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Published: 17 May 2011
DOI: 10.1215/9780822393962-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9396-2
Book Chapter

By Brian Massumi
Published: 12 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7519-7
... terror alert system politics of fear affective politics collective individuation Gilbert Simondon ...
Published: 12 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375197-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7519-7
... becomes self-causing are affective. terror alert system politics of fear affective politics collective individuation Gilbert Simondon ...
Published: 12 August 2015
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7519-7
...). The means by which preemption becomes self-causing are affective. terror alert system politics of fear affective politics collective individuation Gilbert Simondon This chapter explores affective politics and how the operative logic of preemption becomes self-causing. The process...
Series: Sinotheory
Published: 22 March 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059387-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5938-7
... in the army, but also the ways that he has been the object of political power, such as when some of his works have been subjected to political critique. He discusses having to leave his position in the army after the publication of Lenin's Kisses, and the way that his life and work has been shaped...
Published: 26 February 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374701-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7470-1
... This chapter documents how counterinsurgent, paramilitary terror unmade Barrancabermeja’s working class by rupturing the fabric of popular solidarity and dispossessing and displacing working people from the late twentieth century to the present. Political violence provided both the preconditions...
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060109-008
EISBN: 9781478060109
... the reign of individual Fathers who dominate political worlds today but also the very structure, desire, and felt need for the Name- and the No-of-the-Fathers—even those Fathers who are deemed by populist movements to be legitimate. This means putting an end to both the side that is brutal and incites fear...
Published: 01 December 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027676-009
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2767-6
..., when fears of plots sporadically consumed an eroding Athenian democracy. Arguments about political instability and instances of plotting reverberate throughout the dialogue that takes shape in this suspicious climate. Whether Socrates makes us privy to a conversation about a political world that does...
Series: ASTERISK
Published: 24 June 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059462-015
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5946-2
... that of the novel's monster). In its theorization of transgender rage, the essay demonstrates how trans politics, like queer politics, entails the recognition that certain emotions are not private, isolated experiences—that shame, fear, despair, and rage are social and political. the piece works through aesthetic...
Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 14 October 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373612-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7361-2
... This chapter seeks to reorient how the political rationalities of imperial forms have been conceived. It considers how a focus on the “supremacy of reason” as the master trope of colonial government by which empire’s agents claimed their authority has displaced the affective work...
Published: 13 October 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027546-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2754-6
... The introduction presents the “police intellectuals” and explores their attempts to modernize the department, motivated by the fear that a rapidly diversifying New York City had become terra incognita, or unknowable space, because of immigration. “Police intellectuals” were people in politics...
Published: 14 August 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822375678-013
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7567-8
.... It became women-only after the first nine months for a variety of reasons explored here in detail, including contradictory accounts mirroring the variety of feminist movement ideas. The camp became a place of protest for women with very different political aesthetics, strategies, fears, and wishes...
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060109-004
EISBN: 9781478060109
... The oligarch becomes the main figure of analysis in this chapter. The author traces popular feelings about the political-economic elite through their nicknames. The author examines these nicknames, which often combine a shortened diminutive version of their first names (marking them as intimate...
Published: 01 December 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2767-6
... of profound political change behind closed doors is a desire to consider the meaning of justice, not to replace a political order with a new one. But the dialogue takes place during the Peloponnesian War, when fears of plots sporadically consumed an eroding Athenian democracy. Arguments about political...
Published: 17 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027584-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2758-4
... realignments of social coalitions and political alliances, plunging the island into a crisis from which it would never recover. Spanish military operations wrought havoc on the economy, visited calamity on Spanish soldiers, and laid waste to communities of noncombatants. The prospects of a successful...
Published: 18 April 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373629-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7362-9
... and political circuits of mastery, desire, fear, and control. Harry Callahan street photography art genres ...
Published: 05 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478025887-003
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2588-7
... Clemency began to decline in the generation after the civil rights movement. As political activism came to be associated with crime, clemency was increasingly politicized. In Mississippi, as the formal mechanisms of Jim Crow deteriorated and were replaced by sentencing laws that produced more...
Series: Dissident acts
Published: 11 October 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060123-019
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6012-3
..., as a complex mobilization platform built from the feeling of fear of a malleable enemy. gender ideology binary gender feminism right-wing politics LGBTQIA+ ...
Book Chapter

By Gyanendra Pandey
Published: 27 December 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478060376-005
EISBN: 978-1-4780-6037-6
...-making. It demands commitment to and sacrifice for the nation by bureaucrats, intellectuals, and poets as well as political leaders. Notions of family are changing, the element of individual choice and the focus on the nuclear family increasing. Nevertheless, modern middle-class men hesitate to accept...
Series: a John Hope Franklin Center Book
Published: 17 February 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373230-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7323-0
... Black discourse in literature, philosophy, the arts, or politics is the appropriation of the ideology of cultural difference. Slavery, colonialism, and apartheid dominated Black discourse. From the fifteenth century on, mercantile reason was driven by liberalist expansion and the accumulation...