Abstract:I develop a socialist republican conception of economic liberty and show how it can be used to understand the domination of workers. It holds that both paid and unpaid workers can be deprived of economic freedom when they are exposed to an arbitrary power to undermine their access to the economic capabilities needed for civic equality. Measures intended to reduce domination are recommended, including public ownership of productive property, workplace democracy, and robust unconditional basic income and services. Finally, I discuss the implications of this approach for platform capitalism, digital surveillance, the rise of automation, and post-work politics.
{"title":"Radical Republicanism and the Future of Work","authors":"Tom O’Shea","doi":"10.1353/lit.2021.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2021.0030","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:I develop a socialist republican conception of economic liberty and show how it can be used to understand the domination of workers. It holds that both paid and unpaid workers can be deprived of economic freedom when they are exposed to an arbitrary power to undermine their access to the economic capabilities needed for civic equality. Measures intended to reduce domination are recommended, including public ownership of productive property, workplace democracy, and robust unconditional basic income and services. Finally, I discuss the implications of this approach for platform capitalism, digital surveillance, the rise of automation, and post-work politics.","PeriodicalId":44728,"journal":{"name":"COLLEGE LITERATURE","volume":"18 1","pages":"1050 - 1067"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89436064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article appraises the value of the Greek Truth Committee on Public Debt (TCPD) as a form of resistance to post-crash neoliberalism. It analyses the TCPD as a knowledge-making practice that directly confronts neoliberalism’s use of sovereign debt as a “technology” designed not only to secure itself against democratic demands but to constrain subjectivity within the model of an entrepreneur-of-the-self. Through an analysis of its Preliminary Report, I explore the TCPD’s work as a form of what Lazzarato calls “counter-expertise,” which not only destabilized dominant mythologies regarding the public debt, but constructed new “truths” about it that could cultivate new modes of political resistance.
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Abstract:Even though the future of work has become a significant public concern, political theory has not yet considered work to be a central concept within the discipline. The five papers in this symposium provide a range of perspectives on what it means to take work seriously within political thought. This introduction will give an account of why work should be considered as important by political theorists, contextualize the broader landscape into which these papers intervene (characterized by the issues of automation, precarity, and social reproduction), and situate them within existing writing on work within political theory.
{"title":"Introduction: Why Should Political Theorists Care About Work?","authors":"Ben Turner, Lucas Van Milders","doi":"10.1353/lit.2021.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2021.0029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Even though the future of work has become a significant public concern, political theory has not yet considered work to be a central concept within the discipline. The five papers in this symposium provide a range of perspectives on what it means to take work seriously within political thought. This introduction will give an account of why work should be considered as important by political theorists, contextualize the broader landscape into which these papers intervene (characterized by the issues of automation, precarity, and social reproduction), and situate them within existing writing on work within political theory.","PeriodicalId":44728,"journal":{"name":"COLLEGE LITERATURE","volume":"20 1","pages":"1035 - 1049"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78818607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article sets out to engage critically with Marxist arguments, in order to develop an account of exploitation which can grasp some key features of academic labor in contemporary capitalism. The article considers the complex ways in which academic labor may contribute to capitalist valorization. Academic labor does this in terms of the intellectual products it generates, the affective dispositions it instils, and the skills it contributes towards producing. The article is also concerned with the differential ways in which academic labor may be exploited on the basis of forms of often pre-constituted class habitus.
{"title":"Academic Labor and its Exploitation","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/lit.2021.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2021.0032","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article sets out to engage critically with Marxist arguments, in order to develop an account of exploitation which can grasp some key features of academic labor in contemporary capitalism. The article considers the complex ways in which academic labor may contribute to capitalist valorization. Academic labor does this in terms of the intellectual products it generates, the affective dispositions it instils, and the skills it contributes towards producing. The article is also concerned with the differential ways in which academic labor may be exploited on the basis of forms of often pre-constituted class habitus.","PeriodicalId":44728,"journal":{"name":"COLLEGE LITERATURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"1090 - 1109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44652534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Political Theology can also be Democratic: On Miguel Vatter’s Divine Democracy.","authors":"M. Herrero","doi":"10.1353/lit.2021.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2021.0036","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44728,"journal":{"name":"COLLEGE LITERATURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"1152 - 1154"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66287146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:What is extinction? What is the difference between death and extinction? Between evolution (surviving as other) and extinction (not surviving at all)? This article begins by considering the articulation of extinction in Extinction Studies. Combining rigorous philosophical insights with cutting-edge scientific research, Extinction Studies offers one of the best understandings we have: the extinct is not “what it is” (absolutely gone), but remains (in both senses of the word). The extinct’s absence survives, calling to us from beyond the grave. However, I argue almost the exact opposite in this article: extinction is remainderless. And extinction itself is going extinct.
