Pub Date : 2023-06-01DOI: 10.1177/00905917231173442
Mark Reinhardt
Considering formative twentieth-century theories in relation to contemporary technosocial developments, this article examines ideas of spectacle and surveillance as ways of approaching visual politics. I argue that the historically important relationship between the visual and political fields is now intensifying and mutating. First discussing Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, I show how his influential approach proves inadequate to the politics of image-saturated societies. I next show how critics of imperial and racial spectacles, from Michael Rogin to Claudia Rankine and Tina Campt, provide better ways of engaging power and political contestation in the visual field. Third, I examine how Michel Foucault deployed notions of spectacle in his own work but argued for leaving the term behind, presenting surveillance as not just a different modality of power but also spectacle’s temporal successor. This account remains essential for both historical understanding and reckoning with contemporary surveillance. Fourth, however, as Simone Browne argues, Foucault’s separation between spectacle and surveillance is too stark, his history too prone to occlude race. Furthermore, recent surveillance technologies and practices have changed in ways that confound his terms, while extending and also altering the racial dynamics explored earlier in the essay. Today, even surveillance based on optical media contributes to a “postvisual” image world in which algorithmic, machine-machine communication abets forms of power neither tied to human perception nor graspable as subject formation. With surprising assistance from Debord, I end by discussing the significant theoretical and political challenges posed by the ironies of postvisual visuality.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-27DOI: 10.1177/00905917231167253
Jessica Elbert Decker, Natalie Parker-Lawrence
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Pub Date : 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1177/00905917231169979
R. Douglass
This article analyzes the relationship between the ideas of cruelty and injustice in Judith Shklar’s political theory. Shklar’s The Faces of Injustice is sometimes read as an instantiation of the liberalism of fear, which regards cruelty and the fear that it inspires as the summum malum. I challenge this interpretation and instead argue that her account of injustice should be read independently of her commitment to the liberalism of fear. In doing so, I show how her exploration of the faces of injustice—especially the importance she accords to passive injustice and the sense of injustice—raises important challenges for the liberal case for putting cruelty first. Although democratic attitudes and institutions constitute the best available remedy for the sense of injustice, on Shklar’s account, those who focus too much on the requirements of democratic citizenship risk treating injustice as a greater evil than cruelty, which could, in turn, facilitate cruelty and undermine liberal democracy. I conclude by suggesting that the republican-inspired theory of citizenship from The Faces of Injustice, which Shklar outlines in response to the problem of passive injustice, reflects a distinct strand of her political theory that goes beyond the more familiar defense of law-bound constitutional government associated with the liberalism of fear.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1177/00905917231167092
C. Henderson
This paper revisits Tocqueville’s famous portrait of the American female, which begins with assertions of her equality to males but ends with her self-cloistering in the domestic sphere. Taking a cue from Tocqueville’s extended sketch of the “faded” pioneer wife in “A Fortnight in the Wilderness” and drawing connections to Tocqueville’s criticisms of the division of industrial labor, I argue that the American girl’s ostensibly free choice to remove herself from public life is not an act of freedom. Rather, it is a manifestation of a particular type of unfreedom that reveals underappreciated connections between the two great dangers about which Democracy in America warns: tyrannical majoritarianism and soft despotism. My argument that the girl’s choice to withdraw from public life is coerced rather than free thus highlights the nonpolitical sources of oppression that exist within democratic societies. The paper concludes by raising questions about the need for coercion within Tocquevillian democracy and the implications of this for Tocqueville’s “new” political science—indeed, for his liberalism more generally.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-24DOI: 10.1177/00905917231165686
Erica Townsend-Bell
Deva Woodly’s Reckoning is a deep and illuminating dive into the Movement for Black Lives (M4BL)1 and the shifts in worldview philosophy and future visioning it promotes. It is a difficult book to review because Woodly has done such a masterful job at examining and analyzing the movement itself, its contribution to American Politics specifically, and democracy broadly. But try I will. The big-picture contribution of the book is outlined within the subtitle. At base, Woodly’s argument is that social movements are a necessary and recurring condition of democracy, and an essential part of the democratic apparatus. They are democratic institutions in their own right, and thus it is impossible to offer a full theorization of democracy that does not account for them. In this understanding, movements offer three principal functions— antidote, imagination, and re/politicization. First, the antidote. Movements make apparent the inaccuracies of the interest group pluralism model, and join the extensive set of entities that underscore the point that the powers of voice, inclusion, and representation are not enough. Importantly, they do not accept the fact of systemic inequities as unchangeable status quo, but rather see these as problems in need of intervention on a spectrum ranging from reform to excision. In doing so, movements push back on the lens of despair through which modern politics is commonly viewed, and raise new notions of what public life should look like. This is the imaginative component, and 1165686 PTXXXX10.1177/00905917231165686Political TheoryBook Reviews book-review2023
