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Cuerpos y mutaciones en el cine de ciencia-ficción durante los años cincuenta
1994
El cine de ciencia-ficción de los años cincuenta nos ofrece un testimonio ejemplar por su candidez de hasta dónde el patrón humano rige sin apenas deslices toda suerte de metamorfosis. La misma situación del género es en extremo curiosa: lejos de la imaginería gótica y romántica que alimentó las producciones Universal, también se distancia de las afecciones víricas, las prótesis teratológicas y la robótica de cuño informático que asaltan el cuerpo haciéndolo estallar en el moderno cine de terror.
The Dignity in Free Speech: Civility Norms in Post-Terror Societies
2016
ABSTRACTIt is difficult to strike a balance between protecting freedom of speech and ensuring public safety. The attacks on 22 July 2011 in Norway, and the fear of terrorist acts inspired by public utterances on the Internet, have caused many to question whether and how we should regulate hate speech. In this article, we analyse the main arguments from the debate on freedom of speech in post-terror Norway, termed the ‘liberal’ and ‘harm’ (or ‘balance of harms’) arguments respectively. We propose a set of civility norms that may serve to uphold the wide freedom of speech advocated by the liberal argument, while being attentive to the real ethical challenges emphasised by the harm argument.
Security in Niamey : an anthropological perspective on policing and an act of terrorism in Niger
2012
ABSTRACTThe abduction of two Frenchmen in January 2011 in Niamey's supposedly most secure neighbourhood has led many to question the functioning of the city's security apparatus. This paper analyses Niamey's security landscape, initially from an historical and then from a spatial perspective. It argues that for a comprehensive analysis of security, we must first decentre our perspective on security construction, and thus take informal non-organised modes of policing just as seriously as policing by state and vigilante organisations; and second, take into account the inseparability of sociality and security, a fragile balance of trust and acceptable risk. In conclusion I argue that this focu…
La guerra del señor Bush y el 11-S
2002
Ode laica per Chibok e Leah
2019
The volume contains two short poems by Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka ("No, He Said!", dedicated to Nelson Mandela, from the Author's 1988 classic collection "Mandela's Earth and Other Poems", and the recent "Mandela Comes to Leah", written purposely for this volume), along with the most recent long poem in five parts "A Humanist Ode to Chibok, Leah", published in English for the first time in 2019. The poem, and indeed the entire volume, denounces all forms of fundamentalism and fanaticism as opposed to secular humanism. Soyinka pays tribute to the girls abducted in Chibok and 15 year-old Leah Sharibu, one of the 108 girls abducted from Dapchi in 2018, comparing her firm refusal to r…
El antiterrorismo como coartada
2001
Contre l'anti-terrorisme comme alibi
2001
Se trata de la versión francesa del artículo "El antiterrorismo como coartada", publicado en "El País" el 10 de noviembre de 2001. El texto en francés supuestamente fue publicado en la revista de "Les amis de 'Le monde diplomatique'", aunque la versión de la que se dispone no es la publicada.