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...Milad Odabaei Abstract Conventional accounts of the 1979 Iranian revolution emphasize the loss of the revolution's “true” spirit in the violence of the Islamic state. In contrast, this essay foregrounds a recurring dream of parricide in the generation of children of revolutionaries to explore...

... at the core. But it is the impossibility of ever knowing the point where the lines of history and truth meet that, in Fanon's work, betrays an ironic attitude to any language of authenticity and inauthenticity, and which generates a decidedly more complex set of questions than the notion that true culture...

... of black knowledge’s reproduction or the dearth of its dead ends and lost causes, all black thought leaves us, at some point—a true loss for words.” ...

..., and cannot emerge at the end unchanged by the history they have created. But is it in fact true, as he seems to suggest, that those who take part in defensive violence in the course of revolution are always changed for the worse ? I am thinking here of such revolutionary moments as the Haitian Revolution...

...). If—and to the extent that—this claim holds true, we are poised to formulate the following question: What conditions have been enabling us to take for granted the notions that faith starts where reason and doubt end, that aesthetics is one thing and the religious another, that worship belongs to one world...

... defined as a necro -political system of organized violence places us at the heart of the problem while pointing to the existence of this unescapable space called violence or politics. 1 It is therefore not true that politics is violence by other means, because the means of politics are not different...

.... If true politics is a politics of pure means, is this politics without Gewalt ? Not entirely. The politics of pure means is without violence, but not without Gewalt , if one considers the meaning of Gewalt not only as violence, but also as, at the same time, “power, potentiality, authority, force...

.... Lopez, Not One Less , 75 13. López, Not One Less , 8 . Hereafter cited parenthetically in the text. 14. See Chouliaraki, “Victimhood” ; Cole, Cult of True Victimhood ; Banet-Weiser, “‘Ruined Lives.’” Works Cited Banet-Weiser Sarah . “ ‘Ruined Lives’: Mediated White...

... the inequalities that point toward something we haven't seen before: the refeudalization of some capitalist democracies. As we know, narratives do not simply reflect but produce real-world effects. This is certainly true with economic narratives. Recall that industrial capitalism had roles for both blue...

... of Contemporary Philosophy does not include the word humanism nor, for that matter, the name Foucault , since both are seemingly less relevant than zombies and Einstein to today's thinkers. It is true that the editors of the volume acknowledge that they specifically want to give their readers “a sense...

... practice but also, very importantly, as a process in time. However, that introduces another problem with which it should not be confused. As David Hume said long ago, custom and habitual conjunction persuade us to believe that certain things must be true. 4 He was of course talking about the causes...

... facts within a true context based on ample research, including the testimony of actual witnesses and participants.” 4 The search for truth in matters related to violence seems bound to the weight of facts, so it comes as no surprise that Cazals would go to considerable lengths to ensure his...

... or fantasmatic virtuality in no way diminishes that real almightiness of what thus presents itself to fantasy,” but rather “organizes and rules over everything we call life and death, life death.” 1 True, I might be overestimating Sebastián. Because what's most likely is that he hasn't heard of the powers...

... . The emergence of the modern monetary economy and the transformation of labor into “earning,” Arendt muses, hides the true necessities of life from view. Rather than removing the association of necessity from labor, however, this leads to a projection of the felt and perceived necessity onto the processes...

... defeat. On this Luxemburg never relented. . . . In this she was a true daughter of Marx, even if some would say it was his greatest error.” 10 Even while acknowledging this point, however, the main thrust of Rose's essay runs in the opposite direction; emphasizing Luxemburg's accounts of spontaneity...

... the critical political role that it has been called on to play in modern governmentality. It is true that Foucault's initial reaction to this Western obsession is rather pessimistic. The Order of Things advocates in the end a form of knowledge that goes beyond what he considers to be the flawed “modern...

.... The contrast, even with the more literary and aesthetic thinkers like Benjamin, was deep. In his notes from the time of Krise und Kritik in 1930, under the telling header “Some Remarks on Theoretical Foundations,” Benjamin underscored his “thesis,” in his own words, that “true validity,” “fruitful validity...

..., sovereignty being the capacity to decide on the exception, and thus on exclusion itself. The explanation that Agamben gives for Bataille's failure is the following: While it is true that Bataille had intuited that bare life was a figure linked to sovereignty—that it was sovereignty's dark side, so to speak...

... recommendations betray their true beliefs: the “old” approach has turned universities into obsolete institutions that do not serve the “needs” of society—a euphemism for implementing the neoliberal agenda. Let us go back to our Gedankenexperiment . In that meeting, we would have listed a number of trends...

... badges that mark them as minor. In other words, the minor is not a majority-in-waiting, nor even is it a minority in the making. True, the minor may—sometimes must—seek to be codified in law as a minority, but what is most crucial about the minor is precisely that it remains in an agonistic relation...