Jamil Khader
Biographic Data
| ID | 3805020 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jamil Khader |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jamil |
| FAMILY NAME | Khader |
| SIGNATURE | KHADER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bethlehem University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4713-5426 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Universalizing Capital, Foreclosing Necro-Imperialism
This article offers an ideological critique of Slavoj Žižek’s recent interventions on the Gaza genocide, beginning with his October 2023 Project Syndicate article. It argues that by appropriating the post-Oslo liberal-Zionist position he once criticized, Žižek forecloses the real antagonism – necro-imperialist Zionist settler colonialism – and recodes it as a tragedy of mutual victimhood within the universal logic of global capitalism. At the sam…
Neoliberal contradictions, necrocapitalist nightmares
This article argues that the major fantastic conceit, the Whatsitname (the shisma), in Ahmad Sa'dāwī's novel, Frankenstein in Baghdad, functions as an allegory for the repressed totality of necrocapitalist rationality in the postcolonial global South. Sa'dāwī's novel seemingly privileges postmodern and neoliberal ideologemes such as individual choice that blame the death and violence in Iraq on people's actions and representations. Nonetheless, t…
Welcome to the Metaverse
In Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media, Matthew Flisfeder develops an alternative structuralist theory of social media. As a Žižekian analysis of social media, this book is an important contribution to the field of Žižekian studies. While Flisfeder theorizes social media in relation to Slavoj Žižek's idea of the big Other, he nonetheless proposes an unorthodox understanding, importantly choosing not to engage Žiž…
Reactualizing Hegel
Architectural parallax, neoliberal politics and the universality of the Palestinian struggle
This article argues that Banksy’s new controversial project, the Walled Off installation-hotel, in Bethlehem, Palestine, can be productively interrogated in terms of what the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek calls the ‘architectural parallax’, as a site where the fundamental antagonism (the class struggle) in the context of the Palestinian struggle for freedom is played out. Structured around a few major architectural contradictions, Banksy’s n…
Class Struggle for the 21st Century
Repeating Fundamentalism and the Politics of the Commons
I argue that the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and the issue of fundamentalist terrorism in general, should be examined in relation to the contradictions of living in a neoliberal global capitalist system. These contradictions are played out at the political, cultural, and ideological levels in a way that obscures the fundamental antagonism, making any radical solution to the problem of fundamentalist terrorism beyond our reach. I examine these contrad…
Will the Real Robert Neville Please, Come Out? Vampirism, the Ethics of Queer Monstrosity, and Capitalism in Richard Matheson'sI Am Legend
In this article, I argue that Richard Matheson's (1954) vampire novella, I Am Legend, encodes the protagonist's, Robert Neville, traumatic recognition of his queer sexuality in its monstrosity (the unspeakability of male penetrability). Neville's identification with and desire for his undead neighbor, Ben Cortman, are symbolically codified through three different registers: intertextual references to vampiric conventions and codes, the semiotics …
Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms
Introduction: Poetics and Politics of Displacing: Extimate Locations of Postcolonial Feminisms Chapter One: The Meaning of So Many Roads: Geography, Circular Migrancy, and Decolonizing the Commonwealth in Puerto Rican Feminist Writings Chapter Two: None of the Women are at Home: Culture, Unhomeliness, and Politics of Expansion in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions Chapter Three: Escaping the Claustrophobia of Belonging: Identity, Transracial…
After Tantura/after Auschwitz
Ebtisam Mara'na's documentary film Paradise Lost (2002 Mara'na, Ebtisam. 2002. "Narrative Treatment of the Film.". In Paradise Lost. Dir. Ebtisam Mara'na. Prod. Duki Dror. Zygote Films np [Google Scholar]) foregrounds the struggles of Palestinians in Israel for national identity and equal civil rights. Moreover, it simultaneously offers a postmodern critique of the foundational significance of the Nakbah master narrative in Palestinian collective…
Transnationalizing Aztlan
Transnationalizing Aztlan: Rudolfo Anaya’s Heart of Aztlan and US Proletarian Literature Get access Jami Khader Jami Khader Stetson University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 27, Issue 1, March 2002, Pages 83–106, https://doi.org/10.2307/3250638 Published: 01 March 2002
Architectural parallax, neoliberal politics and the universality of the Palestinian struggle
This article argues that Banksy’s new controversial project, the Walled Off installation-hotel, in Bethlehem, Palestine, can be productively interrogated in terms of what the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek calls the ‘architectural parallax’, as a site where the fundamental antagonism (the class struggle) in the context of the Palestinian struggle for freedom is played out. Structured around a few major architectural contradictions, Banksy’s n…
Class Struggle for the 21st Century
