A contribution to the genealogical elaboration of the Third World as a political project, this essay examines how decolonization constituted a new culture that defined the decolonized as new subjects of history. Previously thought to be without history and culture, … Continue reading “Third World Project, or How Poco Failed”
Issue: Issue 114 Spring 2013
“Beat It like a Cop”: The Erotic Cultural Politics of Punishment in the Era of Postracialism
Tryon P. WoodsThis essay explores the ethicopolitical context in which black art, black performance, black social movements, and black popular culture find expression. I configure the critical study of hip hop within an accounting of the materiality of antiblack sexual violence in … Continue reading ““Beat It like a Cop”: The Erotic Cultural Politics of Punishment in the Era of Postracialism”
To Be Announced: Radical Praxis or Knowing (at) the Limits of Justice
Denise Ferreira da SilvaHeeding the 2011 revolts in Britain, beyond social scientific and historic explanations that resolve such events either as expressions of a social or a political pathology, this paper explores the following question: what if, moving otherwise, the critique of racial … Continue reading “To Be Announced: Radical Praxis or Knowing (at) the Limits of Justice”
Biohazard: The Catastrophic Temporality of Green Capitalism
Ashley DawsonContemporary modes of biopolitical manipulation and commodification entail a radically new political economy of nature, a wholesale shift from the laws of biological evolution and development that have subtended much of the temporal imagination of modernity. In place of the … Continue reading “Biohazard: The Catastrophic Temporality of Green Capitalism”
After Economy?: Social Logics of the Derivative
Randy MartinThe massive capital bailout launched in 2008 proceeded on a threat that without it “there would be no economy.” What if that turned out to be the case? Capital had claimed economy as the name of its social relations: the task here … Continue reading “After Economy?: Social Logics of the Derivative”
Michelle and Her Crazy Glue [photograph]
Bruce BendersonCarrying Her Liver in a Shopping Cart (and Other Bohemian Notions): An Interview with Bruce Benderson
Dominic JohnsonBruce Benderson is a writer who loves the dirt of cities and narrates the lives of those who wear its grit. His writings in fiction and nonfiction have established him as a key figure for thinking about sexuality, class, and … Continue reading “Carrying Her Liver in a Shopping Cart (and Other Bohemian Notions): An Interview with Bruce Benderson”