... of state, nation, society, and people as referent objects through which concrete form is given to factical finitude, modern biopolitics of security and war exemplify the political eschatology of modern times. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 A G A I N S T the D A Y Michael Dillon Specters...

... explicitly by the sixties’ infamous succession of political assassinations— functions as a crisis moment for black representation in both politics and culture. The stories that are told about this moment of rupture in turn work to imagine and concretize vying representational possibilities for a black...

... the party’s desirability as a political form but according to its possibility within the concrete situation of potentially revolutionary classes. We inquire into the political economy of revolutionary struggle rather than abstracted political theory—particularly the circumstance that afforded the party form...

...Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar; Liz Mason-Deese In this essay, based on two concrete acts of violence against women in Mexico, I propose to link such violence with the counterinsurgency war against the people of Mexico in which, as a society, we have been immersed for more than a decade. Departing from...

... (antigenderism), I will argue it is not so much the concrete historical insights nor the concept of the authoritarian character but rather the Frankfurt School’s comprehensive approach that is productive for a feminist understanding of authoritarian tendencies in our present. Copyright © 2018 Duke University...

... political economy perspective can mediate between abstract-simple and concrete-complex analyses by posing three meso-level questions. Third, these questions enable the combination of ordoliberal and authoritarian turns to examine cases in the non-Western contexts where sovereign, disciplinary...

...Davide Gallo Lassere; Frédéric Monferrand This article argues that workers’ inquiry is the political continuation of a model of Critical Theory that apprehends capital from the standpoint of its concrete effects on subjectivities. To substantiate this claim, we trace the genealogy of workers...

...Enrica Rigo; Francesca De Masi The article reflects on the Italian experience of the Non Una di Meno (No One Less) feminist movement and the interconnection between the struggle against patriarchal violence and the struggle for the freedom of movement of migrants. By starting from the concrete...

... as social imaginaries (in the sense of imaginary numbers in mathematics), which indicate the dynamics of processes that exceed the framework of individual and historical (albeit still anthropometric) understanding. Such an analysis of revolution as a process, and not as a concrete historical event, allows...

... investigation of contemporary shifts in monetization and the specificity of creditor-debtor relations. This essay focuses on the dialectical relationship between the abstract and particular, between the calculus of capital and concrete materialities, between formal equality and substantive difference, between...

... that the promises of universal welfare that came with the transition to democracy were ultimately displaced given the advent of neoliberalism after 1994. If the anti-apartheid struggles strove to dismantle white supremacy, in practical terms, such struggles lacked the concrete capacities to address the abject...

... the national temporality that marriage equality institutes on us and on our inquiries. And it argues for critique as a specific politics of knowledge, one that interrogates the link between the concrete production of a rational temporality and state power. Through queer of color critique it reveals...

... to a structural increase in consumption. First, the notion of “neoliberalism from below” is developed to understand the concrete forms of neoliberalism’s persistence in a neodevelopmentalist context. Then apparatuses of consumption and debt are conceptualized as drivers of new forms of value creation in the urban...

..., arguing that true state violence was modally distinct from revolutionary violence, or the concrete materialization of a proletarian potentiality. Although opposed, both of these perspectives strive to mitigate or restrain the brutal subjectivation attending the exercise of violence. Placing this debate...

.... This situation determines the task that Carl Schmitt’s book confronts: the ques- tion of the meaning of the earth and of its concreteness. Three questions are raised: First, what is the nomos? This initial...

... places of hammer and anvil, not even in order to add a sickle; rather, it is a question of inter- rupting the very logic of the nomos before we become its unwitting victims, even while claiming to be its noblest opponents. My aim therefore is not to correct or amend the concrete findings...

..., representation, material benefits, and so on. But it is impossible to get to these issues without dismantling the blinding religious mythology with which this concreteness of things is covered up Tseng 2003.8.25 07:34...

... about the cities, and can have concrete ideas because he can deal with the abstraction and unreality in his mind. On the other hand, I am connected, in my profession, with the product of reality, and so while I make concrete proposals, concrete countermeasures, and improvements on them...

... ambition that underlay Shukla’s poetics of responsibility will be easier to comprehend if we take this concrete, and in fact very representative, instance of his critical discrimination. Shukla’s Bhakti poets of choice had been Surdas and Tulsidas the critical editions of whose works he had, as I...

... come to occupy the position of an obscure subject, if indeed those are sub- jects, of what James Joyce would have called the jewgreek paradigm, the 7 precipitate of a merely concrete historical situation. If the current nomos of the earth...