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Jodi Dean’s Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging positions the word comrade against the popular term ally. Dean argues that the idea of the comrade is more collective than ally, which focuses on
This work is both an exploration of processes of facialization as well as an experiment in alternative methodologies for scholarship that lie at the fuzzy, leaking cross-sections of philosophy/theory ... myself & my face, my father & his face, myself & my father’s face, & the face-to-face relations that we have out in the world. Keywords: Faciality, Lyric Essay, Lyric Philosophy, Becoming-Other
, philosophy and genre (2010), Studies in Trans-disciplinary Method: After the Aesthetic Turn (2012), War Crimes: Atrocity, and Justice (2015), Politics and Time: Documenting the Event (2016), and The Political ... to discuss his work as a writer, the social sciences, and the inspiration he draws from aesthetic theory, cinema, and the everyday. Mike is a Professor in the Political Science Department at the
teaching practices. These works examine assumed power structures of empire, the emergence of Japanese philosophy in global culture, and integrative approaches to higher education, among other topics. ... -editorship. In closing, the editors like to voice unequivocal support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Our political values inform our work as scholars, and as we face the future, we remain committed to
order’ and its hierarchical features. The racial hierarchical features are always embedded both within contemporary Western discourses and more specifically in the US as a political community that was ... relations (IR) and global political developments provide a collective springboard for this critical world order studies approach to racial hierarchy, including the contemporary populist ‘moment’. I
Max Weber once claimed that the growth of bureaucratic power in late modernity may henceforth render political revolutions impossible. In this article, I stage a conversation between Weber and ... suggests that, before this can happen, a philosophical intervention is needed to expose the mechanisms of power and reveal a new space of political possibilities. Philosophy, then, must minister to the
, and how these improvisations shift and alter the political and material landscapes of Mexico. ... uses a film metaphor to structure the organization of the book, which allows her to focus on the very production of the border as a scene, with material and political landscapes, and on how various
lives in both intimate and structural ways. In moving through the syllabus, we begin with large-scale forms of connection, focusing on ecological kinship and community, political structures governing ... ? This section of the course explores the emergence of neoliberal and biopolitical regimes in shaping political, cultural, social, and economic modes of relation through ties of kinship often rendered
far enough in addressing concerns raised by indigenous thinkers like Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui and Eve Tuck, whose epistemic, political and territorial sovereignty is at the center of the decolonial ... differences, and contest totalizing claims and political-epistemic violence of modernity.”2 Relationality within the context of decoloniality is premised on a more fluid onto-epistemic positionality that
investments—on personal, political, and ethical levels—with the study of inheritance, intimacy, and estrangement. Truthfully, I find it hard to shy away from some of the more psychoanalytic modes of reading and ... culture, about our experiences, about the complicated and conflicting racial and political structure. The Caribbean is key in many ways to Western modernism, because we are forced to be Kin with the West
Bosnia becomes a form of seductive voyeurism. As I argue, this also opens up the possibility of imagining forms of microfascism circulating within the West itself as a way of reigniting the political in ... Yugoslavia or Rwanda on the global periphery, the globe would increasingly feel homogenized, the triumph of bourgeois values, the fulfilment of our consumerist desires: administration would replace political
no aware. Specifically, this paper indicates the ways in which the KonMari system functions in line with a tradition of Japanese aesthetics of experience. This philosophy informs Japanese aesthetic ... : What We May Learn From the Japanese Philosophy of Kokoro. The Ohio State University and Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture Roche Chair for Interreligious research, 2006. Kasulis, Thomas
productive and disruptive paths that Debrix’s deployment of visual simulation and destabilization can offer critical IR studies and political theory. I suggest here that we need to consider the ways in which ... disruptive paths that Debrix’s deployment of visual simulation and destabilization can offer critical international relations (IR) studies and political theory. I suggest here that we need to consider the ways
As one of the first attempts in critical international relations (IR) scholarship to explore the political and ideological intent of visual simulations, François Debrix’s Re-Envisioning Peacekeeping ... refugee and its reality are constantly reprocessed, remade, and reinvented. Moreover, public perception, political debates, and some state policies have largely been shaped by dramatic images of refugees
, he explores the relationship between political communication and new nationalism to expose the dangerous marriage between authoritarianism and capitalism in prominent positions of power. This review ... journey through critical theory and digital texts while responding to its ambitions both as a revitalized account of the critical theory tradition and as a cautionary tale of contemporary political
Social, Political, Ethical, and Cultural Theory Archives) to develop the direction(s) of issue 6.1. The contributions are current and insightful both on their own terms and, we think, in juxtaposition with ... , innovative philosophical analyses, imaginative empirical research, and pertinent political science. We find the articles to be especially timely, given the current political and social atmosphere. We are proud
effects of contemporary neoliberalism, construed largely as an insidious form of rationality rather than simply an economic system, and the hollowing out of democratic political life which has ensued from
courage via action is transcending. By reading Heidegger’s concept of anxiety through an Arendtian lens we can therefore arrive at a political project shaped by both theory and practice. ... . ---. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1973. Bowen-Moore, Patricia. Hannah Arendt?s Philosophy of Natality. New York: St. Martin?s Press, 1989. Canovan, Margaret. The Political Thought
courage via action is transcending. By reading Heidegger’s concept of anxiety through an Arendtian lens we can therefore arrive at a political project shaped by both theory and practice. ... . ---. The Origins of Totalitarianism. Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1973. Bowen-Moore, Patricia. Hannah Arendt’s Philosophy of Natality. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1989. Canovan, Margaret. The Political Thought
been coined at the beginning of the 20th century by Swedish political scientist Rudolf Kjellén.9 Through biopolitics, the state strengthens its position of “making live” through forecasts and statistics ... philosophy has also rationalized the killing of subgroups. This expression of a negative side of “making live” came into full fruition under Nazi Germany, which rationalized genocide. It is often accompanied