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Research paper thumbnail of Albert Camus’ The Plague in Twenty-First Century’s Pandemic Covid-19- A Reification Model in the Capitalistic World

Linguistics and literature review, Oct 10, 2020

Covid-19 has emerged as the new global pandemic in 2020, engulfing thousands of lives in the capi... more Covid-19 has emerged as the new global pandemic in 2020, engulfing thousands of lives in the capitalistic economic system. Reification, in such a materialistic world, commodifies human beings for possessing usevalue. The workers transform themselves into dehumanized labor product of Capitalism as a historical project. The economic loss during the current pandemic has changed the outlook of the global capitalist system. The human beings have transformed into productive devices. Lukacs' Theory of Reification has been applied to Albert Camus' The Plague (1948) to analyze how the epidemics change human conditions and convert them into lifeless products. Such reification leads to alienation of the human beings. The social, political, religious, and medical references and their applicability in the current world suggest the parallelism and universality of Camus' works, especially in the context of current capitalistic society, under siege of Covid-19. The research is a breakthrough in comprehending Capitalism as historically and materialistically intertwined in the current pandemic world, whereby human beings have lost human traits and become reified models of Capitalism. Now, the urge to reform compels to re-determine the morality of human beings.

Research paper thumbnail of 03 Stigmatization of a Transgender in Alan Rossi’s The Nature of Man

Research paper thumbnail of I Fall Upon the Thorns of Life! I Bleed! Tracing Ausi’s Right to Maim in Omar Shahid Hamid’s The Spinner’s Tale (2015)

Linguistics and literature review, Mar 31, 2022

Crime fiction has emerged as a developing genre in the literary field of Pakistan. Moreover, Omar... more Crime fiction has emerged as a developing genre in the literary field of Pakistan. Moreover, Omar Shahid Hamid’s fictional works have played a pivotal role in its emergence. The current review of The Spinner’s Tale (2015) by the above author depicts Uzair, a.k.a. Ausi, as the hardcore terrorist who falls upon the thorns of life and bleeds. His defiance of the essentialist human nature changes his free will into a nexus of obligations. Although he transgresses the prescribed boundaries to achieve his standard of morality so as to make sense of his revenge, his super-humanness as antihuman and disabled otherness are challenged by the state. The current study examines his right to maim in light of Jasbir K. Puar’s concept of maiming, disability, debility, and capacity. The insistent need of the time to optimize the level of violence perpetrated by the state and to revolutionize the philosophical standing about antihumanists and isolated figures remain the main aspects of discussion. Problematic characters, such as Ausi, present their defiance as resistance and take revenge from the technologized neo-imperial system for their maimed and disabled bodies. Through the lens of Jasbir Puar, Ausi’s right to maim is gauged by deconstructing biopolitical power structures and the shifting of the responsibility of crime and terrorism onto the civilized posthumans who own power, although remain powerless to handle terrorists. The current critical examination exposes Ausi’s standpoint of revenge against the posthumanist governmentality of neo-colonial powers and their unjust maiming and disabling of subjectified subjects in the colonized lands of Afghanistan, Palestine, and Kashmir. Keywords: crime fiction, debility, disability, posthumanism, terrorism, violence

Research paper thumbnail of I Fall Upon the Thorns of Life! I Bleed! Tracing Ausi’s Right to Maim in Omar Shahid Hamid’s The Spinner’s Tale (2015)

Linguistics and Literature Review

Crime fiction has emerged as a developing genre in the literary field of Pakistan. Moreover, Omar... more Crime fiction has emerged as a developing genre in the literary field of Pakistan. Moreover, Omar Shahid Hamid’s fictional works have played a pivotal role in its emergence. The current review of The Spinner’s Tale (2015) by the above author depicts Uzair, a.k.a. Ausi, as the hardcore terrorist who falls upon the thorns of life and bleeds. His defiance of the essentialist human nature changes his free will into a nexus of obligations. Although he transgresses the prescribed boundaries to achieve his standard of morality so as to make sense of his revenge, his super-humanness as antihuman and disabled otherness are challenged by the state. The current study examines his right to maim in light of Jasbir K. Puar’s concept of maiming, disability, debility, and capacity. The insistent need of the time to optimize the level of violence perpetrated by the state and to revolutionize the philosophical standing about antihumanists and isolated figures remain the main aspects of discussion. Pr...

