Sovereignty in Ruins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sovereignty in Ruins write by George Edmondson. This book was released on 2017-03-18. Sovereignty in Ruins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featuring essays by some of the most prominent names in contemporary political and cultural theory, Sovereignty in Ruins presents a form of critique grounded in the conviction that political thought is itself an agent of crisis. Aiming to develop a political vocabulary capable of critiquing and transforming contemporary political frameworks, the contributors advance a politics of crisis that collapses the false dichotomies between sovereignty and governmentality and between critique and crisis. Their essays address a wide range of topics, such as the role history plays in the development of a politics of crisis; Arendt's controversial judgment of Adolf Eichmann; Strauss's and Badiou's readings of Plato's Laws; the acceptance of the unacceptable; the human and nonhuman; and flesh as a biopolitical category representative of the ongoing crisis of modernity. Altering the terms through which political action may take place, the contributors think through new notions of the political that advance countermodels of biopolitics, radical democracy, and humanity. Contributors. Judith Butler, George Edmondson, Roberto Esposito, Carlo Galli, Klaus Mladek, Alberto Moreiras, Andrew Norris, Eric L. Santner, Adam Sitze, Carsten Strathausen, Rei Terada, Cary Wolfe
SOVEREIGNTY IN RUINS;A POLITICS OF CRISIS
SOVEREIGNTY IN RUINS;A POLITICS OF CRISIS - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook SOVEREIGNTY IN RUINS;A POLITICS OF CRISIS write by GEORGE EDMONDSON; KLAUS MLADEK.. This book was released on 2017. SOVEREIGNTY IN RUINS;A POLITICS OF CRISIS available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Featuring essays by some of the most prominent names in contemporary political and cultural theory, [this book] presents a form of critique grounded in the conviction that political thought is itself an agent of crisis ...
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Ruins of Neoliberalism write by Wendy Brown. This book was released on 2019-07-16. In the Ruins of Neoliberalism available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring? In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically aggrieved white working- and middle-class populations but contoured by neoliberalism’s multipronged assault on democratic values. From its inception, neoliberalism flirted with authoritarian liberalism as it warred against robust democracy. It repelled social-justice claims through appeals to market freedom and morality. It sought to de-democratize the state, economy, and society and re-secure the patriarchal family. In key works of the founding neoliberal intellectuals, Wendy Brown traces the ambition to replace democratic orders with ones disciplined by markets and traditional morality and democratic states with technocratic ones. Yet plutocracy, white supremacy, politicized mass affect, indifference to truth, and extreme social disinhibition were no part of the neoliberal vision. Brown theorizes their unintentional spurring by neoliberal reason, from its attack on the value of society and its fetish of individual freedom to its legitimation of inequality. Above all, she argues, neoliberalism’s intensification of nihilism coupled with its accidental wounding of white male supremacy generates an apocalyptic populism willing to destroy the world rather than endure a future in which this supremacy disappears.
The Conquest of Ruins
The Conquest of Ruins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Conquest of Ruins write by Julia Hell. This book was released on 2019-03-19. The Conquest of Ruins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Roman Empire has been a source of inspiration and a model for imitation for Western empires practically since the moment Rome fell. Yet, as Julia Hell shows in The Conquest of Ruins, what has had the strongest grip on aspiring imperial imaginations isn’t that empire’s glory but its fall—and the haunting monuments left in its wake. Hell examines centuries of European empire-building—from Charles V in the sixteenth century and Napoleon’s campaigns of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to the atrocities of Mussolini and the Third Reich in the 1930s and ’40s—and sees a similar fascination with recreating the Roman past in the contemporary image. In every case—particularly that of the Nazi regime—the ruins of Rome seem to represent a mystery to be solved: how could an empire so powerful be brought so low? Hell argues that this fascination with the ruins of greatness expresses a need on the part of would-be conquerors to find something to ward off a similar demise for their particular empire.
Cold War Ruins
Cold War Ruins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cold War Ruins write by Lisa Yoneyama. This book was released on 2016-09-15. Cold War Ruins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Cold War Ruins Lisa Yoneyama argues that the efforts intensifying since the 1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese military and colonial violence have generated what she calls a "transborder redress culture." A product of failed post-World War II transitional justice that left many colonial legacies intact, this culture both contests and reiterates the complex transwar and transpacific entanglements that have sustained the Cold War unredressability and illegibility of certain violences. By linking justice to the effects of American geopolitical hegemony, and by deploying a conjunctive cultural critique—of "comfort women" redress efforts, state-sponsored apologies and amnesties, Asian American involvement in redress cases, the ongoing effects of the U.S. occupation of Japan and Okinawa, Japanese atrocities in China, and battles over WWII memories—Yoneyama helps illuminate how redress culture across Asia and the Pacific has the potential to bring powerful new and challenging perspectives on American exceptionalism, militarized security, justice, sovereignty, forgiveness, and decolonization.
