... possibility. In doing so, this article enjoins us to dream that the world might once again be turned upside down. Wang Hui The Prophecy and Crisis of October: How to Think about Revolution after the Revolution ​If the nineteenth century was defined by England’s...

...Grant Farred The discipline is against thought; inter- and transdisciplinarity are against thought. Working with Martin Heidegger's careful explication of what thinking is in Was Heisst Denken? this essay argues that both disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity are hostile to thought. Since we do...

...Moishe Postone © 2012 Duke University Press 2012 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Moishe Postone Thinking the Global Crisis The ongoing global economic crisis poses a seri...

...Alberto Moreiras Alberto Moreiras A Thinking Relationship: The End of Subalternity—Notes on Hegemony, Contingency, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left...

...Bruce Kuniholm 2003 by Duke University Press 2003 Bruce Kuniholm Turkey and the World in Twenty-Five Years: Thinking about the Future This article explores Turkey’s future and its relations with the European Union (EU), the...

... Thinking Afro-Futures: A Preamble to an Epistemic History This preamble begins in media res. This is to keep in view the challenge of narrative middle beginnings: a durable simultaneity in the con...

...Adrian Mackenzie This essay analyzes a genre of self-improvement literature based on scientific models of animal behavior and neurophysiology. Popular science books such as Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking , by Malcolm Gladwell, or Mind Wide Open: Why You Are What You Think , by Steven...

... marginalize, white intellectuals. © 2010 Duke University Press 2010 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. David R. Roediger A White Intellectual among Thinking Black Intellectuals: George Rawick and the Settings of...

...Stella Sandford 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Stella Sandford Thinking Sex Politically: Rethinking ‘‘Sex’’ in Plato’s Republic This essay is concerned with the category of sex, where sex means ‘‘sex difference as dis...

...Scott Michaelsen; Scott Cutler Shershow Duke University Press 2007 Scott Michaelsen and Scott Cutler Shershow ​Rethinking Border Thinking ​For better or for worse, Walter D. Mignolo’s work on the problem of colonialism has had a...

...Corey D. B. Walker This essay engages the theme of religion and the futures of blackness by critically examining the interrelationship between two normative standards in the discourse of religion and blackness: love and community. The essay proceeds by thinking love and community as risks and not...

... asymmetric specificities, I want to disturb some of the issues—and not least the unproblematized resort to identity categories—through thinking the phenomenological implications of global intercorporeality. As one highly significant aspect of contemporary globalization, neoliberalism pursues a policy of...

... questions: How do multitudes think? What is a collective thinking? We are accustomed to attributing thought to the subject and to circumscribing self-consciousness to the individual, but where does this leave us regarding the collective act of creating concepts? Raúl Prada Alcoreza When Communism Becomes...

... the other. Arguing that the category of pleasure is recruited to heterogeneous positions in Foucault’s work, I trace the various purposes that it is enlisted to serve in his thinking, as well as the topological structure he evokes to conceptualize pleasure—that of the spiral. His famous “spirals of...

... important texts by Étienne Balibar, published between 1965 and 1990. It homes in on two themes that Balibar returns to throughout these writings. The first theme is the centrality of temporality and of the figure of the ‘lag” ( décalage ) to thinking through transitional politics. The second is the question...

... along the path of the Trans Mountain Expansion Pipeline Project. This article’s approach is methodologically informed by recent infrastructural thinking from theorists such as Lauren Berlant and Deborah Cowen who offer an expansive, relational understanding of infrastructure. It is also informed by...

...China Medel This paper employs an abolitionist framework to understand direct-action humanitarian aid along the US-Mexico border. Focusing on my own experiences volunteering with No More Deaths, an organization providing critical aid along the US-Mexico border, I think through the role of care in...

... in the field, and the variety of issues that Africana peoples face around the world, it is important to think about some futures for Africana philosophy. I propose to think here about one, by examining some recent developments in and near Africana analytic philosophy. I will focus specifically on...

...Grant Farred Using the brief (ten-week) rule of Patrice Lumumba in the Congo as an instructive instance for thinking the post-, “Not the Moment After, but the Moment Of” argues that the post- is never the time after but the moment—impossible as it is to understand—of, that is, the moment itself...

... forms of decolonization that would enable self-determination without state sovereignty, Césaire challenged the territorial and national assumptions that typically governed twentieth-century cultural and political thinking and which still inform social thought today. This essay examines several of...