Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-9809137
C. Jensen
Over the last decade, the Anthropocene has overrun the discourses of the humanities and social sciences. Remarkably, two of the most astute commentators, the cross-disciplinary theorist Barbara Herrnstein Smith and the unorthodox philosopher Isabelle Stengers, find inspiration for grappling with these issues in the same apparently odd place: the work of the Polish microbiologist and comparative epistemologist Ludwik Fleck. The first part of this essay explores the role of Fleck's radical constructivism in Smith's analyses of perplexing Anthropocene realities and Stengers's arguments for slowing down science and learning to “compose with Gaia.” In conjunction, they generate a pattern of speculative, conceptual, practical, and political motifs for dealing with changing climates. The second half of the essay uses those insights to test a divergent series of proposals for how to conceive science, politics, theory, and environmental relations in the Anthropocene.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-9809347
Thibault De Meyer
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-9809431
B. Allen
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-9809333
M. Perloff
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-9809165
J. M. Perl
In this piece, the editor of Common Knowledge introduces a long-term project titled “Antipolitics: Symposium in Memory of György Konrád.” Konrád, who died in 2019, was a founding member of the Common Knowledge editorial board, and the symposium is meant to find present-day applications for the arguments of his book Antipolitics, published in 1982 in Hungarian. Although written under Cold War conditions and to that extent dated, the book is directed against politics and politicians as such: “What Machiavelli's Prince is to would-be rulers, Antipolitics should be for those resistant to being ruled — a treasury of axioms and apothegms,” which this editorial collects, updates, and analyzes. Given that democratic systems and constitutions are “open and subject to further development,” Konrád urges us to devise and run experiments in governance that apply “creative imagination” to problems that, in better times, we might leave to politicians to resolve. “The crisis for democracy today,” Perl argues, “is that bad government (as Konrád, Václav Havel, and Adam Michnik defined it in the 1980s) appears to be what various electorates crave and therefore choose.” Realizing that elections produce, as Aristotle said, oligarchy rather than democracy, we should rethink majority rule and experiment with sortition as a counterpolitical means of self-government.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-9809492
B. Randall
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-9809151
Liesl Yamaguchi
Abstract:As a follow-up to the Common Knowledge symposium "Apology for Quietism" (15:1 to 16:3), this guest column asks what it means to say nothing. Strictly speaking, to "say nothing" is a contradiction in terms (unless, of course, one says "Nothing," which is another thing entirely and generally not nothing). This essay explores what it means to say nothing in Tove Jansson's novella Fair Play (first published in Finland Swedish as Rent spel, 1989), an episodic account of the intertwined lives of two elderly artists. Through its careful staging of saying nothing, the text calls attention to the many vital functions that silence serves: exposing tacit expectations, opening up creative and psychological space, enabling otherwise impossible relations. Bringing forth the diversity, complexity, and mystery behind hesitation and reticence, Jansson's novella emerges here as a quiet celebration of conversational practices associated with weakness, redefining the genre of the "love story" along the way.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-9809417
G. T. Tanselle
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