3.7.09
Lady Monica Cockfield PhD scholarship, University of Salford, UK
Lady Monica Cockfield Memorial Trust Scholarship for a PhD in European Studies Every year the University of Salford offers a number of Graduate Teaching Assistantships (GTAs) for suitably qualified candidates wishing to study for a PhD. The European Studies Research Institute is very happy to announce that it is in a position to also advertise for an extra Lady Monica Cockfield Memorial Trust PhD scholarship in European studies (after we appointed our first Cockfield PhD student in April 2009) with the aim of providing a student from a low-income background the chance of studying for a PhD on the European Union. Applications are now invited for PhD study based in the European Studies Research Institute (ESRI). The PhD scholarship is worth £12,000 per annum over three years and is open to UK/EU students. The closing dates for applications is 10 August 09. The earliest registration date for the successful applicant is September 2009. Please apply for the Lady Monica Cockfield Memorial Trust PhD scholarship in European studies using the normal application material. Those who are shortlisted for the scholarship will be asked to provide evidence of how they meet the criteria listed above. In addition, please also provide a letter to indicate to what extent your application fulfils the aims of the scholarship listed above. For details on how to apply for a PhD please visit: www.esri.salford.ac.uk <http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/> http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk/esri/p/?s=5&pid=15 For any additional queries, please contact: Dr Christian Kaunert T +44 (0)161 295 4839 c.kaunert@salford.ac.uk Dr Christian Kaunert Lecturer in EU Politics & International Relations School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History Crescent House University of Salford Manchester M5 4WT European Studies Research Institute http://www.esri.salford.ac.uk E-mail: c.kaunert@salford.ac.uk Tel.: +44(0)161 295 4839
1.7.09
Cultural Translation Conference
Cultural Translation
11th December 2009, Cardiff University
Call for Papers
Etymologically, the word translation is linked, among other things, to “tradition” on the one hand and to “betrayal” on the other. ... And yet the word tradition itself, linked in its roots to translation and betrayal, has to do with handing over. Tradition itself is nothing if it is not a transmission. How is tradition to be transmitted, to be passed on, if not through translation? (Rey Chow)
The process of “cultural translation” is inevitably enmeshed in conditions of power – professional, national, international. ... Given that that is so, the interesting question for enquiry is ... how power enters into the process of “cultural translation” (Talal Asad)
For this free interdisciplinary conference, we invite proposals on problematics of:
Intercultural encounters
Translation between cultures
Postcolonialism and the politics of translation
Diaspora, migration, mobility and cultural practices
Ethnicity, language, representation and cultural identity
Theories and practices of cultural translation
Tradition, transmission, translation and problems of origins
Re-examining the assumptions of translation
Questions of technology, mediation and the voice
Ethical and political problems in academic methodologies
Proposals: 400-word proposals for 20-minute papers.
Deadline: 1st September 2009
Email: BowmanP@cf.ac.uk
NB: This conference is free. Places are strictly limited. Papers will be selected by committee.
Organisation: The conference is organised by:
The Cardiff Humanities Research Institute Project, ‘Representing Migration and Mobility in European Cultures’ (Cardiff School of European Studies);
The Race, Representation and Cultural Identity Research Group (Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies).
11th December 2009, Cardiff University
Call for Papers
Etymologically, the word translation is linked, among other things, to “tradition” on the one hand and to “betrayal” on the other. ... And yet the word tradition itself, linked in its roots to translation and betrayal, has to do with handing over. Tradition itself is nothing if it is not a transmission. How is tradition to be transmitted, to be passed on, if not through translation? (Rey Chow)
The process of “cultural translation” is inevitably enmeshed in conditions of power – professional, national, international. ... Given that that is so, the interesting question for enquiry is ... how power enters into the process of “cultural translation” (Talal Asad)
For this free interdisciplinary conference, we invite proposals on problematics of:
Intercultural encounters
Translation between cultures
Postcolonialism and the politics of translation
Diaspora, migration, mobility and cultural practices
Ethnicity, language, representation and cultural identity
Theories and practices of cultural translation
Tradition, transmission, translation and problems of origins
Re-examining the assumptions of translation
Questions of technology, mediation and the voice
Ethical and political problems in academic methodologies
Proposals: 400-word proposals for 20-minute papers.
Deadline: 1st September 2009
Email: BowmanP@cf.ac.uk
NB: This conference is free. Places are strictly limited. Papers will be selected by committee.
Organisation: The conference is organised by:
The Cardiff Humanities Research Institute Project, ‘Representing Migration and Mobility in European Cultures’ (Cardiff School of European Studies);
The Race, Representation and Cultural Identity Research Group (Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies).
Call for applications for Research Assistant and PhD Studentship - The Challenges to Trust-Building in Nuclear Worlds
ESRC/AHRC Fellowship under the 'Global Uncertainties: Security for all in a Changing World' Programme of Research Councils UK on The Challenges to Trust Building in Nuclear Worlds. The Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University is pleased to invite applications for two positions arising from the award of the above Fellowship to Professor Nicholas Wheeler. RESEARCH ASSISTANTThis position will entail identification and acquisition of research materials and general organisational support (including dissemination) for this multidisciplinary project. The successful candidate must have a PhD in a discipline relevant to the project, be familiar with a wide range of research methodologies, and have excellent IT skills. Experience in organising workshops/conferences would be an advantage. This position is available from 1 September 2009 and is a fixed term post for 3 years. For more information, please seehttp://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/IP.09.05%20Ext.pdf PHD STUDENTSHIPThe central research question to be addressed by the linked studentship is: what role has trust played and can play in the nuclear relationshipbetween the United States and USSR (1983-1991) and the United States and Russia (1991-2010)? For more information please see http://www.aber.ac.uk/pga/web/IntPol_GU_PhD_Schol_2009.htm For further details of the proposed area of research, please see the'Statement Summary' athttp://www.aber.ac.uk/interpol/en/research/DDMI/Statement_Summary.pdfFor more information on both positions and the project, please see the website of the David Davies Memorial Institute of International Studies athttp://www.aber.ac.auk/interpol/en/research/DDMI/DavidDavies.htm Professor Nicholas J WheelerDirectorDavid Davies Memorial Institute of International StudiesDepartment of International PoliticsAberystwyth UniversitySY23 3FETel +44 (0) 1970 622852Fax + 44 (0) 1970 622708
Νέες κυκλοφορίες (Ernest Mandel)
NEW TITLE - Ernest Mandel: A Rebel's Dream DeferredJan Willem StutjeWith a foreword by Tariq AliTranslated by Christopher Beck and Peter Drucker Published 18th May 2009 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Mandel (1923-1995), was one of the most prominent anti-Stalinist Marxist intellectuals of his time. A political theorist andeconomist, his worldview was shaped by experiences in the Second WorldWar as an underground political activist in Occupied Belgium andduring his subsequent internment in a Nazi prison camp. Mandel'sfaith in human nature and in the working classes survived Nazioppression and the murder of much of his family in the concentrationcamps. He retained his connection to his Jewish roots throughout hislife, but believed that security and liberation for the Jewish peoplewas best achieved through world revolution and universal emancipationrather than nationalism. A brilliant orator in several languages,Mandel was an indefatigable revolutionary militant and a key leader inthe Fourth International, He had an enormous impact on the thoughtand practice of the 1968 generation. His writings range frominnovative economic and political theory to a study of the SecondWorld War and have been published in over forty languages. His lastmajor work, Late Capitalism, had an influence that reached from thesocial sciences into the humanities. Biographer Jan Willem Stutje,the first writer with access to Mandel's archives, has interviewedmany of the leading figures in the story and unearthed a wealth of newmaterial, detailing Mandel's arrest by the Nazis and his role in LatinAmerican guerrilla warfare. He recounts Mandel's interactions withboth scholars - Sartre, Ernst Bloch, Perry Anderson - and comrades-in-arms such as Che Guevara, Rudi Dutschke and Tariq Ali. The book alsoyields fascinating details of the man's sometimes tragic private life. JAN WILLEM STUTJE is a historian affiliated with the Institute ofBiography at the University of Groningen. He has published a life ofDutch Communist Party leader Paul de Groot and studies of the Dutchand international labour movement in scholarly publications in theNetherlandsand abroad. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Praise for Ernest Mandel: A Rebel's Dream Deferred: "An extraordinary accomplishment. This book deserves a place ofhonour in the library of anyone who is interested in the history oftwentieth-century revolutionary socialism." Walter Lotens, Kritischlezen "A masterful and critical biography that reads like a thriller." FredBraeckman, De Morgen "Stutje does a good job of avoiding the temptations of hagiography,and paints a fascinating portrait of Mandel, a Marxist thinker andradical political figure who is undeservedly almost forgotten." PietPiryns and Hubert van Humbeek, Knack "This impressive scholarly biography deals not only with ErnestMandel, but equally with the success and tribulations of theTrotskyist movement that he helped lead for decades and with societyas a whole. This smoothly written book inadvertently evokes the imageof a biblical prophet, whose personal life and happiness, loves,friendships and career were sacrificed time and again to the greatstruggle against exploitation and injustice - a man who knew that hehad to give up everything except hope." Ludo Abicht, AKTIEF ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ISBN 9781844673162 £19.99 / $34.95 / Hardback / 424 pages Ernest Mandel: A Rebel's Dream Deferred is available from all goodbookshops and: http://www.versobooks.com/books/nopqrs/s-titles/stutje_jw_ernest_mandel.shtml UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ernest-Mandel-Jan-Willem-Stutje/dp/1844673162/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1243505552&sr=1-2 http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844673162/Ernest-Mandel US: http://www.amazon.com/Ernest-Mandel-Jan-Willem-Stutje/dp/1844673162/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1243508020&sr=8-2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit Verso's new blog for information on our upcoming events, newreviews and publications and special offers.http://versouk.wordpress.com/ And get updates on Twitter too!http://twitter.com/VersoBooksUK
