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Abstract: This spring volume of Theory&Event comes out in a moment of expanding possibilities alongside violent ruination. Even as a waning pandemic lessens dread across parts of our world, Russia's brutal war on Ukraine reveals authoritarianism's relentless desire for domination while reminding us that unanticipated acts of resistance can destabilize despotic regimes in ways few thought possible.In considering the overwhelming events of our present, these essays take up questions of political theology, consciousness-raising, race and redress, the politics of property, the affective dynamics of digital culture, and the unruly entanglements of microbial ecologies and global capitalism. The authors offer theoretical ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The soul never thinks without an image. Our search for a theory of pictures may best be advanced by turning the problem upside-down to look at pictures of theory. Nowhere may be an imaginary country, but News from Nowhere is real news. From beginning to end, Plato's Republic engages sights, images, and image-making, often while entangling embodied vision with the conflicts and practices shaping civic and psychic order. The encounters prove surprisingly performative: even as the theoretical or philosophical inquiries are enabled by ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Many commentators—academic and nonacademic—have described the #metoo movement as a form of "consciousness-raising." In this essay, I ask: what kind of work is this language of consciousness-raising (CR) doing for contemporary feminism' What can this appeal to CR tell us about how many feminists imagine feminist politics today' And what might this reveal about the strengths and the limits of the #metoo movement in particular'I believe that the language of consciousness-raising performs two important kinds of work in contemporary analysis of #metoo. First, it implies continuity between present-day and second wave feminisms, suggesting that participants in #metoo are just as radical and politically transformative as ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Born at the commencement of the Reconstruction era, witness to the collapse of progressive struggles for freedom into the absence of restraint and the possibility of wage labor, and amid the reduction of freedom to inclusion into the world of mass consumption, W. E. B. Du Bois risked a question about freedom:What if to the Mammonism of America be added the rising Mammonism of the re-born South, and the Mammonism of this South be reinforced by the budding Mammonism of its half-awakened black millions' Whither, then, is the new-world question of Goodness and Beauty and Truth gone glimmering' Must this, and that fair flower of Freedom which, despite the jeers of latter-day striplings, sprung from our fathers' blood ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The travels of a microbe have catalyzed convulsions across the capitalist world system, precipitating one of its largest crises in history. We still remain in the early phases of this event, the ramifications and cascading consequences of which we can only speculate at present, though it appears to constitute what Paul Raskin calls a "rupture in historic time that shakes the continuity of institutions and consciousness."1 The COVID-19 pandemic has set in motion a set of feedbacks between microbial ecologies, public health systems, financial markets, supplychains, food and energy systems, climate change, and democratic institutions that will dramatically shape the future of capitalism and world order. Yet it is ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: In a footnote to his essay, 'The Social Life of Social Death,' Jared Sexton writes that "it strikes me that the arrangement of afro-pessimism and Black optimism … is a variation on a theme of Moten's discussion of Hartman in the opening pages of his In the Break."1 Beyond merely noting Saidiya Hartman's work as a common resource for the Black optimism of Fred Moten and the Afro-pessimism for which he and Frank Wilderson III have become famous, Sexton here suggests that it is differing readings of Hartman's writing on fungibility, emancipation, and Black subjection that both inspire and divide these two veins of Black thought. Like Sexton, I also see Hartman's work as central to these ongoing debates in Black ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Although it was once commonplace to suggest that digital media promoted democratization, recent events have generated increased momentum for scholars and critics who have long sought to trouble that assumption: from the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro's use of WhatsApp as a propaganda tool, to the murky role of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook data in the Brexit campaign, to the Trumpsupporting alt-right on Reddit, 4chan, and 8chan, there has been something of a reactionary turn in digitally mediated cultures. It is now increasingly commonplace to suggest that digital media promotes radical right-wing politics.1 These democratizing and radicalizing commonplaces are misleading not only because they are ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Locke's concept of property begins with