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State of exception by Agamben, Giorgio

Transnational torture : law, violence, and state power in the United States and India / by Lokaneeta, Jinee

Table of Contents: “…Law, violence, and torture in liberal democracies -- Law's struggle with violence : ambivalence in the "routine" : jurisprudence of interrogations in the United States -- "Being helplessly civilized leaves us at the mercy of the beast" : post-9/11 discourses on torture in the United States -- Torture in the TV show 24 : circulation of meanings -- Jurisprudence on torture and interrogations in India -- Contemporary states of exception : extraordinary laws and interrogation in India -- Conclusion : unraveling the exception : torture in liberal democracies.…”

Specters of the Atlantic : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history / by Baucom, Ian, 1967-

Table of Contents: “…: credit, insurance, and the Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation -- "Signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognostikon" : modernity and the truth event -- "Please decide" : the singular and the speculative -- Specters of the Atlantic : slavery and the witness -- Frontispiece : testimony, rights, and the state of exception -- The view from the window : sympathy, melancholy, and the problem of "humanity" -- The fact of history : on cosmopolitan interestedness -- The imaginary resentment of the dead : a theory of melancholy sentiment -- "To tumble into it, and gasp for breath as we go down" : the idea of suffering -- And the case of liberal cosmopolitanism -- This/such, for instance : the witness against "history" -- "The sea is history" -- "The sea is history" : on temporal accumulation.…”
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Indian cinema beyond Bollywood : the new independent cinema revolution /

Table of Contents: “…Devasundaram -- Sairat's transgressive femininity: quizzing Marathi cinema / Aarti Wani -- Untold stories, representations and contestations: masaan (crematorium) and asha jaoar majhe (labour of love) / Sangeeta Datta -- Haobam paban kumar and the cinemas of north east India / Meenakshi Shedde -- The subaltern screams: migrant workers and the police station as spatio-carceral state of exception in Tamil film visaranai / Ashvin I. Devasundaram.…”