Does caste matter in Bengal? Examining the myth of Bengali exceptionalism

Paru sur le blog Médiapart (3 août 2024). C'est la question qui se pose à la lecture de l'article d'Edwy Plenel, (« Ah ! ça ira ! » aux JO : la France de l'égalité et du monde ) à propos du Ça Ira, de l'article premier de la Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen et de la décapitation de Marie-Antoinette, présentés comme les trois éléments fondamentaux du spectacle d'ouverture des Jeux olympiques du 26 juillet.

Zwischenwelten: Grenzüberschreitungen Europäischer Geschichte , 2023

This is the English version of an article published in German in a festschrift for Etienne François

Heidegger and the Human, 2022

This essay thematizes the posthuman along with the transhuman on the way to revisiting Heidegger’s thinking on Da-sein, authenticity, and the “human condition” (as Hannah Arendt speaks of this) along with Augustine’s “becoming” a question to oneself. With respect to the human “situation,”as Günther [Stern] Anders speaks of this, Heidegger’s “pseudo-concreteness” can be criticized. Anders’s denunciation is multilayered, but it is also indebted to Heidegger not only because it uses Heidegger’s language of 'concretion' but because it draws from Heidegger’s specifically Augustinian conception of Da-sein: “Das ‘Wesen’ dieses Seienden liegt in seinem Zu-sein” (the “essence” of this entity [that is, this Da-sein] lies in its to-be), which essence, always distinctive, resides in its overt mineness: je meines, specifically “meines wiederum je in dieser oder jener Weise zu sein” (mine to be in one way or another). With his definition of the human being as indeterminate, “as the not yet finished animal” (das noch nicht festgestellte Thier),8\ Nietzsche would appear to make the case for a negative Heideggerian authenticity, reminding us of the deficient condition as the rule: among “human beings as among every other species there is a surplus of failures, of the sick, the degenerate, the fragile, of those who are bound to suffer.” By contrast, the “successful cases among human beings” always remain “the exception . . . the rare exception.”

The text is the draft version of a chapter (Essay_06-1) of the forthcoming English edition of my book "Greek Postwar Architecture. Essays & Monographs", Athens: Reflections Architects’ Files, 2024

The infiltration of British architectural thought in Greece and in the Greek architectural press during the thirty-year period from 1967 to 1996 is mainly associated with the two most important periodical publications of the era: Orestes Doumanis' Architecture in Greece and the magazine Tefchos by Koumbis, Papoulias, Simaioforidis, and Tzirtzilakis. Its mathematical curve is not straight, but shows peaks at different periods, often linked to the relationships of the publishers of the two magazines with Greek architects active in the educational and professional architectural scene of the United Kingdom. The first such peak corresponds to the period 1966-1973 and concerns the establishment of Panos Koulermos in Athens and the creation in 1966 of the office Kalogeras – Amourgis - Koulermos and the Workshop of Environmental Design Athens Greece (WEDAG), as well as the relationship developed by the three architects with Orestes Doumanis. The second is marked by the close collaboration of Dimitris Porphyrios with Architecture in Greece between 1977-1982. The third and least traceable of the three corresponds to the period 1980-1987 and relates to the founding of the Greek branch of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Athens in 1980 by Elias Zenghelis and his students at the Architectural Association school in London, Elias Veneris and Stavros Aliferis. Finally, the fourth peak, corresponding to the period 1989-1996, is associated with the activities of George Simaioforidis and the founding in 1989 of the magazine Tefchos in Athens.

Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 1996

Oxford Scholarship Online, 2018

This chapter reveals that contemporary American Latter-Day Saints lead lives shaped by a conscious, often partially conflicted, relationship to the authoritative teachings of their church hierarchy. This doctrine represents the power of present-day revelation channeled through the current Prophet; however, many Latter-Day Saints believe that prophets may also make human mistakes. For an important minority, including some feminist intellectuals, these tensions have been experienced as an attempt to prohibit the development of theology. The problematic status of Mormon theology may be one reason why many church members seek to reconcile doctrine with personal experience by means of narrative and autobiography, producing a culture of Mormon stories. This chapter considers how some Mormon feminist excommunicates attempted to project religious authenticity against the grain of the institution. Mormon ethnography thus provides an instance of the anthropological approach to theology as a l...