Research paper thumbnail of 03 Stigmatization of a Transgender in Alan Rossi’s The Nature of Man

Journal of Gender and Social Issues, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Albert Camus’ The Plague in Twenty-First Century’s Pandemic Covid-19- A Reification Model in the Capitalistic World

Linguistics and Literature Review

Covid-19 has emerged as the new global pandemic in 2020, engulfing thousands of lives in the capi... more Covid-19 has emerged as the new global pandemic in 2020, engulfing thousands of lives in the capitalistic economic system. Reification, in such a materialistic world, commodifies human beings for possessing use-value. The workers transform themselves into dehumanized labor product of Capitalism as a historical project. The economic loss during the current pandemic has changed the outlook of the global capitalist system. The human beings have transformed into productive devices. Lukacs’ Theory of Reification has been applied to Albert Camus' The Plague (1948) to analyze how the epidemics change human conditions and convert them into lifeless products. Such reification leads to alienation of the human beings. The social, political, religious, and medical references and their applicability in the current world suggest the parallelism and universality of Camus' works, especially in the context of current capitalistic society, under siege of Covid-19. The research is a breakthrou...

Research paper thumbnail of Discursive Strategizing of Paradoxically Placed Pain and Pleasure: A Benthamian Analysis of Ramzy Baroud’s the Last Earth

Palestinians were othered out, oppressed, tortured, and displaced from their houses by Zionist Is... more Palestinians were othered out, oppressed, tortured, and displaced from their houses by Zionist Israelis and denied their basic human right to own their native place. These oppressions highlighted not only in fiction but also in Palestinian memoirs, providing ample room for discursive analyses of the issue. Since, Jeremy Bentham has devised the principles of morality and legislation to gauge the modus-vivendi for public affairs and conflicts, the painful and pleasure-seeking acts of the main characters in selected memoir, act as compensation of their rightful ownership of their lives to prove the capacity of Being or Dasein. The current study deals with the textual analysis of Ramzy Baroud’s memoir The Last Earth - A Palestinian Story. The level of morality depicted in the memoir, highlights the discursive strategy of the author to protest against the unjust treatment of Zionists. It brings to world acknowledgement, how the Israelis have forced Palestinians to migrate and find solace...

Research paper thumbnail of Albert Camus’ The Plague in Twenty-First Century’s Pandemic Covid-19- A Reification Model in the Capitalistic World

Linguistics and literature review, Oct 10, 2020

Covid-19 has emerged as the new global pandemic in 2020, engulfing thousands of lives in the capi... more Covid-19 has emerged as the new global pandemic in 2020, engulfing thousands of lives in the capitalistic economic system. Reification, in such a materialistic world, commodifies human beings for possessing usevalue. The workers transform themselves into dehumanized labor product of Capitalism as a historical project. The economic loss during the current pandemic has changed the outlook of the global capitalist system. The human beings have transformed into productive devices. Lukacs' Theory of Reification has been applied to Albert Camus' The Plague (1948) to analyze how the epidemics change human conditions and convert them into lifeless products. Such reification leads to alienation of the human beings. The social, political, religious, and medical references and their applicability in the current world suggest the parallelism and universality of Camus' works, especially in the context of current capitalistic society, under siege of Covid-19. The research is a breakthrough in comprehending Capitalism as historically and materialistically intertwined in the current pandemic world, whereby human beings have lost human traits and become reified models of Capitalism. Now, the urge to reform compels to re-determine the morality of human beings.

Research paper thumbnail of 03 Stigmatization of a Transgender in Alan Rossi’s The Nature of Man

Research paper thumbnail of I Fall Upon the Thorns of Life! I Bleed! Tracing Ausi’s Right to Maim in Omar Shahid Hamid’s The Spinner’s Tale (2015)

