Across the River: Life, Death, and Football in an American City On the west bank of the Mississippi lies the New Orleans neighborhood of Algiers. Short on hope but big on…
Death Object – Exploding the Nuclear Weapons Hoax [Por la boca muere el pez – By / because of the mouth the fish dies, Spanish saying] From the…
Necropower in North America: The Legal Spatialization Of Disposability And Lucrative Death This book discusses and theorizes Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics, the politics of death, in the specific context of North America. It…
The Mysterious Death of Mary Rogers: Sex and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York In the summer of 1841, Mary Rogers disappeared without a trace from her New York City boarding house. Three days…
On Old Age: Approaching Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Recent research into old age and dying in the premodern world has examined not only the demographic aspects of ageing…