Snuffing Out the Moon: Kino/Bio Politics, Movement and the State of Exception
Osama Siddique’s 2017 novel, Snuffing Out the Moon, is a migration through time. Shifting between six different historical eras in South Asia between 2084 BCE and 2084 CE, Siddique charts a politics of movement, or what Thomas Nail calls “kinopolitics.” Snuffing Out the Moon traces four millennia of...
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| الحاوية / القاعدة: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/ces, |
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| التنسيق: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| اللغة: | Anglais |
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Commonwealth Essays and Studies
2020
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| الملخص: | Osama Siddique’s 2017 novel, Snuffing Out the Moon, is a migration through time. Shifting between six different historical eras in South Asia between 2084 BCE and 2084 CE, Siddique charts a politics of movement, or what Thomas Nail calls “kinopolitics.” Snuffing Out the Moon traces four millennia of history, illustrating that the techniques of biopolitics and the related state of exception (or emergency measures) are often enforced through movement, and rather than being exceptional or temporary, seem to be a permanent means to consolidate power. |
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