Issa-Afar re-membering, re-presentation and dramaturgy of violence

Re-membering the Body

Re-membering: a Theory of Agents

This position paper provides an abstract discussion regarding current work to develop a design theory for the realization of a computer-based assistant composed of "societies of agents" based on Minsky’s Society of Mind theory. Specifically, the theory attempts to define a cognitive architecture to integrate various learning and reasoning processing. This work has resulted in the implementation...

The Work of Re-Membering: After Genocide and Mass Atrocity

First, this article explores the role of international criminal trails and truth commissions in resisting narratives of collective guilt and producing a different sort of collective memory, helping the society-and the watching world-not merely recall but also re-member, that is, to reconstitute a community of humanity against which there can be crimes (hence, “crimes against humanity”), and wit...

Beyond re-membering: phantom sensations of congenitally absent limbs.

Phantom limbs are traditionally conceptualized as the phenomenal persistence of a body part after deafferentation. Previous clinical observations of subjects with phantoms of congenitally absent limbs are not compatible with this view, but, in the absence of experimental work, the neural basis of such "aplasic phantoms" has remained enigmatic. In this paper, we report a series of behavioral, im...

(Re)Gendering Violence: Men, Masculinities and Violence

This paper focuses on constructions of violence, in particular the ways in which violence is constructed as a social problem in and through policy discourses. Inspired by an earlier study into the ways in which practitioners, engaged in work with men who are violent towards their female partners, construct and understand violence, this paper highlights the extent to which societal/cultural beli...