Dead Body

Question 1

Verdery

Answer 1

Dead bodies have enjoyed political life the world over and since far back in time

• Stablise landscapes, temporally freeze values, localize claims, materiality, ‘thereness’
• They don’t talk (?)
• Identification with one’s own body

Question 2

Lenin’s tomb

Answer 2

Masoleum in the Red Square

• Public display there since 1924
• Stalin’s remains displayed there then removed in 1961

Question 3

Toraja of Sulawesi

Answer 3

-Live with the dead in coffins in their homes

Question 4

Judith Butler

Answer 4

• Grievable bodies

- Without grievability, there is no life, or, rather, there is something living that is other than life