Jessica Dubow
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 150902 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jessica Dubow |
| PRENOMES | Jessica |
| SOBRENOME | Dubow |
| ASSINATURA | DUBOW J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0429-0175 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1999 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Nocturnal seeing
Freud in Cambridge
Any institution that is going to keep its shape needs to control the memory of its members -Mary Douglas (1986:112) Freud in Cambridge is an astonishing venture: in the design of its individual and group portraits; in the visions, sympathies, accidents and events that loosely link them; in detailing a lesser-known 'local' chapter in the early development of psychoanalysis in England; in scrutinising that twenty-year period in which Freud crashed …
In Exile
In In Exile, Jessica Dubow situates exile in a new context in which it holds both critical capacity and political potential. She not only outlines the origin of the relationship between geography and philosophy in the Judaic intellectual tradition; but also makes secular claims out of Judaism’s theological sources. Analysing key Jewish intellectual figures such as Walter Benjamin, Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt, Dubow presents exile as a form of…
Rites of Passage
Looking to the figure of the nineteenth-century newcomer to the Cape Colony, this chapter sets about charting the process of spatial re-emplacement. It helps the reader to understand the travelling body as a matter of various perceptual and practical competencies: to focus on the drifting mass of the subject’s sensory surfaces as well as on the meanings of the physical world that surround it. The chapter looks to the appeals and intentions that c…
Judaism's other geographies
Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), the German-Jewish theologian and philosopher, presents us with what can be called a 'politics of Judaic theology'. Focussing on the particularities of Judaic time and space in his major work, The Star of Redemption (1921), this article argues for the importance of revisiting Rosenzweig to recuperate a history of thought opposed to the entailments of secular time with sovereign territory. Essaying between Rosenzweig's…
Patience, and Other Maps’
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJessica DubowJessica Dubow is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography at the University of Sheffield. She is author of Settling the Self: Colonial Space, Colonial Identity, and the South African Lanscape (2009). Her research interests lie at the intersection of spatial, political, and aesthetic theory. She is currently working on a book entitled Thinking Outside the City Walls: Philosophy, Geography, and J…
Mapping Babel
W. G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz tells a story of inexplicable origins. In the figure of this child of the Kindertransport, Sebald addresses the traumas of the exilic subject and the impossibility of responding to an irredeemable history. But Austerlitz is also a book with profound linguistic concerns. A speaker of five languages—English, French, Welsh, Czech, German—the protagonist has the facility of the ideal twentieth-century cosmopolitan. At …
A Therapeutics of Exile
This paper focuses on the (now 'unfashionable') figure of the liberal political philosopher Isaiah Berlin. It argues the ways in which Berlin's distinctive understanding of liberal pluralism carries a hidden spatial and therapeutic premise that bears upon the displaced life of the émigré/assimilated subject as upon the negotiations of internal dividedness and 'nonviolent' conflict effectuated by it. Set in the context of the meeting between Isaia…
Case Interrupted
Outside of Place and Other than Optical
Walter Benjamin’s belief in the radical materiality of perception is fundamental to the Arcades Project, his unfinished history of modern urban experience in 19th-century Paris. Renouncing the presumptions of traditional historicism, Benjamin presents a view of the metropolis in which circuitous space and fractured sight opposes the logic ofterritoriality and specularity that underpins the Western philosophic tradition. If such critical inversion…
History as the Main Complaint
This essay considers the relation of history to memory in the process of radical political change. Looking at the work of William Kentridge in the context of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, it argues the ways that the language of nation‐building fails to account for the experience of trauma as it resists absorption into the structures of historical time and the ‘talking cure’. In particular, it considers how Kentridge's unique…
The mobility of thought
The figure of the secularized Jew speaks of the migrant’s tale, the exile’s story, as it confirms the fragile calculations of a modern consciousness. Separated from the ‘true life’ of the nation-state and caught up in a wider itinerary of unstable movement,Judaic theologyoffers a perspective denied by the Western philosophic tradition: namely, of identity cast outside the sedentary, of travel structured not by nostosbut byan originary condition o…
From A View On The World To A Point Of View In It
This essay seeks to revise the claims of recent postcolonial critique by replacing analyses of a power-charged colonial gaze with an approach that emphasizes the lived and affective aspects of visual experience under colonial conditions. The key argument here is how the creation of a field of vision represents the colonial subject's anxious desire for reciprocal engagement in a foreign space. Attendant on this is the suggestion that that strand o…
Future perfect
From A View On The World To A Point Of View In It
This essay seeks to revise the claims of recent postcolonial critique by replacing analyses of a power-charged colonial gaze with an approach that emphasizes the lived and affective aspects of visual experience under colonial conditions. The key argument here is how the creation of a field of vision represents the colonial subject's anxious desire for reciprocal engagement in a foreign space. Attendant on this is the suggestion that that strand o…
History as the Main Complaint
This essay considers the relation of history to memory in the process of radical political change. Looking at the work of William Kentridge in the context of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, it argues the ways that the language of nation‐building fails to account for the experience of trauma as it resists absorption into the structures of historical time and the ‘talking cure’. In particular, it considers how Kentridge's unique…
Case Interrupted
Mapping Babel
W. G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz tells a story of inexplicable origins. In the figure of this child of the Kindertransport, Sebald addresses the traumas of the exilic subject and the impossibility of responding to an irredeemable history. But Austerlitz is also a book with profound linguistic concerns. A speaker of five languages—English, French, Welsh, Czech, German—the protagonist has the facility of the ideal twentieth-century cosmopolitan. At …
