(Updated to 4/12/2010 post)
April 2010
March 2010
- The Image of Sovereignty (7/8): Making a Myth of Trauma (beginning)
- The Image of Sovereignty (6/8): The Myth of the State, The State of the Myth (conclusion)
- The Image of Sovereignty (5/8): The Myth of the State, The State of the Myth (beginning)
- The Image of Sovereignty (4/8): War-Profiteering in Trauma
February 2010
- The Image of Sovereignty (3/8): Founding Trauma and the Birth of the Nation (Concluded)
- The Image of Sovereignty (2/8): Founding Trauma and the Birth of the Nation (continued)
- The Image of Sovereignty (1/8): Founding Trauma and the Birth of the Nation
- The Sovereignty of the Image–Conclusion: From the Sovereignty of the Image to the Image of Sovereignty
January 2010
- The Sovereignty of the Image (11/11): Scanning the Screen (conclusion)
- The Sovereignty of the Image (10/11): Scanning the Screen (beginning)
- The Sovereignty of the Image (9/11): Screen Memory (concluded)
- The Sovereignty of the Image (8/11): Screen Memory (second continuation)
- The Sovereignty of the Image (7/11): Screen Memory (first continuation)
- The Sovereignty of the Image (6/11): Screen Memory
November 2009
- The Sovereignty of the Image (5/11): The Fiction of Trauma (End)
- The Sovereignty of the Image (4/11): The Fiction of Trauma (Beginning)
- The Sovereignty of the Image (3/11): Images of Avoidance (concluded)
- The Sovereignty of the Image (2/11): Images of Avoidance
- The Sovereignty of the Image (1/11): Obscene Images
- Our Debt to the Dead (6/6): The Soul’s Swoon, Jean-Luc Nancy, and the Prayer of Death
- Our Debt to the Dead (5/6): Dishonoring the Dead
October 2009
- Our Debt to the Dead (4/6): Dying in Vain
- Our Debt to the Dead (3/6): What We Owe
- Our Debt to the Dead (2/6): Heidegger’s Guilt
- Our Debt to the Dead (1/6): Robert J. Lifton, Survivors, and Guilt (Beginning a New Chapter and Closing, Belatedly and with Apologies, an Old One)
- Responding to Trauma (7/7): Rebecca Solnit on Building Paradise in Hell, Continued
- Resistance and the Meaning of Trauma (9/9): Resistance and the Refusal of Meaning, Concluded
- Resistance and the Meaning of Trauma (8/9): Resistance and the Refusal of Meaning
- Resistance and the Meaning of Trauma (7/9): The Affirmation of Resistance, Concluded
- Resistance and the Meaning of Trauma (6/9): The Affirmation of Resistance, Continued
- Resistance and the Meaning of Trauma (5/9): The Affirmation of Resistance
- Resistance and the Meaning of Trauma (4/9): Refusing Consolation, Concluded
- Resistance and the Meaning of Trauma (3/9): Refusing Consolation, Continued
- Resistance and the Meaning of Trauma (2/9): Refusing Consolation
- Resistance and the Meaning of Trauma (1/9): “The Secret of Joy”
September 2009
- Responding to Trauma (8/7): Concluding Remarks
- Responding to Trauma (6/7): Rebecca Solnit on Building Paradise in Hell
- Responding to Trauma (5/7): Sudhir Kakar, Robert Antelme, and the Human Kind
- Responding to Trauma (4/7): Paul Eisenstein on “the Traumatic Kernel”
- Responding to Trauma (3/7): A Lesson from Marguerite Duras
- Responding to Trauma (2/7): Philosophy as Response
- Responding to Trauma (1/7): Learning from Cormac McCarthy
August 2009
July 2009
- The Gift of the Traumatic Event: Some Reflections on a Work by Jean-Luc Marion
- Thomas Mann’s “Doktor Faustus”–Second of Two
- Thomas Mann’s “Doktor Faustus”–First of Two
- Lyotard, Heidegger, the Jews, and “the jews” (3/3)
- Lyotard, Heidegger, the Jews, and “the jews” (2/3)
- Lyotard, Heidegger, Jews, and “the jews” (1/1)
- The Truth of Trauma
- The Terror, Terror, and Terrorism (2/2)
- The Terror, Terror, and Terrorism (1/2)
- Klaus Theweleit and the Fantasies of Fascist Males (8/8)
- Klaus Theweleit and the Fantasies of Fascist Males (7/8)
- Klaus Theweleit and the Fantasies of Fascist Males (6/8)
- Klaus Theweleit and the Fantasies of Fascist Males (5/8)
- Klaus Theweleit and the Fantasies of Fascist Males (4/8)
June 2009
- Klaus Theweleit and the Fantasies of Fascist Males (3/8)
- Klaus Theweleit and the Fantasies of Fascist Males (2/8)
- Klaus Theweleit and the Fantasies of Fascist Males (1/8)
- Lifton and “Superpower Syndrome” Continued
- Robert J. Lifton on “Superpower Syndrome”
- Killing to Heal: Robert J. Lifton on the Nazi Doctors (6/6)
- Killing to Heal: Robert J. Lifton on the Nazi Doctors (5/6)
