Allen Feldman

Allen Feldman is associate professor of media ecology in the department of culture and communication, New York University, and author of Formations of Violence: the narrative of the body and political terror in Northern Ireland.

Genocidal desistance in Gaza

Desistance from violence can be to withdraw from a stance of violence through an act of violence, to leave off one form of violence by taking on another. Each Israeli attack on Gaza is simultaneously and implicitly recast by state subtext as a desistance from genocide.

By Allen Feldman

/ 12 Aug 2014

Abu Ghraib: ceremonies of nostalgia

President Bushs proposal that Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq be demolished encapsulates the core ideology of that occupation and its incomprehension of the situation and nation it seeks to

By Allen Feldman

/ 17 Oct 2004