... The postscript turns its attention to the concept of affirmation to explore the difference between optimism and affirmation. Through a close reading of Nietzsche’s account of affirmation, the postscript proposes a rethinking of the politics of affirmation in the context of Fred Moten and Stefano...

... This chapter seeks to displace the “affirmation versus vulnerability” schema by asking whether collective and collectively mobilized vulnerability would be a gesture that occasions (rather than finalizes) political action. It takes a closer look at vulnerability as aporia (what does this concept...

... This chapter considers the stakes of the affirmative drive of affect theory. It argues that the insistent affirmationist drive of affect and its foreclosure of the negative is mirrored by and intertwined with the structuring absence of blackness within its precincts. Affect theory's investment...

...Italian Affirmations A forceful intervention into contemporary politics, this chapter argues that the designations left and right must be preserved, as they are names for different relations to the political origin. Drawing on Schmitt’s genealogy of modern politics, the chapter argues...

... This chapter explores Brazil and how its diversity is represented in genomic studies. It focuses on how genetic data are drawn into debates about affirmative action in higher education and health. genetics multiculturalism affirmative action Sergio Pena Brazil ...