Faculty Writing: On Mourning in The Iliad, and the Inescapability of Israeli Violence
September 13, 2025
In Dilettante Army, Bruce goes long on loss, mourning, and queerness in The Iliad. Then, in Mondoweiss, Abdaljawad takes heed of Israel’s preparations for military isolationism, before turning inward, in Communis Press, to weigh the immense toll of all-encompassing Israeli violence on his own fraying spirit: “I live with tears already stationed at the edges of the body, awaiting their assignment. Should this be named, inscribed in the lexicon of pathologies? Or is it merely the normative reaction to a world obscene in its cruelty, a minor leak against the excess of the real?”