Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10026
Federico Losurdo
Abstract This article deals with the concept of organic crisis from a legal and a constitutional point of view and compares the different forms of constitutional transitions that have taken place in Europe and in Latin America from authoritarian regime to democracy. The reappearance of forms of neo-fascism is the result of the collapse of the Keynesian social pact, due to the ascension of neoliberal rationality, which is based on the dogmas of financial stability and hyper-competitiveness. The concrete result has been that inequality in the global distribution of wealth has reached astronomical levels. The question must be asked whether the ineptitude of the ruling classes in addressing the dramatic health and socio-economic effects of the covid -19 pandemic signify a neoliberal organic crisis.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10027
Diego Gullotta, Lili Lin
Abstract The article argues that the practice of the grassroots theatre group Grass Stage provides an inspiring method for (un)doing Cultural Studies in China, in view of the challenges brought by the institutionalisation of mainland Chinese Cultural Studies and its theoretical impasse. This method, we argue, includes four key aspects: firstly, it positions itself from the margins, developing a critical relation with the centre; secondly, it transforms the urban space dominated by the state and the market into public and political space; thirdly, it uses the body as a point to connect the individual and society; lastly, it places the audience at the centre of the social construction of meaning through post-performance dialogue. The method proposed is a metaphor, in S. Hall’s terms, for developing possible counter-hegemonic elements, which open up the horizons of the possible. It offers a way to dislocate culture through reflections on the powers currently operating in Chinese society.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10033
Isabella Soi
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Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10032
Margherita Sabrina Perra, Francesca Congiu, Francesco Pontarelli
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Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10031
Dennis Arnold
{"title":"Jean-Yves Frétigné, To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci","authors":"Dennis Arnold","doi":"10.1163/26667185-bja10031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/26667185-bja10031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":498100,"journal":{"name":"Notebooks: the journal for studies on power","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136356825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10025
Marcos Del Roio, Geraldo Magella Neres
Abstract The Gramscian proposition of the “modern Prince”, like most of the concepts elaborated by Gramsci in the Prison Notebooks , has always been open to interpretative controversy. These exegetical controversies stem from two main factors: the fragmentary nature of the prison writings and the method of work employed by Gramsci. The aim of this article is to apply the methodological perspective of “social contextualism” to the understanding of the Gramscian concept of the modern Prince. There is a threefold advantage in applying this methodology to the reading of Gramsci’s political theory: 1) it allows one to grasp the unitarity between theory and practice in Gramscian political elaboration, linking the militant Gramsci with the theoretical Gramsci (the pre-prison and prison writings); 2) it allows one to identify how the theory of the party present in the “Lyon Theses” was maintained and further developed in the Prison Notebooks ; and, consequently, iii) it further allows one to identify the proposition of the modern Prince as the most advanced development of a theory of the party that had already been conceived by Gramsci in the period before his imprisonment.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-23DOI: 10.1163/26667185-bja10029
Maurizio Atzeni
Abstract An analysis of the current state and political horizons of working-class organisations in Argentina can be developed along two intersecting lines. In the first, we have trade unions representing workers in the formal sector, which accounts for about half of the country’s working population. In the second, we have social movements, based in both the urban and rural space, representing poor and informal workers. These two lines often run parallel to one another but also intersect and merge at different points following the cycles of capital accumulation and crisis typical of a peripheral country.
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