Madonna Kalousian
Biographic Data
| ID | 6812401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Madonna Kalousian |
| GIVEN NAMES | Madonna |
| FAMILY NAME | Kalousian |
| SIGNATURE | KALOUSIAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | King's College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5625-2931 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Al-Khiam as Palimpsest: Visuality, Political Spectacle, and Specters of Injury in Lebanon
This article approaches Al-Khiam Detention Center as a site of individual and collective injury, one whose distinct histories have been strategically appropriated by multiple political entities. It argues that the visual, as practiced by artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, brings to the surface traces of personal and individualized experiences of incarceration which would have otherwise remained buried. This article first provides a his…
Drones as Machines of Sacrifice: Enframing the Zoological Components of On-Screen Warfare
This article examines how drone warfare transforms the targeted region into a zone of indistinction governed by anthropocentrism. Alwazir’s ‘Yemen Inside Out’, Behram’s ‘Not a Bugsplat’ portrait, and Chishty’s drone art undo the dehumanising rhetoric of ‘Bugsplat’, the US drone software, by redefining the distance between what is being targeted on the ground and drone pilots conducting on-screen assaults from above. Theorising the relegation of r…
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Drones as Machines of Sacrifice: Enframing the Zoological Components of On-Screen Warfare
This article examines how drone warfare transforms the targeted region into a zone of indistinction governed by anthropocentrism. Alwazir’s ‘Yemen Inside Out’, Behram’s ‘Not a Bugsplat’ portrait, and Chishty’s drone art undo the dehumanising rhetoric of ‘Bugsplat’, the US drone software, by redefining the distance between what is being targeted on the ground and drone pilots conducting on-screen assaults from above. Theorising the relegation of r…
Al-Khiam as Palimpsest: Visuality, Political Spectacle, and Specters of Injury in Lebanon
This article approaches Al-Khiam Detention Center as a site of individual and collective injury, one whose distinct histories have been strategically appropriated by multiple political entities. It argues that the visual, as practiced by artists Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, brings to the surface traces of personal and individualized experiences of incarceration which would have otherwise remained buried. This article first provides a his…
Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropocentrism (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Biology (1 works) · Drone (1 works) · Environmental ethics (1 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (1 works)