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Chris Hables Gray - Cyborg Citizen

Chris Hables Gray. Cyborg Citizen: Politics in the Posthuman Age. Routledge, 2002.
Curiously, all the theories of posthumanism have been disappeared, and discourses of the postmodern have receded like a popular fad. As if there is not any longer a serious discussion on the virtual reality today, though we have just arrived the time we expected… »

Precarious Citizenship in the Late Capitalist Society

- Adriana Petryna, Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl, Princeton UP, 2002.
- Aihwa Ong, Flexible Citizenship: The Cultural Logics of Transnationality, Duke UP, 1999.

How do self and social identities change in a state of transition? How does the relationship between individuals and the state change in a rapid or gradual social crisis? How… »

Lauren Berlant - The Queen of America Goes to Washington City + Ken Plummer - Intimate Citizenship

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Lauren Berlant, The Queen of America Goes to Washington City: Essay on Sex and Citizenship, Duke UP, 1997.

Ken Plummer, “Public Intimacies, Private Citizens,” Intimate Citizenship, U of Washington Press, 2003.
Berlant’s book is a quite dense text which assembles various and multiple layers of narratives around politics of identity, queer theory, media and text… »

Mouffe and Balibar on Democratic Citizenship

Chantal Mouffe, “Democratic Citizenship and the Political Community,” The Return of the Political, Verso, 2005 (1993).
Etienne Balibar, “Historical Dilemmas of Democracy and Their Contemporary Relevance for Citizenship,” Rethinking Marxism 20:4 (2008).
As a part of a project to achieve “a radical and plural democracy,” Mouffe tries to articulate how citizenship could and should be constructed as… »

Aihwa Ong - Buddha is Hiding

Aihwa Ong, Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America, Univ. of Califirnia Press, 2003.

Aihwa Ong’s Buddha is Hiding: Refugees, Citizenship, the New America is a book on the complicated process of transformation and the production of citizen-subject through the various modern technologies of government, including refugee camp, social workers, medicine, and other social institutions. This… »