Author
VOLLAIRE Christiane
Philosopher, she pusblished many articles in political philosophy (dealing with migrations, politics of security and biopolitics), philosophy of medicine (politics of health, socio-political functions of medicine and health care), and in aesthetics (photography, arts, choreography, architecture, question of space). She's a member of the edition board of the journals Pratiques and Chimères, and takes part in the journals Lignes, Cahiers de philosophie, Transeuropéennes and Ah!. She gave a series of speeches at the Collège International de Philosophie on "processes of desaestheticization in medicine".
Bibliography
- Humanitaire, le cœur de la guerre (ed. L'Insulaire, Paris, march 2007), dealing both with the political question of the status of humanitarianism, and, in a critical manner, the aesthetical question of its representations.
Articles
The Middle of Nowhere
Christiane VOLLAIRE
11 November 2009
The photographs do not show the people themselves, nor does the text present the locations. But the people’s words are marked by the places, in the same way that the places, though empty in the images, are marked by the people. And the work grew out of this joint presence, or what the sociologist Abdelmalek Sayad would have called a "double absence".