... France, the English translation titled “Society Must Be Defended,” Foucault offers his most comprehensive explanation as to why the disciplinary procedures aimed at producing self-governing individuals required supplementary policies that dealt with the population at large and so gave rise during...

...John Shelton Curtiss Stalin Must Have Peace . By Snow Edgar . New York : Random House , 1947 . Pp. 184 . $2.50 . Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 Book Reviews 125 the solutions themselves, which would ..seem to indicate that few, if any, social problems...

... upon selected texts, a rigorous pro­ cess of meaning bending, a betrayal ofthe chronology ofconcepts in effect­ ing what he calls a reading. Reading is no less important than questioning; they must stand together on the same horizon because they are equally indeterminate. Althusser s techne of reading...

... to a spiritual level (Plato). But the church fathers taught that they must rise above intellectual contemplation to union with God through perfected desire. However, we cannot reach this union through our own efforts; God must reach graciously down to us. But when he does so, he reaches down into our entire...

...John E. Drabinski This essay frames Fanon’s work on revolutionary consciousness in The Wretched of the Earth with the problem of memory. In particular, it asks how Fanon’s conception of the colonized is underwritten by a double-movement of remembering and forgetting. The colonized must remember...

... new subjects not formed by domination, but these subjects must remake themselves while still enmeshed in them—must somehow act out of them. Reading with and against David Scott's (2004) conception of a “problem-space” shows how King and Fanon respond to the problem posed by the impossibility...

...Fred Moten In taking up the profound and necessary challenge of Afro-pessimism, scholars engaged in black study must not only attend to the relation between blackness and nothingness that Frank B. Wilderson III and Jared Sexton elaborate in their encounter with the work of Frantz Fanon but must...

...James Martel In this essay, I engage with Jodi Dean’s idea from The Communist Horizon (2012) that “division is common; we must seize it.” I argue that this is a critical insight that helps us think both about the kinds of political subjectivity that we find in Marxist philosophy as well...

....” This entails an examination of past and present communist struggles that accounts for their irreducible differences and multiple modes of organization. We insist that the debate on communism must reckon with three unavoidable issues: property, internationalism, and subjectivity. In considering the mutual...

... of the commons. The complexity of this progressive subtraction must of course be pointed out, because the power of capital is founded on a complex assemblage of social relations, resources, discourses and narratives, rights, state policies, and, ultimately, the institutionalized monopoly of violence that aims...

... to violence. To change that relationship we must attend to the killing state of mind , one that is not just a social or psychological condition but also a moral commitment and/or a philosophical position. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may...

...Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf In a sociopolitical and cultural context like that of Sudan, where forces of militarist, Islamist, and traditionalist politics persist with tenacity, chronicling the politics and intellectual legacy of Sudanese Marxism is a must for apprehending both its historiography...

... the protagonist is in mourning, and using that remembrance to judge or refuse the present. The film suggests that the standpoint of the present must finally prevail, and yet that there is also a value in the characteristically crotchety (that is, critical) attitude toward the present that stems logically from...

... in the ongoing revolutions in Bolivia and Chiapas. The essay is grounded in the observation of Frantz Fanon that “what matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the necessity for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity must respond to this question, or be shaken to pieces by it.” © 2011 Duke...

... mechanisms of use, appliance, and adaptation must be critically addressed. The discourse of modernism within the postcolonial context in Asia and Africa seems to be unavoidable. This essay discusses a particular moment in the history of Egypt, in which a modern supplement, or rather injection, was slipped...

... than accepting Butler's argument for vulnerability as an ontological foundation for resistance to war, we must grasp how the concept of vulnerability functions today within liberal regimes' strategies of subjectification. How can vulnerability be a sufficient condition on which to base a politics...

... in the harmonious integrity of the whole. By means of this death scene, Machiavelli suggested that sovereigns must be prepared to exercise violent power over the divisible bodies of subjects in the name of securing the polity. I will argue here that the decline and death of the ancient metaphor of the body politic...

... of communism must start, then, from an analysis of the multitudinous actualization of community and collective forms—the constituent and creative matrix—of the revolts that have occurred in Bolivia and throughout Latin America in the last two decades. From this perspective, it becomes evident that it is within...

... that decolonization must be not only a discourse but also an affirmative practice. © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization The colonial condition obscures a number...

... in the everyday practices of the dominated. It is in everyday practices that the dominated slowly construct the spaces or territories where resistance is crafted and where new knowledges emerge. Ceceña then proposes that although it is also necessary to understand the spaces of confrontation with power, we must...