Alexander Keller Hirsch
Biographic Data
| ID | 825438 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander Keller Hirsch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander Keller |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirsch |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSCH A K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alaska Fairbanks |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2450-4118 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Witnessing and Waiting in Walt Whitman’s Democratic Arts of Attention
What is often overstated by democratic theorists enthralled by the poetic vision of Walt Whitman is the extent to which he excised the self in order to exalt a world where the sensed and the sensing collapse into reversibility. Throughout “Song of Myself,” I argue, Whitman experiments with an arts of attention—which he describes as “witnessing and waiting”—that adapts the self to the surplus vitality immanent to perceptual and sensual experience.…
Between Empathy and Imagination: New Photographic Experiments in Memorial Aesthetics in Too Hard to Keep and The Birmingham Project
The artist Jason Lazarus collects and displays photographs deemed “too hard to keep.” This essay contrasts Lazarus’s exhibitions with Dawoud Bey’s Birmingham Project, which commemorates the 1963 bombing of a Baptist Church in Alabama by exhibiting photographs of present-day residents of Birmingham. What contributions do these photo projects make as responses to loss? Despite their differences, both exhibitions build miraculous connections between…
Agonism and Hope in William Apess’s Native American Political Thought
This article examines the Native American thinker, William Apess (Pequot), and especially his Eulogy on King Philip (1836), which argues, ironically, that King Philip—the seventeenth century Wampanoag leader who launched the bloodiest rebellion in New England’s history—ought to be embraced as an American pioneer and canonized as a founding father. Apess satirizes conventional founding narratives, even as he upholds the principles of freedom those…
The power of memory in democratic politics
Walking off the Edge of the World: Sacrifice, Chance, and Dazzling Dissolution in the Book of Job and Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
This article compares Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1974) to the book of Job. Both stories feature characters who can be read as innocent victims, but whereas the suffering in Le Guin’s tale benefits many, Job is the victim of useless suffering. Exploring this difference, I draw on George Bataille’s theory of sacrifice as useless expenditure, and developed his concept of the “will to chance” in my reading …
Articulating secession: Self-determination, decolonization and stateless independence amongst the Kanaka Maoli
Two assumptions reign supreme in the secession literature. The first is that separatist groups seeking autonomy necessarily fall into one of two camps, one that stresses essentialist criteria for social membership, the other emphasizing instead a socially constructed collective identity. The second assumption is that secession can only be defined as taking place in the context of a separatist group whose claim to independence hinges on the attemp…
Sovereignty surreal: Bataille and Fanon beyond the state of exception
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice
Berber Bevernage, London, Routledge, 2012, 250 pp., $125.00 (hardback), $37.61 (paper back), ISBN 978-0-415-82298-5 How should we understand the historical present? Is it a temporal moment that chr
The promise of the unforgiven: Violence, power and paradox in Arendt
Hannah Arendt’s work on violence is bedeviled by a series of paradoxes. On the one hand, Arendt is clear in arguing that violence is utterly powerless and yet, on the other hand, she is equally clear in her portrayal of beginnings as necessarily violent. These two positions conflict insofar as Arendt holds beginnings to be the source of all power. Thus power and violence are at once opposed and yet alloyed. This tension is deepened by yet another…
Judgment, Imagination and Critique in the Politics of Reconciliation
Journal Article Judgment, Imagination and Critique in the Politics of Reconciliation Get access Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change, Bronwyn Leebaw. Cambridge University Press, April 2011, 222pp. ISBN: 9780521169776 – paperback ($32.99).Theaters of Justice: Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo, Yasco Horsman. Stanford University Press, 2010, 232pp. ISBN: 9780804770323 – paperback ($21.95). Al…
Like So Many Antigones”: Survivance and the Afterlife of Indigenous Funerary Remains
Since the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, American Indian funerary remains have been returned from museums, research laboratories, academic institutions, and federal agencies to the tribal communities from whom the deceased originally derived. According to law, however, such repatriation requires first that those tribal communities furnish blood evidence of kinship with the remains. One objective of …
Fugitive reconciliation: The agonistics of respect, resentment and responsibility in post-conflict society
The Political Acoustics of the Poetic Imagination
The Political Acoustics of the Poetic Imagination Alexander Keller Hirsch (bio) Adriana Cavarero, For More Than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005, pp. 262 Simon Critchley, Thing Merely Are, New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. 137 “Bondage is hoarse. . .and may not speak aloud.” —Shakespeare Perhaps Adriana Cavarero’s For More Than One Voice (2005), her latest of four books translated into Eng…
Fugitive reconciliation: The agonistics of respect, resentment and responsibility in post-conflict society
Sovereignty surreal: Bataille and Fanon beyond the state of exception
The promise of the unforgiven: Violence, power and paradox in Arendt
Hannah Arendt’s work on violence is bedeviled by a series of paradoxes. On the one hand, Arendt is clear in arguing that violence is utterly powerless and yet, on the other hand, she is equally clear in her portrayal of beginnings as necessarily violent. These two positions conflict insofar as Arendt holds beginnings to be the source of all power. Thus power and violence are at once opposed and yet alloyed. This tension is deepened by yet another…
Agonism and Hope in William Apess’s Native American Political Thought