{"title":"Survival and Extinction: Deconstruction, Extinction Studies, Paleontology","authors":"L. Donahue","doi":"10.1353/lit.2021.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2021.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:What is extinction? What is the difference between death and extinction? Between evolution (surviving as other) and extinction (not surviving at all)? This article begins by considering the articulation of extinction in Extinction Studies. Combining rigorous philosophical insights with cutting-edge scientific research, Extinction Studies offers one of the best understandings we have: the extinct is not “what it is” (absolutely gone), but remains (in both senses of the word). The extinct’s absence survives, calling to us from beyond the grave. However, I argue almost the exact opposite in this article: extinction is remainderless. And extinction itself is going extinct.","PeriodicalId":44728,"journal":{"name":"COLLEGE LITERATURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"922 - 950"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46294449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Death books by their very nature aspire toward a large target audience but tend not to attract a wide readership in fact, as the topic can become nebulous and, not to mention, rather forbidding. U.S. subjects are, authors Ehlers and Krupar tell us, ensconced within an all-encompassing medical, pharmaceutical, food and fitness-crazed regulatory culture—call it bioculture—that organizes the populace according to an overall life-management regimen that renders its subjects anxiously and obsessively preoccupied with health (not just sex) concerns. [...]extending Foucault's basic biopower thesis from sex to health is apt and proves insightful. The book endeavors to avoid "privileging" the natality-mortality dichotomy ("the life-death dyad") that served as the crux of the Foucauldian pivot toward biopower, that reportedly dramatic shift in the nature of power from death-dealing to life-making. (89) I express that gratitude as someone whose sister-in-law died recently of COVID-19, alone and intubated in the third overflow ICU ward of the woefully overrun hospital that barely accepted her (and then, only after waiting seven hours in the parking lot, already barely breathing with pneumonia and with blood oxygen levels in the 70s);and as someone who, after her death less than a week later, had to spend several days to find a crematorium that would take her body (and even then, with another two-week delay at the least) and found said willing crematorium only after the South Coast Air Quality Management District had suspended the air quality restrictions on the number of bodies that could be cremated daily in the southern California region.
{"title":"Forsan Et Haec Olim Meminisse Iuvabit (review)","authors":"John Seery","doi":"10.1353/lit.2021.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2021.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Death books by their very nature aspire toward a large target audience but tend not to attract a wide readership in fact, as the topic can become nebulous and, not to mention, rather forbidding. U.S. subjects are, authors Ehlers and Krupar tell us, ensconced within an all-encompassing medical, pharmaceutical, food and fitness-crazed regulatory culture—call it bioculture—that organizes the populace according to an overall life-management regimen that renders its subjects anxiously and obsessively preoccupied with health (not just sex) concerns. [...]extending Foucault's basic biopower thesis from sex to health is apt and proves insightful. The book endeavors to avoid \"privileging\" the natality-mortality dichotomy (\"the life-death dyad\") that served as the crux of the Foucauldian pivot toward biopower, that reportedly dramatic shift in the nature of power from death-dealing to life-making. (89) I express that gratitude as someone whose sister-in-law died recently of COVID-19, alone and intubated in the third overflow ICU ward of the woefully overrun hospital that barely accepted her (and then, only after waiting seven hours in the parking lot, already barely breathing with pneumonia and with blood oxygen levels in the 70s);and as someone who, after her death less than a week later, had to spend several days to find a crematorium that would take her body (and even then, with another two-week delay at the least) and found said willing crematorium only after the South Coast Air Quality Management District had suspended the air quality restrictions on the number of bodies that could be cremated daily in the southern California region.","PeriodicalId":44728,"journal":{"name":"COLLEGE LITERATURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"1159 - 1164"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49429101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Black Flesh Female: Zakiyyah Iman Jackson’s Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World","authors":"Kennan Ferguson","doi":"10.1353/lit.2021.0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2021.0035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44728,"journal":{"name":"COLLEGE LITERATURE","volume":"247 1","pages":"1150 - 1152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66287139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This paper considers whether there are reasons to be worried about two controversial expansions to the concept “work” —sex work and emotional labor. It asks, through the lens of Sally Haslanger’s ameliorative conceptual analysis, what happens when an activity is described as “work” and examines the political and theoretical implications of such conceptual creeps. It argues that when an activity is claimed as “work,” a claim is simultaneously made about “work.” It concludes that we need not be pedantic about the application of the “work” to new areas, but that careful attention should be paid to semantic shift.
{"title":"Creeping and Ameliorative Accounts of “Work”","authors":"Amelia Horgan","doi":"10.1353/lit.2021.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/lit.2021.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper considers whether there are reasons to be worried about two controversial expansions to the concept “work” —sex work and emotional labor. It asks, through the lens of Sally Haslanger’s ameliorative conceptual analysis, what happens when an activity is described as “work” and examines the political and theoretical implications of such conceptual creeps. It argues that when an activity is claimed as “work,” a claim is simultaneously made about “work.” It concludes that we need not be pedantic about the application of the “work” to new areas, but that careful attention should be paid to semantic shift.","PeriodicalId":44728,"journal":{"name":"COLLEGE LITERATURE","volume":"48 1","pages":"1110 - 1129"},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41780976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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