The mobility of thought
The figure of the secularized Jew speaks of the migrant’s tale, the exile’s story, as it confirms the fragile calculations of a modern consciousness. Separated from the ‘true life’ of the nation-state and caught up in a wider itinerary of unstable movement,Judaic theologyoffers a perspective denied by the Western philosophic tradition: namely, of identity cast outside the sedentary, of travel structured not by nostosbut byan originary condition o…
Nocturnal seeing
Freud in Cambridge
Any institution that is going to keep its shape needs to control the memory of its members -Mary Douglas (1986:112) Freud in Cambridge is an astonishing venture: in the design of its individual and group portraits; in the visions, sympathies, accidents and events that loosely link them; in detailing a lesser-known 'local' chapter in the early development of psychoanalysis in England; in scrutinising that twenty-year period in which Freud crashed …
Judaism's other geographies
Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), the German-Jewish theologian and philosopher, presents us with what can be called a 'politics of Judaic theology'. Focussing on the particularities of Judaic time and space in his major work, The Star of Redemption (1921), this article argues for the importance of revisiting Rosenzweig to recuperate a history of thought opposed to the entailments of secular time with sovereign territory. Essaying between Rosenzweig's…
Future perfect
Future perfect
From A View On The World To A Point Of View In It
This essay seeks to revise the claims of recent postcolonial critique by replacing analyses of a power-charged colonial gaze with an approach that emphasizes the lived and affective aspects of visual experience under colonial conditions. The key argument here is how the creation of a field of vision represents the colonial subject's anxious desire for reciprocal engagement in a foreign space. Attendant on this is the suggestion that that strand o…
Outside of Place and Other than Optical
Walter Benjamin’s belief in the radical materiality of perception is fundamental to the Arcades Project, his unfinished history of modern urban experience in 19th-century Paris. Renouncing the presumptions of traditional historicism, Benjamin presents a view of the metropolis in which circuitous space and fractured sight opposes the logic ofterritoriality and specularity that underpins the Western philosophic tradition. If such critical inversion…
History as the Main Complaint
This essay considers the relation of history to memory in the process of radical political change. Looking at the work of William Kentridge in the context of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, it argues the ways that the language of nation‐building fails to account for the experience of trauma as it resists absorption into the structures of historical time and the ‘talking cure’. In particular, it considers how Kentridge's unique…
The mobility of thought
The figure of the secularized Jew speaks of the migrant’s tale, the exile’s story, as it confirms the fragile calculations of a modern consciousness. Separated from the ‘true life’ of the nation-state and caught up in a wider itinerary of unstable movement,Judaic theologyoffers a perspective denied by the Western philosophic tradition: namely, of identity cast outside the sedentary, of travel structured not by nostosbut byan originary condition o…
Case Interrupted
Mapping Babel
W. G. Sebald's novel Austerlitz tells a story of inexplicable origins. In the figure of this child of the Kindertransport, Sebald addresses the traumas of the exilic subject and the impossibility of responding to an irredeemable history. But Austerlitz is also a book with profound linguistic concerns. A speaker of five languages—English, French, Welsh, Czech, German—the protagonist has the facility of the ideal twentieth-century cosmopolitan. At …
A Therapeutics of Exile
This paper focuses on the (now 'unfashionable') figure of the liberal political philosopher Isaiah Berlin. It argues the ways in which Berlin's distinctive understanding of liberal pluralism carries a hidden spatial and therapeutic premise that bears upon the displaced life of the émigré/assimilated subject as upon the negotiations of internal dividedness and 'nonviolent' conflict effectuated by it. Set in the context of the meeting between Isaia…
Patience, and Other Maps’
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJessica DubowJessica Dubow is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography at the University of Sheffield. She is author of Settling the Self: Colonial Space, Colonial Identity, and the South African Lanscape (2009). Her research interests lie at the intersection of spatial, political, and aesthetic theory. She is currently working on a book entitled Thinking Outside the City Walls: Philosophy, Geography, and J…
Judaism's other geographies
Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929), the German-Jewish theologian and philosopher, presents us with what can be called a 'politics of Judaic theology'. Focussing on the particularities of Judaic time and space in his major work, The Star of Redemption (1921), this article argues for the importance of revisiting Rosenzweig to recuperate a history of thought opposed to the entailments of secular time with sovereign territory. Essaying between Rosenzweig's…
Rites of Passage
Looking to the figure of the nineteenth-century newcomer to the Cape Colony, this chapter sets about charting the process of spatial re-emplacement. It helps the reader to understand the travelling body as a matter of various perceptual and practical competencies: to focus on the drifting mass of the subject’s sensory surfaces as well as on the meanings of the physical world that surround it. The chapter looks to the appeals and intentions that c…
In Exile
In In Exile, Jessica Dubow situates exile in a new context in which it holds both critical capacity and political potential. She not only outlines the origin of the relationship between geography and philosophy in the Judaic intellectual tradition; but also makes secular claims out of Judaism’s theological sources. Analysing key Jewish intellectual figures such as Walter Benjamin, Isaiah Berlin and Hannah Arendt, Dubow presents exile as a form of…
Freud in Cambridge
Any institution that is going to keep its shape needs to control the memory of its members -Mary Douglas (1986:112) Freud in Cambridge is an astonishing venture: in the design of its individual and group portraits; in the visions, sympathies, accidents and events that loosely link them; in detailing a lesser-known 'local' chapter in the early development of psychoanalysis in England; in scrutinising that twenty-year period in which Freud crashed …
Nocturnal seeing
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