Aaron Gozum

  • Borderless Borders and the Architectural Corporeality of Berlin

    Introduction In our current climate of hyper-securitization, popular discourse around the world seems to suggest that the nation sits upon a fragile anxiety around immigrants. Because of these anxieties, the nation has focused on bolstering security, surveillance and the policing of national borders, in efforts to protect its sovereignty. Although there is this pervasive intensity…

  • The Vanishing Point

    Temporal Brushstrokes on the Corporeal Canvas Introduction In the public imaginary shaped by the discursive temporalities of history, a mysticism seems to shroud new digital media and technology. In one perspective of this mysticism, new forms of media symbolize a celebratory mark of progress and advancement; while on the other hand, these technological developments represent…

  • Blueprints to Nation Building: Consciousness, Revolution, then Culture?

    Blueprints to Nation Building: Consciousness, Revolution, then Culture?

    Fixated on nationhood, Fanon in The Wretched of the Earth, prioritizes a revolutionary call for educating the masses, equipping them and liberating them to build national unity and culture. When we consider the ways in which we can go about building society, there is a common thread of asking how to do so and redefining the…

  • Judith Butler talks at NYU Skirball Talks

    I had the privilege of listening to Judith Butler speak on February 12th, 2018 and I wanted to take a moment to reflect because I was speechless by the endless conduits and channels in which her conversation inspires and challenges me to consider in my own studies and research. She spoke of how “we live…

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