...Erica Robles-Anderson Abstract This article is a response to Achille Mbembe's “Futures of Life and Futures of Reason,” which is featured in the same issue of Public Culture . The article builds on Mbembe's concept of “wave fronts of calculation” as a means of amplifying a language for political...

...Judith Butler Copyright © 1992 by the Society For Transnational Cultural Studies 1992 Mbembe’s provocative essay brings together a set of primarily French theoretical perspectives on power and spectacle to think through the analyt- ics of what he calls “the postcolony” through...

...Achille Mbembe Duke University Press 2008 doxa at large Passages to Freedom: The Politics of Racial Reconciliation in South Africa Achille Mbembe...

...Achille Mbembe In the rest of the world, the “postcolonial turn” in the social sciences and humanities took place nearly a quarter century ago. Since then, the method or style of critique associated with that movement has influenced myriad political, epistemological, institutional, and disciplinary...

...Achille Mbembe Copyright © 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 TW‘DANALITY OF ?’OW€R AND TW A€STttETICS W VULGARITY IN TWPOSTCOLONY Translated by Janet Roitman In this article, I will examine the banality of power in the “postcolony.”l By “banality...

...Achlle Mbembe Copyright © 1992 by the Society For Transnational Cultural Studies 1992 mosAIcs OF SrnVITUD€ AND AUTHORITARIAN CIVlLlTlfZS Translated by Janet Roitman “ cette saloperie, partout dkniee, qui partout soutient la reprksentation de la ‘toute...

...Achille Mbembe; Janet Roitman Copyright © 1995 by the University of Chicago 1995 This article was translated from French by Janet Roitman with the assistance of L. McKean. The following study results from residence in Cameroon: from March 1992 to December 1993 (J. Roitman) and June...

...Achille Mbembe © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Achille Mbembe is a senior researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. His latest book is On the Postcolony (2001). “African Modes of Self-Writing”appeared in the winter 2002...

...Achille Mbembe © 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Achille Mbembe is a senior researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand. Recent publications include On the Postcolony (2001) and “African Modes of Self-Writing,” Public...

...Achille Mbembe; Sarah Nuttall © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Achille Mbembe is a research professor in history and politics at the University...

...Achille Mbembe © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Achille Mbembe is a research professor in history and politics at the University of the Witwatersrand and a senior researcher at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand)in Johannesburg...

...Achille Mbembe; Nsizwa Dlamini; Grace Khunou © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Achille Mbembe is a research professor in history and politics at the University of the Witwatersrand and a senior researcher at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University...

...Sarah Nuttall; Achille Mbembe © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Sarah Nuttall is a senior researcher at WISER (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand) in Johannesburg. Achille Mbembe is a research professor in history and politics...

...Achille Mbembe Copyright 2010 by Duke University Press 2010 In Memoriam: Carol A. Breckenridge September 6, 1942–October 4, 2009 Achille Mbembe Our long, rich, and affectionate...

...Achille Mbembe © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Achille Mbembe is a senior researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His latest book is On the Postcolony (2001). African Modes...

...Achille Mbembe Abstract As the new century unfolds, humans are increasingly surrounded by multiple and expanding wave fronts of calculation. What remains of the human subject in an age when instrumental reason is carried out by and through information machines and technologies of calculation? Who...

...Achille Mbembe; Steve Rendall Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 God’s Phallus Achille Mbembe Translated by Steve Rendall We are meat, and we are potential meat. If I go...

...Achille Mbembe © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000 Achille Mbembe lives in Africa. His most recent publications include Du gouvernement privé indirect (1999). His Provisional Notes on the Postcolony is forthcoming. At the Edge of the World...

... and directed by Alvaro Toepke and Angel Serrano. San Francisco: California Newsreel. Videocassette. Afro-Pessimism’s Many Guises Bennetta Jules-Rosette A chille Mbembe’s brilliant exercise in Afro-pessimism, “African Modes of A Self...

... produc- tion of Opera Wonyosi, one of Soyinka’s mordant dramatic works, yet the former reads so much like sitting through a performance of the latter. If there is a certain untethered exorbitance in Mbembe’s characterization of the “postcolony” - its “banality,” “vulgarity,” “excess...