This article examines the Native American thinker, William Apess (Pequot), and especially his Eulogy on King Philip (1836), which argues, ironically, that King Philip—the seventeenth century Wampanoag leader who launched the bloodiest rebellion in New England’s history—ought to be embraced as an American pioneer and canonized as a founding father. Apess satirizes conventional founding narratives, even as he upholds the principles of freedom those…
Articulating secession: Self-determination, decolonization and stateless independence amongst the Kanaka Maoli
Two assumptions reign supreme in the secession literature. The first is that separatist groups seeking autonomy necessarily fall into one of two camps, one that stresses essentialist criteria for social membership, the other emphasizing instead a socially constructed collective identity. The second assumption is that secession can only be defined as taking place in the context of a separatist group whose claim to independence hinges on the attemp…
Like So Many Antigones”: Survivance and the Afterlife of Indigenous Funerary Remains
Since the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, American Indian funerary remains have been returned from museums, research laboratories, academic institutions, and federal agencies to the tribal communities from whom the deceased originally derived. According to law, however, such repatriation requires first that those tribal communities furnish blood evidence of kinship with the remains. One objective of …
The Political Acoustics of the Poetic Imagination
The Political Acoustics of the Poetic Imagination Alexander Keller Hirsch (bio) Adriana Cavarero, For More Than One Voice: Toward a Philosophy of Vocal Expression, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005, pp. 262 Simon Critchley, Thing Merely Are, New York: Routledge, 2005, pp. 137 “Bondage is hoarse. . .and may not speak aloud.” —Shakespeare Perhaps Adriana Cavarero’s For More Than One Voice (2005), her latest of four books translated into Eng…
Like So Many Antigones”: Survivance and the Afterlife of Indigenous Funerary Remains
Since the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990, American Indian funerary remains have been returned from museums, research laboratories, academic institutions, and federal agencies to the tribal communities from whom the deceased originally derived. According to law, however, such repatriation requires first that those tribal communities furnish blood evidence of kinship with the remains. One objective of …
Fugitive reconciliation: The agonistics of respect, resentment and responsibility in post-conflict society
Judgment, Imagination and Critique in the Politics of Reconciliation
Journal Article Judgment, Imagination and Critique in the Politics of Reconciliation Get access Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change, Bronwyn Leebaw. Cambridge University Press, April 2011, 222pp. ISBN: 9780521169776 – paperback ($32.99).Theaters of Justice: Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo, Yasco Horsman. Stanford University Press, 2010, 232pp. ISBN: 9780804770323 – paperback ($21.95). Al…
History, Memory, and State-Sponsored Violence: Time and Justice
Berber Bevernage, London, Routledge, 2012, 250 pp., $125.00 (hardback), $37.61 (paper back), ISBN 978-0-415-82298-5 How should we understand the historical present? Is it a temporal moment that chr
The promise of the unforgiven: Violence, power and paradox in Arendt
Hannah Arendt’s work on violence is bedeviled by a series of paradoxes. On the one hand, Arendt is clear in arguing that violence is utterly powerless and yet, on the other hand, she is equally clear in her portrayal of beginnings as necessarily violent. These two positions conflict insofar as Arendt holds beginnings to be the source of all power. Thus power and violence are at once opposed and yet alloyed. This tension is deepened by yet another…
Sovereignty surreal: Bataille and Fanon beyond the state of exception
Articulating secession: Self-determination, decolonization and stateless independence amongst the Kanaka Maoli
Two assumptions reign supreme in the secession literature. The first is that separatist groups seeking autonomy necessarily fall into one of two camps, one that stresses essentialist criteria for social membership, the other emphasizing instead a socially constructed collective identity. The second assumption is that secession can only be defined as taking place in the context of a separatist group whose claim to independence hinges on the attemp…
Walking off the Edge of the World: Sacrifice, Chance, and Dazzling Dissolution in the Book of Job and Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”
This article compares Ursula K. Le Guin’s short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” (1974) to the book of Job. Both stories feature characters who can be read as innocent victims, but whereas the suffering in Le Guin’s tale benefits many, Job is the victim of useless suffering. Exploring this difference, I draw on George Bataille’s theory of sacrifice as useless expenditure, and developed his concept of the “will to chance” in my reading …
Between Empathy and Imagination: New Photographic Experiments in Memorial Aesthetics in Too Hard to Keep and The Birmingham Project
The artist Jason Lazarus collects and displays photographs deemed “too hard to keep.” This essay contrasts Lazarus’s exhibitions with Dawoud Bey’s Birmingham Project, which commemorates the 1963 bombing of a Baptist Church in Alabama by exhibiting photographs of present-day residents of Birmingham. What contributions do these photo projects make as responses to loss? Despite their differences, both exhibitions build miraculous connections between…
Agonism and Hope in William Apess’s Native American Political Thought
This article examines the Native American thinker, William Apess (Pequot), and especially his Eulogy on King Philip (1836), which argues, ironically, that King Philip—the seventeenth century Wampanoag leader who launched the bloodiest rebellion in New England’s history—ought to be embraced as an American pioneer and canonized as a founding father. Apess satirizes conventional founding narratives, even as he upholds the principles of freedom those…
The power of memory in democratic politics
Witnessing and Waiting in Walt Whitman’s Democratic Arts of Attention
What is often overstated by democratic theorists enthralled by the poetic vision of Walt Whitman is the extent to which he excised the self in order to exalt a world where the sensed and the sensing collapse into reversibility. Throughout “Song of Myself,” I argue, Whitman experiments with an arts of attention—which he describes as “witnessing and waiting”—that adapts the self to the surplus vitality immanent to perceptual and sensual experience.…
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works)