Faculty

Allen Feldman

Associate Professor of Culture and Communication

Allen Feldman

Phone: 212 998-5096
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Allen Feldman is a political/medical anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic field research in Northern Ireland, South Africa and with the homeless in New York City. He has taught at Central European University-- Budapest, Institute of Humanities Studies-- Ljubljana, and the Department of Performance Studies, NYU. His interests include visual culture and violence, the political anthropology of the body and the senses, and the archeology of media and technology. Feldman is the author of the critically acclaimed book Formations of Violence: the Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland, now in its third printing.


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Awards

  • 1997 : H. F. Guggenheim Senior Fellowships for the Study of Violence and Human Aggression, New York
  • 1989 : Schoenbrod Award for Outstanding Dissertation in Political and Legal Theory. Office of the Dean, Graduate Faculty, New School for Social Research, New York.
  • 1995 : Oversea's Research Fellow, Human Sciences Research Council, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Publications

  • Sounds of the Border: Media Provenance and the Nationalization of Irish Music, Radharc: Chronicles of Glucksman Ireland House, Volume 4. Winter/Spring (forthcoming), 2004.
  • Strange Fruit: The South African Truth Commission and the Demonic Economies of Violence. Social Analysis, Volume 46 no 3, Fall, 2003.
  • Political Terror and the Technologies of Memory: Excuse, Sacrifice and Actuarial Violence. Radical History Review Winter. Issue 85, 2003.
  • X-Children And The Militarization of Everyday Life: Youth, Victimage And Violence in Transitional Societies. International Journal Social Welfare, no. 11, Fall, 2002.
  • Ground Zero Point One: on the Cinematics of History. Social Analysis,Volume 46. No.1, Spring. 2002.
  • The Digital Miniature: Private Perceptions in a Public Space; Curatorial Essay; Next Wave Festival: Brooklyn Academy of Music; http://www.bam.org/under_score/felday.html, 2002.
  • Philoctetes Revisited: White Public Space and Political Geography of Public Safety. Social Text 68,Vol. 19, no, 3, Fall. 2001.
  • Der menshliche Touch: Zu einer historischen Anthropologie und Traumanlyse von selbstattigen Instrumenten. In ReMembering the Body. Ed. Garbiele Branstretter and Hortensia Volkers, Vienna: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2001.
  • Violence and Vision: the Prosthetics and Aesthetics of Terror. Public Culture, Volume 10, No. 1, Fall 1997.
  • On Cultural Anesthesia: From Desert Storm to Rodney King. In The Senses Still: Memory and Perception as Material Culture in Modernity. Ed. C N. Seremetakis, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1996.
  • The Actuarial Gaze: From, 9/11 to Abu Ghraib, Cultural Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2 March, 2005
  • Memory Theaters, Virtual Witnessing and the Trauma Aesthetic, Biography an Interdisciplinary Quarterly, 27 (Winter), 2004
  • Securocratic Wars of Public Safety: Global Policing as Scopic Regime,Volume 6 (3), 2003

Courses

  • Politics of the Gaze: Sensory Formations of Modernity: E38:2025
  • Mimesis and Mediation: E59.30002
  • War and Media Theory::G13.2250/E38.2143.001
  • The Global City and Media Ethnography: Practice Led Media Research: E59.2001

Editorial Boards

  • Public Culture, Consulting Editor
  • Social Text, Consulting Editor

Research Interests

  • Visual Culture and Violence
  • Political Anthropology of the Body and the Senses
  • Archeology and Genealogy of Media and Technology
  • Media Ethnography and Geographies of Perception