BISA: Conference 2009 Draft Programme
Dear Colleagues, The BISA Conference Committee has now finalised the draft programme for the 2009 Conference at the University of Leicester. The full details of the draft programme are now available on the BISA website at: http://www.bisa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=139-conference-provisional-programme-2009&catid=35-conferences Some of you will understandably be disappointed to find that your proposal is not included in the final programme. We had a large number of panel and paper submissions this year and the Conference Committee had to reject a number of paper submissions for various reasons. We added papers to several existing panels in order to include as many paper proposals as possible and constructed a number of panels out of the many orphan paper proposals we received. In addition to the guidelines already issued at the time of the call for papers, the decisions of the Conference Committee were also informed by the following considerations (in no particular order): 1. The relevance and timeliness of the subject of the panel/paper;2. The configuration of the panel - mix of lecturers/Profs, PhDs; mix of institutional affiliation, participation of activists/NGO reps/ officials etc.;3. Papers/ panels representing new work not previously published; 4. Equitable inclusion of the work of the BISA Working Groups. In the end the Committee believes that we have put in place an interesting and varied programme that is as inclusive as possible and certainly representative of the academic interests and expertise of the current membership. We will shortly be sending you an email about registration for the conference. If you have any queries or questions about the draft programme, please do not hesitate to contact us at bisa-conference@aber.ac.uk. With all best wishes, Richard Jackson ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dr Richard JacksonSecretary, British International Studies Association (BISA)Editor, Critical Studies on TerrorismReader, Department of International PoliticsAberystwyth University,Penglais, Aberystwyth,Ceredigion, Wales SY23 3FE, United KingdomTel: +44 (0)1970-621955New Book: Critical Terrorism Studies: A New Research Agendahttp://www.routledge.com/books/Critical-Terrorism-Studies-isbn97804154 Secretary, British International Studies Association (BISA) http://www.bisa.ac.uk/Critical Studies on Terrorism (Routledge journals)www.informaworld.com/criticalterrorism Deputy Director,Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Contemporary Political Violence (CSRV)http://users.aber.ac.uk/mys/csrv/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Bio/Geo Politics of Religion Seminar (NYC)
2009-10 Seminar at Macaulay Honors College at CUNYNew York, NY Bio/Geo Politics of ReligionCo-Directors: Lee Quinby and Sylvia Tomasch Macaulay Honors College at CUNY invites applications from New York area faculty and doctoral students for the second annual Macaulay Seminar to be held during the 2009-10 academic year. The Macaulay Seminar seeks to generate lively discussion on a topic vital to our time, to enrich teaching, and to help facilitate research toward publication. The seminar will meet once per month on Monday evenings throughout the year. Each member of the seminar will be expected to participate fully in the Seminar and present a paper at the conference on the same topic to be held April 16-18, 2010 at Macaulay. Participants will be selected from departments across academic divisions to encourage wide-ranging discussion. All full-time faculty members and graduate students are eligible. (Other interested parties are welcome to apply.) A stipend of $750 will be awarded to participants. This seminar will explore what Michel Foucault called “biopolitics,” the relations of power that focus on the management of life, with specific regard to organized religions and practices of religious conduct. Although recently religion has been widely recognized as a leading force in contemporary life, with movements of both faith-based solidarity and conflict being played out on the world stage, the present context has a long history through which these movements may be understood. Relevant topics might include themes of apocalypticism and millennialism, the economics of evangelicalism, fundamentalist movements over time and space, the policing of bodies and souls, textual literalism and interpretation, bio- and geo-political conjunctions, manuals of guidance and techniques of surveillance, utopian religious communities in life and literature, and connections between ecos, bios, power, and justice. Readings will be selected to accommodate the specific interests and expertise of the participants. Co-Directors: Lee Quinby is the inaugural Visiting Professor at Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York City. The author of three books, Millennial Seduction (1999), Anti-Apocalypse (1994), and Freedom, Foucault, and the Subject of America (1991), she is also editor of Genealogy and Literature (1995) and co-editor of Feminism and Foucault (1988) and Gender and Apocalyptic Desire (2006). Sylvia Tomasch is Associate University Dean of Academic Affairs at Macaulay HonorsCollege and Professor of English at Hunter College, both in the City University of New York. Recent publications include articles on the history of medieval studies, Chaucer, medieval antisemitism, historical cartography, and medieval postcoloniality. Application deadline: July 30, 2009. To request an application or for further information, email lee.quinby@mhc.cuny.edu or sylvia.tomasch@mhc.cuny.edu Macaulay Honors College35 W. 67th StreetNew York, NY 10016t: (212) 729-2919f: (212) 530-8130
Νέες κυκλοφορίες (Fredric Jameson)
NEW TITLES: TWO NEW EDITIONS OF FREDRIC JAMESON CLASSICS
THE IDEOLOGIES OF THEORY
FREDRIC JAMESON
Published 13 April 2009
A definitive collection of the renowned cultural critic’s early essays
“One of the great writers of our time, not just one of the most formidably gifted critics and cultural theorists.”
Terry Eagleton—London Review of Books
“Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today … It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him.”
Colin MacCabe
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THE IDEOLOGIES OF THEORY, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson’s long career as a critic. They chart a body of work suspended by the twin poles of literary scholarship and political history, occupying a space vibrant with the tension between critical exegesis and the Marxist literary tradition. Jameson’s work pushes out the boundaries of the text, making evident the interaction between literature and the disciplines of psychoanalysis, philosophy and cultural theory, all of which are shown to be inseparable from the ideological allies.The essays in this volume track a shift from ideological analysis to the phenomenology of everyday life, and constitute a rigorous and passionate argument for the necessity of theory as the simultaneous critique of empiricism and idealist philosophy.
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ISBN 978-1-84467-276-9 / £70 / $120 / Hardback / 448 pages
ISBN 978-1-84467-277-6 / £24.99 / $44.95 / Paperback / 448 pages
For more information visit
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ghij/ij-titles/jameson_f_ideologies_of_theory.shtml
To buy the book:
UK:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844672776/Ideologies-of-Theory
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ideologies-Theory-Fredric-Jameson/dp/1844672778/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244561464&sr=8-1
US:
http://www.amazon.com/Ideologies-Theory-Fredric-Jameson/dp/1844672778/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244652229&sr=8-1
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ALSO AVAILABLE BY FREDRIC JAMESON FROM VERSO:
FABLES OF AGGRESSION: WYNDHAM LEWIS, THE MODERNIST AS FASCIST
“Jameson’s little book on Wyndham Lewis is an important and in many ways brilliant work, as much for its treatment of Lewis himself as for its two other important contributions: to an understanding of the ideology of modernism, and to an understanding of a socio-political-psychoanalytic theory of criticism… Jameson is sensitive both to detail and to the larger intellectual and political issues raised by a writer like Lewis… He provides a serious, challenging, and extremely intelligent alternative to the reigning ahistorical formalist criticism.”
Edward Said
“A highly original study of the novels of Wyndham Lewis… The book is supremely important as a contribution to Marxist criticism especially. It is ironic that it took a critic whose ideological position was so opposed to his subject to offer the best assessment of the ideological and literary bases of Lewis’ creativity… This is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of postmodernism.”
Hayden White
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The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists—Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats—who were his sometime friends and collaborators.
Lewis’s originality, however, can only fully be grasped when it is understood that, unlike these writers, he was in essence a political novelist.
In this now classic study, Fredric Jameson proposes a framework in which Lewis’ explosive language practice—utterly unlike any other English and American modernism—can be grasped as can be grasped as a symbolic and political act. He does not, however, ask us to admire the energy of Lewis’ style without confronting the inescapable and often scandalous ideological content of Lewis’ works: the aggressivity and sexism, the predilection for racial and national categories, the brief flirtation with fascism, and the inveterate and cranky oppositionalism that informs his powerful polemics against virtually all the political and countercultural tendencies of his time.
FABLE OF AGGRESSION draws on the methods of narrative analysis and semiotics, psychoanalysis, and ideological analysis to construct a dynamic model of the contradictions from which Lewis’ incomparable narrative corpus is generated, and of which it offers so many varying symbolic resolutions.
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ISBN 978-1-84467-278-3 / £60 / $110 / Hardback / 200 pages
ISBN 978-1-84467-279-0 / £19.99 / $34.95 / Paperback / 200 pages
For more information visit
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ghij/ij-titles/jameson_f_fables_of_aggression.shtml
To buy the book:
Available for sale at the forthcoming FUTURISM EXHIBITION at the TATE MODERN
Also:
UK:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844672790/Fables-of-Aggression
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fables-Aggression-Wyndham-Modernist-Fascist/dp/1844672786/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244654318&sr=1-2
US:
http://www.amazon.com/Fables-Aggression-Wyndham-Modernist-Fascist/dp/1844672794
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Fredric Jameson is the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, and The Ideologies of Theory.
