Author: Dr Lola Frost The work of art, and here I mean what art does, is difficult to describe. Our experience of art exceeds our understanding, but also calls for an interpretation of that experience. My studies have focussed on what is aesthetically, politically and ethically at stake at the interface between experience and interpretation. Via… Continue reading What is the work of art for violence against women?
Author: Prof Mervyn Frost Fog and Chaos (image via Unsplash) The word “fog” in the phrase “the fog of war” might be taken to suggest a breakdown, chaos, disorder or anarchy. It may be taken to suggest a state of affairs that is chaotic. Where things are like this it might be thought that talk… Continue reading Ethics in the Fog of War
Author: Pinar Bilgin Recent immigrants deaths on the coasts of Italy have, once again, brought Mediterranean as a source of in/security to European Union's agenda. As member states discuss what needs to be done to better 'secure' European borders against immigrants, the more complex questions about 'how' and 'why' immigrants travel from southern to northern… Continue reading Temporalising Difference, Spatialising Time, In/Securing the Mediterranean
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