Category: Volume 32 – Number 1 – September 2021
Notes on Contributors
December 17, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 32, Number 1, September 2021 |
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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 […]
Alone We Fall
December 17, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 32, Number 1, September 2021 |
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Shmuel Lederman (bio) A review of Gaffney, Jennifer. Political Loneliness: Modern Liberal Subjects in Hiding.Rowman & Littlefield, 2020. 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 […]
Prowling Foucault
December 17, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 32, Number 1, September 2021 |
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Britton Edelen (bio) A review of Huffer, Lynne. Foucault’s Strange Eros. Columbia UP, 2020. 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 […]
Dispossession, Property, and the Clash of Interests: Reflections on Early Marx and Late Bensaïd
December 17, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 32, Number 1, September 2021 |
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Bret Benjamin (bio) A review of Bensaïd, Daniel. The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor. Translated by Robert Nichols, U of Minnesota P, 2021. No honest history of capitalist modernity can fail to account for the violence of dispossession. Marx famously grapples with the distinction between the ideal […]
Renewing Humanism Against the Anthropocene: Towards a Theory of the Hysterical Sublime
December 17, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 32, Number 1, September 2021 |
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Matthew Flisfeder (bio) Abstract This article puts to question performative contradictions in theories developing a resistance to anthropocentrism in the context of rising interest in the Anthropocene narrative and Posthumanist theories seeking to evade human exceptionalism. By developing the aesthetic category of the hysterical sublime—a term first coined by Fredric Jameson in his early writing […]
The Impossibility of Multiracial Democracy
December 15, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 32, Number 1, September 2021 |
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Christopher Chamberlin (bio) Abstract Democracy becomes modern after it abolishes slavery and assumes its primary feature—race. Paradoxically, political theory cannot formalize a notion of democracy that incorporates the ex-slave or a post-slavery democracy that does not prescribe racial genocide. This essay shows that this paradox is structural, and tracks its transformation from Alexis de Tocqueville’s […]
The Impassable Dream
December 15, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 32, Number 1, September 2021 |
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John Mowitt (bio) Abstract This essay approaches the theme of “impasse and democracy” through the motif of the American dream, a dream, as many have noted, unfulfilled both at home and abroad. This lack of fulfilment is here read as a structural impasse within democracy, as a sign that democracy dreams, or is a dream, […]
Resistance and Biopower: Shame, Cynicism, and Struggle in the Era of Neoliberalism and the Alt-Right
December 15, 2021 | Posted by Webmaster under Volume 32, Number 1, September 2021 |
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A. Kiarina Kordela (bio) Abstract This essay examines the relation between neoliberalism and the alt-right, showing that their shared cynical amoralism elevates irresponsibility to the level of absolute morality, such that the Democrats’ exhortation to shame proves counterproductive. The alt-right’s outrage-inducing effect on the Democrats is due to its double relation to biopower: insofar as […]