Faculty Fellow
Associate Professor, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, Stehinardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development
Political Speciation and the Critique of Animality
Allen Feldman is a cultural anthropologist who has conducted ethnographic research on the politicization of the gaze, the body and the senses in Northern Ireland, South Africa and on the post 9/11 global war of terror. His research and teaching interests include visual culture, political aesthetics, political animality, transitional justice, and practice-led media research. Feldman is the author of the critically acclaimed book Formations of Violence: the Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland (Chicago UP 1991), numerous essays on political violence as visual and performance culture, and the forthcoming book Archives of the Insensible: War, and Aisthesis as Dead Memory (Duke UP, 2013). He teaches seminars on visual culture, war and media theory, mediated embodiment, and the philosophy of media.