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WITNESSING AFTER THE HUMAN

WITNESSING AFTER THE HUMAN ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 27 number 2 April 2022 FOREWORD michael richardson magdalena zolkos WITNESSING AFTER THE HUMAN endured in circumstances where not only ntil recently, the scholarship on witness- their own survival, but the event’s inscription U ing in literature, media, and culture has in collective memory, has remained uncer- made the assumption that testimony is pro- tain. This special issue on witnessing after duced by and addressed to human subjects. the human engages the problem of testimo- This is evidenced, for example, by the nial account, address, historical proximity, semantic field developed around the concept and the ethics and aesthetics of represen- of the witness in public and scholarly dis- tation in new ways by reaching beyond and courses, including the connotations of repre- decentring the human subject in relation to senting a persecuted minority, of addressing the question of witnessing. The issue the national or global community with an creates a multifaceted and cross-disciplinary otherwise unknown historical account, or of platform for the study of testimonial politics, survival of atrocities to which one has been law, philosophy, and culture, while calling proximate. Here, the witnesses’ presence at into question the fundamental assumptions the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

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ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 27 number 2 April 2022 FOREWORD michael richardson magdalena zolkos WITNESSING AFTER THE HUMAN endured in circumstances where not only ntil recently, the scholarship on witness- their own survival, but the event’s inscription U ing in literature, media, and culture has in collective memory, has remained uncer- made the assumption that testimony is pro- tain. This special issue on witnessing after duced by and addressed to human...
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1469-2899
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10.1080/0969725X.2022.2046354
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ANGELAKI journal of the theoretical humanities volume 27 number 2 April 2022 FOREWORD michael richardson magdalena zolkos WITNESSING AFTER THE HUMAN endured in circumstances where not only ntil recently, the scholarship on witness- their own survival, but the event’s inscription U ing in literature, media, and culture has in collective memory, has remained uncer- made the assumption that testimony is pro- tain. This special issue on witnessing after duced by and addressed to human subjects. the human engages the problem of testimo- This is evidenced, for example, by the nial account, address, historical proximity, semantic field developed around the concept and the ethics and aesthetics of represen- of the witness in public and scholarly dis- tation in new ways by reaching beyond and courses, including the connotations of repre- decentring the human subject in relation to senting a persecuted minority, of addressing the question of witnessing. The issue the national or global community with an creates a multifaceted and cross-disciplinary otherwise unknown historical account, or of platform for the study of testimonial politics, survival of atrocities to which one has been law, philosophy, and culture, while calling proximate. Here, the witnesses’ presence at into question the fundamental assumptions the

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Published: Mar 4, 2022

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