Allen Feldman
· Professor of Media, Culture, and CommunicationNew York University · Communication Studies
Active 1980–2026
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About
Allen Feldman is a professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU Steinhardt. He is a cultural anthropologist and a pioneer in the ethnography of violence, the body, and the senses. His research has focused on the politicization of the gaze, the body, and the senses in various contexts including Northern Ireland, South Africa, and the post-9/11 global war on terror. Feldman is the author of 'Archives of the Insensible: of War, Photopolitics and Dead Memory' (2015) and 'Formations of Violence: the Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland' (1991). His work explores visual culture, political aesthetics, political animality, and practice-led media research. His research and teaching aim to analyze how violence, justice, and trauma are represented and transformed through media and cultural practices.
Research topics
- Sociology
- Political Science
- Philosophy
- Aesthetics
- History
- Physics
- Linguistics
- Criminology
- Art
- Geometry
Selected publications
2015-01-01 · 163 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingArchives of the Insensible: Of War, Photopolitics, and Dead Memory
2015-12-08 · 38 citations
book1st authorCorrespondingWar Under Erasure: Contretemps, Disappearance, Anthropophagy, Survivance
Theory & Event · 2019-01-01 · 7 citations
article1st authorCorrespondingInterlacing collateral damage, political disappearance, state anthropophagy and survivance, this essay anatomizes the Derridean contretemps- the essential accident- as the time out of time of wartime. The contretemps fractures teleocratic optics while escalating the sovereign right to be without right in war. Accidentalized violence does not speak to war as inconvenienced by mishaps but rather to the political mobilization of the accidental as war by other means. Collateral damage and enforced d…
From Desert Storm to Rodney King via ex-Yugoslavia: On Cultural Anaesthesia
2019-07-09 · 7 citations
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingCultural anaesthesia is a reflexive passageway into historical consciousness and representation, as Alain Corbin pointed out when he complained that western history, as written, has no odor. In the mass media cultural anaesthesia takes many forms. Less than two months into Operation Desert Storm the effaced body of the Other reappeared close at hand with the televised beating of Rodney King. Originally visualized outside the prescribed circuits of fact production, this black body broke through t…
DETERRITORIALIZED WARS OF PUBLIC SAFETY
Berghahn Books · 2022 · 1 citations
1st authorCorresponding
Frequent coauthors
- 4 shared
Eamonn O'Doherty
- 3 shared
Keith Hart
University of Oslo
- 3 shared
Kingsley Purdam
University of Manchester
- 2 shared
Bruce Kapferer
- 2 shared
C. Robin Clifford
Optum (United States)
- 2 shared
Pauline Margarete Sophie Weller
- 2 shared
John Gledhill
University of Oxford
- 2 shared
Caihua Liang
Pfizer (United States)
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