... in 2011 Apocalyptic Memories and Subjective Movements: Differentiation by Political Power in Postwar Japan Toshio Ochi The Consummation of the Polity In order to make sense of the organization of postwar Japanese poli- tics...

... or anti-emancipatory figures plays a crucial role in the development of Badiou's theory of political subjectivity. How are we to think subjects which oppose, betray, or neutralize egalitarian militancy, or what Badiou would call fidelity to a truth-procedure? The article combines an account of this little...

... of main discursive lines and elements of the party's trajectory that help explain its relevance in the context of recent Spanish political and cultural history: the crisis of middle classes; the plebeian as political subject linked to an alliance between precarized middle classes and precarious working...

... that one cannot write on such an urgent political topic without addressing at length the role of culture in political thought and national sentiment. The author theorizes the role of the emotions in the creation of political subjectivities, concentrating especially on the central role that the web...

... Earth and the Autoscopy of Aerial Targeting: The Visual Geopolitics of the Underground .” Theory, Culture and Society 28 , no. 7–8 : 270 – 86 . Bishop Ryan . 2015 . “ Smart Dust and Remote Sensing: The Political Subject in Autonomous Systems .” Cultural Politics 11 , no. 1 : 100...

...Christopher Connery The essay considers the sixties as a global irruption of political and cultural revolution, of world-making of various kinds: decolonization, new subjectivities, new forms of daily life and politics, and new scenes of the political. It holds the sixties to be a global phenomenon...

... as a pure act of the political imagination. While al- Kawakibi may be understood as borrowing content from European ideas of nationalism, it is in fact more accurate to see him as an exiled Ottoman subject armed with Arab and Islamic history, who comes to political consciousness within...

... in Kahn’s work, though his stature has grown enormously in 2011’s Political Theology: Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty . Kahn’s subject in the text is the relationship between American power and American culture, a relationship he defines as a “political theological project.” My purpose...

... is an attempt to negotiate these complex and troubling developments in queer politics and is structured as follows: The first section deals with Butler’s notion of “normative violence” and the ques- tion of the survivability of nonnormative subjects who do not confirm to hegemonic norms, whether secular...

... that has identified an oppressed can stir (if not necessarily produce) political subjectivity even at great distances.37 To those thus sensitized to the world’s injustices, such footage ceases to be a mere spectacle staged elsewhere and enjoyed from a safe remove. Regard- less of the politics...

... The political writings of North Korea (or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) use one word consistently when speaking of the coun- try’s relation to Marxism and Leninism. That word, succession (gaeseung, or immediately calls to the mind the subject of this action, the “suc- cessor” (gaeseung-­ja...

... to argue that while China has no shortage of de facto freedom, it lacks the value of freedom, especially freedom as a mode of subjection. The lack of freedom as a value has serious moral and political consequences, as manifested in a prolonged moral crisis in post-Mao China and in a certain fragility...

... the relationship among state, political communities, and religious subjectivity. In the pro- cess, assumptions about the modern nature and Enlightenment-­era roots of current institutions and practices of governance are questioned, thus placing under scrutiny a view of history and culture that is defined...

... at the rules that will govern the completion of their objectives. This overall universal rule can be called “revolutionary grammars.” Yet there are aspects of the Tunisian Revolution that are not subject to any singular specific grammar, which prompts noting that this revolution, with all its contingent...

...David Kurnick Roberto Bolaño’s work repeatedly asks readers to compare various entities (continents, national literatures, ethnicities, the realms of culture and politics). The essay reads this obsessive comparativism as the first step in a totalizing aesthetic project, one tied to Bolaño’s...

...Rosalind C. Morris The rhetorical virtuosity of “The Working Day” chapter in Marx's Das Kapital consists in its staging of two distinct registers of political vocality. On the one hand, the transparent subject of a future scene is given form as that voice which arises to confront capital in its own...

... types of female subjects of transnational labor in the current dispensation of global capitalist accumulation. Such female subjects show us that the apparent feasibility of the recognition model of power (and its popularity in the house of theory) is premised on and sustained by the bio- politics...

... (who is also a thinker of Christianity) frequently mentions. It is the thought of the subject, the author, the artist, the genius, the sovereign, and the creator. Such exceptionalism is political as well as aesthetic. It is philosophical—ontological and metaphysical—as well as theological. If Jullien...

... to Kant s political philosophy, which is ill- equipped for tracking the trajectory of such flight. This is so subsequent to Kant up until today. In that respect, it is seemingly beyond the pale to suppose there are iterations of Haiti, that there is any resonance between the subjectivity constituted...

... might suggest that they also posit the conditions for a possible new subaltern post-Hegelian world history. From this perspec- tive, what is at stake in Hegel’s philosophy of world history is the question of emancipatory political subjectivity. Development ‘‘A State is a realization...