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Welcome to Part II of What #Ö Read during the Mid-Year Break (read Part I here).   Reading KafKant at the End of “the End of History” (or Summer) Immanuel...
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Fugue Liberal Legal Order Re:dux, Re:boot, Re:turn. “The liberal international legal order is dead. Long live the liberal international legal order!” This, it seems, remains the paradox of our contemporary...
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Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
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Dreaming of ‘Disorder’ and Imagining Reimagination

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Gamze Erdem Türkelli
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Governmentalities of Disorder

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