Critical Thin

This article delves into the spectral and affective reserves of Zikr , Sufi exercise godly remembrance. It explores how performances religious longing broaden moral experience a post-migrant Berlin by offering contemporary believers critically thin zones hypersocial contact with Islamic holy figures. emerges as key interface felt material worlds: through acts remembrance, subliminal figures migrant inheritances are made contemporaneous while suppressed civic-political matters find spectral, more-than-visual presence in Berlin. haunting thus achieves, amid enduring conditions migration, provisional positioning not-here not-now an also-here. Such remembrance affords migrants greater awareness being distinctly historical well critical means to look past present.