Trauma, aporia, and the undecidability of emotions on 9/11

Resende, Erica

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“…In other words, reality exceeds even our imagination to the point that not only are we unable to make sense of it, but we are also unable to articulate these events through the existing linguistic tools. It is this difficulty in making sense of reality that made Erica Resende look at the trauma of 9/11 through the concept of aporia, that is, as moments of undecidability, as moments in which emotions are "messy, puzzling, and undefined" [29] (p. 59).…”

Section: The Traumatic Experience Of Covid-19mentioning

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Two Years of the COVID-19 Crisis: Anxiety, Creativity and the Everyday

Puggioni

2023

Societies

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Doubtless, the COVID-19 pandemic has been extremely challenging in all aspects. However, rather than looking at COVID-19 exclusively as a catastrophic event, which has generated insecurity, anxiety, panic and helplessness, I suggest investigating this insecurity and anxiety through the prism of existential philosophy. Drawing, in particular, on the work of Søren Kierkegaard and the literature on the existentialist anxiety of international relations, this study suggested looking at anxiety not in terms of insecurity but as “freedom’s actuality”. In other words, the attention was focused not so much on the many restrictions and bans imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but on the many quotidian and minuscule creative interventions through which people attempted to counterbalance, respond and react to them by creating new possibilities of freedom. Special attention was devoted to the distinction between normal and neurotic anxiety. This distinction is especially important, as it connects to two different and opposing subjectivities. While normal anxiety encourages a proactive approach to life—inspiring individuals to change the present through new daily strategies—neurotic anxiety prevents it, as it tends to replicate the ordinary, the known and the familiar.

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Two Years of the COVID-19 Crisis: Anxiety, Creativity and the Everyday

Puggioni

2023

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The Permanent Dimension of Dislocation

Klopf

2023

Global Political Sociology

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Dislocation: Toward a Framework for the Study of Crises

Klopf,

Nabers

2024

Global Studies Quarterly

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The paper develops a conceptual framework for the analysis of crises. It rests on the central argument that crises cannot be restricted to exceptional occurrences or temporarily delimited events, but we approach crisis as ontologically constitutive for our everyday lives. The concept of “discursive dislocation” is the cornerstone of this endeavor, as it grasps multiple aspects of sociopolitical instability, including societal deficiencies, fragilities, and political failures. Through theoretically advancing the concept of dislocation, we systematize three dimensions of crisis as permanent, recurring, and ephemeral dislocation. This allows us to analyze crises not only in their immediate environment but also makes it possible to understand them in their broader sociopolitical context. The conceptual framework is illustrated with the example of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, which reveals how the construction of the pandemic as a crisis is embedded in the historically ingrained self-portrayal of the United States, and how crisis responses are invoked to serve particular sociopolitical purposes in retaining an established American identity.

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Trauma, aporia, and the undecidability of emotions on 9/11

Cited by 3 publications

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Two Years of the COVID-19 Crisis: Anxiety, Creativity and the Everyday

Two Years of the COVID-19 Crisis: Anxiety, Creativity and the Everyday

The Permanent Dimension of Dislocation

Dislocation: Toward a Framework for the Study of Crises

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