of Film: A Review of Yi Cui’s Of Shadows
Distributor Icarus Films writes that Yi Cui's Of Shadows (2016) juxtaposes “the rural and the urban, the grassroot and the official, the state and the local, th... More
Out of the Ordinary: A Review of The Hundreds
Perhaps a theory orders the world; perhaps poetry disrupts it . . . Perhaps The Hundreds (Duke University Press, 2019)—Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart’s col... More
Book Forum: Guerrilla Marketing
In the wake of Colombia's peace process after the longest civil war in the Western Hemisphere, somewhere in that "liminal space that is not quite war nor peace"... More