Saladdin Bahozde is a social and political philosopher and critical theorist. He is an Associate at Simon Fraser University’s Institute for the Humanities and a member of the New University in Exile Consortium. He holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Ottawa. Before migrating to Canada in 2001, he published literary works, essays, and commentaries in Arabic and in his native Kurdish.
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Elsewhereness: Antipoetry
he book is a literary project with extra-literary objectives and implications. The texts combine various original writing styles to provoke the reader’s creative imagination and make auratic social space attainable. For realizing its main goal, through its creative aesthetics, the book debases normalized forms of social violence, exclusionism, and tribalism. It is meant to be universally relatable by an average reader regardless of her perceived and proclaimed identities. In a way, it is an embodiment of postnihilism, which is a philosophical theory that emphasizes the significance of negativity in the face of unspoken social rules of exclusionism. Postnihilism has been theorized in Revolutionary Hope After Nihilism (Bloomsbury 2022). “Auratic space” is a concept advanced in Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura(SUNY Press 2019) and The Death of Home (De Gruyter 2024).