Linguistics and literature review, Mar 31, 2022

Crime fiction has emerged as a developing genre in the literary field of Pakistan. Moreover, Omar... more Crime fiction has emerged as a developing genre in the literary field of Pakistan. Moreover, Omar Shahid Hamid’s fictional works have played a pivotal role in its emergence. The current review of The Spinner’s Tale (2015) by the above author depicts Uzair, a.k.a. Ausi, as the hardcore terrorist who falls upon the thorns of life and bleeds. His defiance of the essentialist human nature changes his free will into a nexus of obligations. Although he transgresses the prescribed boundaries to achieve his standard of morality so as to make sense of his revenge, his super-humanness as antihuman and disabled otherness are challenged by the state. The current study examines his right to maim in light of Jasbir K. Puar’s concept of maiming, disability, debility, and capacity. The insistent need of the time to optimize the level of violence perpetrated by the state and to revolutionize the philosophical standing about antihumanists and isolated figures remain the main aspects of discussion. Problematic characters, such as Ausi, present their defiance as resistance and take revenge from the technologized neo-imperial system for their maimed and disabled bodies. Through the lens of Jasbir Puar, Ausi’s right to maim is gauged by deconstructing biopolitical power structures and the shifting of the responsibility of crime and terrorism onto the civilized posthumans who own power, although remain powerless to handle terrorists. The current critical examination exposes Ausi’s standpoint of revenge against the posthumanist governmentality of neo-colonial powers and their unjust maiming and disabling of subjectified subjects in the colonized lands of Afghanistan, Palestine, and Kashmir. Keywords: crime fiction, debility, disability, posthumanism, terrorism, violence

Research paper thumbnail of I Fall Upon the Thorns of Life! I Bleed! Tracing Ausi’s Right to Maim in Omar Shahid Hamid’s The Spinner’s Tale (2015)

Linguistics and Literature Review

Crime fiction has emerged as a developing genre in the literary field of Pakistan. Moreover, Omar... more Crime fiction has emerged as a developing genre in the literary field of Pakistan. Moreover, Omar Shahid Hamid’s fictional works have played a pivotal role in its emergence. The current review of The Spinner’s Tale (2015) by the above author depicts Uzair, a.k.a. Ausi, as the hardcore terrorist who falls upon the thorns of life and bleeds. His defiance of the essentialist human nature changes his free will into a nexus of obligations. Although he transgresses the prescribed boundaries to achieve his standard of morality so as to make sense of his revenge, his super-humanness as antihuman and disabled otherness are challenged by the state. The current study examines his right to maim in light of Jasbir K. Puar’s concept of maiming, disability, debility, and capacity. The insistent need of the time to optimize the level of violence perpetrated by the state and to revolutionize the philosophical standing about antihumanists and isolated figures remain the main aspects of discussion. Pr...

Research paper thumbnail of 03 Stigmatization of a Transgender in Alan Rossi’s The Nature of Man

Journal of Gender and Social Issues, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Albert Camus’ The Plague in Twenty-First Century’s Pandemic Covid-19- A Reification Model in the Capitalistic World

Linguistics and Literature Review

Covid-19 has emerged as the new global pandemic in 2020, engulfing thousands of lives in the capi... more Covid-19 has emerged as the new global pandemic in 2020, engulfing thousands of lives in the capitalistic economic system. Reification, in such a materialistic world, commodifies human beings for possessing use-value. The workers transform themselves into dehumanized labor product of Capitalism as a historical project. The economic loss during the current pandemic has changed the outlook of the global capitalist system. The human beings have transformed into productive devices. Lukacs’ Theory of Reification has been applied to Albert Camus' The Plague (1948) to analyze how the epidemics change human conditions and convert them into lifeless products. Such reification leads to alienation of the human beings. The social, political, religious, and medical references and their applicability in the current world suggest the parallelism and universality of Camus' works, especially in the context of current capitalistic society, under siege of Covid-19. The research is a breakthrou...

Research paper thumbnail of Discursive Strategizing of Paradoxically Placed Pain and Pleasure: A Benthamian Analysis of Ramzy Baroud’s the Last Earth

Palestinians were othered out, oppressed, tortured, and displaced from their houses by Zionist Is... more Palestinians were othered out, oppressed, tortured, and displaced from their houses by Zionist Israelis and denied their basic human right to own their native place. These oppressions highlighted not only in fiction but also in Palestinian memoirs, providing ample room for discursive analyses of the issue. Since, Jeremy Bentham has devised the principles of morality and legislation to gauge the modus-vivendi for public affairs and conflicts, the painful and pleasure-seeking acts of the main characters in selected memoir, act as compensation of their rightful ownership of their lives to prove the capacity of Being or Dasein. The current study deals with the textual analysis of Ramzy Baroud’s memoir The Last Earth - A Palestinian Story. The level of morality depicted in the memoir, highlights the discursive strategy of the author to protest against the unjust treatment of Zionists. It brings to world acknowledgement, how the Israelis have forced Palestinians to migrate and find solace...