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Visit Verso’s new blog for information on our upcoming events, new reviews and publications and special offers.
http://versouk.wordpress.com/
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THE IDEOLOGIES OF THEORY
FREDRIC JAMESON
Published 13 April 2009
A definitive collection of the renowned cultural critic’s early essays
“One of the great writers of our time, not just one of the most formidably gifted critics and cultural theorists.”
Terry Eagleton—London Review of Books
“Probably the most important cultural critic writing in English today … It can be truly said that nothing cultural is alien to him.”
Colin MacCabe
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THE IDEOLOGIES OF THEORY, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson’s long career as a critic. They chart a body of work suspended by the twin poles of literary scholarship and political history, occupying a space vibrant with the tension between critical exegesis and the Marxist literary tradition. Jameson’s work pushes out the boundaries of the text, making evident the interaction between literature and the disciplines of psychoanalysis, philosophy and cultural theory, all of which are shown to be inseparable from the ideological allies.The essays in this volume track a shift from ideological analysis to the phenomenology of everyday life, and constitute a rigorous and passionate argument for the necessity of theory as the simultaneous critique of empiricism and idealist philosophy.
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ISBN 978-1-84467-276-9 / £70 / $120 / Hardback / 448 pages
ISBN 978-1-84467-277-6 / £24.99 / $44.95 / Paperback / 448 pages
For more information visit
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ghij/ij-titles/jameson_f_ideologies_of_theory.shtml
To buy the book:
UK:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844672776/Ideologies-of-Theory
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ideologies-Theory-Fredric-Jameson/dp/1844672778/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244561464&sr=8-1
US:
http://www.amazon.com/Ideologies-Theory-Fredric-Jameson/dp/1844672778/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244652229&sr=8-1
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ALSO AVAILABLE BY FREDRIC JAMESON FROM VERSO:
FABLES OF AGGRESSION: WYNDHAM LEWIS, THE MODERNIST AS FASCIST
“Jameson’s little book on Wyndham Lewis is an important and in many ways brilliant work, as much for its treatment of Lewis himself as for its two other important contributions: to an understanding of the ideology of modernism, and to an understanding of a socio-political-psychoanalytic theory of criticism… Jameson is sensitive both to detail and to the larger intellectual and political issues raised by a writer like Lewis… He provides a serious, challenging, and extremely intelligent alternative to the reigning ahistorical formalist criticism.”
Edward Said
“A highly original study of the novels of Wyndham Lewis… The book is supremely important as a contribution to Marxist criticism especially. It is ironic that it took a critic whose ideological position was so opposed to his subject to offer the best assessment of the ideological and literary bases of Lewis’ creativity… This is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of postmodernism.”
Hayden White
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The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists—Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats—who were his sometime friends and collaborators.
Lewis’s originality, however, can only fully be grasped when it is understood that, unlike these writers, he was in essence a political novelist.
In this now classic study, Fredric Jameson proposes a framework in which Lewis’ explosive language practice—utterly unlike any other English and American modernism—can be grasped as can be grasped as a symbolic and political act. He does not, however, ask us to admire the energy of Lewis’ style without confronting the inescapable and often scandalous ideological content of Lewis’ works: the aggressivity and sexism, the predilection for racial and national categories, the brief flirtation with fascism, and the inveterate and cranky oppositionalism that informs his powerful polemics against virtually all the political and countercultural tendencies of his time.
FABLE OF AGGRESSION draws on the methods of narrative analysis and semiotics, psychoanalysis, and ideological analysis to construct a dynamic model of the contradictions from which Lewis’ incomparable narrative corpus is generated, and of which it offers so many varying symbolic resolutions.
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ISBN 978-1-84467-278-3 / £60 / $110 / Hardback / 200 pages
ISBN 978-1-84467-279-0 / £19.99 / $34.95 / Paperback / 200 pages
For more information visit
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ghij/ij-titles/jameson_f_fables_of_aggression.shtml
To buy the book:
Available for sale at the forthcoming FUTURISM EXHIBITION at the TATE MODERN
Also:
UK:
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844672790/Fables-of-Aggression
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fables-Aggression-Wyndham-Modernist-Fascist/dp/1844672786/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244654318&sr=1-2
US:
http://www.amazon.com/Fables-Aggression-Wyndham-Modernist-Fascist/dp/1844672794
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Fredric Jameson is the Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at Duke University. He is the author of many books, including Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, A Singular Modernity, The Modernist Papers, Archaeologies of the Future, and The Ideologies of Theory.
----------------------------------------
Visit Verso’s new blog for information on our upcoming events, new reviews and publications and special offers.
http://versouk.wordpress.com/
And get updates on Twitter too!
http://twitter.com/VersoBooksUK
ΕΠΕΙΓΟΝ 1-day Graduate Student Methodology Workshop
“Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies”
A One-Day Graduate Student Workshop
Sponsored by the
International Studies Association-Northeast
3 October, 2009 • Baltimore, MD
The field of International Studies has always been interdisciplinary, with scholars drawing on a variety of qualitative and quantitative techniques of data collection and data analysis as they seek to produce knowledge about global politics. Recent debates about epistemology and ontology have advanced the methodological openness of the field, albeit mainly at a meta-theoretical level. And while interest in techniques falling outside of well-established comparative and statistical modes of inference has been sparked, opportunities for scholars to discuss and flesh out the operational requirements of these alternative routes to knowledge have been relatively infrequent.
This fifth annual workshop aims to address this lacuna by bringing together faculty and graduate students in a pedagogical environment. The workshop will focus on two broad research approaches that differ in various ways from statistical and comparative methodologies: interpretive methodologies, which highlight the grounding of analysis in actors’ lived experiences and thus produce knowledge phenomenologically and hermeneutically; and relational methodologies, which concentrate on how social networks and intersubjective discursive processes concatenate to generate outcomes.
In the two morning sessions, five established scholars, whose work utilizes such approaches as ethnography, discourse analysis, historical criticism, and linguistic analysis, will talk about precisely how they do their empirical work. These tutorial sessions will be followed by an extended afternoon session in which graduate student participants will have an opportunity to receive feedback from the established scholars and from their fellow workshop participants.
This year’s faculty participants include:
Brent Steele, University of Kansas
Margarent Keck, Johns Hopkins University
Himadeep Muppidi, Vassar College
Aida Hozic, University of Florida
Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the International Studies Association-Northeast’s annual conference, which will take place from 2-3 October in Baltimore, MD. Although all attendees of the conference may come to the workshop sessions, the 6-8 graduate students officially participating in the workshop will have the opportunity to receive detailed feedback and specialized instruction in the methodologies under discussion.
Graduate students interested in participating in the workshop should send their c.v. and a letter describing their current research project to Patrick Thaddeus Jackson by e-mail: ptjack@american.edu. Applications must be received by 1 July 2009.
A One-Day Graduate Student Workshop
Sponsored by the
International Studies Association-Northeast
3 October, 2009 • Baltimore, MD
The field of International Studies has always been interdisciplinary, with scholars drawing on a variety of qualitative and quantitative techniques of data collection and data analysis as they seek to produce knowledge about global politics. Recent debates about epistemology and ontology have advanced the methodological openness of the field, albeit mainly at a meta-theoretical level. And while interest in techniques falling outside of well-established comparative and statistical modes of inference has been sparked, opportunities for scholars to discuss and flesh out the operational requirements of these alternative routes to knowledge have been relatively infrequent.
This fifth annual workshop aims to address this lacuna by bringing together faculty and graduate students in a pedagogical environment. The workshop will focus on two broad research approaches that differ in various ways from statistical and comparative methodologies: interpretive methodologies, which highlight the grounding of analysis in actors’ lived experiences and thus produce knowledge phenomenologically and hermeneutically; and relational methodologies, which concentrate on how social networks and intersubjective discursive processes concatenate to generate outcomes.
In the two morning sessions, five established scholars, whose work utilizes such approaches as ethnography, discourse analysis, historical criticism, and linguistic analysis, will talk about precisely how they do their empirical work. These tutorial sessions will be followed by an extended afternoon session in which graduate student participants will have an opportunity to receive feedback from the established scholars and from their fellow workshop participants.
This year’s faculty participants include:
Brent Steele, University of Kansas
Margarent Keck, Johns Hopkins University
Himadeep Muppidi, Vassar College
Aida Hozic, University of Florida
Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the International Studies Association-Northeast’s annual conference, which will take place from 2-3 October in Baltimore, MD. Although all attendees of the conference may come to the workshop sessions, the 6-8 graduate students officially participating in the workshop will have the opportunity to receive detailed feedback and specialized instruction in the methodologies under discussion.
Graduate students interested in participating in the workshop should send their c.v. and a letter describing their current research project to Patrick Thaddeus Jackson by e-mail: ptjack@american.edu. Applications must be received by 1 July 2009.
