Doxa at Large

• Phantom of the Forever War: Fazul Abdullah Muhammad and the Terrorist Imaginary

  Jeremy Prestholdt, in Volume 21, Number 3

  In 1998 al Qaeda operative Fazul Abdullah Muhammad became an apparition. In the years that followed, intelligence and media sources claimed that he was born in 1973, 1974, and 1975 and that he is Kenyan and Egyptian. He was presumed dead in Kandahar and…

• Remembering Benjamin from South of the Pyrenees: The Two-Gauge Problem

  Mariana Valverde, in Volume 21, Number 3

  Walter Benjamin died on September 27, 1940, in the Hotel de Francia, in the Catalan border town of Port Bou. Like many other Europeans, Benjamin had been driven away from several homes in the 1930s: from Berlin to Paris, from Paris to southern France…

• The Violence of the Real: A Conversation with Rogério Reis

  Beatriz Jaguaribe, in Volume 21, Number 2

  I come from a documentary tradition, and I find fascinating the journalistic discussion of the human condition as a daily exercise. This language is part of my repertoire.

• Hijacked by Realism

  Beatriz Jaguaribe, in Volume 21, Number 2

  In an ordinary afternoon, numerous mourners attend the funeral of a well-known upper-middle-class man. The funeral takes place in the cemetery São João Baptista, located in the old neighborhood of Botafogo, in Rio de Janeiro.

• Block Thinking and Internal Criticism

  Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar and Charles Taylor, in Volume 18, Number 3

  These are difficult times for multiculturalism, especially in Europe. Reasonable people are having misgivings about the cultural and religious practices of immigrant communities in their midst.

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