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Abstract: CR: The New Centennial Review is devoted to comparative studies of the Americas. The journal's primary emphasis is on the opening up of the possibilities for a future Americas that do not amount to a mere reiteration of the past. We seek interventions, provocations, and, indeed, insurgencies that release futures for the Americas. In general, CR welcomes work that is inflected, informed, and driven by theoretical and philosophical concerns at the limits of the potentialities for the Americas.Such work may be explicitly concerned with the Americas, or it may be broader, global and/or genealogical scholarship with implications for the Americas. CR recognizes that the language of the Americas is translation, and that ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: How to inherit Specters of Marx' How to inherit this work that is all about inheritance as the irreducible condition of any possible relation to a past and also to a future, the future of Marx and Marxism, to be sure, but also to any future whatsoever' How to receive its legacy while acknowledging the ways it complicates this scene and yet without merely folding it back on itself, applying it to itself in an act of repetition that ends up finally inheriting little or nothing' Questions like this are provoked when the pretext for rereading Specters of Marx is to mark an anniversary and take stock of how it has aged. Ten years ago already (or almost), there were similar calls to reflect on the arrival of this work on ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Il faut penser l'avenir, c'est-à-dire la vie.Specters of Marx is the first published text by Jacques Derrida in which the expression "Life-Death [La-vie-la-mort]" reappears, twice (Derrida 1994, 67, 177), more than fifteen years after the seminar at the ENS in Paris entitled La vie la mort [Life Death] (1975–1976), published in French only in 2019, and thirteen years after the publication of La Carte Postale (1980), translated into English as The Post Card (1987), in which the expression "Life-Death" appears numerous times, particularly in the section "Speculate-On Freud," a reworking of the last four sessions of the aforementioned seminar. Not only that, Specters of Marx is also the first published text in which ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: More than three decades after the fall of the communist bloc, world politics seems to lack a global horizon that can orient transformative action. With "the end of grand narratives," as Jean-François Lyotard famously described "the postmodern condition," no universalist ideal seems capable of inspiring the formation of social movements large and durable enough to effectively confront the pressing challenges of our time: economic inequality, racism, misogyny, global warming, and many others. Political struggles have proliferated across Western societies in recent years, but for the moment, they have not crystalized into an organized political project that can contest the hegemony of contemporary capitalism.1 This ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Three decades after the publication of Specters of Marx, another death knell is sounding. Three decades after Derrida bemoaned the "manic, jubilatory, and incantatory" neoliberal rhetoric heralding the death of Marx and of communism, the COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a renewed mania on the left to declare the end of neoliberalism. And yet three decades after Derrida's most public corps-à-corps with Marx, his analysis remains disturbingly timely and hence out-of-joint. Not only does its litany of ways in which "the world goes badly" in the chapter "Usures" still paint a strikingly familiar picture of our own times—of the ravages and global inequality wrought by market liberalism, the protectionist backlash it has ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: According to Jacques Derrida in Specters of Marx, a specter, a ghost, is not simply nothing, and the urgency to address their existence—to address them—can be incited in the name of justice—thought as a certain kind of specter. Justice, for Derrida, is a specter insofar as justice as such is only present "where it is not yet, not yet there, where it is no longer, let us understand where it is no longer present, and where it will never be, no more than the law, reducible to laws or rights" (Derrida 1994, xviii; 1993, 15). What Derrida has in mind when he writes these lines is the paradox at the core of justice, an intrinsic contradiction and impotence expressed in the impossible universalization of justice. Justice ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The writing of this essay was prompted by the memory of an anniversary, the anniversary of Jacques Derrida's text Specters of Marx. That text stood at the historical crossroads between the death—or, at least, between a certain "disappearance" of the Marxist tradition and the desire to take up its legacy to entertain oneself with its specters, once again. According to hauntological dictates, we always write to repeat; we write the traces of a disappearance, lingering once more on the place and on the time of a dead body. A dead body that nevertheless survives and still speaks to us, inspiring and reanimating ideas, emotions, deeds, lives.These days, when I write to evoke Derrida's ghosts, other bodies haunt me ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: At the end of Hamlet, shortly after Hamlet finally dies, following a series of rehearsals or simulacrums ("I am dead" 5.2.286, "I am dead" 5.2.291, "O, I die" 5.2.305, and finally, "He gives a long sigh and dies" 5.2.312: Shakespeare 2008) that began with his first soliloquy, "O that this too too solid flesh would melt, / Thaw and resolve itself into a dew" (1.2.129–30), Fortinbras enters and, looking at the bodies on the floor, exclaims1This quarry cries on havoc. O proud Death,What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,That thou so many princes at a shotSo bloodily hast struck'(5.2.316–19)The term "quarry" designates, since before Shakespeare's time, the pile of dead animals at the end of a hunt. Here ... Read More PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
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