FAO Postgraduate Members BISA - CfP BISA-JAIR Collaborative Panels
BRITISH INTERNATIONAL STUDIES ASSOCIATION (BISA) IN COOPERATION WITH JAPAN ASSOCIATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (JAIR)BISA-JAIR COLLABORATIVE POSTGRADUATE PANELSBISA ANNUAL CONFERENCEUNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER, OADBY STUDENT VILLAGE, 14TH – 16TH DECEMBER 2009CALL FOR PAPERSPostgraduates make a valuable contribution to both the British International Studies Association (BISA) and the Japan Association of International Relations (JAIR). As part of a drive by both associations towards developing international research networks and providing presentation opportunities for postgraduate members, we are pleased to announce the inauguration of the BISA-JAIR collaborative postgraduate panels. Each panel will be made up of 4 postgraduate researchers; 2 members from each association. The panels will focus on the theoretical and empirical implications of the current global economic crisis and security environment.In the postwar period, Britain and Japan have both been heavily influenced by the United States, and academia is no exception. As a field of study, ‘American’ International Relations has been considered the mainstream, with research in the two countries attentive to what their American counterparts were doing. However, the last decade has seen a flourishing of ‘critical’ perspectives (e.g. Critical IPE or Critical Security Studies) more sceptical of both US hegemony and the intellectual mainstream that help sustain it. This has been evident in the growing critique of ‘neoliberalism’ or ‘unilateralism’ in the leading British and Japanese academic journals, both of which have been attached to the actions and ideology of the world’s superpower. Yet, implicitly or explicitly, these perspectives seem to take for granted the very existence of that hegemony, focusing its attention on the limitations of US foreign policy and/or of the American intellectual ‘mainstream’. With political-economic and intellectual power of the United States suffering a blow in the face of the global economic crisis and the ‘failure’ in Iraq, it seems appropriate for a critical self re-examination of the state of the field. The BISA-JAIR collaborative panels offer a unique opportunity to take stock of the intellectual development in Britain and Japan, and to explore new research agendas in a rapidly changing world.Panel 1: Post-America?: Rethinking Critical Perspectives Beyond US HegemonyWithin the context of the current global economic crisis and the ‘failure’ in Iraq, the first panel will examine how ‘critical’ perspectives in general and IPE and Security Studies in particular address emerging instability/insecurity. How would these ‘critical’ perspectives explain the current crises? What insights do they provide? What impacts do these ‘crises’ have on ‘critical’ perspectives? What do they tell us and what do they miss? Are we witnessing a post-American era or is it a false dawn? What role will ‘critical’ perspectives have in the future?Possible Themes:• Characteristics of a ‘post-American’ order• The role of IR theory in the making and unmaking of US hegemony• A re-assessment of critical perspectives• The demise of empires and historical lessons• Implications of US decline for Britain and JapanPanel 2: Exploring New Sites of Instability/Insecurity in the ‘Post-American’ WorldIn parallel to the theoretical examination, the second panel will take a more empirical turn seeking to locate new or renewed sites of instability/insecurity and their remedies in the possibly emerging ‘post-American’ world. What sources of instability/ insecurity are increasingly becoming apparent in the world today? Are these challenges a result of the ‘crisis’ in US economic and foreign policy? Or does it have a more structural origin? What are the roles of Britain and Japan in this newly emerging order? What are the avenues of cooperation between the two countries in the fight against instability/insecurity?Possible Themes:• Future of the dollar• Political economy of energy/stability of energy supplies• International monetary system and regulations• Politics of border management• Nuclear proliferation in the post-Iraq eraPlease send an abstract of no more than one page and a research profile/academic CV outlining your academic interests by 17 July 2009 to bisa-jair09@warwick.ac.uk. Please state which panel you are applying for.Conference waiver (Package G, worth £175) plus a travel grant of £150 will also be available for JAIR participants. To apply, send a brief statement of rationale along with a rough estimate of your travel costs with your abstract and research profile/ academic CV.For additional information, please visit http://www.bisa.ac.uk/ (Post Grad Section) or http://wwwsoc.nii.ac.jp/jair/index_en.html.
Rethinking Marxism (Vol. 21 No. 3)
RETHINKING MARXISM
a journal of economics, culture and society
Vol 21 No 3
JULY 2009
IN THIS ISSUE:
Editors’ Introduction
BOOK SYMPOSIUM:Gramsci's Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School by Peter IvesGramsci as Theorist of PoliticsJacinda SWANSON
This paper briefly discusses some of Antonio Gramsci's contributions to the theorization of politics that Peter Ives elucidates in Gramsci's Politics of Language. I also highlight a few of the many illuminating aspects of Ives's in-depth but accessible exploration of Gramsci's approach to language and politics, such as Gramsci's distinction between regressive and progressive forms of hegemony and his antiessentialist and antipositivist theorization of social and linguistic practices. I end with a few questions about Gramsci's positions on faith and political unity as well as the similarities of his approach to poststructuralism.
Ives and Gramsci in Dialogue: Vernacular Subalternity, Cultural Interferences, the Word-thing InterdependenceStefano SELENU
Peter Ives's Gramsci's Politics of Language (2004) constitutes one of the most relevant and stimulating recent contributions on Gramsci. In this paper I will review the book, showing the relevance of placing Gramsci in dialogue with a constellation of numerous thinkers and ideas. Then, I will focus on three of Ives's ideas in order to problematize them. First, considering Ives's use of Gramsci's statements on Sardinian, I will deal with the political significance of Gramsci's claim that Sardinian is a language. Second, I will discuss the connection made by Ives between the nonparthenogenetic origins of languages and the idea that languages develop through cultural and linguistic conflicts. Finally, I will deal with Ives's notion of vernacular materialism in Gramsci, and I will discuss his interpretation of Gramsci's ideas on meaning production and metaphor.
Ethical Hegemony
P. Kerim FRIEDMANDrawing upon Peter Ives's book Gramsci's Politics of Language, this article examines the linguistic origins of Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony. This is then compared with Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the habitus, with a particular focus on how the two theories conceptualize social change. Ives shows that Gramsci understood language standardization as either democratic or repressive, depending on the nature of the standardization process. Ives uses this to argue that the opposite of repressive hegemony is not the absence of hegemony but a progressive hegemony grounded in democratic processes. While Bourdieu's emphasis on social reproduction over social change makes his work less useful for conceptualizing such a progressive hegemony, this paper argues that his theory of symbolic capital (including linguistic capital) offers us a unique insight into the obstacles faced by agents of progressive social change and, in so doing, sheds light on the limitations of Gramsci's approach.
Prestige, Faith and Dialect: Expanding Gramsci's Engagement
Peter IVESThis essay attempts to respond to and advance the dialogue initiated by contributions to this symposium by Jacinda Swanson, Kerim Friedman, and Stefano Selenu concerning my book, Gramsci's Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School. It emphasizes the importance of all three authors in creating further space for interaction between Gramscian scholarship and other areas of Marxism and social theory, specifically the work of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis (AESA), political theory generally, Pierre Bourdieu, sociolinguistics, and philosophy. I discuss the concepts of prestige, labor, faith, conflict, interference, and dialect, as presented by the other contributions. One of the links that ties together these discussions is my emphasis on Gramsci's insistence that language is not approached as a topic or type of activity that can be divorced or sharply distinguished from other human activity: it does not constitute a separate or separable realm.
