The Semblable Seema Atalla two daughters and their grandmother

two daughters and their grandmother

is marked by all the restless energy

realism and action

It is now a form that has evolved to mine emotion within a guiding format that

hitting below the ribs

The Semblable Seema Atalla two daughters and their grandmotherSpanish poet and philosopher Chantal Maillard asks whether a world without violence is possible. Beginning with the tale of Nietzsches embrace of the Turin horse, and engaging with thinkers from Confucius to Derrida to Sontag, Maillard reflects on how the concept of the semblable (ones other, neighbor, peer, fellow) justifies defensive foreign and domestic policy as well as state sanctioned global violence. Can we broaden our frameworks of belonging