Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/tae.2023.a909212
Sarah Miller, Emily Beausoleil
Abstract: On March 15th, 2019, a terrorist targeted two mosques in Christchurch, resulting in 51 deaths and many more injured. In the wake of these events, the Aotearoa New Zealand community struggled to make sense of what they meant for who “we” are. This article traces developments and tensions within the discourse that emerged in the two weeks following the attacks, identifying three significant framings: discourses of unity, innocence, and responsibility. Analyzing these discourses via Jacques Rancière’s theory of politics, we explore whether this marked a truly political moment wherein “the part that has no part”—the Muslim community of Aotearoa New Zealand—was actually heard.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/tae.2023.a909211
Sara Rushing, Karen de Vries
Abstract: This essay explores how the figure of the good citizen might be reimagined in terms of a citizen-subjectivity that is up to the demands of our times (neoliberalism, climate apocalypse, and rising authoritarianism). Theorizing “citizen-subjectivity” as a way-of-seeing-and-being in power/knowledge relations, we engage recent work by Donna Haraway and William Connolly to explore potential figures of radical citizen-subjectivity, focusing on the figure of “the scout.” In conversation with Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Grrrrl Scouts and honey bee scouts, we argue for the need to tell tales of the body politic differently, in form, content, and cast of characters.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/tae.2023.a909213
William Tilleczek
Abstract: This article argues that asceticism—understood in the etymological sense of “training”—can productively be incorporated into analyses of politics. It is of particular use in thinking through questions of inequality and domination. I first theorize askesis as dynamogenic , that is, productive of (political and ethical) capacities. Using case studies of Ancient Athens and twentieth century India, I then analyze askesis as a tool for producing and resisting domination, and suggest the political importance of taking control of “the means of training.” I conclude with reflections on the significance of this framework for understanding neoliberal ethics and rising fascist tendencies.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/tae.2023.a909215
Thomas L. Dumm
Nobody’s Perfect: Autobiography and the Ethos of Democracy Thomas L. Dumm (bio) If an autobiography is to be even minimally readable, the autobiographer must step in and subdue what you could call memory’s autism, its passion for the tedious. He must not be afraid to invent. Above all he must invent himself. Like Rousseau, who wrote (at the beginning of his novelistic Confessions) that “I am not made like anyone I have ever been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence,” he must sustain, in spite of all evidence to the contrary, the illusion of his preternatural extraordinariness. —Janet Malcolm1 Introduction: Writing and Reading Often, when an intellectual memoir appears—perhaps especially one that has originated from within the academic world—it is presented to its public as a sort of completion of one’s life work, a personal summum bonum, a writing that serves somehow to justify the author’s devotion to creating a body of work over their lifetime. Told from the perspective of someone who is reaching toward a conclusion, perhaps even from a point where they may assume—hopefully not hubristically—to have achieved some sort of wisdom, the memoir appears as a sort of capstone; given the genre, it is not unlike a final paper handed in at the completion of a course. Maybe one vaguely senses mortality knocking; maybe one feels as though they have peaked in their intellectual powers, and before decline sets in too far wants to get some coherent self-understanding out of what the unreliable memory of the past presents to oneself of oneself. Sometimes a vague or specific urgency, a worry about the possibility of diminishing self-perception, sometimes an incomplete life or a life interrupted, or even a life drawing to an end, impels them forward, forward before time runs out. Who is the audience for such markings? Janet Malcolm assumes that it is any and all readers who, within the limits of reasonability—with no patience for “memory’s autism, its passion for the tedious”—presume to learn something second-hand from lessons learned by another over their lifetime. The academic intellectual memoirist usually [End Page 758] comes well equipped for such a task. After a lifetime of teaching, they remain a pedagogue to the end. And after a lifetime of writing, they have an archive they can lean on, as well as continued contact with colleagues, former students, and others that may help them as they piece together elements of the past. I have already made note, but it bears repeating: an important reason for undertaking such an exercise is not only to explain oneself to others, but to explain oneself to oneself. This quest for self-understanding need not be an exercise in individual celebration or self-congratulation—in fact it should not be—but it can be something better; a reflection on the contingencies of the particular life one has lived and its connections, both strong and attenuated, to the more general life of the mind one has participated in. At
