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...? The impossibility of what is to be thought—civility—structures Balibar's entire essay in a radically aporetical manner , as the practice of a negative dialectics originating from the infinity of the différend. This impossibility is as follows: if politics is violence and nonviolence apolitical, then how can...

.... Starting from situations embodying extreme violence, or cruelty, and contrasting them with a politics of civility, this article argues that if we want to define the conditions and the goals of politics, it is not enough to just be mindful of violence, or to see it as a central problem for politics. What we...

... of the current conjuncture. © 2021 Robin Celikates 2021 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Étienne Balibar violence non-violence politics civility Throughout his wide-ranging work, Étienne Balibar has sought...

...–Cold War “peace dividend” was replaced by continuous local and regional wars. In the past thirty years, the United States in particular became post–middle class, post–civil rights, and postdemocratic. Future universities will need to confront all three legacies if they are to transform themselves...

... o instrumento de otro instrumento de control mayor: la violación en sí misma. A través de una examinación de una serie de violaciones, algunas cometidas por civiles, otras por agentes del estado durante la dictadura militar, Moreno ilustra e ilumina las contradicciones de las categorías existentes...

...figure 1 . “Shame on the murderers of the great thinker and militant Hussein Mroueh, 1987.” Signs of Conflict: Political Posters of Lebanon's Civil War , www.signsofconflict.org . ...

... pilots and civil society organizations launching their own aerial surveillance operations to challenge the state's monopoly over the aerial view. The materiality of aviation and the legal and spatial systems that govern flying mean that the scope for political action and solidarity practices via...

..., a southwestern hub in the peninsula that since May 1980 has been widely been known as a site of civil resistance. With a focus on each show's narrative and audience engagement in relation to the historic meaning of Gwangju, this essay considers the limits of transnational solidarity imagined through art activism...

... and practices failed to address the global “cold civil war” represented by the events of 1968. This article will show that in the 1970s this task was not undertaken by “professional revolutionaries” or in their Maoist discourse of “protracted war” and its “generalized Clauzewitzian strategy.” Rather...

...Nandini Sundar Abstract This article explores the aporias of democracy to show how both procedural and substantive democracy, or at least certain constructions of “need,” operate to render the lives of sections of the citizenry precarious. More specifically, in the context of an ongoing civil war...

... facing a major enemy, the Transitional Military Council (TMC), which intends to maintain the status quo ante. This essay asks: can Sudanese civil society challenge the TMC and lead the country out of autocracy, achieving genuine democratization, or will the TMC cut short such transformation? © 2019...

... with colonialism, as Fanon does, or with modern civilization, as Gandhi did, where both of these names nevertheless imply it. But the focus on violence as a naturalized condition, rather than as a regime or political type like dictatorship, authoritarianism, or totalitarianism, remains constant in all...

..., as if private persons had unmediated access to inwardly guaranteed truths. 3 A related mistake would be to hear Benjamin as championing civilization as the path toward nonviolence, as one might have been tempted to do by Jephcott's translation of the sentence “Gewaltlose Einigung findet sich überall, wo...

..., compromised, or corrupted universalisms of Western civilization and the hypocrisy of its self-understanding as the beacon of enlightened humanism. The record of colonial violence, exploitation, and domination revealed the limits and fragilities of the West's commitment to freedom and, especially, its capacity...

... authority of men in uniform. A feminist practice of thinking at the extremes asks: What world is known and knowable through a specific concept of violence? What world is opened up in the idea of civility, defined not as nonviolence, but as anti-violence? What is rendered speakable through the concept...

... of rights. As I acknowledge further below, the emergence of the notion of human and civil rights obviously has a far longer history that can be traced to the Enlightenment and the revolutionary constitutions of the United States and France or to England's Glorious Revolution and the Magna Carta before...

... their will in and through the apparatus of the state. Insofar as the laws of civil society are “but the will of [the capitalist] class made into a law for all,” they themselves constitute, for Marx and Engels, a kind of undemocratic bourgeois despotism. 2 What rises up against it can, from a bourgeois point of view...

... naming it “the ultimate act of civil disobedience” to rendering it merely an “unmitigated rejection of the Taliban.” 1 But in contemporary Afghanistan it is far too easy to misappropriate loss politically and ethically, marking its constituents and its bearers. In this short essay, we read the scene...

..., this concession on the part of the host formed a part of comity or civility, which was concerned with the practice of putting into motion authority in a world with several other authorities and their rival jurisdictions. 85 At the same time, exercising such jurisdiction to protect those granted status...