Covering abstracts and excerpts of academic pieces on necropolitics from all over the world. <br/><br/><a href="https://necropolitics.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">necropolitics.substack.com</a>
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Covering abstracts and excerpts of academic pieces on necropolitics from all over the world. <br/><br/><a href="https://necropolitics.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">necropolitics.substack.com</a>
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June 29, 2026
“Pulp Orientalism”: Endosmotic banality, terra necro and “splintered” subjects in Dan Fesperman’s The Warlord’s Son
<p>Pavan Kumar, M. (2012) ‘“Pulp Orientalism”: Endosmotic banality, terra necro and “splintered” subjects in Dan Fesperman’s The Warlord’s Son ’, Journal of Postcolonial Writing, 48(3), pp. 265–277. doi: 10.1080/17449855.2012.678710. Abstract: This essay draws attention to the much-neglected arena of Orientalism in pulp fiction. Although Orientalism in popular culture has received considerable attention, it is restricted to the representations of the Orient in science fiction, television, electronic media and Hollywood films. Following 9/11, pulp literature has emerged with a renewed force in American hard-boiled fiction, specifically in the genre of the “literary thriller” and the “international political thriller”. Unlike the Orientalism in canonic fiction, pulp Orientalism forges an endosmotic “style” of civilizational Othering by reducing Oriental topographies into death worlds (terra necro), while depicting its subjects as splintered, unstable and mutable. Drawing on the writings of Robert Irwin and Achille Mbembe, this essay attempts a conceptual exposition of pulp Orientalism through Dan Fesperman’s The Warlord’s Son.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://necropolitics.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">necropolitics.substack.com</a>
June 28, 2026
Between visibility and elsewhere: South Asian queer creative cultures and resistance
<p>Dasgupta, R. K. and Mahn, C. (2023) ‘Between visibility and elsewhere: South Asian queer creative cultures and resistance’, South Asian Diaspora, 15(1), pp. 1–16. doi: 10.1080/19438192.2022.2164429. </p><p>Abstract: This article draws on existing interviews and creative material from LGBTQ + South Asians who have lived and spent significant time in the UK as part of the Cross Border Queers project. It begins by considering creative forms of diasporic activism and creativity in the UK that have emerged from South Asian LGBTQ + communities and individuals. We discuss the ways in which South Asian LGBTQ + diasporic organising was formed through a sense of shared racial and class solidarity and especially under the umbrella of political Blackness. We then move on to the role played by cultural activism to see how artists have used culture as a way to advance social change and increase the visibility of South Asian LGBTQ + communities in the UK. We place different genres of visual culture, curation, performance and oral history to evoke how South Asian queer migrants articulate a distinct form of subjectivity and aesthetic practice.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://necropolitics.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">necropolitics.substack.com</a>
June 27, 2026
Writing against neocolonial necropolitics: literary responses by Iraqi/Arab writers to the US ‘War on Terror’
<p>Motyl, K. and Arghavan, M. (2018) ‘Writing against neocolonial necropolitics: literary responses by Iraqi/Arab writers to the US ‘War on Terror’’, European Journal of English Studies, 22(2), pp. 128–141. doi: 10.1080/13825577.2018.1478256. </p><p></p><p>Abstract: This essay demonstrates that texts by Iraqi/Arab writers conceive the US invasion and occupation of Iraq as an assault on both biological and cultural life. It argues that in occupied Iraq, the very act of writing constitutes a performative survival of neocolonial necropolitics. Thus, Philip Metres’ abu ghraib arias employs visual poetry to bear witness to the suffering of Iraqi civilians subjected to torture at Abu Ghraib prison, by rendering visible what was repressed owing to trauma or silenced in the official investigation. Meanwhile, other literary works express distress about the destruction of Iraq’s cultural archive, since the arts have constituted a precious repository of Iraqi self-knowledge and spiritual nourishment throughout the country’s history of foreign domination and political tyranny. Reflecting on the bomb attack on Baghdad’s ‘Street of the Booksellers’ in 2007, poet Dunya Mikhail delivers a powerful invocation of literature’s longevity even after its material manifestations have been erased. Sinan Antoon’s novel The Corpse Washer (2013) highlights the ubiquity of death in post-2003 Iraq and its paralysing effect on the creative faculties as it tells the story of Jawad, an aspiring sculptor who gives up his artistic ambitions to follow in his father’s footsteps as a corpse washer.</p> <br/><br/>This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit <a href="https://necropolitics.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1">necropolitics.substack.com</a>
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