...Elizabeth A. Povinelli This essay explores the political efficacy of the concepts of autonomy and antagonism in the contemporary milieu of anthropogenic climate change and toxicity. It stages this examination through an imaginary colloquium attended by Italian members of the autonomist movement...

...” in the region to highlight that the efforts to push through neoliberal reforms in the face of popular opposition have expanded the scope of authoritarian rule. However, the strengthening of the executive power further creates antagonisms which are bound to result in the weakening of the state’s institutional...

...Forrest Hylton Focusing on late nineteenth-century insurgent movements for self-government, sovereignty, and political representation in Bolivia in 1899, this essay explores issues of regional antagonism, elite fragmentation, and incipient class divisions within Indian peasant communities. I...

..., groundlessness, and incompleteness subverts liberal political theory's identification of politics with the formalism of law, the preservation of order, and elected administrations. However, despite engaging questions of institution, hegemony, and antagonism, poststructuralist political theory currently remains...

..., and the struggle and defense of the commons created situations that rendered visible, with the clarity that lightning offers in dark nights, the ethnic and social antagonisms that penetrate and fragment Bolivian society. This essay examines this visibility and how the growing collective rejection of the various...

...Willy Thayer In posthumous speculation, the 2019 Chilean revolt, rather than suggesting a limit to the neoliberal trace, seems to constitute a reset that is conducive to its deployment. This article develops a “second degree” reading in which it is no longer a matter of the antagonism between...

... governance and its material bases. In this sense, recomposition occurred through the activation of political capacities and antagonisms that—having neither escaped nor been captured by the representative Left and any other electoral fronts—ultimately conferred a class character on the protests. The article...

... of reproduction. The debt-based economy and the production of mass indebtedness, which must be viewed as a response to the accumulation crisis caused by the social struggles of the 1960s and 1970s, represents an important transformation in class relations. “Debt” hides class antagonism, individualizes workers...

...Ana C. Dinerstein The essay discusses negativity as the force underpinning social antagonism, with particular reference to the fleeting moment of hope experienced in Argentina in December 2001. Developing Ernst Bloch’s notion of “real as process,” the essay problematizes “factual reality...

... to manage our reproductive material that surpasses the antagonism between the naturalist forms of reproduction legitimized by the nation-state and the privatization and capitalization techniques of cognitive capitalism where fluids, cells, hormones, molecules, and genes are the object of new processes...

... systems of value under capitalism. Second, I discuss the specific antagonism that shapes the work of food animals, where animals confront humans, and increasingly machines, in relations of hostility. My aim here is to show the way that resistance is tied to the structural position of food animals...

... to individuation and measure, and beyond the instrumentalities to which music itself is often submitted. We do so by thinking about how jazz—where it takes on the improvisatory character of the busker, rehearsal, or jam—becomes a form of love. We consider the song as an expression of antagonism that the song...

... within the horizon of the plan. 14 The South Atlantic Quarterly January 2020 The paper will conclude with some re¡ections on whether some conception of planning open to, and even welcoming of, enduring antagonisms could be imagined for the present. Between Science and Will Throughout the 1920s...

..., 244). Second, this antagonism is fundamentally irreconcilable. Even though the repetitive practices and procedures of democracy attempt to domesticate and resolve conflict, the effect is to neutralize and entrap the revolutionary ener- Bargu • The Predicaments of Left...

... "Pascalian machine (like the one that confronts K. in The Castle) and the subject s internalization of this bureaucratic structure as belief (K. s subjectivation) is fantasy. In a nutshell (and it s a hard nut to crack, as Zizek likes to say), fantasy is on the side of reality. 29 The Real as Antagonism...

... a simi- lar point, proposes that “society stays alive, not despite its antagonism, but by means of it”—an insight that subsequently leads him to conclude that “under the all-subjugating identity principle, whatever does not enter into identity, whatever eludes rational planning in the realm...

... in a revolutionary situation is to deal with the question of state power. The prob- lem of “what to do with the state” was linked to a situation of “dual power,” which Lenin describes as a “situation” of antagonism that should not last long, as it has to do with the impossible coexistence of two forms...

... for absolute difference or antagonism within it; antago- nists were always outside it. This logic is more broadly constitutive of lib- eral thought itself. When faced with difference, liberal thought has, at its finest, responded by producing a neutral shared space—civil society, the public sphere...

... of the bipolar world order.”18 As far as the distinction between the political and politics is concerned, Mouffe must be credited with giving a clear-­cut definition: “by ‘the politi- cal,’ I mean the dimension of antagonism which I take to be constitutive of human societies, while by ‘politics’ I mean...

... social’ para comprender la lucha social en América Latina?” (“Insubordination, Antagonism, and Struggle in Latin America. Is the Notion of ‘Social Movement’ Still Fertile for Understanding Social Struggle in Latin America?”) . In Horizonte comunitario-popular. Antagonismo y producción de lo común en...