the body. The first principle from which private property can be deduced is the idea of one's "property in his own person":1 the idea, common at the time, that the body "belongs" to the "I," and thus should be seen as an extension of the person.2 Moreover, the first right (the right to self-preservation) emerges from natality itself, from our existence as corporeal creatures. "Men, once born, have a right to their preservation, and consequently to meat and drink and such other things as nature affords for their subsistence" (§25).3 We will soon see that the body's nourishment—eating and consuming the world's goods—is indeed key to Locke's theory of property. And finally, the ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts not only because of their historical development—in which they were transferred from theology to the theory of the state, whereby, for example, the omnipotent god became the omnipotent lawgiver—but also because of their systematic structure, the recognition of which is necessary for a sociological consideration of these concepts. The exception in jurisprudence is analogous to the miracle in theology. Only by being aware of this analogy can we appreciate the manner in which the philosophical ideas of the state developed in the last centuries.Shortly before his death, Jacob Taubes, then Ordinarius in Jewish Studies and ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The past few years have seen the rise of right-wing populist movements, most dramatically illustrated by the success of Brexit and the election of Donald Trump to the American presidency. Common to both movements is the use of what William Connolly has called "Big Lies." These are factually untrue statements (for example, that immigrants pose inordinately large threats to the security of citizens in both Britain and the US) that draw their strength and energy from the "dispersed anxieties and resentments about deindustrialization, race, border issues, immigration, working-class insecurities, trade policies, pluralizing drives, the new place of the United States [and Britain] in the global economy, and tacit ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The task of writing a review of this small book is a curious one, for it is not one writing, but three. The core of the book is a short essay by the French-Algerian philosopher Daniel Bensaïd published in French in 2007, accompanied by an introductory essay by the translator, Robert Nichols, and a set of articles by Karl Marx written in 1842 during his tenure as editor in chief of the Rheinische Zeitung. These works are presented in reverse chronological order, and the reader is tempted to read them from back to front, since Bensaïd's essay is, in part, a commentary on Marx's articles, and Nichols reflects on both. Bensaïd's and Nichols's essays each bring the older works into communication with contemporary ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: "Going inward" is in the zeitgeist. A growing range of conditions today lead people far and wide to the isolation or angst that invites or demands a more sustained sense of inwardness: the sense, as Jonardon Ganeri puts it in Inwardness: An Outsider's Guide, of "the presence of yourself to yourself." The isolating conditions of the pandemic and systemic injustice, the narrowness of relating through social media, the challenge of holding to what one knows to be valid against the forces of widespread deception are all, in various ways, instances that require turning to one's inward sense of self and one's experience. Meanwhile, ever more present cultures of mindful awareness, ranging from the popular trends of ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Writing from the imperative to imagine a Black world, Kevin Quashie offers readers of Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being an ethical and philosophical framework of 'being' which invests in the richness of phenomenological experience. Quashie locates manifestations of this 'being' within Black poetics, pointing readers towards an ethic of Black being that eludes the impositions of an antiblack world. Luxuriating in the works of Lucille Clifton, Gwendolyn Brooks, Reginald Shepherd, Toi Derricotte, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, and so many transcendent Black female/feminist writers, Quashie captures and theorizes upon the quality of Black being that is and is of a Black world––a world in which Blackness ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Michael J. Albert is a lecturer in International Relations working at the intersection of IR and political theory, critical political economy, and the transdisciplinary study of socio-ecological systems. His current book project, titled Mapping and Navigating the Planetary Crisis Convergence, analyzes the convergence between ecological, political-economic, and energy crises in order to illuminate possibilities for world system transformation in the coming decades. He is also interested in counter-hegemonic movements – including degrowth, ecosocialism, solidarity economies, and peasant-based agroecology movements – and their potential for creating alternative political economies as the crises of global capitalism ... Read More PubDate: 2022-04-14T00:00:00-05:00
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