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...Hassan M. Musa This account of the art exhibition literature in the Sudan reflects the complexity of modern political action there. The art exhibition was introduced by the colonial state as an instrument of propaganda. Post-independence authorities continued in a similar direction. Modern...

...Raúl Ornelas Raúl Ornelas sets out to describe the parameters of the political debate that has taken center stage in Latin America between those who see political action within the lens of counterhegemony and those who see the most recent antisystemic movements as the emergence of a new logic...

...Grupo Acontecimiento Through an exposition of three key reactions to the growing pull of electoral phenomena in Argentina, Grupo Acontecimiento gives itself the challenge of answering the question of how it might be possible to operate politically within a space where political action...

... and overcome fundamental problems of subjectivity under historical capitalism and in revolutionary political action. Part 1 of the article returns to The Birth of Biopolitics (1978–1979) and discusses four problems that Foucault identified as problems to be negated and overcome in political action...

... of modern consciousness associated with the birth of modern republicanism. Quilombo revolution demonstrates that political rationality, which underpins political action, is an expression of cognitive, material, and symbolic conditions due to time. The associated consciousness and actions may simultaneously...

... of the most important reformulations of radical political action. In response to a new insurrectionary wave, characterized by new forms of action, destitution signals an attempt to reimagine the emergence of a new revolutionary force in the wake of the disappearance of Marxist dialectics and the established...

...Giorgio Agamben Before we can think what a destituent power might be, we must first dispense with a concept that has surreptitiously dominated Western thought and politics, namely, that of realization. By realization , we understand the idea that political action consists in realizing in practice...

...Jayna Brown This essay considers the film Born in Flames in the context of the radical black feminism of the 1970s and 1980s, with an eye to the current invigoration of black feminist political action. It focuses on the way the film envisions the formation of a counterpublic and commons...

...Judith Grant Recent political actions in several Midwestern states have been reported as struggles between newly elected Republican governors and labor. However, the highly coordinated attacks reach beyond labor issues and can be read as the domestic face of the post-9/11 security state. “Gateway...

... forms of action as political. © 2011 Duke University Press 2011 A G A I N S T the D A Y Oliver Marchart Democracy and Minimal Politics: The Political Difference and Its Consequences The Political Difference While the conceptual...

...Chris Chen This essay tracks the instability of race as a political signifier in the California student movement, with a particular focus on the racial critiques of the politics of direct action and the escalation of hate crimes directed at communities of color over the course of the 2009–2010...

...Angel Aedo; Oriana Bernasconi; Damián Omar Martínez; Alicia Olivari; Fernando Pairican; Juan Porma This dossier proposes to explore the uprising as a critical event provoking unprecedented processes of political subjectivation and opening the field of action and influence to subjects who had been...

...Nikolas Kosmatopoulos This auto-ethnographic essay revisits the story of the Beirut City Center Dome, also known as the “Egg,” a 1960s brutalist-modernist cinema abandoned to snipers during Lebanon’s civil war, which briefly became a stage for a direct action politics in the early days of Lebanon’s...

... union in its traditional form. It argues that although experiences of collective action in the aftermath of the Marikana massacre hold the potential for a radical reconfiguration of politics in South Africa, there is also the danger that they will be unable to escape the old frameworks and sutures...

... that brings together this widespread dimension generated by the social fabric in its transmission to large-scale political action. At issue is the circulation of struggles, how subjects transform and express themselves antagonistically against the forms of their integration into the social corpus...

.... If we accept this proposition, a critique of what is meant by political activity or, more specifically, what is considered as emancipa- tory politics follows.12 From this perspective, the politics of emancipation or, more accurately, emancipatory political action is no longer primarily, or solely...

... struggles for equality and liberty in Turkey and beyond. Drawing on the collective history of struggles and different forms and scales of action, this making of the dissident body politic weaves together embodied public performances; mediatized communicative labor, including online forums, commissions...

... thought and action, in turn, inspired further imperial responses, such as political assassinations in the Third World, counterrevolutionary tactics, and other modes of violence in the service of empire. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024...

... looks beyond those in political office and their likely troubled future in order to find that underneath the Bolivarian veneer an entirely “Other politics” is in the process of gestation. From the self-organized actions for workers' control in Cumanacoa and Maracaibo to the struggle of Chief Sabino...

... of the art world and academia alike, the aesthetico-political work of Strike Debt has included the popularization of the red square as an emblem of debt resistance, the invention of the debt burn as an anticapitalist ritual, and the launching of the Rolling Jubilee, a direct action campaign initiated...