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...Leonid Heller Copyright © 1995 by Duke University Press 1995 Leonid Heller A World of Prettiness: Socialist Realism and Its Aesthetic Categories Many works on socialist realism endow this artistic method (to use the Soviet ter­ minology) with the status of an aesthetics ; indeed, the term...

... of Zapatismo, Benjamin’s thesis on the category of constellation and the critique of linear and homogeneous temporality, and the critique of the categories of identity and synthesis formulated by Adorno. The argument proposes detotalization as a convergence point of the constellation of concepts...

... engaged in a “truth procedure.” Badiou's book has only three categories (the Greek, the Jew, and the privileged term of the law-surpassing Christian) compared to his customary four (politics, art, science, and love), and in Saint Paul he casts suspicion on what would be the potential fourth category...

... an epistemological category but something more akin to an ontological state that raises complex questions of identity. My contribution uses it in that latter sense and will take the links between precarity, debility, and more specifically disability as central concerns. In feminist thought in particular, precarity...

... militant poets such as Jacques Roumain and Aimé Césaire, especially by Roumain’s poem “Sales négres.” Fanon’s damned hence cannot be considered as a mere sociological category. Reading The Wretched of the Earth through Giorgio Agamben’s ideas on the modernist meanings of the witness and the remnants, I...

... artful and stylized. These nuances reveal different understandings of what nonbelief entails in matters of conduct and whether the negative and epistemic category of “nonbelief” properly describes their difference from theists. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Asad Talal...

... progressive governments. The article also explores some prescriptive categories spanning contemporary Latin American thought and debate linked to the environmentalization of struggles. These concepts include buen vivir (living well), the rights of nature, and the commons. To conclude, it briefly reviews...

.... However, would it be right to adapt all social and economic dissatisfaction to reformist slogans? This monolithic construct restricts the mass of people to the category of the privileged minority; this is not only a simplification but a conscious disregard of the multiplicity and differences of the social...

... of further objectivizing and reifying—rather than producing—the subject by increasingly commodifying the time spent outside of paid labor. The neoliberal idea of investing in one's human capital is compared to the Marxian category of the reproduction of labor-power, which, in the neoliberal context...

...Andrew Pendakis This article explores the historical construction of the entrepreneur as a figure of antinomian or “deviant” risk. Though risk-bearing behavior has been the characteristic most often invoked to specify the economic function of the entrepreneur, this ostensibly descriptive category...

... species thinking without sufficiently addressing how it emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries within global circuits of exploitation that shaped the categories of human and nonhuman in exclusionary ways. In order to further complicate Virno's anchoring of the common in properly human...

.... By acknowledging that those who read the letter, regardless of their race, are outside this direct exchange, Morrison creates a space in which the language of race can be disregarded because it is already known. Her audience is thus left to read race not as a series of identity categories but as an intimacy...

... as theorists who, in different fashions, turn away from contradictions that an alienated world contains. Self-determination exists—but in a self-contradictory way. The article argues therefore that recognition is a fundamental category of revolution. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 References...

... problems and his claim that a new vocabulary is needed for politics now that the categories of the citizen and the worker have lost their original meanings. It is argued that Agamben treats political topics with the tools of philological analysis and merely presumes the explanatory hold of extreme examples...

..., the Chinese Revolution opened the possibility of a reconceptualization of the revolutionary subject itself, one in which the category of “the people” ( renmin ) performed the role of a revolutionary subject always in transformation, critically grounded in the peasantry as the appropriate base of revolutionary...

... mobility, is a heavily marked category, objectified and subject to calculation and control, on one hand, and uncertainty and loss of control, on the other. In the prevailing “economy of suspended rights” for Palestinians, where autonomy over the body’s movements through space is severely curtailed...

...Nicholas De Genova An anxious preoccupation with rising “populism” on an effectively global scale commands that critical scholarship reflect on the status of populism as an analytical category. The vexed ambivalence around the relation between democracy and “the people” presents a fundamental...

... (in the sense of Fernand Braudel’s longue durée ). Signs of such revolution are found beyond the regime of human perception and contemplation, beyond the categories of space and time, in the zone of common sense ( sensus communis ), which Kant saw in such manifestations as the enthusiasm that joins a universal...

... of those restrained in their liberty. Among those labeled the “worst of the worst,” especially offshore at Guantánamo Bay, the innocent fare far worse than those who have been charged with terrorist acts. How can they prove that they are not “illegal enemy combatants,” a category invented by White House...

... to be. It was in actuality precisely along the indeterminate boundaries between those categories of rule—at the crossroads of politics and culture—that everyday challenges to colonial hegemony were vitally posed, casting doubt on its founding myths and forms of power. My intention in this essay is to explore this cultural...