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  • Discovering Antigone: A Non-Normative Political Figure

    Creator:
    Patten, Jennifer A.
    Abstract:
    This thesis analyzes Sophocles’ classic Greek tragedy Antigone as it relates to biopolitics, biopower, democratic language and non-normative principles of politics. I argue that the figure of Antigone enables a better understanding of exclusive biopolitical philosophy. Antigone is a figure not recognized as human because her gender is tortured and...
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    would have on my understanding of politics. I would be quite in error if I did not thank Evan Gottlieb

  • In the Margins of Representation: A Critique of Plascencia's The People of Paper

    Creator:
    Turk, Tully
    Abstract:
    This thesis explores the common features that unite postcolonial and posthumanist theories, finding that the Cartesian notion of representationalism has enabled the humanist hierarchy that both fields decry. This humanist hierarchy coalesces in the figure of the author, and as such its most effective criticism takes the form of metafiction....
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    Masters Thesis