- Killing to Heal: Robert J. Lifton on the Nazi Doctors (4/6)
- Killing to Heal: Robert J. Lifton on the Nazi Doctors (3/6)
- Killing to Heal: Robert J. Lifton on the Nazi Doctors (2/6)
- Killing to Heal: Robert J. Lifton on the Nazi Doctors (1/6)
- Final Remarks on Jean-Luc Nancy
- Letting God Go: Further Remarks on Jan-Luc Nancy
May 2009
- The Body of Trauma: Some Thoughts on Jean-Luc Nancy
- Zygmunt Bauman, Concluding Remarks
- Zymunt Bauman, Modernity, and the Holocaust
- The Economics of Trauma: Naomi Klein on “Disaster Capitalism” (3/3)
- The Economics of Trauma: Naomi Klein on “Disaster Capitalism” (2/3)
- The Economics of Trauma: Naomi Klein on “Disaster Capitalism” (1/3)
- The Devil at Noon: Care and Carelessness
- To What Are We Called to Bear Witness? Truth in Trauma, History, and Delusion
- Henri Bergson on the Possible and the Actual
- Jean Améry: Discordant Echoes to Levi (4/4)
- Jean Améry: Discordant Echoes to Levi (3/4)
April 2009
- Jean Améry: Discordant Echoes to Levi (2/4)
- Jean Améry: Discordant Echoes to Levi (1/4)
- The Lessons of Primo Levi (4/4)
- The Lessons of Primo Levi (3/4)
- The Lessons of Primo Levi (2/4)
- The Lessons of Primo Levi (1/4)
- Witnessing Trauma: Reflections on the Work of Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub (5/5)
- Witnessing Trauma: Reflections on the Work of Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub (4/5)
- Witnessing Trauma: Reflections on the Work of Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub (3/5)
- Witnessing Trauma: Reflections on the Work of Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub (2/5)
- Witnessing Trauma: Reflections on the Work of Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub (1/5)
- “Shock and Awe”: The Globalization of Shock, The Globalization of Trauma (and the Globalization of the Possibility of Recovery?)
- Trauma, Its Aftermath, and the Narration of the Self: Lessons from Susan J. Brison
March 2009
- Trauma and Group Identity
- Trauma Come Home to Us on 9/11 (4/4)
- Trauma Come Home to Us on 9/11 (3/4)
- Trauma Come Home to Us on 9/11 (2/4)
- Trauma Come Home to Us on 9/11 (1/4)
- Repression, Recurrence, and Representation
- Recurrent Trauma and Representational Memory
- Trauma, Resilience, and the Sovereignty of the Representational Image
- Trauma, Addiction, Resilience and the Like
- Resilience, Recovery, and the Death Camps
- Trauma and the “Resilience” of Those Who Survive It
- Reflections on Reading Pat Barker’s “Regeneration” Trilogy (5/5)
- Reflections on Reading Pat Barker’s “Regeneration” Trilogy (4/5)
February 2009
- Reflections on Reading Pat Barker’s “Regeneration” Trilogy (3/5)
- Reflections on Reading Pat Barker’s “Regeneration” Trilogy (2/5)
- Reflections on Reading Pat Barker’s “Regeneration” Trilogy (1/5)
- Being Trauma: A Lesson from Heidegger’s Kant-Book
- Michel Henry, Meister Eckhart, Martin Heidegger, and the Trauma of Being
- Our Relationships to the Dead: Some Remarks on Heidegger, Sartre, and Psychoanalysis
- Remnant Communities and the Trauma of Sovereignty
- Reflections on Memory, Trauma, and Politics (5/5)–Last of the Series
- Reflections on Memory, Trauma, and Politics (4/5)
- Reflections on Memory, Trauma, and Politics (3/5)
- Reflections on Memory, Trauma, and Politics (2/5)
- Reflections on Memory, Trauma, and Politics (1/5)
January 2009
- Memory, Memorials, and Art Spiegelman’s Shadow
- Taylor, Trauma, and the Eternal Recurrence of the Same
- Are We All Americans? Kakar’s Distinction between “Community” and “Communalism”
- Trauma and Identity (“Cultural” and “Individual”): Reflections on Sudhir Kakar’s Work
- Dissociation and Repression in Trauma: Initial Reflection
- Trauma, the Morality of Representation, Death, and Community
- The Truth of Auschwitz
- LaCapra, Continued
- Trauma and Representation: More in Response to LaCapra
- Items Concerning LaCapra’s Works (2/2)
- Items Concerning LaCapra’s Works (1/2)
- The Trauma of Avoiding Trauma
December 2008
- Traumatic Uniqueness and the Proscription of Idolatry
- The History of Trauma, the Trauma of History (2/2)
- The History of Trauma, the Trauma of History (1/2)
- Survivor Guilt and Our Debt to the Dead
- The Care of Trauma, the Trauma of Care
- The Trauma of Sex
- Gender, Trauma, and Screen Memories
- To Begin: Trauma, Truth, Sovereignty, and Philosophy