ART/ICULATIONSIdeology, Iconoclasm, and the Wunderkammer of Berlin
José María DURAN
The aim of this paper is to make a critical reading of the dismantling process of the Palast der Republik in Berlin. The demolition of the Palast, the prestige building of the former German Democratic Republic, can be seen as the final step in the process of reassessing the East German past. It shows how the space in the center of Berlin has been (re)appropriated from above (i.e., by state power and its ruling class) and redefined according to the new social and cultural undertakings of the German Republic. The International Commission of Experts (Internationale Expertenkommission) appointed to validate through “scientific” arguments the demolition of the building produced in its final report an appropriate, site-specific cultural value that has colluded with both the purely economic valorization of the place and the construction of national symbols. I suggest that these three aspects—cultural value, economic valorization, and national identity—jointly contribute in this concrete case to shape an entrepreneurial quality that the city of Berlin has embraced as a showcase of the reunified Germany. Through this critical reading, I demonstrate that the demolition of the Palast der Republik should be examined as a symbolic construction of state power that requires a form of iconoclasm.ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy of the Transnational Informational CapitalismChristian FUCHS
Concepts like knowledge society, information society, postmodern society, postindustrial society, Internet society, and network society fail to grasp the dialectic of the continuity and discontinuity of society. These concepts take the changes associated with new media as radical novelties and ignore the continuing dominance of capitalist structures. Contemporary capitalism is highly antagonistic and requires a dialectical analysis. Transnational network capitalism and transnational informational capitalism are used as key concepts for grasping the importance of information technologies and knowledge and their role in a transnational and flexible regime of accumulation. One important principle for gaining profit from information commodities is that goods are sold at prices that are much higher than their value.ART"The Illegal Lives": Art Within a Community of OthersYoung Min MOON and MIXRICESince 2002, Mixrice, the artist collective, has pursued social interventionist activities and collaborative projects with a group of undocumented Asian migrant workers in South Korea. Utilizing photographic and media recordings, comics, murals, and texts in the form of exhibitions, publications, and the Web, they engage the question of the Other within the context of an ostensibly monoethnic South Korean culture. Through their critical practice of working with members of a transnational community, Mixrice probes the issues of human rights and the ethics and roles of the artist in a volatile sociopolitical environment.A Marxian Theory of the Subject: Commodity Fetishism, Autonomy, and Psychological DeprivationJohn LUTZThe theme of misrecognition is a common element in the work of Marx, Freud, and Lacan, and it takes as its implicit focus the relationship between autonomy, fetishism, and alienation. Marx's theory of commodity fetishism exposes the mystification of social relations in the commodity as a concealed form of domination that contributes to the creation of alienated subjects. Lacan's ahistorical account of the formation of alienated subjects through their insertion in the symbolic order, while antithetical to Marx's materialist stance, provides a useful framework for exploring the formation of capitalist subjects whose consciousness is shaped by the fetishism of commodities. Lacan's theory of empty speech provides a vehicle for envisioning the full speech that might characterize the consciousness of the socialist subject. POETRYThe Rom ArcaneJack HIRSCHMANArcane is the name for my longer, more structured poems. The Rom Arcane came out of the experience in March 2008 of the pileup of trash in the streets of Naples. This ultimately was connected with attacks on the immigrant and native gypsy camps in Naples and other cities. My poem records the rise in fascism vis--vis the destruction of the Left in many places.Too Little, Too Late: Reflections on Fredric Jameson's Pedagogy of FormTyson E. LEWISThis essay situates Fredric Jameson's theory of pedagogy within his larger project of the aesthetics of cognitive mapping in order to demonstrate the importance of teaching and learning for defining Marxist theory and practice. The article excavates Jameson's pedagogical unconscious, which forms the backdrop for many of his most compelling insights into aesthetic representation. Through a dialectical analysis, the relation between aesthetics and pedagogy is seen as both an advance over certain modes of Marxist pedagogy and also as a retreat from the full examination of pedagogy as a general problem for Marxist theory as such. Thus, the author argues for a renewed emphasis on pedagogy as the most important terrain for rethinking Marxism.REMARX The New Avant-gardePaul MAGEEThis text is a reflection on the ousting of the eleven-year-old neoliberal government in Australia in November 2007. It considers the role that public awareness of climate change might have played in that defeat. This leads to a comment on the new humanities' received attitude toward science and the desirability of revising it. The Amateur Class, or the Reserve Army of the WebVasilis KOSTAKISThis article deals with the transformation of the computer industry that has been inaugurated by the new version of the Web. The advent of the social web—or Web 2.0, according to Tim O'Reilly (2006)—gives rise to the formation of the amateur class and to new modes of exploitation, as the amateur starts to have control over the means of Web production. The function of Web 2.0 within capitalist production is to exploit and valorize the volunteer contributions of amateurs. The argument on which this paper is based is that Web 2.0 exhibits both emancipatory and exploitative aspects, and the role of amateurs should be to foster one over the other.www.rethinkingmarxism.org
yahya m. madra
associate editor / rethinking marxism
http://rethinkingmarxism.org
a journal of economics, culture and society
Vol 21 No 3
JULY 2009
IN THIS ISSUE:
Editors’ Introduction
BOOK SYMPOSIUM:Gramsci's Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School by Peter IvesGramsci as Theorist of PoliticsJacinda SWANSON
This paper briefly discusses some of Antonio Gramsci's contributions to the theorization of politics that Peter Ives elucidates in Gramsci's Politics of Language. I also highlight a few of the many illuminating aspects of Ives's in-depth but accessible exploration of Gramsci's approach to language and politics, such as Gramsci's distinction between regressive and progressive forms of hegemony and his antiessentialist and antipositivist theorization of social and linguistic practices. I end with a few questions about Gramsci's positions on faith and political unity as well as the similarities of his approach to poststructuralism.
Ives and Gramsci in Dialogue: Vernacular Subalternity, Cultural Interferences, the Word-thing InterdependenceStefano SELENU
Peter Ives's Gramsci's Politics of Language (2004) constitutes one of the most relevant and stimulating recent contributions on Gramsci. In this paper I will review the book, showing the relevance of placing Gramsci in dialogue with a constellation of numerous thinkers and ideas. Then, I will focus on three of Ives's ideas in order to problematize them. First, considering Ives's use of Gramsci's statements on Sardinian, I will deal with the political significance of Gramsci's claim that Sardinian is a language. Second, I will discuss the connection made by Ives between the nonparthenogenetic origins of languages and the idea that languages develop through cultural and linguistic conflicts. Finally, I will deal with Ives's notion of vernacular materialism in Gramsci, and I will discuss his interpretation of Gramsci's ideas on meaning production and metaphor.
Ethical Hegemony
P. Kerim FRIEDMANDrawing upon Peter Ives's book Gramsci's Politics of Language, this article examines the linguistic origins of Antonio Gramsci's theory of hegemony. This is then compared with Pierre Bourdieu's theory of the habitus, with a particular focus on how the two theories conceptualize social change. Ives shows that Gramsci understood language standardization as either democratic or repressive, depending on the nature of the standardization process. Ives uses this to argue that the opposite of repressive hegemony is not the absence of hegemony but a progressive hegemony grounded in democratic processes. While Bourdieu's emphasis on social reproduction over social change makes his work less useful for conceptualizing such a progressive hegemony, this paper argues that his theory of symbolic capital (including linguistic capital) offers us a unique insight into the obstacles faced by agents of progressive social change and, in so doing, sheds light on the limitations of Gramsci's approach.
Prestige, Faith and Dialect: Expanding Gramsci's Engagement
Peter IVESThis essay attempts to respond to and advance the dialogue initiated by contributions to this symposium by Jacinda Swanson, Kerim Friedman, and Stefano Selenu concerning my book, Gramsci's Politics of Language: Engaging the Bakhtin Circle and the Frankfurt School. It emphasizes the importance of all three authors in creating further space for interaction between Gramscian scholarship and other areas of Marxism and social theory, specifically the work of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis (AESA), political theory generally, Pierre Bourdieu, sociolinguistics, and philosophy. I discuss the concepts of prestige, labor, faith, conflict, interference, and dialect, as presented by the other contributions. One of the links that ties together these discussions is my emphasis on Gramsci's insistence that language is not approached as a topic or type of activity that can be divorced or sharply distinguished from other human activity: it does not constitute a separate or separable realm.
ART/ICULATIONSIdeology, Iconoclasm, and the Wunderkammer of Berlin
José María DURAN
The aim of this paper is to make a critical reading of the dismantling process of the Palast der Republik in Berlin. The demolition of the Palast, the prestige building of the former German Democratic Republic, can be seen as the final step in the process of reassessing the East German past. It shows how the space in the center of Berlin has been (re)appropriated from above (i.e., by state power and its ruling class) and redefined according to the new social and cultural undertakings of the German Republic. The International Commission of Experts (Internationale Expertenkommission) appointed to validate through “scientific” arguments the demolition of the building produced in its final report an appropriate, site-specific cultural value that has colluded with both the purely economic valorization of the place and the construction of national symbols. I suggest that these three aspects—cultural value, economic valorization, and national identity—jointly contribute in this concrete case to shape an entrepreneurial quality that the city of Berlin has embraced as a showcase of the reunified Germany. Through this critical reading, I demonstrate that the demolition of the Palast der Republik should be examined as a symbolic construction of state power that requires a form of iconoclasm.ALSO IN THIS ISSUE
