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Rights of Man

Thomas Paine is a curious character, whose legacy is hard to assess. But perhaps this is why it is all the more important to (re)read him. His difficulties, ambiguities, and ambivalences, in the midst of the eighteenth-century “Age of Revolutions,” … Continue reading →Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb5-2-2013 | Tagged with biopolitics, constituted power, Paine, political theory, Revolution, rights of man

Magic is real — The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier

I forgot I had to do a blog post… Sorry! The Kingdom of This World is an interesting novel, and I’m still in the midst of digesting it and trying to get into the “magical realism” of the story. I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Posted in blogs, lb4-2013 | Tagged with Carpentier, Citadelle, Confusion, Haiti, history, Kingdom of This World, literature, Magical Realism, Questions, Revolution, Sans Souci, Slavery

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