THINKING ON LOCATION: AN ESSAY IN THE VULNERABILITY OF THE SUBJECT.
This essay addresses problems of how and what we know in an attempt to distinguish what's inside from what's outside and to figure out whether acts of knowing can be plotted on either side of any boundary that might claim to separate inside from outside. Moving beyond the familiar dialectics derived...
| Publicado en: | History & Theory Vol. 60; no. 4; pp. 118 - 141 |
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