Deva Woodly的《清算》深入而富有启发性地探讨了黑人生命运动(M4BL)1及其所推动的世界观哲学和未来愿景的转变。这是一本很难回顾的书,因为Woodly在审视和分析这场运动本身,特别是它对美国政治和广泛民主的贡献方面做得非常出色。但我会尽力的。这本书的总体贡献在副标题中概述。基本上,Woodly的论点是,社会运动是民主的必要和反复出现的条件,也是民主机构的重要组成部分。它们本身就是民主机构,因此不可能提供不考虑它们的民主的完整理论。在这种理解中,运动提供了三个主要功能——解药、想象和重新政治化。首先是解药。运动表明了利益集团多元化模式的不准确性,并加入了一系列广泛的实体,这些实体强调了声音、包容性和代表性的力量是不够的。重要的是,他们不接受系统性不平等的事实,认为这是不可改变的现状,而是认为这些问题需要从改革到切除等一系列干预。在这样做的过程中,各运动推翻了人们普遍认为的现代政治的绝望镜头,并提出了公共生活应该是什么样子的新概念。这是富有想象力的组成部分,1165686 PTXXXX10.1177/00905917231165686政治理论书评书评2023
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Pub Date : 2023-04-19DOI: 10.1177/00905917231166753
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Pub Date : 2023-04-04DOI: 10.1177/00905917231156630
M. Rose
Several contemporary scholars have embraced the aesthetic resources in the Black Radical Tradition for the purpose of revitalizing the democratic project. Ironically, however, many drawn to the radical potential of fugitive escape are concerned about flight or exodus from the democratic project itself resulting in a defense of politics that constricts the possible benefits of fugitive aesthetics for democratic life. This article draws on the work of Alain Locke, a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, to suggest another way in which we might follow Black fugitive aesthetics. Through an engagement with Locke, I theorize the notion of a fugitive bearing associated with a set of sensibilities that we might cultivate in order to approach the task of democratic transformation as a “reverent vandalism.” This article also challenges dismissive readings of Locke’s aestheticism by closely reexamining his commitment to expressive autonomy in connection with his theory of democracy. His “New Negro” avant-garde, like the fugitive, remains tethered to political life even while seeking a freedom that is unavailable within the strictures of the standing normative order.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1177/00905917231155291
Lisa Beard
This essay explores the archive of a 1971 interview of Angela Davis by Swedish journalist Bo Holmström—recorded in Santa Clara County Jail where Davis awaited trial—to examine the relationship between Black radical thought and its social and intellectual mediation, especially when it comes to questions of violence versus nonviolence. Where Holmström invokes the “violence/nonviolence” binary in the interview, Davis pointedly resists its distortions, restoring the record of contemporary and historical conditions of racial terror that both necessitate and criminalize Black self-defense. Decades later, the interview was filtered through the violence/nonviolence binary in editing for the acclaimed 2011 documentary, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, with Davis’s wider conversation with Holmström not only abridged but remixed into a shorter exchange on armed self-defense. Studying the interview from its conditions of possibility through its later remixing, and reading it together with her opening defense statement (1972) and later speeches and writings, the essay excavates and explicates Davis’s original theoretical interventions and indexes a cluster of forces that mediate Black radical thought, Black women’s radical thought more specifically, and prison texts. The final section historicizes Davis’s theorization of the spatial and relational contexts of Black self-defense in Dynamite Hill, Alabama, and in California, and contends that her incisive interventions into the violence/nonviolence binary in 1971 remain critical here and now.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-17DOI: 10.1177/00905917231157468
William R. Cameron
This paper re-examines the idea of political vanguardism—long consigned to the dustbin of defunct scientific socialist ideology—to shed light on the theory of democratic representation. The discussion connects the use of the term “vanguard” by two prominent early socialist thinkers to what it terms the “cosmological” dimension of their writings. It shows how each author figured vanguard agency as fomenting different visions of the intellectual progress required for representative government, and that these visions were sustained by analogies to the origin and development of astronomical objects. The “utopian” socialist Henri Saint-Simon (1770–1825) first invoked the vanguard metaphor to describe a way of thinking about scientific progress that would naturalize a new governing elite. The revolutionary communist Auguste Blanqui (1805–1881) then appropriated the vanguard idea to reimagine scientific authority in a way that would preserve and expand citizens’ capacities to hold their representatives accountable. The article pursues three goals. First, it provides a revisionist history of well-known scientistic attempts to stabilize mass democracy in the nineteenth century, revealing how claims to scientific authority were contested from within a socialist republican tradition usually seen as complicit in such agency-inhibiting ideologies. Second, the concept of vanguardism it reconstructs from this history, as a response to the “usurpation” of a vigilant attitude between citizens and office holders, offers new resources for theorizing democratic representation. Finally, it draws attention to the importance of cosmological rhetoric in the history of modern republican and socialist political thought.
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