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Mar 2023
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The Colonial Lives of Bourgeois Coldness

Affect and Colonialism Web Lab
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The hegemony of the bourgeoisie, its culture and its values, is a central feature of our colonial and capitalist present. But what does it feel like to be a bourgeois subject and what structures of feeling enable the dominant class of the colonial world order to function? Today, we talk with philosopher and critical theorist Henrike Kohpeiß about the colonia ... Show More
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