Abstract:Plato's Republic links seeing to philosophizing and civic order. Socrates denounces images, but the dialogue's inquiries depend on them while revealing and even enacting the mutual constitution of the visual and political fields. Introducing the text through work by the conceptual artist, Thomas Demand, and representative criticisms of Plato by Ernst Gombrich, Hannah Arendt, and Arthur Danto, I explore the key dependencies and performative moments. My reading undercuts prevailing approaches to Plato while presenting the politics of vision and the visuality of politics in ways relevant to the current image environment yet overlooked in much contemporary political science and theory.
{"title":"The Cave of Images: Understanding Visual Politics in and Through Plato's Republic","authors":"Mark Reinhardt","doi":"10.1353/tae.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Plato's Republic links seeing to philosophizing and civic order. Socrates denounces images, but the dialogue's inquiries depend on them while revealing and even enacting the mutual constitution of the visual and political fields. Introducing the text through work by the conceptual artist, Thomas Demand, and representative criticisms of Plato by Ernst Gombrich, Hannah Arendt, and Arthur Danto, I explore the key dependencies and performative moments. My reading undercuts prevailing approaches to Plato while presenting the politics of vision and the visuality of politics in ways relevant to the current image environment yet overlooked in much contemporary political science and theory.","PeriodicalId":55174,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80266237","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This paper explores Saidiya Hartman's undertheorized account of 'redress' in conversation with the extensive uptake of her work on Black fungibility, subjection, and critiques of emancipation. Although Hartman uses the term in nearly all of her writing, little work has been done to clarify how Hartman conceptualizes redress as a response to the constitution of Black lives as abstract, exchangeable, and disposable. This paper offers an account of how Hartman theorizes redress, showing how it both resists, and acts as a mechanism for, the constitution of Blackness as fungible. Consequently, I argue that Hartman's readers fundamentally skew her thinking in divorcing redress from her other key concepts.
{"title":"Attempting Redress: Fungibility, Ethics, and Redressive Practice in the Work of Saidiya Hartman","authors":"E. Ewara","doi":"10.1353/tae.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This paper explores Saidiya Hartman's undertheorized account of 'redress' in conversation with the extensive uptake of her work on Black fungibility, subjection, and critiques of emancipation. Although Hartman uses the term in nearly all of her writing, little work has been done to clarify how Hartman conceptualizes redress as a response to the constitution of Black lives as abstract, exchangeable, and disposable. This paper offers an account of how Hartman theorizes redress, showing how it both resists, and acts as a mechanism for, the constitution of Blackness as fungible. Consequently, I argue that Hartman's readers fundamentally skew her thinking in divorcing redress from her other key concepts.","PeriodicalId":55174,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82964217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:The concept of freedom drives meaning in the United States, but the meaning of freedom is often ruptured from the historical struggles that produced that meaning. Drawing on intellectual and political traditions in the North Atlantic world, W. E. B. Du Bois critiques this fetishization of freedom. Analyzing and explaining how Du Bois uses this tradition to critique the meaning of freedom sheds light on how political theology can respond to present-day fetishizations of freedom within neoliberalism by offering an alternative meaning of freedom, catalyzed by critique.
{"title":"Unchaining Freedom from Capitalism: W. E. B. Du Bois and Political Theology","authors":"Joseph Drexler-Dreis","doi":"10.1353/tae.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The concept of freedom drives meaning in the United States, but the meaning of freedom is often ruptured from the historical struggles that produced that meaning. Drawing on intellectual and political traditions in the North Atlantic world, W. E. B. Du Bois critiques this fetishization of freedom. Analyzing and explaining how Du Bois uses this tradition to critique the meaning of freedom sheds light on how political theology can respond to present-day fetishizations of freedom within neoliberalism by offering an alternative meaning of freedom, catalyzed by critique.","PeriodicalId":55174,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86539359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article proposes that Locke's basic property-making unit, and thus also contracting unit, is the household rather than the individual. Progressing through two parallel arguments concerning Locke's theory of property—one focuses on the theory of mixing in Roman law and the other on more traditional understanding of labor—it shows how a plurality of people and animals is united under the rule of a single person, allowing the formal category of the individual to expand beyond its corporal limits, into the domestic domain. In some sense, this is an extended version of Pateman's argument concerning the sexual contract, placing the latter within an intersectional framework that moves beyond the question of kinship and the family to the economic questions of class and production, as well as colonial questions of expansion and racial hierarchization.
{"title":"Locke's Consuming Individual: A Theory of the Mixing Body","authors":"Hagar Kotef","doi":"10.1353/tae.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article proposes that Locke's basic property-making unit, and thus also contracting unit, is the household rather than the individual. Progressing through two parallel arguments concerning Locke's theory of property—one focuses on the theory of mixing in Roman law and the other on more traditional understanding of labor—it shows how a plurality of people and animals is united under the rule of a single person, allowing the formal category of the individual to expand beyond its corporal limits, into the domestic domain. In some sense, this is an extended version of Pateman's argument concerning the sexual contract, placing the latter within an intersectional framework that moves beyond the question of kinship and the family to the economic questions of class and production, as well as colonial questions of expansion and racial hierarchization.","PeriodicalId":55174,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74188586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Carl Schmitt famously charged that "All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts…" We contend that this argument has not been taken seriously enough in its historical, systematic, or tendentious intent. Using his 1956 essay "Hamlet oder Hecuba," we offer a contextualization of Schmitt's late political theology. Tracing the sectarian elements revealed here against their alternatives, we demonstrate the overriding interpretive importance of Schmitt's radical Roman Catholic political theology: the character of Schmitt's thinking was always already religiously sectarian.
{"title":"Carl Schmitt's Enemies: Context for a Critique of Political Theology","authors":"Philip A. Michelbach, Andrew L. Poe","doi":"10.1353/tae.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Carl Schmitt famously charged that \"All significant concepts of the modern theory of the state are secularized theological concepts…\" We contend that this argument has not been taken seriously enough in its historical, systematic, or tendentious intent. Using his 1956 essay \"Hamlet oder Hecuba,\" we offer a contextualization of Schmitt's late political theology. Tracing the sectarian elements revealed here against their alternatives, we demonstrate the overriding interpretive importance of Schmitt's radical Roman Catholic political theology: the character of Schmitt's thinking was always already religiously sectarian.","PeriodicalId":55174,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79724535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being","authors":"Erin Tatz","doi":"10.1353/tae.2022.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55174,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83755373","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Commentators frequently describe the #metoo movement as a kind of "consciousness-raising." This language works to position #metoo within a radical, political tradition of feminist activism, yet obscures anti-political, dogmatic undercurrents in contemporary feminism. I analyze contemporary and second wave feminist writings to reveal three, anti-political uses of "consciousness-raising" common to both eras. I recover a fourth usage—revolutionary consciousness-raising—deriving from early radical feminists' experiences with various forms of leftist activism. Revolutionary consciousness-raising can inspire a revitalized political imaginary: one that is radically democratic, and that aims to unsettle all dogma—including feminist dogma.
{"title":"Dead Dogma and the Limits of Feminist Political Imagination: Thinking #Metoo as Consciousness-Raising","authors":"Michael P. Ferguson","doi":"10.1353/tae.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Commentators frequently describe the #metoo movement as a kind of \"consciousness-raising.\" This language works to position #metoo within a radical, political tradition of feminist activism, yet obscures anti-political, dogmatic undercurrents in contemporary feminism. I analyze contemporary and second wave feminist writings to reveal three, anti-political uses of \"consciousness-raising\" common to both eras. I recover a fourth usage—revolutionary consciousness-raising—deriving from early radical feminists' experiences with various forms of leftist activism. Revolutionary consciousness-raising can inspire a revitalized political imaginary: one that is radically democratic, and that aims to unsettle all dogma—including feminist dogma.","PeriodicalId":55174,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85331539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expropriating the Commons: Review of Daniel Bensaïd's The Dispossessed","authors":"Mark J. Kaswan","doi":"10.1353/tae.2022.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55174,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84162282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"\"The Presence of Yourself to Yourself\": A Politics?","authors":"Dean Mathiowetz","doi":"10.1353/tae.2022.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":55174,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86282320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article unsettles the traditional views about Sophocles' Philoctetes and Plato's Republic on the issues of noble lying and democratic rhetoric. I do this by delving deeper into 1) the Athenian democratic context in which both works are set or were staged, 2) the intertextualities between the two works, and 3) recent scholarship that reads both Plato and Sophocles against the grain of the traditional scholarship. This new reading allows us to understand Plato's infamous noble lie (gennaion pseudos) as a less anti-democratic teaching about ideal forms of rhetoric than it is normally taken to be.
{"title":"Noble Lying and Democratic Rhetoric in Sophocles' Philoctetes and Plato's Republic","authors":"Christina H. Tarnopolsky","doi":"10.1353/tae.2022.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/tae.2022.0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article unsettles the traditional views about Sophocles' Philoctetes and Plato's Republic on the issues of noble lying and democratic rhetoric. I do this by delving deeper into 1) the Athenian democratic context in which both works are set or were staged, 2) the intertextualities between the two works, and 3) recent scholarship that reads both Plato and Sophocles against the grain of the traditional scholarship. This new reading allows us to understand Plato's infamous noble lie (gennaion pseudos) as a less anti-democratic teaching about ideal forms of rhetoric than it is normally taken to be.","PeriodicalId":55174,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Event Dynamic Systems-Theory and Applications","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80598921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"计算机科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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