Knowledge Commons | Zahid R. Chaudhary | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/zrc/activity/ Activity feed for Zahid R. Chaudhary. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:21:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 d188d220a34f328cb460611dd7124856 Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited Paranoid Publics in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1780938/ Sat, 07 May 2022 02:24:10 -0400 This article takes up the insurrection in Washington DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics, tracking such gamification as a political-economic demand generated by neoliberalism. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud's insight that delusional formations are attempts at…[Read more]

]]> 0 1431b7bec17bc431656c5f9b2d3cac61 Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited Paranoid Publics https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1780886/ Fri, 06 May 2022 14:02:08 -0400 This article takes up the insurrection in Washington DC, and the paranoid politics of QAnon. It analyzes the gamification of paranoia across QAnon and related paranoid publics, tracking such gamification as a political-economic demand generated by neoliberalism. Taking seriously Sigmund Freud's insight that delusional formations are attempts at…[Read more]

]]> 0 c6ee2dfb6498bbbe2bf243086c470faa Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited The Politics of Exposure: Truth After Post-Facts in the group 2020 MLA Convention https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1692263/ Fri, 19 Jun 2020 03:50:57 -0400 This essay analyzes contemporary politics of truth across overlapping contexts: the predicament of whistleblowers, the proliferation of digital disinformation, the extractive imperatives of data economies, and the impossibility of exposing the truth when exposé becomes itself a game. The essay reads the recent cultural and political interest in…[Read more]

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]]> 0 2dbd5e8f90b5bcb2497a7eb9e00bee52 Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited Sacrificing Citizenship: On Muslims and Assimilation in a Neoliberal Frame https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1665355/ Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:55:39 -0400 This article analyzes the discourse concerning the assimilation of Muslim minorities in the United States and suggests that calls for assimilation are solicitations for a form of self-renunciation and sacrifice. Yet such solicitations occur against the economic and political background of neoliberalism, in which all citizens are asked to make…[Read more]

]]> 0 6d924e19fbfe3393c6f61bbb9e86aef6 Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited Desert Blooms https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1659212/ Wed, 31 Jul 2019 21:25:22 -0400 This essay considers the place of abstraction in documentary photography, a genre whose primary aesthetic-political commitment is usually assumed to be on the side of figuration, denotation, and facticity. Taking up photographer Fazal Sheikh's photographic series Desert Bloom, which records natural and human-made disturbances in the Naqab/Negev…[Read more]

]]> 0 2e1932a256ad1e6b582565cca591ebcf Zahid R. Chaudhary's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1630235/ Thu, 24 Jan 2019 18:13:55 -0500 0 1dc1535754e21ca47226208de21b91bb Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited Subjects in Difference: Walter Benjamin, Frantz Fanon, and Postcolonial Theory https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1629615/ Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:50:56 -0500 This essay aims to rethink historical difference in light of Walter Benjamin’s formulation of mimesis and Frantz Fanon’s phenomenology of difference. Divided into three parts, the essay engages Dipesh Chakrabarty’s account of historical difference, considers how an understanding of mimesis might safeguard against some of the philosophical pitfa…[Read more]

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Impunity : Zahid R. Chaudhary

]]> 0 d8680c319fa41358f5d7223e71fc1051 Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited This Time with Feeling: Impunity and the Play of Fantasy in The Act of Killing https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1629605/ Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:29:16 -0500 Through a psychoanalytic reading of Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentary The Act of Killing, this essay considers the role of fantasy in genocidal Cold War violence. Considering both Oppenheimer’s film and also Frantz Fanon’s clinical case studies as investigations into impunity, the essay analyzes fantasy’s place in global violence and in the psychol…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c6b9f3a437874d6c26c1802406345b6 Zahid R. Chaudhary deposited Humanity Adrift: Race, Materiality, and Allegory in Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1629602/ Thu, 17 Jan 2019 18:25:23 -0500 This article aims for an account of materiality that helps apprehend race as a material reality while attending to its semiotic, aesthetic, and cultural signification. Through a close reading of Alfonso Cuarón's film, Children of Men (UK, 2006), the author argues that allegory is a figure for recasting the problematic of racial alterity as a…[Read more]

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