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/tae.2023.a909218
Stefan Yong
The Supply Chain Beneficiary: Review of Benjamin McKean’s Dis-orienting Neoliberalism Stefan Yong (bio) Benjamin L. McKean. Disorienting Neoliberalism: Global Justice and the Outer Limit of Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 304 pp. $32.99 (pb). ISBN: 9780197674192. The political theory of the supply chain presented in Benjamin McKean’s Dis-orienting Neoliberalism is a powerful response to critiques of neoliberal ideology or theories of global justice that remain erroneously unmoored from the concrete conditions of capitalist production in our present. The book’s over-arching argument is elegantly ambitious. If neoliberalism is a comprehensive worldview or “complete orientation” (21) that explains how the world operates, deigns to legitimate those operations, and offers a normative guide for action in such a world, then neoliberalism’s interpellated subjects must disorient themselves from neoliberalism and reorient themselves to an emancipatory political theory. This alternative theoretical edifice, which McKean carefully constructs over six main chapters, proposes to explain the supply chain as a political institution shot through with struggle; legitimate justice-oriented subjectivity around “the outer limit of freedom”; and guide action understood as a disposition to solidarity and a habituation to social movement participation. “Today,” as McKean puts it in his nod to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, “though man is born free, he is everywhere in supply chains” (47). The supply chain, [End Page 783] a new “economic form” (15) instantiating chains per se, is the ubiquitous acme of unfreedom and injustice. When contemplated by the North American consumer—the book’s presumed reader, sometimes addressed in the second person—the supply chain produces affective disquiet that McKean describes as “dizzying” or “unsettling” feelings at capital’s “uncanny magic” (51). The supply chain is McKean’s central object because it modulates between capitalist enormity and capitalist intimacy, implicating a planetary ordering of social relations under the sign of value as well as the experience of that ordering in the perceptual and affective registers of everyday life. In figurally anchoring McKean’s analysis, the supply chain becomes a synecdoche for global capitalism in a roughly periodized totality, lending the book its undeniable scope and urgency. The supply chain is that paradigmatic “neoliberal transformation” (24–26) which the “influential political theory” of neoliberalism (5) seeks to justify. It is “inseparable from the texture of daily life” (47) not only for justice-seeking consumers, but also for neoliberal ideologues, for whom the flaring up of supply chains in everyday perception presents an opportunity for sociodicy. For a Friedman (Milton or Thomas), a supply chain commodity “appears as a kind of miracle” (52), while the frictionless, flat supply chain world inspires not disquiet but “grateful wonder” (51) in an aesthetic experience of sym
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/tae.2023.a909216
Chaz Briscoe
A Handbook for Anticolonial Research Chaz Briscoe (bio) Max Liboiron. Pollution Is Colonialism. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2021. 216 pp. $25.95 (pb). ISBN: 9781478014133. Max Liboiron’s Pollution is Colonialism is a field manual for engaging in intentionally anticolonial research. While the argument reorients your perspective on pollution, their project also concerns the colonial mechanisms of dominant scientific assumptions and methodological priorities. In that sense, Liboiron tracks how concepts such as assimilative capacity, universalism, fieldwork, and S-curves betray both an entitlement and differentiation that legitimizes colonial obligations within research. Concluding in their last chapter, Liboiron offers an alternative guide to practicing anticolonial scientific inquiry. I stress “inquiry” because the protocols the author offers can be employed by those in the humanities, social science, and natural sciences alike. It is this protocol of anticolonial practice that any theorist could use. We, as theorists, find ourselves engaging with topics, events, and issues connected to people, histories, and cultures. As political theorists, there is a need to be aware of the relations of power. Pollution is Colonialism provides a method of investigating every relationship for its specificity, accountability, and obligations—in other words, what power looks like in action. Chapters 1 and 2 disentangle and analyze the differences and impacts between Indigenous and dominant science, while Chapter 3 provides a method of anticolonial science based on compromise, obligation, community peer review, refusal, and generalizations. In the book’s conclusion, the anticolonial protocols offer a historical, contextual, and place-specific research approach. For theorists in a field that stresses empiricism, this orientation