Politics of Withdrawal Media, Arts, Theory
Innbundet /
2020
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781786616333
Publisert
2020-12-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield International
Vekt
503 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
208
Om bidragsyterne
Pepita Hesselberth is a DFF Laureate and assistant professor of film and digital culture at Leiden University, The Netherlands.Joost de Bloois is assistant professor of literary and cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam, and a researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.
Politics of Withdrawal considers the significance of practices and theories of withdrawal for radical thinking today. With contributions of major theorists in the fields of contemporary political philosophy, cultural studies and media studies, the chapters investigate the multiple contexts, possibilities and impasses of political withdrawal – from the radical to the seemingly mundane – and reflect a range of case studies varying from the political thinking of Debord, the Invisible Committee, Moten and Harney, feminist notions of ‘strike’ and ‘exit’, and indigenous forms of sabotage, to the individual retreat as means of reconfiguring political subjectivity. It looks at technological failure as disconnection from surveillance, and from alternative financial futures to contemporary ‘pharmako-politics.’ The volume provides a vital grip on a key notion in contemporary radical politics, in all its complexity, contradictions and tribulations.
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This book considers the significance of practices and theories of withdrawal (exodus, desertion, retreat) for radical thinking with contributions from major theorists in the fields of contemporary political philosophy, cultural studies and media studies (including Bernard Stiegler, Isabel Lorey, Sara Sharma, Claire Birchall and more).
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Introduction: Towards a Politics of Withdrawal?Pepita Hesselberth and Joost de BlooisChapter 1Can the Internet be turned off? Infrastructures of Dis-DisconnectivityFlorian SprengerChapter 2Assemblages of Withdrawal Clare BirchallChapter 3“You Saw the Cactus Bloom”: On the Impossibility of Withdrawal from YouMél HoganChapter 4Proof-of-Withdrawal: Finance in the Undercommons Erik BordeleauChapter 5Melancholic Retreat: Narratives of Withdrawal in Contemporary Political TheoryJoost de BlooisChapter 6W for Withdrawal: Or, Politics without PersonhoodYasco Horsman Chapter 7A Parallel Art of LivingElena LoizidouChapter 8Withdrawal Symptoms: Refusal, Sabotage, SuspensionDarin BarneyChapter 9Withdrawal as Exodus and Strike. Political Strategies for a Presentist Democracy Isabell LoreyChapter 10On Leaving Academia and the Need to Take Refuge Pepita HesselberthChapter 11Detox Politics: Thinking-Healing the Retreat of the PublicBernard Stiegler and Gerald MooreCoda: Staying Power Sarah SharmaContributorsIndex
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781786616333
Publisert
2020-12-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Rowman & Littlefield International
Vekt
503 gr
Høyde
241 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
208
Om bidragsyterne
Pepita Hesselberth is a DFF Laureate and assistant professor of film and digital culture at Leiden University, The Netherlands.Joost de Bloois is assistant professor of literary and cultural analysis at the University of Amsterdam, and a researcher at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis.