The Death of Home: Aura and Space in the Age of Digitalization

Digital technology has revolutionized connectivity, but it has also overwhelmed spatial boundaries that used to shield people from subjugating gazes and unlimited exercise of power. The home as an auratic space is dead, and this alienation has hindered our social capacities creating complex political and sociopsychological crises. The Death of Home aims to intellectually engage readers through enhancing spatial literacy to critically confront today’s oppressive regimes of spatial production.

Saladdin Ahmed Bahozde is a philosopher and critical theorist who has authored Totalitarian Space and the Destruction of Aura (SUNY Press 2019), Revolutionary Hope after Nihilism (Bloomsbury 2022), and Critical Theory from the Margins (SUNY Press 2023). Exclusionary Politics in the Middle East is the title of his forthcoming book. His articles have been published in Critical Sociology, New Political Science, Science & Society, International Critical Thought, World Review of Political Economy, Critique, and Revue Illusio among others. He has published over fifty thought pieces and commentaries, and some of his articles have been translated into several other languages. He also has published books and articles in Arabic and his native Kurdish. He has taught graduate and undergraduate philosophy courses in several universities, and from 2017 to 2023 he taught political science at three American liberal arts colleges. He is an Associate of Simon Fraser University’s Institute for the Humanities and a member of the New University in Exile Consortium. He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Ottawa, an MA in Discourse Analysis from Carleton University, an MA in Philosophy from Brock University, and a BA Highest Honors in Philosophy from Carleton University. saladdin.ahmed@gmail.com https: //orcid.org/0000-0003-4636-8217