avantikatewari.bsky.social
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In this paper, I explore the constitutive impasses of the biopolitical way of thinking by engaging with Agamben’s instantaneous reactions on the pandemic, to attempt restoring a Marxist methodology to conduct historico-political analysis.

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Confronting Agamben on the Pandemic: Biopolitics, Class Struggle and Surveillance Capitalism - Avantika Tewari, 2021
This paper evaluates Agamben’s observations on the COVID-19 crisis and its consequent crises that seek to revisit issues of the security state. Through this pap...
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December 3, 2024 at 7:20 AM
The contradictions within capital both withhold and free labour, while subjecting and producing the conditions for a life which struggles for survival. The question that seems to haunt us at the onset of the pandemic is, how do we define freedom from hereon?

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https://www.academia.edu/48982624/Corona_Crisis_or_Life_Versus_Freedom
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December 3, 2024 at 7:19 AM
Wrote something, “The Real is where death resides in its most traumatic, unrepresentable form. It is the rupture that escapes our capacity to symbolize or imagine – a pure encounter with the void.”

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On Birthdays, We Contemplate Life and Death
As we age, the concept of death seems to grow more prominent in our awareness – not just as an individual inevitability, but as something woven into the fabric of the world itself. The ubiquity of…
tewari-avantika.medium.com
November 24, 2024 at 12:57 PM
Reposted
If you're at NCA, I'm delivering "What does the Earth Want (of Me)?" on degrowth on Sunday at 11am (Marriott 2nd floor, Galerie 6) which @avantikatewari.bsky.social called "without a doubt, the most important piece of writing I’ve encountered on the degrowth debate" 😬way too high of praise! 😬
November 20, 2024 at 10:46 PM
The sustained violence in Gaza and against Palestinians, coupled with the widespread documentation of atrocities is accompanied by a paradoxical demand for Palestinians to "evidence" their suffering, despite the overwhelming availability of visual and testimonial proof.
November 17, 2024 at 2:09 PM