In this forum of The Immanent Frame, the contributors tackle the dual questions of the political and the popular.
Figurative publics: Crowds, protest, and democratic anxieties
global politics
The necropolitical law of assassination
With extraterritorial, extrajudicial assassination normalized, and law’s foundational protection of human life selectively discarded, we are witnessing the unfolding of…
Enchanted complicity
Could there be anything more American than flying to a remote and impoverished place with no goal other than a…
After the “Muslim world”: Beyond strategic essentialism
Only after freeing the concept of the ummah from the formation of narratives about modern geopolitics, can we perhaps re-read…
The Muslim world: Political fiction and sociological fact?
Big history must reckon with the specificity of human experience, even if such an orientation yields more modest conclusions. The…
“Whither a Muslim world?”
What is the “Muslim world?” Is it solely a descriptive term employed in the social sciences and humanities to name…
Religion and politics beyond religious freedom
I would like to thank each of the contributors to this series for their generous engagement with my book, Beyond…
The uncertainty principles of Heisenberg and Hurd
In the late 1920s, the theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a series of scientific papers proposing that the universe could…
Beyond Religious Freedom—An introduction
Last summer I read All Can Be Saved by the eminent historian of colonial Latin America, Stuart Schwartz. It’s a…