A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy of the Transnational Informational CapitalismChristian FUCHS
Concepts like knowledge society, information society, postmodern society, postindustrial society, Internet society, and network society fail to grasp the dialectic of the continuity and discontinuity of society. These concepts take the changes associated with new media as radical novelties and ignore the continuing dominance of capitalist structures. Contemporary capitalism is highly antagonistic and requires a dialectical analysis. Transnational network capitalism and transnational informational capitalism are used as key concepts for grasping the importance of information technologies and knowledge and their role in a transnational and flexible regime of accumulation. One important principle for gaining profit from information commodities is that goods are sold at prices that are much higher than their value.ART"The Illegal Lives": Art Within a Community of OthersYoung Min MOON and MIXRICESince 2002, Mixrice, the artist collective, has pursued social interventionist activities and collaborative projects with a group of undocumented Asian migrant workers in South Korea. Utilizing photographic and media recordings, comics, murals, and texts in the form of exhibitions, publications, and the Web, they engage the question of the Other within the context of an ostensibly monoethnic South Korean culture. Through their critical practice of working with members of a transnational community, Mixrice probes the issues of human rights and the ethics and roles of the artist in a volatile sociopolitical environment.A Marxian Theory of the Subject: Commodity Fetishism, Autonomy, and Psychological DeprivationJohn LUTZThe theme of misrecognition is a common element in the work of Marx, Freud, and Lacan, and it takes as its implicit focus the relationship between autonomy, fetishism, and alienation. Marx's theory of commodity fetishism exposes the mystification of social relations in the commodity as a concealed form of domination that contributes to the creation of alienated subjects. Lacan's ahistorical account of the formation of alienated subjects through their insertion in the symbolic order, while antithetical to Marx's materialist stance, provides a useful framework for exploring the formation of capitalist subjects whose consciousness is shaped by the fetishism of commodities. Lacan's theory of empty speech provides a vehicle for envisioning the full speech that might characterize the consciousness of the socialist subject. POETRYThe Rom ArcaneJack HIRSCHMANArcane is the name for my longer, more structured poems. The Rom Arcane came out of the experience in March 2008 of the pileup of trash in the streets of Naples. This ultimately was connected with attacks on the immigrant and native gypsy camps in Naples and other cities. My poem records the rise in fascism vis--vis the destruction of the Left in many places.Too Little, Too Late: Reflections on Fredric Jameson's Pedagogy of FormTyson E. LEWISThis essay situates Fredric Jameson's theory of pedagogy within his larger project of the aesthetics of cognitive mapping in order to demonstrate the importance of teaching and learning for defining Marxist theory and practice. The article excavates Jameson's pedagogical unconscious, which forms the backdrop for many of his most compelling insights into aesthetic representation. Through a dialectical analysis, the relation between aesthetics and pedagogy is seen as both an advance over certain modes of Marxist pedagogy and also as a retreat from the full examination of pedagogy as a general problem for Marxist theory as such. Thus, the author argues for a renewed emphasis on pedagogy as the most important terrain for rethinking Marxism.REMARX The New Avant-gardePaul MAGEEThis text is a reflection on the ousting of the eleven-year-old neoliberal government in Australia in November 2007. It considers the role that public awareness of climate change might have played in that defeat. This leads to a comment on the new humanities' received attitude toward science and the desirability of revising it. The Amateur Class, or the Reserve Army of the WebVasilis KOSTAKISThis article deals with the transformation of the computer industry that has been inaugurated by the new version of the Web. The advent of the social web—or Web 2.0, according to Tim O'Reilly (2006)—gives rise to the formation of the amateur class and to new modes of exploitation, as the amateur starts to have control over the means of Web production. The function of Web 2.0 within capitalist production is to exploit and valorize the volunteer contributions of amateurs. The argument on which this paper is based is that Web 2.0 exhibits both emancipatory and exploitative aspects, and the role of amateurs should be to foster one over the other.www.rethinkingmarxism.org
yahya m. madra
associate editor / rethinking marxism
http://rethinkingmarxism.org
Chatham House Climate Change 2009 6/7 July 2009
The Politics of Climate Change AgreementMonday 6 - Tuesday 7 July 2009Chatham House, London A major two-day international conference High-level representatives from key players in December's UN negotiations will debate terms of agreement at Chatham House. New speakers at this conference include: Jos Delbeke, Deputy Director-General, Directorate General for Environment and Chief Negotiator, EU ; Li Ting, Director of Climate Change Office, Department of Treaty and Law, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, China ; Sergey Tulinov*, Special Assistant to the Head, Russian Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring. Register now at this high-level event to find out first hand what the prospects are for reaching ambitious climate agreement in Copenhagen in December 2009. Registration & informationhttp://www.chathamhouse.org.uk/climate_change09/ Representatives from key countries, experts and commentators will discuss: * The science: which elements of the deal are essential to avoid dangerous climate change? * The UN discussions: what is the state of play, politically?* How will 'common but differentiated responsibilities' be interpreted?* How 'green' are governments' stimulus packages?* If agreement is not reached, what will business do?Visit our website for the full agenda. Join these and other high-level experts to gain an understanding of the outlook for reaching agreement, and what the alternatives might be. Register by the 6th of May to benefit from the early booking rate and ensure your place at this essential forum. Sponsors Media partner * in principle www.chathamhouse.org.uk conferences@chathamhouse.org.uk+44 (0)20 7957 5754 Keynote speakers Yvo de BoerExecutive Secretary United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Kevin ConradPrime Minister's Special Envoy & Ambassador for Environment and Climate ChangeDepartment of the Prime Minister and National Executive Council, Papua New Guinea Marthinus Van SchalkwykMinister of Environmental Affairs and TourismSouth Africa Speaker highlights Elliot DiringerVice President, International StrategiesPew Center on Global Climate Change Martin KhorExecutive DirectorThe South Centre Daniel Schrag Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences andDirector, Harvard University Center for the Environment
Funded Workshop Places - Political Economy of Energy
Dear All,The ESRC has kindly agreed to fund a new energy network called the Political Economy of Energy in Europe and Russia (PEEER).� Energy as a subject has tended to be approached academically, particularly in the UK, from either economic or technical disciplines.� PEEER is hoping to promote and support more research and publication on the subject of energy from IR and/or specifically IPE perspectives.The funding covers two workshops, one in Moscow at the Higher School of Economics in September 2009 and one at the University of Warwick in September 2010.� We are offering some funded places to early career researchers (PhD and to within 4/5 years of PhD submission) who are interested in attending these workshops.� Sessions will, broadly speaking, cover the following topics: the political economy of energy; energy governance; resource and transit issues; public/private interaction in energy and renewable alternatives.� These workshops are organised with a view to publication at the end of next year.If you are interested in joining the network and/or one of the funded places please contact Caroline Kuzemko: c.kuzemko@yahoo.co.uk for more information.Thanks,CK
working group on Russian/post-Soviet foreign and security policy
Dear all
I am writing to you to gauge the level of potential interest in a BISA working group on Russian and post-Soviet foreign and security policy. Given the current levels of interest in Russian and post-Soviet affairs of late, and given that the last few BISA conferences have had at least one panel on this theme, it seemed a good idea to see whether this could get off the ground.
Please email me to let me know if you would be interested in joining such a group.
Many Thanks,
Best wishes
Natasha Kuhrt.
Dr Natasha Kuhrt
Lecturer
Dept of War Studies/School of Law
King's College, London
Tel.:+44 (0)7848 7275
Mob.:+44 (0)7743 281 279
Email: natasha.kuhrt@kcl.ac.uk
I am writing to you to gauge the level of potential interest in a BISA working group on Russian and post-Soviet foreign and security policy. Given the current levels of interest in Russian and post-Soviet affairs of late, and given that the last few BISA conferences have had at least one panel on this theme, it seemed a good idea to see whether this could get off the ground.
Please email me to let me know if you would be interested in joining such a group.
Many Thanks,
Best wishes
Natasha Kuhrt.
Dr Natasha Kuhrt
Lecturer
Dept of War Studies/School of Law
King's College, London
Tel.:+44 (0)7848 7275
Mob.:+44 (0)7743 281 279
Email: natasha.kuhrt@kcl.ac.uk
The Second Warwick RIPE Debate in International Political Economy
The Second Warwick RIPE Debate in IPE was held in May and proved to be a great success. This year the Debate - organised by the Department of Politics and International Studies and run in conjunction with the Review of International Political Economy - revolved around a discussion of the Routledge Handbook of International Political Economy edited by Mark Blyth. A full open-access recording of the Debate can be found on the following webpage and it can be downloaded for free: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/research/ipe/ripedebates/2009/.