toward our work can help provide clarity and a model of the relations we theorize about. I appreciated that, in addition to the accessibility of the text, there was a quick and concise critique of capital, including such frames as scale, enclosure, and accumulation. These terms signal arguments made in environmental discourses about Black people. Though the text is based in Newfoundland and centers on Indigenous Studies and settler colonialism, I observe similar dynamics within the framework of racial capitalism. The analysis exemplifies resistance to capitalist modes of discourse and erasure. In contrast, some environmental discourses focus on conservation, which often fails to meet the ubiquity of environmental problems, especially in Black communities. Thus, Marxism as a method allows the reader to think through systemic relationships of extraction, as the text advocates, insisting on solutions that are on the scale of the environmental issue and honest about the primary polluters versus those who are the victims of primary pollution. Pollution is Colonialism soars in its ability to articulate fundamental contentions between Western
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/tae.2023.a909214
Darko Vinketa
Abstract: This article identifies a tension between two opposing conceptualizations of power within contemporary political theory: the vitalist understanding of power as force, friction, and agonism, and the deconstructivist treatment of power as impressionability, imitation, and theatricality. It situates this divergence within Gilles Deleuze’s employment of Nietzsche against the Hegelian dialectics, and proceeds to excavate a latent shadow of theatricality running through both Hegel’s and Nietzsche’s respective theorizations of power as bondage and as tragedy. This rearticulates the primary operation of power as one that is neither superseded by Reason as in Hegel, nor entirely exhausted by the excesses of materiality over and above identity as in Deleuze’s uptake of the Nietzschean “will-to-power.”
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Pub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1353/tae.2023.a909217
O. L. Silverman
Critique of Critique of Critique: Review of Roy Ben-Shai’s Critique of Critique O. L. Silverman (bio) Roy Ben-Shai. Critique of Critique. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2023. 238 pp. $28.00 (pb). ISBN 9781503632684. The title of this review writes itself. This is precisely the guiding concern of Roy Ben-Shai’s Critique of Critique. CoC attends to the pervasiveness and automaticity of critique as an orientation of thought. Critiquing critique as a modality of thought does not mean negating, debunking, or objecting to it. Ben-Shai follows Kant’s sense of ‘critique’ in The Critique of Pure Reason; to critique critique means to articulate the conditions that give rise to (critical) knowledge. CoC aims to inhabit the paradox of its own enterprise. If critique is the act of pointing, Ben-Shai points both at the hand of the finger that is pointing and its environment. The book aims to bring the structural premises and essential features of critique into view to limit its scope, which Ben-Shai fears has become relentlessly repetitious and blind to its own repetitions. In associating the ubiquity and limitlessness of critique with prevailing cultural exhaustion, CoC joins a clade of recent works1 that sound critique’s shortcomings. These post-critical works did not escape criticism2 and are now known as another camp in the method wars of literary studies. Because critique is “a perennial and irreplaceable mode of thought,” there will be no utopia of post-critique (3). This book clarifies the limits of critique to clear a path for other orientations of critical thought. Orientation is, in fact, a central term of art in the book. “By orientation,” Ben-Shai means “not only a way of thinking but a way of being as well. An orientation is not only a way of being and thinking in the world but an orientation of the world itself” (6). Although critique has become the dominant mode of thought, especially in the humanities, it is nevertheless just one possible orientation. Orientation implies that reality can be “accessed in more than one way” (200). The orientation of critique is spectatorial, that of the viewer or judge, rather than, for example, that of the actor or the victim. Inhabiting the orientation of critique, the thinker is a passive viewer who relates to the world as a spectacle, and in doing so, is positioned toward the world in just this way. CoC begins with an overture that demonstrates the time-bending pleasures of philosophical reading as a full section tarries with a single Horkheimer sentence. The sentence is treated as a skeletal emblem of all critique’s structure. Critique’s orientation presumes that the world is in a sordid state, and its task is to perceive that state, organize the facts, and produce a theory. For Ben-Shai, the irrepressible wrongness of the world is constituted by the orientation of critique, for critique is precisely the vantage that can only perceive the wrongs of the world. Critique’s disposition is one of morali
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