Scholarly Articles
The articles below represent a selection of published works from both peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes. They may be accessed by scrolling over the main title.
Selections: of South Africa
Genealogy, Ancestality, Judgment
(2023)
Ethnography, Cinema and the Task of Writing History in the Space of South African De-Industrialization
(2018)
Between Language and Violence in Contemporary South Africa
(2017)
Two Masks
Images of Future History and the Posthuman in Post-apartheid South Africa
(2013)
Notes on Testimony, Truth-Telling and the Secret of Literature in South Africa
(2011)
Reading //kabbo and Canetti with Derrida in (South) Africa
(2011)
The Histories, Politics and Aesthetics of a
South African Figure
(2010)
Speculations on the Value of Life and Death in South Africa’s Age of Epidemic
(2008)
Political Subjectivity, Violent Crime, and ‘the Sexual Thing’ in a South African
Mining Community
(2006)
Selections: of Southeast Asia
Unpopular Politics
The Collective, the Communist and the Popular in Recent Thai History
(2016)
Positions for Rethinking the Question of Political Subjectivity
(2012)
Ethnography, Cinema and the Task of Writing History in the Space of South African De-Industrialization
(2009)
Notes on Trauma and the Possibility of the Political from
Southeast Asia
(2008)
A Room with a Voice
Mediums and Mediation in Thailand’s Information Age
(2002)
Speculations on Globality, Economy, and the Sex of Excess in Thailand
(2002)
Mourning Nai Phi and the End of Revolution in Thailand
(2002)
On the Aesthetic Economy of Transparency in Thailand
(2000)
Thailand, Transnationalism, Transgression
(1998)
Chiang Mai and the Photographies of Political Trauma in Thailand
(1998)
Redressing the Discourses on Sex and Gender in Contemporary Thailand
(1994)
Selections: of Media, Critique, and Theoretical Practice
An anthropologist tries to respond
(2023
The Humanities in an Age of Identity
(2017)
The Secret History of an Originary Mistranslation
(2016)
Reflections on the History of an Idea
(2010)
to 'Photographies East: The Camera and its Histories in East and Southeast Asia
(2009)
Image Files Corrupted
(2007)
Anthropology
(2007)
The politics and aesthetics of translation in British Malaya
(2007)
Media, History, Terror
(2002)
Performance Theory and the New Anthropology of Sex and Gender
(1996)