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Dystopic Geographies of Empire

Prem Kumar Rajaram

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Through an economy of contemporary colonial power, this article examines the twin tropes of discipline and aesthetic representation in order to trace the intimate effects of contemporary colonial power on bodies placed in spaces of exception.

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Through an economy of contemporary colonial power, this article examines the twin tropes of discipline and aesthetic representation in order to trace the intimate effects of contemporary colonial power on bodies placed in spaces of exception.

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Through an economy of contemporary colonial power, this article examines the twin tropes of discipline and aesthetic representation in order to trace the intimate effects of contemporary colonial power on bodies placed in spaces of exception.

Key concepts: Colonialism, Empire, Representation (politics), TRACE (psycholinguistics), Power (physics), Order (exchange), Aesthetics, History

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