Matthew Watson, University of Warwick
Matthew Watson, University of Warwick
New McGill Journal of Education issue on Learning in Social Action: Knowledge Production in Social Movements
Dear colleagues This journal issue is now online at mje.mcgill.ca. Table of contents is listed below. Journal is open access so articles may be downloaded as pdf files Aziz Choudry Vol 44, No 1 (2009) Table of Contents Editorial / ÉditorialLEARNING IN SOCIAL ACTION: KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION IN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS / APPRENDRE VIA L'ACTION SOCIALE : LA PRODUCTION DE CONNAISSANCES AU SEIN DES MOUVEMENTS SOCIAUX Aziz Choudry Articles / Les articlesTHE PRISON HOUSES OF KNOWLEDGE: ACTIVIST SCHOLARSHIP AND REVOLUTION IN THE ERA OF "GLOBALIZATION" Radha D'Souza GLOBAL JUSTICE PROTEST EVENTS AND THE PRODUCTION OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT DIFFERENCES Vinci E. F. Daro ADIVASIS (ORIGINAL DWELLERS) "IN THE WAY OF" STATE-CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT: DEVELOPMENT DISPOSSESSION AND LEARNING IN SOCIAL ACTION FOR LAND AND FORESTS IN INDIA Dip Kapoor LEARNING TO SLEEP WITHOUT PERCHING: REFLECTIONS BY ACTIVIST-EDUCATORS ON LEARNING IN SOCIAL ACTION IN GHANAIAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS Jonathan Langdon EDUCATION AND LIBERATION David Austin THE TEACH-IN ON GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTIONS AND VYGOTSKY: FOSTERING ECOLOGICAL ACTION AND ENVIRONMENTAL CITIZENSHIP Mishka Lysack
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1) Call for ProposalsThe ECPR Standing Group on International Relations is announcing its 7th Pan-European Conference to be held in Stockholm Sweden from 9-11 September 2010. The Steering Committee of the SGIR hereby issues a call for section convenors for the 2010 Pan-European Conference. Deadline September 15, 2009.The academic programme for the conference will be organised in the usual format of sections and panels. A section is a number of panels linked by a common theme. The conference can host up to 30 parallel sections. Section convenors organise the panels, select papers and panels (via the conference internet platform), identify panel chairs and discussants, and take responsibility for the actual execution of their section's contribution to the conference programme. This includes the selection of best paper by a research student in their section and the provision of advice regarding the appropriate size of panel rooms. A section may consist of either five or ten 105 minute panel sessions during the programme. Each 105-minute panel should comprise four to five papers plus discussant and chair.Proposals should be made online on: http://www.sgir.eu/conference/Details are available in the Word document downloadable here.With best wishes,Andreas Noelke and Antje Wiener(Programme Chairs)
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2) Call for proposals for two Young Researchers Workshops.With 'Young Researchers Workshops (YRW)' the Standing Group of International Relations (SGIR) of the ECPR offers an opportunity for young scholars (advanced doctoral students and recent post-docs) to familiarize themselves with academic conferencing. The workshop scheme seeks to advance networking, publication and academic discussion among young researchers. Towards that end, the SGIR offers an award of up to 7.500 EURO per workshop (approx. 10-12 participants) which should cover travel of all the participants and accommodation for some. The workshops either precede or follow the seventh Pan-European Conference on International Relations in Stockholm on 9-11 September 2010. Besides substantial criteria, preference will be given to applications which seek a relatively balanced participation from all parts of Europe.SGIR welcomes workshop proposals on any topic of relevance to current research in International Relations. A workshop proposal includes:1. a 800 word summary which outlines the scientific relevance of the topic; and 2. a list of some potential participants and paper titles (up to 8 ) beyond the workshop convener(s). The YRW committee consisting of Élise Féron, Stefano Guzzini, Helena Rytövuori-Apunen, Antje Wiener, and Bernhard Zangl will accept full proposals until 15 September 2009. Successful workshop convenor(s) will be notified so that they can prepare a call for papers with a deadline of 31 January 2010.All proposal should be submitted on: http://www.sgir.eu/conference/
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Prof Antje Wiener, PhD Chair in Political Science (International Relations Theory), Institute for Political ScienceDirector, Centre for Globalisation & Governance (CGG) University of HamburgAllende Platz 120146 HamburgGermanyTel: +49 40 42838-3232 (please note, that messages cannot yet be retrieved from this machine)Fax: +49 40 42838-7784Email: antje.wiener@wiso.uni-hamburg.deURL: http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/index.php?id=7355 Associate Editor, European Political Science Review (EPSR)Details: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=EPR Editor, ConWEB Webpapers on Governance and Constitutionalism Beyond the Statehttp://www.bath.ac.uk/esml/conWEB/
1) Call for ProposalsThe ECPR Standing Group on International Relations is announcing its 7th Pan-European Conference to be held in Stockholm Sweden from 9-11 September 2010. The Steering Committee of the SGIR hereby issues a call for section convenors for the 2010 Pan-European Conference. Deadline September 15, 2009.The academic programme for the conference will be organised in the usual format of sections and panels. A section is a number of panels linked by a common theme. The conference can host up to 30 parallel sections. Section convenors organise the panels, select papers and panels (via the conference internet platform), identify panel chairs and discussants, and take responsibility for the actual execution of their section's contribution to the conference programme. This includes the selection of best paper by a research student in their section and the provision of advice regarding the appropriate size of panel rooms. A section may consist of either five or ten 105 minute panel sessions during the programme. Each 105-minute panel should comprise four to five papers plus discussant and chair.Proposals should be made online on: http://www.sgir.eu/conference/Details are available in the Word document downloadable here.With best wishes,Andreas Noelke and Antje Wiener(Programme Chairs)
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2) Call for proposals for two Young Researchers Workshops.With 'Young Researchers Workshops (YRW)' the Standing Group of International Relations (SGIR) of the ECPR offers an opportunity for young scholars (advanced doctoral students and recent post-docs) to familiarize themselves with academic conferencing. The workshop scheme seeks to advance networking, publication and academic discussion among young researchers. Towards that end, the SGIR offers an award of up to 7.500 EURO per workshop (approx. 10-12 participants) which should cover travel of all the participants and accommodation for some. The workshops either precede or follow the seventh Pan-European Conference on International Relations in Stockholm on 9-11 September 2010. Besides substantial criteria, preference will be given to applications which seek a relatively balanced participation from all parts of Europe.SGIR welcomes workshop proposals on any topic of relevance to current research in International Relations. A workshop proposal includes:1. a 800 word summary which outlines the scientific relevance of the topic; and 2. a list of some potential participants and paper titles (up to 8 ) beyond the workshop convener(s). The YRW committee consisting of Élise Féron, Stefano Guzzini, Helena Rytövuori-Apunen, Antje Wiener, and Bernhard Zangl will accept full proposals until 15 September 2009. Successful workshop convenor(s) will be notified so that they can prepare a call for papers with a deadline of 31 January 2010.All proposal should be submitted on: http://www.sgir.eu/conference/
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Antje Wiener. - - -NEWS: ECPR Standing Group on International Relations (SGIR): CfP (1) Section Convenors Stockholm 2010, (2) Young Researchers Workshops: http://www.sgir.eu/conference/
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Prof Antje Wiener, PhD Chair in Political Science (International Relations Theory), Institute for Political ScienceDirector, Centre for Globalisation & Governance (CGG) University of HamburgAllende Platz 120146 HamburgGermanyTel: +49 40 42838-3232 (please note, that messages cannot yet be retrieved from this machine)Fax: +49 40 42838-7784Email: antje.wiener@wiso.uni-hamburg.deURL: http://www.wiso.uni-hamburg.de/index.php?id=7355 Associate Editor, European Political Science Review (EPSR)Details: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=EPR Editor, ConWEB Webpapers on Governance and Constitutionalism Beyond the Statehttp://www.bath.ac.uk/esml/conWEB/
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NEW TITLE:
ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY
Ernst Bloch
Introduced by Peter Thompson
Published 6th July 2009
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WIN:
To win a copy of ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY, visit Verso’s blog http://versouk.wordpress.com/
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“Ernst Bloch is the one mainly responsible for restoring honor to the word ‘utopia”’ – Theodor Adorno
“Bloch is not so much a Marxist philosopher… he is rather a ‘theologian of the revolution’” – Fredric Jameson.
In the twenty-first century, religion has come under determined attack from secular progressives in documentaries, opinion pieces and international bestsellers. Combative atheists have denounced faiths of every stripe, resulting in a crude intellectual polarization in which religious convictions and heritage must be rejected or accepted wholesale.
In the long unavailable ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY, Ernst Bloch provides a way out from this either/or debate. He examines the origins of Christianity in an attempt to find its social roots, pursuing a detailed study of the Bible and its fascination for “ordinary and unimportant” people. In the biblical promise of utopia and the scriptures’ antagonism to authority, Bloch locates Christianity’s appeal for the oppressed. Through a lyrical yet close and nuanced analysis, he explores the tensions within the Bible that promote atheism as a counter to the authoritarian metaphysical theism imposed by clerical exegesis. At the Bible’s heart he finds a heretical core and the concealed message that, paradoxically, a good Christian must necessarily by a good atheist.
This new edition includes an introduction by Peter Thompson, the Director of the Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies at the University of Sheffield.
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Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) was one of the most important German Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the great theorists of utopia. An associate of Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht and Theodor Adorno, his works include The Principle of Hope, Spirit of Utopia and Traces.
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ISBN 9781844673940 £14.99 / $26.95 / Paperback / 288 pages
ISBN 9781844673711 £55 / $100 / Hardback / 288 pages
ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY is available from all good bookshops and:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/b-titles/bloch_ernst_atheism_and_christianity.shtml
UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Atheism-Christianity-Ernst-Bloch/dp/1844673944
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844673940/Atheism-in-Christianity
US:
http://www.amazon.com/Atheism-Christianity-Ernst-Bloch/dp/1844673944/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245682410&sr=1-1
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ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY
Ernst Bloch
Introduced by Peter Thompson
Published 6th July 2009
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WIN:
To win a copy of ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY, visit Verso’s blog http://versouk.wordpress.com/
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“Ernst Bloch is the one mainly responsible for restoring honor to the word ‘utopia”’ – Theodor Adorno
“Bloch is not so much a Marxist philosopher… he is rather a ‘theologian of the revolution’” – Fredric Jameson.
In the twenty-first century, religion has come under determined attack from secular progressives in documentaries, opinion pieces and international bestsellers. Combative atheists have denounced faiths of every stripe, resulting in a crude intellectual polarization in which religious convictions and heritage must be rejected or accepted wholesale.
In the long unavailable ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY, Ernst Bloch provides a way out from this either/or debate. He examines the origins of Christianity in an attempt to find its social roots, pursuing a detailed study of the Bible and its fascination for “ordinary and unimportant” people. In the biblical promise of utopia and the scriptures’ antagonism to authority, Bloch locates Christianity’s appeal for the oppressed. Through a lyrical yet close and nuanced analysis, he explores the tensions within the Bible that promote atheism as a counter to the authoritarian metaphysical theism imposed by clerical exegesis. At the Bible’s heart he finds a heretical core and the concealed message that, paradoxically, a good Christian must necessarily by a good atheist.
This new edition includes an introduction by Peter Thompson, the Director of the Centre for Ernst Bloch Studies at the University of Sheffield.
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Ernst Bloch (1885–1977) was one of the most important German Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century and one of the great theorists of utopia. An associate of Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht and Theodor Adorno, his works include The Principle of Hope, Spirit of Utopia and Traces.