Will the Real Robert Neville Please, Come Out? Vampirism, the Ethics of Queer Monstrosity, and Capitalism in Richard Matheson'sI Am Legend
In this article, I argue that Richard Matheson's (1954) vampire novella, I Am Legend, encodes the protagonist's, Robert Neville, traumatic recognition of his queer sexuality in its monstrosity (the unspeakability of male penetrability). Neville's identification with and desire for his undead neighbor, Ben Cortman, are symbolically codified through three different registers: intertextual references to vampiric conventions and codes, the semiotics …
Welcome to the Metaverse
In Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media, Matthew Flisfeder develops an alternative structuralist theory of social media. As a Žižekian analysis of social media, this book is an important contribution to the field of Žižekian studies. While Flisfeder theorizes social media in relation to Slavoj Žižek's idea of the big Other, he nonetheless proposes an unorthodox understanding, importantly choosing not to engage Žiž…
Transnationalizing Aztlan
Transnationalizing Aztlan: Rudolfo Anaya’s Heart of Aztlan and US Proletarian Literature Get access Jami Khader Jami Khader Stetson University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar MELUS, Volume 27, Issue 1, March 2002, Pages 83–106, https://doi.org/10.2307/3250638 Published: 01 March 2002
After Tantura/after Auschwitz
Ebtisam Mara'na's documentary film Paradise Lost (2002 Mara'na, Ebtisam. 2002. "Narrative Treatment of the Film.". In Paradise Lost. Dir. Ebtisam Mara'na. Prod. Duki Dror. Zygote Films np [Google Scholar]) foregrounds the struggles of Palestinians in Israel for national identity and equal civil rights. Moreover, it simultaneously offers a postmodern critique of the foundational significance of the Nakbah master narrative in Palestinian collective…
Cartographies of Transnationalism in Postcolonial Feminisms
Introduction: Poetics and Politics of Displacing: Extimate Locations of Postcolonial Feminisms Chapter One: The Meaning of So Many Roads: Geography, Circular Migrancy, and Decolonizing the Commonwealth in Puerto Rican Feminist Writings Chapter Two: None of the Women are at Home: Culture, Unhomeliness, and Politics of Expansion in Tsitsi Dangarembga's Nervous Conditions Chapter Three: Escaping the Claustrophobia of Belonging: Identity, Transracial…
Will the Real Robert Neville Please, Come Out? Vampirism, the Ethics of Queer Monstrosity, and Capitalism in Richard Matheson'sI Am Legend
In this article, I argue that Richard Matheson's (1954) vampire novella, I Am Legend, encodes the protagonist's, Robert Neville, traumatic recognition of his queer sexuality in its monstrosity (the unspeakability of male penetrability). Neville's identification with and desire for his undead neighbor, Ben Cortman, are symbolically codified through three different registers: intertextual references to vampiric conventions and codes, the semiotics …
Repeating Fundamentalism and the Politics of the Commons
I argue that the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and the issue of fundamentalist terrorism in general, should be examined in relation to the contradictions of living in a neoliberal global capitalist system. These contradictions are played out at the political, cultural, and ideological levels in a way that obscures the fundamental antagonism, making any radical solution to the problem of fundamentalist terrorism beyond our reach. I examine these contrad…
Class Struggle for the 21st Century
Reactualizing Hegel
Architectural parallax, neoliberal politics and the universality of the Palestinian struggle
This article argues that Banksy’s new controversial project, the Walled Off installation-hotel, in Bethlehem, Palestine, can be productively interrogated in terms of what the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek calls the ‘architectural parallax’, as a site where the fundamental antagonism (the class struggle) in the context of the Palestinian struggle for freedom is played out. Structured around a few major architectural contradictions, Banksy’s n…
Welcome to the Metaverse
In Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social Media, Matthew Flisfeder develops an alternative structuralist theory of social media. As a Žižekian analysis of social media, this book is an important contribution to the field of Žižekian studies. While Flisfeder theorizes social media in relation to Slavoj Žižek's idea of the big Other, he nonetheless proposes an unorthodox understanding, importantly choosing not to engage Žiž…
Neoliberal contradictions, necrocapitalist nightmares
This article argues that the major fantastic conceit, the Whatsitname (the shisma), in Ahmad Sa'dāwī's novel, Frankenstein in Baghdad, functions as an allegory for the repressed totality of necrocapitalist rationality in the postcolonial global South. Sa'dāwī's novel seemingly privileges postmodern and neoliberal ideologemes such as individual choice that blame the death and violence in Iraq on people's actions and representations. Nonetheless, t…
Universalizing Capital, Foreclosing Necro-Imperialism
This article offers an ideological critique of Slavoj Žižek’s recent interventions on the Gaza genocide, beginning with his October 2023 Project Syndicate article. It argues that by appropriating the post-Oslo liberal-Zionist position he once criticized, Žižek forecloses the real antagonism – necro-imperialist Zionist settler colonialism – and recodes it as a tragedy of mutual victimhood within the universal logic of global capitalism. At the sam…
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