Amir Sadeghi, Author at Public Seminar

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The Virality of Patriotic Antiracism

Combat Veterans and Geopolitical Racism

October 25, 2017 • by Amir Sadeghi

Today, however, the struggle to destabilize the institutional fabric of disenfranchisement, imprisonment, and wealth inequality risks being buried by viral images of combat veterans “taking a knee,” or the children of service members killed in combat signaling their support for the “cause.” Generally speaking, it has become patriotic to stand ...

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Toward A Feminism Beyond The Additive Model

June 3, 2016 • by Amir Sadeghi

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. It’s no secret that feminism has undergone paradigmatic and (sometimes) unfortunate changes attributed to the gestures of the neoliberal turn. Nancy Fraser critiques the desaturated concern for social and gender justice that characterizes a new neoliberal feminism -- one ...

Toward A Feminism Beyond The Additive Model

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‘A Child Is Being Beaten,’ But Where is the Mother?

April 19, 2016 • by Amir Sadeghi

This post is part of the Gender and Domination Course in OOPS. Beating phantasies, a most common perversion in Freudian psychoanalyses, turn out to be very complicated affairs. “It is only with hesitation that this phantasy is confessed to,” [1] Freud admits, and he will argue that guilt is entangled with beating ...

‘A Child Is Being Beaten,’ But Where is the Mother?

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Are Female Characters Impossible?

March 16, 2016 • by Amir Sadeghi

This post is in relation to the Gender and Domination course in OOPS. She is the Giddiness of Loss, the Fascination of Damnation, of Death Euripides’ Alcestis offers a unique exemplification of the themes and arguments in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. Admetus’ elderly parents fail to step up and die for their son, ...