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ISBN 9781844673940 £14.99 / $26.95 / Paperback / 288 pages
ISBN 9781844673711 £55 / $100 / Hardback / 288 pages
ATHEISM IN CHRISTIANITY is available from all good bookshops and:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/b-titles/bloch_ernst_atheism_and_christianity.shtml
UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Atheism-Christianity-Ernst-Bloch/dp/1844673944
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844673940/Atheism-in-Christianity
US:
http://www.amazon.com/Atheism-Christianity-Ernst-Bloch/dp/1844673944/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245682410&sr=1-1
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Visit Verso’s new blog for information on our upcoming events, new reviews and publications and special offers.
http://versouk.wordpress.com/
And get updates on Twitter too!
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PhD Studentship in European Citizenship Open University
PhD Studentship in European Citizenship Open University
Centre for Citizenship, Identities and GovernanceEnacting European Citizenship (FP7) DEADLINE 17 JULY 2009 Applications are invited for a Chartered PhD Research Studentship. The studentship is tenable from 1 October 2009 and will cover all fees for three years plus an annual stipend. It is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University and hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG). The studentship is associated with Enacting European Citizenship (FP7) project led by Professor Engin Isin and will involve research on an aspect of the ways in which European citizenship is enacted. For further details about the studentship visit here, for details about CCIG visit here and for details about ENACT visit here. Application for Chartered Studentshiphttp://www.open.ac.uk/cam/studentships/?OFFAD=ECQ1&MEDIA=inc_studentships CCIGhttp://www.open.ac.uk/ccig/ ENACThttp://enacting-citizenship.eu/ Dr Jef HuysmansPolitics and International StudiesCentre for Citizenship, Identities and GovernanceThe Open UniversityWalton HallMilton KeynesMK7 6AAUnited Kingdom tel. +44 1908 652015fax. + 44 1908 654488e-mail: J.P.A.Huysmans@open.ac.uk
Centre for Citizenship, Identities and GovernanceEnacting European Citizenship (FP7) DEADLINE 17 JULY 2009 Applications are invited for a Chartered PhD Research Studentship. The studentship is tenable from 1 October 2009 and will cover all fees for three years plus an annual stipend. It is based in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the Open University and hosted by the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG). The studentship is associated with Enacting European Citizenship (FP7) project led by Professor Engin Isin and will involve research on an aspect of the ways in which European citizenship is enacted. For further details about the studentship visit here, for details about CCIG visit here and for details about ENACT visit here. Application for Chartered Studentshiphttp://www.open.ac.uk/cam/studentships/?OFFAD=ECQ1&MEDIA=inc_studentships CCIGhttp://www.open.ac.uk/ccig/ ENACThttp://enacting-citizenship.eu/ Dr Jef HuysmansPolitics and International StudiesCentre for Citizenship, Identities and GovernanceThe Open UniversityWalton HallMilton KeynesMK7 6AAUnited Kingdom tel. +44 1908 652015fax. + 44 1908 654488e-mail: J.P.A.Huysmans@open.ac.uk
Μήνυμα του Bary Busan για ES panel στο ε΄πόμενο Pan-European conference, Stockholm, 9-11 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010
Dear all,
Apologies for cross-posting. There is currently a call out for section convenors for the next Pan-European conference in Stockholm 9-11 September 2010. To have a section we would need at least 5 ES panels consisting of 4-5 papers plus discussant and chair. If anyone wants to propose panels or papers I will see if we can put together a section bid. I would need proposals by not later than 15 August in order to see whether a bid is feasible, to me at: b.g.buzan@lse.ac.uk Any takers?
Best, Barry
Apologies for cross-posting. There is currently a call out for section convenors for the next Pan-European conference in Stockholm 9-11 September 2010. To have a section we would need at least 5 ES panels consisting of 4-5 papers plus discussant and chair. If anyone wants to propose panels or papers I will see if we can put together a section bid. I would need proposals by not later than 15 August in order to see whether a bid is feasible, to me at: b.g.buzan@lse.ac.uk Any takers?
Best, Barry
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NEW TITLE:
ANTAGONISTICS: CAPITALISM AND POWER IN AN AGE OF WAR
GOPAL BALAKRISHNAN
Published June 2009
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Praise for ANTAGONISTICS:
“Hegel wrote that the moment of triumph of a social movement is simultaneously the moment of its disintegration … Gopal Balakrishnan shows how this holds for the worldwide triumph of liberal democracy in the 1990s … Antagonistics is a book for all those who want to orient themselves in the chaos of our historical moment …” – Slavoj Zizek
“This collection is an intellectual feast and a dazzling commentary on political thinking, contemporary and classical. Here an intelligence honed on Schmitt and Machiavelli reviews a range of theoretical texts with courteous sarcasm and radical interrogation; the results are witty, devastating and full of suggestive speculation …” – Fredric Jameson
“This collection of essays by New Left Review’s Balakrishnan expounds his prescient view that the debt-driven expansion that fuelled US hegemony was unsustainable.” – New Statesman, http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/05/short-amidon-largely
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To see some of Gopal’s pieces as they originally appeared in New Left Review see below:
On Hardt and Negri’s Empire: http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2275
On multiculturalism: http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2309
On Machiavelli: http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2551
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ANTAGONISTICS addresses central political and theoretical questions: how should we conceive the relationship between neo-imperial warfare and neoliberalism, American hegemony and capitalist globalization? Reflections on the major issues of the new international order are set within a larger framework, tracing the intertwined evolution of the modern state system and the capitalist mode of production, from the Treaty of Westphalia to the Occupation of Iraq. Balakrishnan interrogates three key political perspectives—Tocqueville’s liberalism, Althusser’s Marxism and Schimtt on the radical right – for their insights into state power and civil society, democracy, and class. Antagonistics combines intellectual history, political philosophy, and historical sociology to produce a highly distinctive portrait of an age of capital and war.
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GOPAL BALAKRISHNAN is the author of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt, and editor of Debating Empire and (with Benedict Anderson) Mapping the Nation. He is a member of the New Left Review editorial board and a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
ISBN 978-1-84467-269-1/ £14.99/$26.95/ Paperback / 304 pages
ISBN 978-1-84467-268-4/£60/$110 / Hardback / 304 pages
For more information visit
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/b-titles/balakrishnan_g_antagonistics.shtml
To buy the book in the UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Antagonistics-Capitalism-Power-Age-War/dp/1844672697/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244563813&sr=8-1
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844672691/Antagonistics
To buy the book in the US:
http://www.amazon.com/Antagonistics-Capital-Power-Age-War/dp/1844672697/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244622963&sr=8-2
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ANTAGONISTICS: CAPITALISM AND POWER IN AN AGE OF WAR
GOPAL BALAKRISHNAN
Published June 2009
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Praise for ANTAGONISTICS:
“Hegel wrote that the moment of triumph of a social movement is simultaneously the moment of its disintegration … Gopal Balakrishnan shows how this holds for the worldwide triumph of liberal democracy in the 1990s … Antagonistics is a book for all those who want to orient themselves in the chaos of our historical moment …” – Slavoj Zizek
“This collection is an intellectual feast and a dazzling commentary on political thinking, contemporary and classical. Here an intelligence honed on Schmitt and Machiavelli reviews a range of theoretical texts with courteous sarcasm and radical interrogation; the results are witty, devastating and full of suggestive speculation …” – Fredric Jameson
“This collection of essays by New Left Review’s Balakrishnan expounds his prescient view that the debt-driven expansion that fuelled US hegemony was unsustainable.” – New Statesman, http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2009/05/short-amidon-largely
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To see some of Gopal’s pieces as they originally appeared in New Left Review see below:
On Hardt and Negri’s Empire: http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2275
On multiculturalism: http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2309
On Machiavelli: http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2551
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ANTAGONISTICS addresses central political and theoretical questions: how should we conceive the relationship between neo-imperial warfare and neoliberalism, American hegemony and capitalist globalization? Reflections on the major issues of the new international order are set within a larger framework, tracing the intertwined evolution of the modern state system and the capitalist mode of production, from the Treaty of Westphalia to the Occupation of Iraq. Balakrishnan interrogates three key political perspectives—Tocqueville’s liberalism, Althusser’s Marxism and Schimtt on the radical right – for their insights into state power and civil society, democracy, and class. Antagonistics combines intellectual history, political philosophy, and historical sociology to produce a highly distinctive portrait of an age of capital and war.
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GOPAL BALAKRISHNAN is the author of The Enemy: An Intellectual Portrait of Carl Schmitt, and editor of Debating Empire and (with Benedict Anderson) Mapping the Nation. He is a member of the New Left Review editorial board and a professor in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
ISBN 978-1-84467-269-1/ £14.99/$26.95/ Paperback / 304 pages
ISBN 978-1-84467-268-4/£60/$110 / Hardback / 304 pages
For more information visit
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/b-titles/balakrishnan_g_antagonistics.shtml
To buy the book in the UK:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Antagonistics-Capitalism-Power-Age-War/dp/1844672697/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244563813&sr=8-1
http://www.bookdepository.co.uk/book/9781844672691/Antagonistics
To buy the book in the US:
http://www.amazon.com/Antagonistics-Capital-Power-Age-War/dp/1844672697/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1244622963&sr=8-2
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