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Abstract: In a 2018 Current Affairs article titled “The Politics of Shame,”1 Briahna Joy Gray explains the Democrats’ practice of shaming the alt-right by noting that “Trump’s policies hurt people,” andgiven the easy-to-anticipate consequences of their votes, Trump voters do seem like bad people who should be ashamed. . . . [A] high level of outrage is appropriate to the circumstances. If you’re not outraged, you’re not taking seriously enough the harm done to the immigrant families torn apart by ICE [Immigration and Customs Enforcement].Whereas in general “we’re often encouraged to engage more civilly with ‘people who disagree with us’,” Gray adds, what sets our current situation apart is thatthe divergent value systems ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Democracy is always an unrealizable dream.This afternoon I would like to speak on the subject, “The Negro and the American Dream.” In a real sense America is essentially a dream—a dream yet unfulfilled.For the sake of argument let us entertain the possibility that there is a real relation between America and democracy. Not America as a national territory, but America as a self-designated exception, however troubled. Further, let us accept that this relation is oneiric, and that organizing this relation is what Brown calls “the unrealizable,” and what King calls “the unfulfilled,” both, I will argue, iterations of “impasse.” In the remarks that follow I will essay the concept of impasse by considering the several ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The true significance of slavery in the United States to the whole social development of America lay in the ultimate relation of slaves to democracy. What were to be the limits of democratic control in the United States' . . . This was the great and primary question which was in the minds of the men who wrote the Constitution of the United States and continued in the minds of thinkers down through the slavery controversy. It still remains with the world as the problem of democracy expands and touches all races and nations.Modern democracy is radically racial. Because race was the essential ingredient that made slavery modern, distinguishing it from ancient and feudal iterations of domination, the same clause ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Posthumanism, according to the editors of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Posthumanism, is an umbrella term used to describe a range of theories and philosophies, with diverse histories, that are typically resistant to human exceptionalism or anthropocentrism (Rosendahl Thomsen and Wamberg 1). The term has a varied historical development and usage, but, as Rosendahl Thomsen and Wamberg remark, posthumanism ties together a general disdain for anthropocentrism. For instance, at the beginning of Vibrant Matter, Jane Bennett notes that “for some time political theory has acknowledged that materiality matters. But this materiality most often refers to human social structures or to the human meanings ‘embodied’ in them and ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: No honest history of capitalist modernity can fail to account for the violence of dispossession. Marx famously grapples with the distinction between the ideal operations of capital through which surplus value is extracted from waged workers at the point of production, and the regular and persistent applications of “direct, extra-economic force” (Capital 900) characteristic of the period of “so-called primitive accumulation,” when capital comes into the world “dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt” (926). The relation between the economic and the extra-economic forms of violence, theft, enclosure, expropriation, and dispossession is ever in motion and, indeed, dialectically constituted. ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Lynne Huffer’s Foucault’s Strange Eros is a translation, but not in the usual sense. This original work translates not a text from one language to another, but a person: Michel Foucault. Huffer invites us to perceive Foucault differently, with slightly squinted eyes and perked ears, so that we may see the lacunae in and hear the “strange murmuring[s]” of the archive (1). Like all good translations, Huffer’s brings to light something that went unnoticed in the original—eros. Prowling for this, Huffer uncovers the ethopoietic movements in ourselves and in the world that pulse just beneath the surface and offer strange possibilities for inhabiting the present.The change in our perception of Foucault issues from a ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Donald Trump’s election to the presidency of the United States was met with consternation and often horror at home and around the world. To make sense of the nonsensical, many turned to books that seemed to offer relevant insights, including George Orwell’s 1984 and Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. That people turned to books about the rise and dynamics of totalitarian movements and regimes says much about how they understood Trump’s election. For political scientists, the appropriate term to explain his election would rather be populism, or authoritarian populism. This places Trump in a familiar lineage of political figures who manage to come to power and threaten seemingly well-entrenched ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-26T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Bret Benjamin is Associate Professor of English at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY). Author of Invested Interests: Capital, Culture, and the World Bank (University of Minnesota Press, 2007), Benjamin teaches courses in Marx and Marxist theory, postcolonial studies, and globalization studies. He is co-President (with Ericka Beckman and Neil Larsen) of the Marxist Literary Group, and sits on the editorial board of itsjournal Mediations. In addition to his primary faculty appointment in upstate New York, he has held temporary teaching positions at Moscow State University in Russia and the English and Foreign Languages University in Hyderabad, India.Christopher Chamberlin is a Fellow at the ... Read More PubDate: 2021-12-26T00:00:00-05:00
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