David Herd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Herd |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Herd |
| SIGNATURE | HERD D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0972-5337 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World
Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World: Making Space for the Human addresses the current drive towards a politics of expulsion by considering a moment when the realities of expulsion were actively understood and contested. The contemporary starting point is the rapidly escalating use of detention as a response to human movement and the global production of geopolitical non-personhood in which detention and its proxies results. To underst…
Afterword
The purpose of this afterword is to provide an update on the recent actions of the Refugee Tales project against the background of new developments in UK policies on asylum and immigration. The afterword reports on the parliamentary launch of the Refugee Tales Walking Inquiry into Immigration Detention. It then considers the implications of the UK government’s proposal to offshore asylum processing to Rwanda and, more broadly, of the new powers t…
Making space for the human
This article addresses the tension between two expressions of post-war spatiality. It was the aim of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the article observes, to achieve a formulation of the human from which no person might fall out. At the same time, as the category of the human as attribute of persons struggled to extend itself, so the effects of the so-called Anthropocene became greatly accelerated. The article argues that these forms o…
Merely Circulating’
That they are there
In this essay, a discussion of George Oppen's poetics of number is presented. From his first book, Discrete Series, to his Pulitzer Prize winning volume, Of Being Numerous and throughout his Daybooks, the language of number figured conspicuously in Oppen's poetic thought. Taking their shared beginning in Heidegger as a point of departure, the essay reads Oppen alongside the philosophy of Alain Badiou, discussing how both writers work towards an i…
Making readers – the Frank O'Hara way
‘And Time Shall Force a Gift on Each’
Making space for the human
This article addresses the tension between two expressions of post-war spatiality. It was the aim of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the article observes, to achieve a formulation of the human from which no person might fall out. At the same time, as the category of the human as attribute of persons struggled to extend itself, so the effects of the so-called Anthropocene became greatly accelerated. The article argues that these forms o…
‘And Time Shall Force a Gift on Each’
Making readers – the Frank O'Hara way
That they are there
In this essay, a discussion of George Oppen's poetics of number is presented. From his first book, Discrete Series, to his Pulitzer Prize winning volume, Of Being Numerous and throughout his Daybooks, the language of number figured conspicuously in Oppen's poetic thought. Taking their shared beginning in Heidegger as a point of departure, the essay reads Oppen alongside the philosophy of Alain Badiou, discussing how both writers work towards an i…
Merely Circulating’
Making space for the human
This article addresses the tension between two expressions of post-war spatiality. It was the aim of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the article observes, to achieve a formulation of the human from which no person might fall out. At the same time, as the category of the human as attribute of persons struggled to extend itself, so the effects of the so-called Anthropocene became greatly accelerated. The article argues that these forms o…
Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World
Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World: Making Space for the Human addresses the current drive towards a politics of expulsion by considering a moment when the realities of expulsion were actively understood and contested. The contemporary starting point is the rapidly escalating use of detention as a response to human movement and the global production of geopolitical non-personhood in which detention and its proxies results. To underst…
Afterword
The purpose of this afterword is to provide an update on the recent actions of the Refugee Tales project against the background of new developments in UK policies on asylum and immigration. The afterword reports on the parliamentary launch of the Refugee Tales Walking Inquiry into Immigration Detention. It then considers the implications of the UK government’s proposal to offshore asylum processing to Rwanda and, more broadly, of the new powers t…
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